Matt Chapman didn’t leave his heart in San Francisco, but it’s clear that something was left behind after he was traded from the cross-Bay A’s to Toronto before the 2022 season. In the press conference announcing his signing, the 30-year-old California native felt like the Giants—though a different team in a different league in a different city—was a return, one written in the stars with “unfinished business” to attend to.
Once you leave home, you can never go back—truer words for one of the recent A’s diaspora, but the 2024 San Francisco Giants look somewhat close.