The Aaron Sanchez era was unsuccessful, unless it wasn’t?

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty ImagesThe next player on our list of 2021 San Francisco Giants season reviews is right-handed pitcher Aaron Sanchez.

2021 review

9 games, 7 starts, 35.1 innings, 3.06 ERA, 4.05 FIP, 1.330 WHIP, 26 strikeouts, 15 walks, 0.6 rWAR, 0.4 fWAR

There are two ways to look at the Aaron Sanchez era.

The first is to view him as a reclamation project who couldn’t quite be reclaimed. Anthony DeSclafani looked like the ideal version of himself, and not the player who struggled mightily in 2020. Alex Wood looked closer to his previous All-Star self than his recent not-good self.

Sanchez did not do that ... except, he kind of did that? He didn’t pitch nearly as well as DeSclafani or…