The San Francisco Giants have spent the decade proving to fans that baseball is hard and that, at the end of the day, nobody knows anything. If replicating the success of 2009-2016 or even 2021 was repeatable, they would have repeated it by now.
Marco Luciano was supposed to be an All-Star - the kind of player every roster needs to rise above a sub-average to average roster algorithm that guarantees a floor of 75 wins - but he's also (probably) not a player the current front office would've ever selected.
The Giants banished Marco Luciano to the minors to keep Donovan Walton on the roster and clear a spot for Matt Chapman, who was returning from paternity leave.
Luciano isn't the first player in the organization to go through a developmental roller coaster. Heliot Ramos only earned a shot this season because of injuries and had to swing the bat like a literal All-Star to secure his future.
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