What is the plan at short?

The human body isn’t a mystery. There is a lot of people out there who have a pretty good idea on how the dang thing tends to work—I’m not one of them, but I do have a skin-deep understanding of the basics:

1. We all get old.

2. The body doesn’t work as well when that happens.

The San Francisco Giants just announced that typically stalwart shortstop Brandon Crawford will be shut down from baseball activities for a week after feeling discomfort in his left knee—the same knee he had problems in 2022.

Giants say Brandon Crawford has some left knee discomfort, will not do baseball work for a week. He doesn’t really need much spring training but there’s also not a lot behind him on depth chart.

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