Quick question: Can you name the biggest “buy” trade Farhan Zaidi has made during his tenure as the president of baseball operations for the San Francisco Giants, if you define “biggest” by the number of players traded away?
Here’s a hint: There are two such trades, with the Giants sending back three players in each. Anyone spring to mind? If the answer is no, it’s hard to blame you, because the players the Giants acquired in those moves were Kevin Pillar and Tony Watson.
It looks like another winter of discontent for the Giants in free agency, with a market that doesn’t have any true top-end difference-makers left (and we’ll get reminded of where those guys went 13 times a year, too).