Why You Care: Well, almost nothing. Ace starter Logan Webb would fetch a pretty penny on the trade market, so of course, the team has no plans to deal him, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.
For the Giants, waving the white flag is signaling a willingness to deal away veteran pieces such as Rafael Devers, Willy Adames, and Matt Chapman. The issue is that all those guys have term, make a lot of money, and aren’t performing up to expectations on the field right now. Per Baseball Reference, Adames has been worth 1.0 WAR so far this season and Devers worth 0.2. Chapman rates out at 3.2 WAR via BRef, but FanGraphs is more down on him, and for a guy in year two of a six-year, $151 million contract, not many teams are going to want to gamble on which version they’ll be getting.
Maybe Luis Arraez could fetch something via trade, and teams are always looking for quality lefty pitchers such as Robbie Ray. But the Giants are in a bad, bad spot. They need to open up playing time for their rising prospects, but the vets make too much money to just push aside. Blocking prospects will only prolong the rebuild.
Speaking of the rebuild, who is leading it? Manager Tony Vitello has looked in over his head from the moment he took the job; I cannot fathom him coming back for a second season in the Bay Area. That's a damning indictment, and who will have to answer for it but Buster Posey, Giants catching legend and current president of baseball operations.
Posey won three World Series titles with the Giants as a player, but after retirement he joined the team as a minority owner and…that’s how he got his current job? The guy has a lot of goodwill built up with the fanbase, but I don’t see much evidence he knows how to run a baseball organization. The hiring of Vitello is a pretty good sign he in fact does not.
Only the Colorado Rockies have fewer wins than the Giants do in the National League. Sharing a division with the Dodgers, Padres, and Diamondbacks isn’t doing San Francisco any favors. But neither is letting a legendary player call the shots. It’s already time to start over for the Giants, and that may go for more than the team’s current player roster. |
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