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The Giants just sent Ross Stripling and cash to the A's for a minor leaguer, Jonah Cox. He is unremarkable. I am hopeful that this is just a workaround to increase their available cap space in order to sign a big hitter like Bellinger or a big picture like Snell.

Bellinger/Snell - no thanks.
Chapman - yes please.

Last year’s acquisitions of Manea, Stripling, Haniger and Conforto sure are looking like great deals now.  What a waste of resources………..

Zaidi is the king of digging through the refuse pile in hopes of finding a discarded Rembrandt.  To date, that has yielded a bunch of worthless paintings by guys that are long forgotten……

I hope it isn’t too late to be welcomed to the Anti-Zaidi bandwagon……

Welcome to the dark side.

This feels like a scene from Moneyball Part Deux. Zaidi: “We’re trading Stripling. No one will want to take his contract, so we’ll have to ship him out with cash. [Pause] Get the A’s on the phone.” Some underling holding an iPad pipes up: “Uh, but Farhan, this leaves us with only one starter with more than a half-year of MLB service time.” Farhan: “You’re forgetting Hicks. Hicks!” Underling starts to speak, stops, pivots to updating resume on LinkedIn.

Cut to Scott Boras’ office. “Hey Scott, the Giants just sold Stripling and cash to the A’s for some minor league OF who can’t hit.” Boras evil grin: “Zaidi is going to look like a total fool when the Angels match him for Snell.”

In all seriousness though, trading Stripling now does suggest that some other move is about to happen.

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The Giants just sent Ross Stripling and cash to the A's for a minor leaguer, Jonah Cox. He is unremarkable. I am hopeful that this is just a workaround to increase their available cap space in order to sign a big hitter like Bellinger or a big picture like Snell.

Bellinger/Snell - no thanks.
Chapman - yes please.

Last year’s acquisitions of Manea, Stripling, Haniger and Conforto sure are looking like great deals now.  What a waste of resources………..

Zaidi is the king of digging through the refuse pile in hopes of finding a discarded Rembrandt.  To date, that has yielded a bunch of worthless paintings by guys that are long forgotten……

I hope it isn’t too late to be welcomed to the Anti-Zaidi bandwagon……

Welcome to the dark side.

This feels like a scene from Moneyball Part Deux. Zaidi: “We’re trading Stripling. No one will want to take his contract, so we’ll have to ship him out with cash. [Pause] Get the A’s on the phone.” Some underling holding an iPad pipes up: “Uh, but Farhan, this leaves us with only one starter with more than a half-year of MLB service time.” Farhan: “You’re forgetting Hicks. Hicks!” Underling starts to speak, stops, pivots to updating resume on LinkedIn.

Cut to Scott Boras’ office. “Hey Scott, the Giants just sold Stripling and cash to the A’s for some minor league OF who can’t hit.” Boras evil grin: “Zaidi is going to look like a total fool when the Angels match him for Snell.”

In all seriousness though, trading Stripling now does suggest that some other move is about to happen.