[OutsiderFan]

It's like cognitive dissonance for many Giants fans at this time. They bitch about how the team is making mistakes and how the players aren't good enough, yet hang on to this idea "anything can happen" down the stretch, talking nonsense like trading for Juan Soto.

I was confident enough to go on record June 8th to say the Giants should be sellers aiming to boost the farm system as the trade window is open. Noting has happened on the field since to suggest they are somehow contenders that should be giving up any future potential asset to barely improve, and maybe even fall behind teams that are already better and will get even better in the next 9 days.

Here is a pretty important data point. Sacramento is .5 games out of last place, and the worst record in the PCL. OKC, the Dodgers?  They have the best record in the PCL.

The Giants are 15 GB of the Dodgers and Sac is 14 GB of OKC. The Giants clearly have a two level talent disparity to the Dodgers. Their Double A teams finished about equal, both winning their first halves of Eastern and Texas leagues. Their High A teams both won their first halves too.  They both finished 2nd in the first half of California League in Low A.

So you might say the Giants have caught the Dodgers at the A and AA level, but are way behind at the AAA and MLB level. It makes zero sense to trade any of the prospects just when you've caught up at the lower levels, and makes all kinds of sense to add more talent to the lower levels.

The Dodgers will beat both the Giants' best pitchers, but so too will the Mets and Braves, so what, exactly is the point of keeping the one who is about to be a free agent? The last thing I want to see are trades that might improve the team at the fringes, and in so doing basically replicate the free agent signings. Buying anything or doing nothing are both the wrong decision to improve future competitiveness. The only way to do it is to sell.

[OutsiderFan]

It's like cognitive dissonance for many Giants fans at this time. They bitch about how the team is making mistakes and how the players aren't good enough, yet hang on to this idea "anything can happen" down the stretch, talking nonsense like trading for Juan Soto.

I was confident enough to go on record June 8th to say the Giants should be sellers aiming to boost the farm system as the trade window is open. Noting has happened on the field since to suggest they are somehow contenders that should be giving up any future potential asset to barely improve, and maybe even fall behind teams that are already better and will get even better in the next 9 days.

Here is a pretty important data point. Sacramento is .5 games out of last place, and the worst record in the PCL. OKC, the Dodgers?  They have the best record in the PCL.

The Giants are 15 GB of the Dodgers and Sac is 14 GB of OKC. The Giants clearly have a two level talent disparity to the Dodgers. Their Double A teams finished about equal, both winning their first halves of Eastern and Texas leagues. Their High A teams both won their first halves too.  They both finished 2nd in the first half of California League in Low A.

So you might say the Giants have caught the Dodgers at the A and AA level, but are way behind at the AAA and MLB level. It makes zero sense to trade any of the prospects just when you've caught up at the lower levels, and makes all kinds of sense to add more talent to the lower levels.

The Dodgers will beat both the Giants' best pitchers, but so too will the Mets and Braves, so what, exactly is the point of keeping the one who is about to be a free agent? The last thing I want to see are trades that might improve the team at the fringes, and in so doing basically replicate the free agent signings. Buying anything or doing nothing are both the wrong decision to improve future competitiveness. The only way to do it is to sell.