McCovey Chronicles · Jan 4, 2023
What’s Thairo Estrada’s role in 2023?
Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty ImagesWhat an interesting year 2022 was for San Francisco Giants infielder/do-everything-guy Thairo Estrada. He entered Spring Training as a fringe roster guy whose status on the team was unknown. He ended Spring Training as a roster lock whose teammates seemed gushed about him at every turn.
And then he ended the season having appeared in more games, and taken more plate appearances than all but two of his teammates, and amassing the most fWAR of any Giants position player.
Seen through that lens, it seems pretty easy to mark Estrada down for another 140 games in 2023, primarily at second base. But ... I have no idea.