What we finally saw Saturday night was the 2025 San Francisco Giants as God intended — or at least, a line-up Grand POBO Buster Posey envisioned when he first got that wild idea to trade for Rafael Devers weeks ago.
And for all the exasperated hair-pulling since said transaction (especially in this past week and a half), the one thing that we could find some comfort in was knowing the Giants still weren’t at full strength. There was a Matt Chapman sized hole in their heart — and that heart could only become whole again when a Matt Chapman sized person filled it.