[Mick]

Just read an interesting point of view on the possible signing of Bryant.    It’s going to be very hard.  The Giants got into this situation with very long term contracts.  Bryant will want more than 3 years.  The Giants may only offer three
So we shall see

We may have read the same article, which held (1) he's a Scott Boras client and Boras got Harper 13 years for $330 million, although he did it when Harper was 25 and Bryant is 29. Farhan won't do six years, which would take Bryant to 35. (2) California's taxes are crazy compared with other places and (3) Bryant was much, much better from 2015 through 2019, skidded hard in 2020 and actually did better with the Cubs than with the Giants.

I don’t get what you mean by Bryant doing better with Cubs than Giants.  He’s only been here two weeks…….

Right, so he's had 56 plate appearances with the Giants (not including today).  Here's a comparison of his line with each team:

Cubs:    .267/.358/.503/.861, OPS+ is 132
Giants: .294/.357/.451/.808, OPS+ is 117

He is striking out less, that's a good thing.  two stolen bases in his only two attempts, also good.  Scored a higher percentage of runs per game with the Cubs, almost twice as many RBIs per game with the Cubs.  That's what I meant.

[Mick]

Just read an interesting point of view on the possible signing of Bryant.    It’s going to be very hard.  The Giants got into this situation with very long term contracts.  Bryant will want more than 3 years.  The Giants may only offer three
So we shall see

We may have read the same article, which held (1) he's a Scott Boras client and Boras got Harper 13 years for $330 million, although he did it when Harper was 25 and Bryant is 29. Farhan won't do six years, which would take Bryant to 35. (2) California's taxes are crazy compared with other places and (3) Bryant was much, much better from 2015 through 2019, skidded hard in 2020 and actually did better with the Cubs than with the Giants.

I don’t get what you mean by Bryant doing better with Cubs than Giants.  He’s only been here two weeks…….

Right, so he's had 56 plate appearances with the Giants (not including today).  Here's a comparison of his line with each team:

Cubs:    .267/.358/.503/.861, OPS+ is 132
Giants: .294/.357/.451/.808, OPS+ is 117

He is striking out less, that's a good thing.  two stolen bases in his only two attempts, also good.  Scored a higher percentage of runs per game with the Cubs, almost twice as many RBIs per game with the Cubs.  That's what I meant.