This article starts with a premise, and it goes like this: Santiago Casilla used to be good at his job. If you can’t get past that assumption, we’re going to have a tough time here, but I don’t think it’s controversial in the slightest. The Giants won the World Series in 2014 with Casilla as the closer, and it’s not like anyone spent the offseason thinking the Giants had to upgrade to get back.
Or, to put it another way, there were honest debates happening while Game 7 was going on about Casilla relieving Bumgarner for the final inning.