2024 San Francisco Giants Season Thread

Originally posted by PRIMETIME21:

Originally posted by Zachary:
Conforto to the Dodgers for 17m

Of course the dodgers

I look at that as subtraction by addition (for the Dodgers)...he steals money everywhere he goes.

Sasaki...come to SF

We have a good defense a great young catcher and a pitcher friendly ball park

Best place for a young pitcher to land

Originally posted by Tigerlaw:
Sasaki...come to SF

We have a good defense a great young catcher and a pitcher friendly ball park

Best place for a young pitcher to land

yup. i like this strategy. Chapman and Adames and pitching. that is better than 1 Soto. get a couple high value arms. this is how we win.

Originally posted by Rubberneck36:
That Soto contract is wild. The Judge contract looks like a bargain now.

$75 million signing bonus alone. Majority of players wont even get that on a full contract let alone a signing bonus.

I don't care how good someone is, nobody living up to a $700+m contract

Originally posted by DeepNinerValue:
I don't care how good someone is, nobody living up to a $700+m contract

The value is wild considering contracts went from 450
to 700. But 15 years? Lmao.

need to cap these contracts at 10 years. No way the Mets win on this with that many years

Originally posted by Rubberneck36:

Originally posted by DeepNinerValue:
I don't care how good someone is, nobody living up to a $700+m contract

The value is wild considering contracts went from 450
to 700. But 15 years? Lmao.

need to cap these contracts at 10 years. No way the Mets win on this with that many years

It's basically just deferred money but yes I agree

Originally posted by Rubberneck36:
The value is wild considering contracts went from 450
to 700. But 15 years? Lmao.

need to cap these contracts at 10 years. No way the Mets win on this with that many years

no need to save teams from themselves, let them win today and be on the hook later, that's the price they pay

Originally posted by Rubberneck36:

Originally posted by DeepNinerValue:
I don't care how good someone is, nobody living up to a $700+m contract

The value is wild considering contracts went from 450
to 700. But 15 years? Lmao.

need to cap these contracts at 10 years. No way the Mets win on this with that many years

Soto has an opt out after 5 years. Unless the Mets become a perennial World Series contender or Soto suffers a career altering injury, I cant see him spending 15 years on the Mets.

Originally posted by DeepNinerValue:
I don't care how good someone is, nobody living up to a $700+m contract

makes the richest SFG contract look like deep value

Adames is a definite upgrade but he's just an average fielder (.967 lifetime) He also strikes out a lot averaging 180 per season. Still he has power that is much needed. The question is how much will carry over to AT&T.

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
Adames is a definite upgrade but he's just an average fielder (.967 lifetime) He also strikes out a lot averaging 180 per season. Still he has power that is much needed. The question is how much will carry over to AT&T.

this is why i like Chap a lot he plays hard, runs the bags, and plays the field. so even if he's in a slump, he's still helping the squad, and generating war. Adames gives us a 2-4 middle order bat. he's a fan favorite of mine just from following MLB so i am glad we got him, but he's not an ace with the glove, merely adequate is my impression.

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
Adames is a definite upgrade but he's just an average fielder (.967 lifetime) He also strikes out a lot averaging 180 per season. Still he has power that is much needed. The question is how much will carry over to AT&T.

this is why i like Chap a lot he plays hard, runs the bags, and plays the field. so even if he's in a slump, he's still helping the squad, and generating war. Adames gives us a 2-4 middle order bat. he's a fan favorite of mine just from following MLB so i am glad we got him, but he's not an ace with the glove, merely adequate is my impression.

I'm sure the Giants looked at that but they probably figure having Chapman to his right will help a lot. I just hopw AT&T doesn't hurt his hitting too much. At least he's a right handed batter. The ball carries much better to left as Giants fns well know.

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
I'm sure the Giants looked at that but they probably figure having Chapman to his right will help a lot. I just hopw AT&T doesn't hurt his hitting too much. At least he's a right handed batter. The ball carries much better to left as Giants fns well know.

i just don't buy into the park stuff. sure it's not Coors, but i watched Kent win MVP and Bonds over and over. those 2002 teams we built a slugging juggernaut. Aurilia also.

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
i just don't buy into the park stuff. sure it's not Coors, but i watched Kent win MVP and Bonds over and over. those 2002 teams we built a slugging juggernaut. Aurilia also.

Well yes, it is not as one can't hit home runs at AT&T at all, but it is of course much harder to hit them here than in Coors or Atlanta Fulton. So when the guy comes from hitter friendly park where he hit 32, you have to temper the expectations. 2 sluggers in Coors may easily hit 75 homers between them. In SF, you probably need at least 3 and hope they each reach 25 for the year. The more guys you need to get to that total, the more doubt it will happen because one can easily have the down year. Meaning we are already relying on Chapman and Adames to hit at least 25 each and hopping there is the collective effort of the few more players to hit between 15-20. The other way is in addition to a couple of perceived sluggers to have high average up and down lineup around them, hitting doubles and triples, with strong pitching and D. Can we have Ramos become that extra slugger to supplement Chapman and Adames? Can we have Lee, Fitz, Wade Jr and Yaz have that surprise year providing those .270-280 batting averages (at least 3 out of 4) with doubles and triples sprayed around in between. The D with Bailey catching should be OK. That brings me to pitching. Either preferably Burnes or Sasaki if he is as good as advertised would go a long way to solving that, as well as Ray getting close to his CY form. But given monetary constrains (Burnes) and Sasaki circumstances, and question where Ray is, hard to believe getting any of that at this point. So yes, only Adames by himself is a start but not enough. Yet, we can't realistically speak of going out and get another superstar slugger and premier pitcher. It is a pipedream but not happening.