Giants Relievers...

[Eye Black]

The Giants are a .500 team with a lot of the credit owed to the strength of their bullpen. It’s easy to dismiss the importance of a good bullpen in the offseason when we’re day dreaming about the batting order, but when you get in the heart of the season a bullpen like the Giants have at their disposal that can shorten games is so crucial to success. A lights out bullpen also seems to go a long way towards winning in the postseason. It is pretty impressive they have such a high performing collection of bullpen arms.

 

I hope the Giants ultimately do decide to sell, because if they don’t the market for available bullpen arms is going to be significantly thinner to go around.

[JosephC]

Good luck getting anyone out of San Francisco now. Historically they have been a seller-adverse franchise and they've climbed to 1 game over .500, third place in division and 2.5 games out of the second wild-card spot. I thought the luxury tax would be a limiting factor for them, but Cots have them at nearly 30 million under the threshold. Good chance that the Giants consider themselves buyers at this point.

[bill hAll Star]

I'm a massive Giants fan for the next few days.

 

1. Beat the Cubs a bit more.

2. Take one more seller out of the trade market so that:

a. The Brewers don't do something stupid and trade the rest of the farm system for Will Smith.

b. Some other team (hopefully in division/league with the Brewers) mortgages their future for a player from a different team given that there are now ~20 teams buying and ~10 (if that) selling. The Giants being out of the selling market is going to make prices go even higher for other teams selling.

 

Obviously (b) is conflicting because maybe the Cubs trade everything for some rental and win the division by 1 game with his help but I'd otherwise prefer these teams to just empty out their farms and help the Brewers in 2020 or 2021 with a weakened farm system.

[KeithStone53151]

The Giants have won 10 of 12, I tend to agree it would be completely crazy for them to sell. Especially with the Bochy/MadBum last year storylines fueling them.

 

[pacopete4]

The Giants are going to be so terrible coming soon. This hot streak came at the worst possible time for that front office. They should’ve tore down a couple years ago. Now, in a year they could ya least recoup some decent players, they get hot. Kind of comical.

[Madhawk23]

The Giants are going to be so terrible coming soon. This hot streak came at the worst possible time for that front office. They should’ve tore down a couple years ago. Now, in a year they could ya least recoup some decent players, they get hot. Kind of comical.

 

No kidding! Has a front office ever been so quietly pissed about their own team's success than the Giants front office has to be about their recent hot streak? They were in line to be one of the real "winners" of this trade deadline with guys like MadBum, Smith, Watson, Dyson, etc. all available. Now, it would seemingly be a major PR disaster if they trade any of those guys with them over .500 and in Bochy's last hurrah. And, they'll probably lose those guys for nothing in the offseason now. OUCH!

[markedman5]

Will Smith to Braves