Let’s see how generous of a grader you are.
Hello everybody. Starting today, we’re trying a new format around these parts. Instead of the morning BP/discussion thread being news or stories surrounding the San Francisco Giants, it will instead be a discussion prompt.
Some days it will be a big prompt, some days a little one. Some days something serious, some days something silly. But every day, there will be A Question, with hopes that you can provide An Answer.
And so why not start with one that kind of fits all of those categories: what grade do you give the Giants for this offseason?
This comes on the heels of Pete Alonso re-signing with the New York Mets on Wednesday night. That news is highly unsurprising, and the Giants were never seriously rumored to be at all in the running for Alonso’s services. But it also puts a bow on the bulk of the offseason happenings. Among the 50 free agents that Fangraphs predicts to have the highest WAR in the upcoming season, only seven remain unsigned: one expensive third baseman (Alex Bregman), five middling starting pitchers (Nick Pivetta, Kyle Gibson, Andrew Heaney, Lance Lynn, Clayton Kershaw, and Jose Quintana), and a 35-year old middle infielder who is 50th out of those 50 (Jose Iglesias).
The Giant almost surely aren’t signing any of those guys, which means they’re most likely done with any big moves ahead of Spring Training starting next week. There are just three names on their 40-man roster that weren’t employed by the organization when the season ended, which is a little jarring.
Then again, one of those three is the biggest contract in team history, and one is a first-ballot Hall of Famer, and the offseason looks a lot better if you include Matt Chapman’s extension in it.
So I ask again…