Originally posted by Niners99:
Most players who reach free agency are somewhat flawed. Otherwise they would have been locked up beforehand.
Burnes has been one of the best and most reliable SP in the last 4-5 years. If Posey wants us to be contending in the near future, he's going to have to spend some money to help us get to that point. Giants ownership has the money. Without a cap, sometimes you just have to roll the dice. Especially competing with the Dodgers.
That is the thing, the Giants ownership does have the money. The Giants will make the smaller profit after spending the same amount as the Dodgers will because of the Dodgers much bigger revenue source. That is the only difference. So, the matter are they willing to spend that much and keep the smaller profit. Relatively speaking they did but the problem with the last 7-8 years is they had entrusted the money to the guy who failed in every sense of building the right team with those money by considering himself to be the "smartest in the room". Thus, except the 2021 miracle that had practically nothing to do with Zaidi's "phenom" the team had greatly failed. With collaboration of poor drafting fit or non-development or both (take your pick) and inability to attract identified high profile targets (unless it was PR show from the beginning). Now the management seen throwing relatively significant amount of money around for the boring team to come in 4th in its own division and decides to cut payroll when the payroll staying at least put is the most needed. If they set the line at 200M, then Burnes takes them way beyond that, right back to where they were. And without him, signing Adames doesn't do a squat by itself. I am arguing besides Burnes they would still need if not perennial All Star but at least a potent power bat at DH or 1B, batting cleanup and hopping he'll put up solid numbers to be legit playoff team. People are arguing they don't need Burnes for that kind of money because of his age and that he had potentially recently declined. Well, give me the candidate who can do at least what he can still do for much less. Again, I think the problem now is not that he has declined. I don't think he had declined to the point that he can't be a solid front-line starter (ace or 2), especially in the pitcher friendly ballpark. The problem is the ownership is too hesitant to go over 200M and that is what will have to be done to get Burnes. I think this ownership group will come up short as they most always do yet again, when they should be bold if the priority was putting in the competitive excitement and winning at any cost.
[ Edited by tl57 on Dec 26, 2024 at 5:52 PM ]