{"id":116414,"date":"2021-06-14T15:56:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=116414"},"modified":"2021-06-14T15:56:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:56:49","slug":"a-giant-emerges-how-kevin-gausman-evolved-into-the-nls-surprise-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/a-giant-emerges-how-kevin-gausman-evolved-into-the-nls-surprise-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Giant emerges: How Kevin Gausman evolved into the NL&#8217;s surprise success story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be too easy to declare that baseball&rsquo;s endearing unpredictability is nicely epitomized in the parallel sagas of Kevin Gausman and the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n<p>After all, Gausman, to the surprise of all, is the best pitcher in the National League not named Jacob deGrom, the nascent ace of a team with its league&rsquo;s best record, a collection of cast-offs and try-agains outshining the many MVPs and faces of baseball to the south in Los Angeles and San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Gausman has a 1.43 ERA and the Giants a 40-25 record and .615 winning percentage, benchmarks that, after one-third of the season, have earned the seal of legitimacy but are about to endure the stress test of sustainability. If it&rsquo;s kismet, we&rsquo;ll know soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>But that would betray the highly deliberate course corrections both pitcher and franchise took on nearly three years ago, when they dared challenge their conventional wisdoms and pull out of a pattern of mediocrity.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the biggest thing &ndash; finally learning, why have a cookie-cutter mentality? Why try to be something I&rsquo;m not?&rdquo; Gausman, 30, told USA TODAY Sports a day before a recent start. &ldquo;It took me this long to figure that out.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But I&rsquo;m glad that I finally did.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>DOG SHOW: <\/strong>Barry Bonds enters miniature schnauzer named Rocky<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>MLB POWER RANKINGS: <\/strong>Rays rule the roost for second consecutive week<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For Gausman, that moment came in August 2018, not during a bullpen session or in a manager&rsquo;s office but rather a nearly vacant ballroom of a Manhattan hotel. He&rsquo;d just been traded from the Baltimore Orioles &ndash; the team that drafted him fourth overall out of LSU in 2012 &ndash; to the Atlanta Braves, who didn&rsquo;t just hope they might turn a high-end talent into a dominant asset during a run to the division title.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2021\/06\/14\/USAT\/d4d89fa2-a66a-4eab-996c-2c48291c9ad4-USATSI_15891523.jpg?width=540&amp;height=&amp;fit=bounds&amp;auto=webp\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2021\/06\/14\/kevin-gausman-giants-ace-national-league-success-story\/7680522002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be too easy to declare that baseball&rsquo;s endearing unpredictability is nicely epitomized in the parallel sagas of Kevin Gausman and the San Francisco [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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