Thursday BP: Giants remain heavy in Corbin Burnes talks

Right-handed pitcher Corbin Burnes is about to make an absurd amount of money. We knew he was due a big payday, and then Max Fried went and signed an eight-year, $218 million deal, pushing the market significantly higher than what we initially thought. Burnes — and Scott Boras — are salivating.

When the offseason began, I didn’t think there was any chance the Giants would sign Burnes — it’s just not an organization that makes that sort of investment in pitchers (save for the youngsters of the world, like Yoshinobu Yamamoto), and there was no reason to think that was changing with Buster Posey at the helm. So if you’d told me a month ago that the Giants would sign Burnes, I’d have been…