Logan Webb lays out familiar blueprint for how SF Giants can succeed in 2025

The SF Giants enter 2025 not with the most talent on paper, but at least with a clear direction from the top set by president of baseball operations Buster Posey about the brand of baseball the team wants to play. That has trickled down to Logan Webb.

In an appearance on KNBR, the Giants workhorse ace laid out the blueprint to how the Giants are going to be successful: "I think we have to win a certain way in San Francisco. And that's doing the little things — great pitching... and playing defense. I don't think we are going to outslug everybody. I don't think that's what we do. I don't think that's what we should try to do."

These comments echo ones made by Posey in a recent interview when he said the Giants need to score runs in different ways and cannot be overly reliant on home runs with their offense. It is also the same blueprint that the Giants used to win three World Series titles last decade.

SF Giants ace Logan Webb echoes Posey's remarks on how to win

It is nice to hear this sort of synergy between the top of the organization in Posey and a key player like Webb. One of the main critiques of the Gabe Kapler-Farhan Zaidi era is that the Giants lacked a clear identity or easily recognizable brand of baseball. It seems Buster has succeeded early on at defining what the Giants aspire to do. Now, going out and executing on that is a different matter.

Webb made comments that were similar to the ones he made in the KNBR interview in which he said he felt there have been times when the Giants as an organization went away from that model of success that the Giants had in the 2010's.

This could be interpreted as a slight jab at either Kapler, Zaidi, or both, but no matter how Webb intended it, it is true that the Giants did go away from that and became a team that was mediocre in all areas while not really shining in any.

No matter what, the past is the past and the Giants have to try to follow through on Posey and Webb's vision. They have the pieces to make it happen with a starting rotation that, despite all of the question marks in it, still has the potential to be solid. Defensively the team should be strong in the outfield and in the infield with players likely not being forced to move around as much.

Scoring runs will always be a question mark for the Giants, but if they can improve at situational hitting this season and do better at moving runners over and ensuring they score runners from third when there are less than two outs then they should be in much better shape.

All of the pieces are there, now it is a matter of executing on the vision that both Webb and Posey have shared.