Saturday BP: How many Giants will play this year?

Photo by Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesHello and happy Saturday.

Let me rattle off a few names of baseball players who have played baseball games for the San Francisco Giants baseball team in the last two baseball seasons. Williams Jerez. Rob Brantly. Connor Joe. Andrew Triggs. Michael Reed. Corban Joseph. Zach Green. Daniel Robertson. Tyler Austin. Dany Jimenez. Fernando Abad. Aaron Altherr.

There are more. I could do this all day. Not off the top of my head, of course. That’s kind of the point.

In 2019, Farhan Zaidi’s first year with the team, the Giants used 64 players. A year ago, in a 60-game season confused by the coronavirus, they used 45.

That is so many players.

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