The San Francisco Giants will likely miss the playoffs for the seventh time in the last eight seasons.
They haven\'t advanced past the divisional round since 2014.
San Francisco entered the season with a top-10 payroll and hired respected manager Bob Melvin to guide the club. The team is 71-73, a record Melvin finds unacceptable.
In fact, he called this the \"hardest year\" he\'s ever had as a manager.
\"My first year in Seattle was really hard because I was a first-year manager,\" Melvin told The Athletic. \"And we won 93 games. My first year in San Diego was tough because I had come from Oakland, where I\'d been for 11 years, and it was a completely different deal there. And we went to the NLCS. So you get inspired by coming to a new place. Now, here it was completely different, because this is San Francisco. This is the signature team in the Bay Area. This is everything I\'ve dreamed of coming in here. And so for it not to go well -- and my expectation was that it would go well -- makes it probably the hardest year I\'ve had.
\"Last year was hard in San Diego because of what we accomplished the year before. But this year was more personal because it\'s San Francisco. So in that respect, this has been a very difficult year for me. Now, it\'s not over. There\'s still a lot to accomplish with some of the younger players and the guys that we have leading into next year. But there are nights when it\'s very uncomfortable for me.\"
Via The Athletic
