On today's Locked On Giants podcast, host Ben Kaspick talks about the latest with the San Francisco Giants. Starter Alex Wood is going to see a spine specialist to evaluate his injured back. While not entirely surprising, this is not good news for the Giants, whose starting rotation consists of a number of high injury risk players. However, the Giants are deep enough to withstand multiple injuries, and first in line appears to be Logan Webb, who has pitched beautifully this spring. Gabe Kapler said Webb and Aaron Sanchez are on track to be in the Giants rotation to start the season.
Yesterday was also cut day at Giants camp. The team optioned or reassigned 25 players out of the approximately 75 in camp. Despite being demoted, these players were still around major league camp because there is no minor league camp right now due to Covid-19. One notable omission from the cut list was Heliot Ramos, who has had a spectacular spring. There's almost zero chance Ramos opens the season on the major league roster, so this appears to be a symbolic move more than anything.
Ben also introduces Hot Take Tuesday. In the very first edition of the new segment, Ben explains why he thinks the Giants are an 86-win team—much better than most projection systems think they are. He references his major "hot takes" from last year, when he predicted that the Giants would be much better than expected, and that Kevin Gausman would out-pitch Madison Bumgarner. Both of those predictions proved to be very much correct, but only time will tell if this year's prediction comes true.
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