Despite being a fringe playoff team, one team insider gives a good reason why the San Francisco Giants shouldn't be sellers at the deadline.
This is a good time for everyone involved with this team to take a breather and assess what they are going to do moving forward when they are back in action starting July 19.
After the first half of the season, they sit three games below .500, fourth in their division, and three games out of the final Wild Card spot.It doesn't matter how poorly the Giants have played to date, all they have to do is start playing good baseball like a roster of this caliber should and they could find themselves firmly in the mix of the playoff race.
"The Giants cannot have a traditional fire sale. It's not that they don't have good players, it's that they don't have a lot of good players who aren't signed to cumbersome or unusual contracts ... They should listen. They should make calls. They should propose deals that make other GMs mad. But it's hard to see them having a transformative deadline, one way or the other," he writes as his conclusion.
The problem San Francisco has is that their roster is either full of players underperforming causing teams to not give up many assets to acquire them, or those who are still young and would only net them prospects in return they would have to hope turn into the players they just traded away.That's likely why the Giants will be fairly dormant around the deadline, not being sellers or buyers, but instead seeing if this group can finally play up to expectations.
So, San Francisco has to hope that all the money they spent on high-profile players during the offseason finally starts resulting in wins.Brad Wakai graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Journalism. While an undergrad, he did work at the student radio station covering different Penn State athletic programs like football, basketball, volleyball, soccer and other sports.
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