3 offseason decisions that have haunted SF Giants all season long

It’s been a very difficult year for the SF Giants and it feels like it will never come to an end. There is just over a month left of Giants baseball though and then the lockout will likely follow in the offseason so this could be our last dose of the Giants for a good long while.

That may not be a bad thing. Maybe this team needs a break after how this season has gone. Maybe we all need a break from watching them just to cleanse the palette a bit.

It may feel a bit pointless to recriminate exactly how he got here, but it’s worth it so the Giants hopefully don’t make the same mistakes ahead of next season. Let’s look at three decisions from the previous offseason that have really harmed them.

3 poor decisions that have haunted SF Giants all season long

Not addressing pitching staff

This is the most glaring of them all. The Giants clearly had plenty of room for improvement with their pitching staff and yet they didn’t really do anything to adequately address it.

They went with Tyler Mahle and Adrian Houser in the rotation and neither of those two panned out very well. We’re getting a look at their young starters now but based on the results it’s pretty clear the Giants are going to have to address the rotation in the offseason.

The bullpen has been messy pretty much all year. Throwing money at a bullpen rarely works but maybe if the Giants get more creative and try to replicate the success they’ve had with Dylan Smith then the results may be better.

Signing Harrison Bader

While the signing made sense at the time as a way to strengthen the team’s outfield defense, Bader’s injuries have really made that deal look like a bad one even if you take the whole scooter thing out of it.

It’s clear that the Giants are probably going to have to address the outfield in the offseason somehow. Drew Gilbert has had a good year but he’s probably best suited as a platoon bat and while some of the other young guys like Victor Bericoto have shown positive signs, they probably haven’t done enough to just throw them out in left field every day next season.

An inexperienced coaching staff

The Giants gambled big by hiring a college coach with no professional experience in Tony Vitello and it has shown. While the coaching staff does not deserve all of the blame for how things have gone, it’s clear that they haven’t been adding a ton of value to the group.

We will have to see if there’s a shakeup in the offseason. Vitello is going to be back in all likelihood but it would not be a shock if there are some changes to the rest of the coaching staff.

The Giants have to learn from the mistakes they made last offseason so one hopes they will adjust and that will lead to some better results in 2027. 

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