[Mick]

Good trade.  Dump two dead weights and get back one half-dead weight with a total net salary close to even.  Also, Imanaga over Snell - less money and better potential.  Webb, Imanaga, Cobb and Ray would be a nice rotation IF SF can just eke into the playoffs.  

Having said that, I don’t think the Giants are done on the free agent/trade market.  More bats, please.

Agree with all of that...and everything I read is that, while Yamamoto has better stuff than Imanaga, Imanaga has outperformed him in international, high level competition. Not by a lot, just by a little. And he's five years older...still, I really hope we end up with him.

And we do need bats. We finished 25th in runs per game last year, 26th in triples, 25th in doubles, 24th in fewest strikeouts, dead last in stolen bases,  and 27th in OPS. 

I'm hoping our terrible fielding last year was an anomaly. Even our star, Patrick Bailey, tied for the most errors in MLB committed bya  catcher, T2 for the most passed balls. Wade was second in most errors by a 1B (10, but he also had the greatest range factor), Cobb was T5 for most errors committed by a P, though Beck and Cobb were T1 for most DPs by a pitcher. Estrada had the best range factor as a 2B. And Crawford, that oldie, was third in MLB in range factor per nine innings as a SS. Webb was 5th in range factor for pitchers. All that said, the Giants were dead last in fielding percentage at .981, they had the most errors with 117, and they were 25th in RTot. Ugh. Both stats were similar in 2022. Hopefully Bob Melvin can turn it around. Padres were below average in fielding, incidentally.

One interesting bit...the worst fielders on the Giants, by fielding percentage, were the pitchers, and it wasn't close. Aside from Joc Pederson, the worst 11 were all pitchers. Then Heliot Ramos, Paul DeJOng with 2 errors in 16 games, Crawford with 12 adn Casey Schmitt with 8. JD Davis had 9. Very few Giants had a positive RTot. Bailey (7), Yastrzemski (5), Bryce Johnson (now gone, 3). Fitzgerald, Stevenson, Estrada, Slater & Haniger all had two. Conforto was worst at -13, Matos was -10, Sabol was -9, Crawford was -8, Meckler was -6, Villar and Davis were -5, Pederson was -4.

[Mick]

Good trade.  Dump two dead weights and get back one half-dead weight with a total net salary close to even.  Also, Imanaga over Snell - less money and better potential.  Webb, Imanaga, Cobb and Ray would be a nice rotation IF SF can just eke into the playoffs.  

Having said that, I don’t think the Giants are done on the free agent/trade market.  More bats, please.

Agree with all of that...and everything I read is that, while Yamamoto has better stuff than Imanaga, Imanaga has outperformed him in international, high level competition. Not by a lot, just by a little. And he's five years older...still, I really hope we end up with him.

And we do need bats. We finished 25th in runs per game last year, 26th in triples, 25th in doubles, 24th in fewest strikeouts, dead last in stolen bases,  and 27th in OPS. 

I'm hoping our terrible fielding last year was an anomaly. Even our star, Patrick Bailey, tied for the most errors in MLB committed bya  catcher, T2 for the most passed balls. Wade was second in most errors by a 1B (10, but he also had the greatest range factor), Cobb was T5 for most errors committed by a P, though Beck and Cobb were T1 for most DPs by a pitcher. Estrada had the best range factor as a 2B. And Crawford, that oldie, was third in MLB in range factor per nine innings as a SS. Webb was 5th in range factor for pitchers. All that said, the Giants were dead last in fielding percentage at .981, they had the most errors with 117, and they were 25th in RTot. Ugh. Both stats were similar in 2022. Hopefully Bob Melvin can turn it around. Padres were below average in fielding, incidentally.

One interesting bit...the worst fielders on the Giants, by fielding percentage, were the pitchers, and it wasn't close. Aside from Joc Pederson, the worst 11 were all pitchers. Then Heliot Ramos, Paul DeJOng with 2 errors in 16 games, Crawford with 12 adn Casey Schmitt with 8. JD Davis had 9. Very few Giants had a positive RTot. Bailey (7), Yastrzemski (5), Bryce Johnson (now gone, 3). Fitzgerald, Stevenson, Estrada, Slater & Haniger all had two. Conforto was worst at -13, Matos was -10, Sabol was -9, Crawford was -8, Meckler was -6, Villar and Davis were -5, Pederson was -4.