With tomorrow being the deadline for teams and players to deal with contract options and qualifying offers, a couple of important unknowns became known this evening for the San Francisco Giants: Sean Manaea out, Alex Cobb in for 2024.
The former bit of news comes courtesy of Andrew Baggarly and the latter from Jon Heyman, but both were pretty obvious heading into this offseason. That’s even with the knowledge that Alex Cobb could miss at least the first month of the season following hip surgery last week.
I suppose there were some people out there who felt that Manaea might opt in so that he could play with Bob Melvin again, but that always seemed like an irrational view of the situation.