I picked a bad week to ignore San Francisco Giants baseball.Not because the Giants won so much, mind you, but because they were interesting. There were weeks in April and May when I would have paid a lot of money for a single interesting game. The Giants in June, though, have been posting football scores and blowing ninth-inning leads, and they’re doing it for your entertainment. It’s been better for everyone involved.And when I say that I ignored the Giants, I’m being quite literal. The last box score I looked at was from May, and the last bit of baseball I watched before vacation was Adrian Houser walking the leadoff batter at Coors Field, which will always be a ghastly combination of words. That was enough baseball for me for a while, thank you, and I turned every last notification off.When I turned them back on, the Giants were a completely different team than the one I was expecting. The Giants are tied for the second-highest batting average in baseball now. They scored 12 runs or more in three separate games last week, and the last time they did that was all the way back in August 2025. That’s not a meaningless comparison, either, as that was right around the time last season that the Giants started looking like an above-average offensive team. If they start looking like that again, two months ahead of last year’s schedule, they could build some actual momentum. A month or so too late, but still.Here are some scattered thoughts from a Giants writer who was frozen in carbonite on May 30 and only now is thawed out. It’s been an interesting couple of hours on Baseball-Reference, to be sure.The 2026 Giants are finally the team we were expecting. Now what?The 2026 Giants have a streaky, imperfect and perfectly capable lineup. They have enough offensive talent to contend, which means they have enough offensive talent for a deep October run. After a brutally slow start at the plate, they’re returning to form.Even if it weren’t too late to save the season, which it probably is, all this does is highlight what a lousy offseason the Giants had. They went into the offseason with clear, unambiguous needs, and they whiffed on them. They chose two starting pitchers, and they’ve both been disasters. And while I agreed with them that it’s silly to spend money on premium relievers, there certainly could have been a more proactive and trustworthy plan than “sign a bunch of minor-league free-agent relievers.” The Giants started the season with a ramshackle, three-lefty bullpen that led to Ryan Borucki facing Aaron Judge five batters into his season, and it’s been a series of frustrations since then.The Giants’ homegrown rotation options (Landen Roupp, Trevor McDonald) have offered mostly positive contributions, which is dandy, but that just reminds us that the Giants needed more help toward the front of the rotation, not the back.