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So far in this year’s Depth Charts series, we’ve looked at:
The Year of Our Lord, 2024, witnessed an event literally unseen in the lifetime of many a current Giants’ fan: the team sent a homegrown outfielder to the All-Star game for the first time since Chili Davis reported to the Astrodome in July of 1986. Heliot Ramos made a shocking rise from seemingly unwanted Triple-A depth piece to the All-Star appearance at Globe Life Field thanks to a truly brilliant two-month stretch in which he posted an .888 OPS and bashed 14 home runs. In an interesting bit of symmetry, both Davis and Ramos struck out in their lone at bats in the All-Star game itself, but of course the game (as tends to be the case with these things) was beside the point. Ramos had broken one of the craziest, most long-lasting curses in the game!
There is much confusion — and, to be honest, a little sadness — that we’ll have to delve into with this Depth Chart, but we can’t let any of that obscure the mighty fact that “…not since Chili Davis…” is a phrase that Giants’ fans can officially put away on a shelf, retire, or brain dump as they so choose! And that feels pretty good to say. And, heck, if that’s not enough of an accomplishment for one young man, it’s worth pointing out that between levels, Ramos cracked 30 home runs last year. He’s also a 25-year-old who probably fits best in left field. Dare we imagine that “…not since Barry Bonds…” might be a phrase we can consign to the dust bins of history in the not too distant future as well?
O brave new world, that has such people in’t!
Let’s dig in to our corner outfielders and see if there are other people in it to draw Miranda’s raptures.
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