2024 Depth Charts: Right-Handed Relievers

Their names are legion...

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So far in this year’s Depth Charts series, we’ve covered:

• 2b

• RHP - Starters

• Corner Outfielders

• Catchers

• Center Fielders

• LHP - Starters

Hello there, stranger! Welcome to the wonderful world of 2024! Feel free to nose around and get a feel for the place before you sit down and make yourself comfy. Here’s hoping the new place gives you plenty to celebrate and enjoy! And certainly, here’s hoping the Giants’ player development program gives us all a lot to appreciate and cheer for before we send 2024 off to the Old Years’ Home.

And with that hope fresh in our thoughts, what better place to focus our attention today than on an area where the Giants really have been productive in the Farhan Zaidi era: right-handed relievers! Last year, the Giants received about 300 innings of relief from home grown arms Camilo Doval, Tyler Rogers, Tristan Beck, Ryan Walker, and Sean Hjelle, and there’s a decent argument to make that Doval, Rogers, and Walker will be lined up to take down the highest leverage innings from the right-hand side this year.

Walker and Beck somewhat surprisingly turned themselves into irreplaceable parts of the staff, performing in nearly every role imaginable. Versatility was a crucial element in the Giants’ pitching strategies, which focused on making sure just about everybody was fresh throughout the season. But the fulcrum on which that whole machine turned was Doval’s ability to toe the rubber game after game after game. Though he did begin to show some wear in August, Camilo ultimately provided more value than anybody on the staff not named Logan Webb.

Yes, indeed, 2023 was a very good season for developing right-handed arms in the pen — and all of that happened in a year when two relievers expected to be big parts of the staff, Cole Waites and R.J. Dabovich, both fell under the knife. There are certainly questions to be asked about the current state of the Giants’ farm, but one of those questions is not: can they find internal relief help? That one gets a strong nod of the head and boisterous vocal affirmative!

So, today, let’s start the year off right by checking out the candidates for this year’s breakthrough performers on the right-hand side of the pen.

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Yes, I realize that it would be more accurate to say that the Giants have had success developing pitching in general the last few years. Logan Webb, Kyle Harrison, Keaton Winn, and others stretch beyond the constraints of today’s post. But how would acknowledging that get you psyched to read a whole post about hard-throwing one-inning guys?]