A very spooky and scary offseason now begins for the SF Giants

The worst case scenario occurred for SF Giants fans as the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series. Now the Giants must embark on a spooky and scary offseason in which there are a lot of unknowns.

It is Halloween, and it is a scary time to be a Giants fan. The Dodgers won the World Series and we know that with their juggernaut of a team they are not going to slow down any time soon. Meanwhile, the Giants have been stuck in a rut of mediocrity and it is not altogether clear how they can climb out of it.

SF Giants enter a scary and spooky offseason

Surely there are free agents out there to be had that would make the team better, but it will be almost impossible to get to the level that the Dodgers are at.

Of course, we know that it will be a new man making decisions for the Giants. Past and, one can only hope, future franchise savior Buster Posey will be tasked with making the Giants competitive again. It is not an impossible task by any stretch. For all of Farhan Zaidi's faults, he did give the Giants a decent floor of 75-80 wins with the roster as it currently is. The struggle for Posey will be finding those extra 5-10 wins that can put this team over the top.

Perhaps it will be as simple as acquiring a shortstop like Willy Adames and a starting pitcher like Blake Snell, Max Fried, or Corbin Burnes. If you add an Adames and a Fried I'd say the team has a decent chance of winning somewhere in the neighborhood of 85-90 games and competing for an NL Wild Card spot. We know that all you have to do is make the dance to have a shot so it is not a stretch for the Giants to be competitive next season.

Yet, we know how tough it has been for the Giants to sign free agents. We also saw last year how landing free agents does not always lead to success. That does not mean the Giants should not try, though. The biggest failure of the Zaidi era is that it didn't always feel like the front office was serious about competing. Trade deadlines were for the most part pretty quiet and Zaidi did not get really aggressive in free agency until he was on the hot seat last year.

Posey cannot let that feeling among the fanbase continue. At the end of the day, fans want to feel like their team is actively trying to win. For many MLB franchises, fanbases cannot honestly say that their team is doing everything in their power to make it to the postseason. The Giants are a premier organization and they need to get back to acting like it.

Things are scary for the Giants. The NL West is loaded and the Dodgers seem like they have a chance to start a dynasty. One could cower faced with this bleak potential future, but with Posey in charge we should be cautiously optimistic. The evil Empire is ascendant, but our own Luke Skywalker has returned to free the baseball galaxy from the tyranny of the Dodgers. There is no one else I would rather have than Posey to stare down and vanguish the ghouls and goblins that now stand in the Giants' way.

Happy Halloween everyone. Let's hope the Giants get started on the work of getting back to being a team that plays deep into October this offseason.