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Maybe Greg Johnson is keen to how organizations are perceived from the outside and wants the Giants to look buttoned up as they hit the free agency market.

It doesn't exactly scream stability when the VP Baseball Ops is in final year of his contract which a new manager being hired on a 3-year deal. So extend Zaidi two years to line up with the manager. This stuff probably matters to agents more than players, but at least it looks like they have their act together and are on same page for the direction they are headed.

Moreover, if either or both guys suck too much they can easily be fired.  Team just has to eat a few million bucks and MLB teams are used to doing a lot of that kind of eating.

The Giants have now once again sucked the fans in and teed up the "we will not be outbid" football again. Will they finally not pull the ball from the fans this year?

This time feels a bit different than last year's free agent abortion, and the Melvin hire seems to be a deliberate move to make signing the Asian apples of their eye a reality. I remain skeptical until I see them actually win a bidding war at the highest level. 

The good news for Giants is they don't need to sign Ohtani to have a successful offseason. If they do sign the two Asian guys and acquire a couple other pieces, they will have won back much needed good will with the fans.

How soon we forget Correa’s 13 year $350 million deal…..

(thanks to the team physician, it was never signed).

I don't think Judge's offer was outbid, either.

Abortion? Let's keep politics out of the discussion.

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Maybe Greg Johnson is keen to how organizations are perceived from the outside and wants the Giants to look buttoned up as they hit the free agency market.

It doesn't exactly scream stability when the VP Baseball Ops is in final year of his contract which a new manager being hired on a 3-year deal. So extend Zaidi two years to line up with the manager. This stuff probably matters to agents more than players, but at least it looks like they have their act together and are on same page for the direction they are headed.

Moreover, if either or both guys suck too much they can easily be fired.  Team just has to eat a few million bucks and MLB teams are used to doing a lot of that kind of eating.

The Giants have now once again sucked the fans in and teed up the "we will not be outbid" football again. Will they finally not pull the ball from the fans this year?

This time feels a bit different than last year's free agent abortion, and the Melvin hire seems to be a deliberate move to make signing the Asian apples of their eye a reality. I remain skeptical until I see them actually win a bidding war at the highest level. 

The good news for Giants is they don't need to sign Ohtani to have a successful offseason. If they do sign the two Asian guys and acquire a couple other pieces, they will have won back much needed good will with the fans.

How soon we forget Correa’s 13 year $350 million deal…..

(thanks to the team physician, it was never signed).

I don't think Judge's offer was outbid, either.

Abortion? Let's keep politics out of the discussion.