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Giants say 'everything is on the table'
The Giants missed the postseason by one game in 2020 -- they finished with the same record (29-31) as the Brewers but Milwaukee held the tiebreaker and got the No. 8 seed -- and they are going into the offseason with an open mind, according to Andrew Baggarly of The Athletic. President of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said the team is open to anything. Here's what Zaidi told Baggarly:
Look, we're in a big market. We consider ourselves a signature franchise. When you look at that group of teams, there's always an expectation for how they might act. As we've shown the last couple years, what makes sense is not just a function of your market size but where you are from a baseball standpoint — whether you need to create opportunities for young players, whether you're in position to make a big push. We've talked about ourselves being in a transition state, but we're also coming off a season in which we just missed the playoffs. So again, everything is on the table.
San Francisco extended the $18.9 million qualifying offer to Kevin Gausman prior to last weekend's deadline, a clear indication the team is willing to spend. You don't make that offer unless you're prepared for the player to accept. Between guaranteed contracts and arbitration projections, the Giants have about $120 million on the books for 16 players next season. They were set to open this past season with a $167 million payroll prior to the pandemic. The Giants could be a major player in free agency.
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FARHAN SPEAKS —
Giants president Farhan Zaidi on offseason goals — and the Dodgers’ title
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You won’t know the full scope of the free-agent market until teams non-tender players by the Dec. 2 deadline. You can’t say for sure whether there will be the DH in the National League or whether expanded rosters will persist into 2021. To what degree does that put you in a holding pattern when it comes to contacting free agents?
If you look at a five- or 10-year horizon, the player market in the offseason has trended toward moving more slowly. Last year, it was more of a blip that some of the bigger free agents signed quickly. For a combination of factors, we may go back to trending towards a more deliberate market. And there are a lot of reasons for that.
The $18.9 million qualifying offer to Kevin Gausman is a clear sign that the organization is willing to spend, even if the Giants face just as much budget and revenue uncertainty as every other team. Do you expect that the Giants will be in a less distressed position relative to opposing teams, and if so, could this offseason represent a chance to scale up quickly?
We’ve made a point of trying to create more flexibility over the couple years. That will certainly be helpful to us in the current marketplace.
(Note: The Giants already have $97.2 million committed to six players in 2021, not including as many as 10 players who would receive modest raises in salary arbitration. Their commitments in 2022 amount to just $25.9 million — the balance of Evan Longoria’s contract plus three potential option buyouts.)
Our ownership is really supportive and flexible and I think will be responsive to the market to a certain degree. I wouldn’t say we have any stakes in the ground in terms of specific payroll targets, but I would expect us to continue to be responsive into how we can address some of the needs we have on the baseball side while maintaining flexibility on the financial side, too.
Financial might aside, you’ve been consistent in expressing your reticence to make moves that would block anyone in your system, both as a practical measure as well as the message it sends to your upper-level prospects. Some of those prospects like Marco Luciano, Hunter Bishop and Luis Matos appear to be killing it in Instructional League. Would that make it difficult for you to envision any multiyear discussions for free-agent hitters?
I wouldn’t say that’s a hard-and-fast rule for us, but to your point, we’ve got a wave of talent that is maybe not on the doorstep but is making a lot of progress through the system. Even in a year that’s been frustrating with the lost development time, seeing some of those guys at the alternate site, and then in Instructional League — and this is an area where we received huge ownership support, having two Instructional League teams to enable more reps for our guys — is going to create a little bit of an impetus to be more aggressive with our player promotions next year. We want these guys to have building blocks on the progress they made. We also know that we’re going to have openings on our roster in the next couple years. So again, no hard-and-fast rules on free agency, but even in a year in which circumstances were constrained, we saw some position players take big steps forward and maybe create a clearer timeline for themselves to arrive in San Francisco.
The industry chatter has already begun that the Giants, along with the Mets, are poised to be one of the few movers and shakers this winter. A lot of that is going to be little more than the echo chamber of speculation, but it does create expectations among fans. What do you make of that characterization?
Look, we’re in a big market. We consider ourselves a signature franchise. When you look at that group of teams, there’s always an expectation for how they might act. As we’ve shown the last couple years, what makes sense is not just a function of your market size but where you are from a baseball standpoint — whether you need to create opportunities for young players, whether you’re in position to make a big push. We’ve talked about ourselves being in a transition state, but we’re also coming off a season in which we just missed the playoffs. So again, everything is on the table.
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