SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants have hardly played like sellers since the dust settled from last week’s frantic wheeling and dealing, winning back-to-back series on the road and five of nine games overall since the trade deadline.

In one of those ways that baseball can be cruel sometimes, had they strung together the same stretch a week earlier — against two of the same foes, no less — Mike Yastrzemski, Tyler Rogers and Camilo Doval might still be wearing orange and black.

Nevertheless the Giants traded away three players from their major-league roster and will now get the chance to see whether their recent turnaround is more than a mirage ( consecutive losses to the Nationals over the weekend didn’t help). Meanwhile, no team was more active than the Padres, who added seven players in

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