Farhan Zaidi’s latest free agency comments are exactly what’s holding SF Giants back

If you thought the San Francisco Giants couldn't sink any deeper into a pit of despair, you thought wrong. The last offseason was not kind to the Giants, and this one isn't looking any better. They've continuously lost out on some of the game's biggest stars for any number of reasons, whether it's Aaron Judge or Shohei Ohtani or Yoshinobu Yamamoto or any of the players in between. The only upside to all of those disappointments was that we couldn't say the Giants didn't try. Now, given president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi's most recent comments, it seems like they may be done trying.

During an appearance on the TK Show, Zaidi said that when it comes to the organization's money and spending exorbitantly on any remaining free agents, he's not just taking into account player payroll, he's "thinking about our employees, not laying people off, providing benefits and resources to the people who work here..." What a load of crap.

Farhan Zaidi’s latest free agency comments are exactly what’s holding Giants back

This is an objectively terrible argument for Zaidi to make. One would think, or at least hope, that the Giants operate in a way that would allot money for players and staff in two completely separate categories, and then never the twain shall meet. The Giants are also not a small market team; they've spent well over league average for a number of years now. To imply that they're somehow poor or having to scrape together dollars for their employees after signing players is most likely just a bald faced lie, especially knowing how much money they were willing and ready to throw at Ohtani and Yamamoto.

No matter how you shake it, this is a defeatist mindset that doesn't bode well for the Giants this upcoming season. Maybe the front office is tired of losing out, maybe they're embarrassed about the constant San Francisco slander that's been thrown at them by players from the Bay Area, so they've decided to take themselves out of the equation altogether. Stepping out of the ring on the likes of Blake Snell and Jordan Montgomery isn't a solution to anything — it's cowardice.

Constant heartbreak isn't fun for anyone, and it hasn't been fun for Giants fans, but for the team to hold up their hands and admit defeat, to not even try? That's a very hard pill for us to have to swallow, and it shouldn't be acceptable from the front office's point of view, especially not when the talking point falls on the organization's employees who shouldn't even have to worry about their jobs or benefits being on the line if, God forbid, the team signs a star. A lot of the Giants' disappointments in the last few offseasons have been out of the team's control. This time, it may be self-inflicted.