Former SF Giants outfielder fans love to hate suddenly on fire with the Cubs

While the SF Giants struggle to play coherent baseball and are way below .500, some fans may look around MLB to see how the rest of the league is doing. Giants fans may be startled to find that former Giants outfielder Michael Conforto, a guy fans love to hate, is currently tearing it up for the Chicago Cubs.

Conforto only squeaked his way onto Chicago’s roster due to an injury hit he has taken full advantage of it. He’s hitting .361/.467/.667 with two home runs and eight runs batted in. He just hit a walk-off homer at Wrigley Field and the Cubs are absolutely on fire with a record of 26-12.

Out of nowhere Michael Conforto is now a hero for the Cubs

Must be nice. Conforto went from toiling in mediocrity in 2023 and 2024 with the Giants to winning a World Series ring with the Los Angeles Dodgers last year (even though he was left off the playoff roster) and now he’s an unlikely contributor on a Cubs team that looks like it will be a force in the National League.

Conforto wasn’t completely awful with the Giants, but he certainly wasn’t good. In his two seasons with San Francisco he hit an unremarkable .238/.322/.418 with 35 home runs and 124 RBI combined. His defense was middling at best.

Then he went to the Dodgers and had a pretty dreadful year. He hit .199/.305/.333 with 12 homers and 36 runs batted in. It felt like every hit he got came against the Giants which was supremely annoying.

As for the Giants, they are still looking for consistent production in the outfield. While Jung Hoo Lee and Heliot Ramos are playing better than they were at the start of the season, center field remains something of a question mark. Drew Gilbert has been solid there but his inability to hit against left-handed pitchers means he isn’t ready to be an everyday player there.

Harrison Bader looks good so far in his rehab assignment so maybe he will be a lot more productive once he comes back from injury. He has to be because he wasn’t doing much of anything early in the year.

Conforto probably won’t be able to keep up his current pace at the plate but it is certainly annoying Giants fans to see him look like the guy he was at his best with the New York Mets rather than the mediocre, unexceptional player he was in San Francisco. 

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