129 days from now, we’ll know if the most important offseason of the Zaidi era (so far) led to anything interesting. Until then, I expect the San Francisco Giants to be sensible in the extreme. Conservative, but with a twist. This has been a successful component of the Zaidi era, reflecting the new industry standard of slow playing everything to squeeze the market .
As cynical as it is — and baseball has always been a cynical business where players are nothing more than cows on a pasture for the dairy farmers who are the team owners — the Giants do it well.