When the San Francisco Giants After leaving their president of baseball operations, Farhan Zaidi, earlier this offseason, the thinking was that this ownership was tired of the franchise’s underperformance in missing the playoffs for three straight years.

There are some obvious holes in this roster, something that seems to have been blamed on the old executive, especially when the Giants get into final conversations with some of the top free agents to hit the market over the last two cycles .

Hiring Buster Posey to replace Zaidi was not only a good story for the fan base given that he is one of the best players in franchise history, but it also signaled a change in how things could be approached from a top-down perspective.

One of the biggest hurdles San Francisco will have to overcome is replacing Blake Snell if he ends up on a new team when he opts out of his contract to enter free agency.

Posey and the Giants have talked about the importance of keeping the two-time Cy Young winner in San Francisco, but depending on the price he’s going to command, there’s a chance that won’t happen if they also try to improve other weak points. this list.

And based on comments made by Brady Klopfer The McCovey Chronicleshe seems to think they won’t spend much this winter.

“…I don’t expect them to spend a lot of money. They have exceeded the tax this year and will probably try to avoid the repeat tax to reset the penalty. That still leaves them with a lot of money to spend, given that the Snell and Michael Conforto contracts are being canceled, in addition to Alex Cobb and Jorge Soler But I don’t expect them to invest in all their problems. , nor even in most of them,” he writes.

It’s very interesting.

If the Giants’ owners were willing to move on from their former leader because of poor results in not making the playoffs for three straight years, it seems like they would want to spend money to make sure that doesn’t happen again. more.

Maybe that’s the case and Klopfer’s instincts are wrong.

San Francisco has been linked to Juan Soto and other high-profile free agents, not to mention their preferred scenario of keeping Snell.

This type of approach would require a lot of money to carry out.

Unfortunately, there’s a chance the Giants won’t be aggressive this winter and will scrape and claw in the NL West division again in 2025.