SF Giants Rumors: Team expected to take similar approach to 2025 trade deadline

The SF Giants are probably going to sell at the deadline but how much are they going to sell and who are they going to get in exchange for selling? These are the important questions when the team is 36-50 and some MLB insiders have some thoughts.

Mark Feinsand recently wrote about the biggest questions ahead of the trade deadline and wondered how the Giants could improve their farm system. He noted how a lot of the best talent in the organization is years away from debuting at the big league level, “In fact, only two of their top 10 prospects have even reached Double-A, so adding young talent closer to the big leagues will likely be their goal.”

That seems like a reasonable goal and it would be the same exact thing the Giants did last year at the deadline. In their trade with the New York Mets that sent Tyler Rogers to New York they got Drew Gilbert, who debuted last season, and Blade Tidwell who has pitched for the Giants this season.

They were both players right on the precipice of making it to the big leagues and the Giants did something similar in the Camilo Doval trade with the New York Yankees by acquiring Jesus Rodriguez who was not far from the big leagues.

In a recent column from Andrew Baggarly of The Athletic he echoed a similar sentiment to Feinsand, writing, “If there’s any saving Posey’s tenure, it’ll be the growth of the farm system, which has improved but remains thinner at the top levels. Trades for prospects, especially pitchers who are on the cusp, can only help.”

So what might that look like? 

SF Giants should target players who are on the cusp of the big leagues

If the Giants swung a trade with the Atlanta Braves, a team that loves former Giants and also has some obvious needs at shortstop and in the rotation, maybe they could offload Willy Adames and Robbie Ray and try to land an arm like Lucas Braun or Blake Burkhalter or maybe even J.R. Ritchie if they wanted to swing big.

The New York Yankees would be a natural trade partner as Matt Chapman and Luis Arraez would make sense for New York. The Yankees could offer someone like Carlos Lagrange who is a promising arm in Triple-A and maybe even infielder Kaeden Kent, the son of Jeff Kent, for good measure even though he is still a few years away from the big leagues.

The Giants could use more promising talent in Triple-A knocking on the door so they should basically do what they did last year and trade for some older prospects in their early-to-mid twenties that could replenish their farm system a bit and buy some time for the guys in the lower levels who won’t need to be rushed. 

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