Another offseason, another failed superstar pursuit for the San Francisco Giants.
Pressure has been mounting on the Oakland Athletics’ crosstown rivals for years to spend money on a top-end free agent. Bryce Harper, Aaron Judge, Carlos Correa, Shohei Ohtani, and now Yoshinobu Yamamoto lead the list of stars that the Giants have struck out on in recent years. The fruitless cycle of the team’s free agency expeditions is more of a meme than a real strategy at this point:
- Giants won’t be outbid for X
- Giants might have an edge to sign X
- Giants will be given every consideration from X
- Giants have a contingency plan if they don’t sign X
- Giants out of the running for X
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