When the numbers work against you

Padres 8, Giants 4

The Giants since Sunday, June 15*, the day they traded for Rafael Devers and played the Dodgers for a share of first place in the NL West:

Record: 20-36 (worst in MLB)

Runs: 206 (fewest in MLB)

RBI: 199 (fewest in MLB)

OPS: .674 (third lowest in MLB)

Batting average: .230 (second worst in MLB)

Home runs: 52 (tied for third fewest in MLB)

*Excludes Thursday’s game but, um, you get the picture.

These are just numbers. But they validate every negative feeling you’ve had about this team for months, including Thursday’s shellacking in San Diego. It bends the mind that they could make a franchise-altering trade and have it alter the franchise in unimaginable ways, immediately.

Kerry and I dig into all of it on the latest episode of Giants Postcards. We also debut the MelvinMeter™️, measure the gap between the Giants and the Padres and Dodgers, and one of us muster the courage to speak Bruce Bochy’s name into existence.

Up next: The Giants head to Milwaukee for the weekend, and, well, that should go well. Would you at all be surprised if they won the series? Me neither. First pitch at 5:10 pm.