There's only one question to ask when it comes to the Giants' role in the Bryce Harper free agency saga: Are they players, or are they being played?
Either way, it doesn't look good on the organization.
The Giants – led by new president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi and CEO Larry Baer – have made two house calls to Harper in Las Vegas this month. The Giants are now unquestionably part of this incessant and to-this-point futile saga to find baseball's most marketable star a place to actually play baseball in 2019, joining a cast that features the late-arriving Los Angeles Dodgers and fading long-time favorites, the Philadelphia Phillies.