Thanks for stopping by for this first Mailbagg of 2018. Let’s jump straight into your questions.



Charles F. asks: If you were to handicap the top 3 candidates for number retirement (current and former), who would they be?



Buster Posey, Madison Bumgarner and … gosh. I want to say Tim Lincecum, because the association between the player and No. 55 is so strong. But more likely, the Giants just quietly decline to reissue it for as long as possible. That’s perhaps a bit easier with a number in the 50s than it would be with Will the Thrill’s No. 22.



So I’ll go with Bruce Bochy. Actually, now that I think about it, Bochy’s 15 is obviously going to be the next number they retire because he’ll be the first to go into the Hall of Fame. So my answer is Bochy-Posey-Bum.



Remember when Carlos Beltran gave Bochy a Rolex so he could wear 15? Bochy got the number back after three months. And he got to keep the watch.