Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey provided some updates on the team’s offseason plans in talks with reporters at the GM Meetings this week. Andrew Baggarly of The Athletic and Shayna Rubin of The San Francisco Chronicle were among those to relay his quotes.
For the second straight offseason, Posey downplayed the idea that the Giants would play at the top of the free agent market. He suggested they were unlikely to surrender any draft capital by signing one of the eight players who rejected a qualifying offer, saying those moves would “be harder for us.” That alone wouldn’t rule them out on Tarik Skubal, Michael King or Freddy Peralta — none of whom were eligible for the QO. Trevor Rogers is the only starting pitcher who received a qualifying offer.
Rubin reports that the Giants have touched base with Peralta but appear focused on pitchers who’ll sign shorter-term contracts. Skubal prefers a long-term arrangement and would surely only go short term for a monster average annual value. Peralta seemed like a candidate for a pillow contract when he was struggling with the Mets, but his late-season turnaround in Tampa Bay might’ve been enough to put a five-plus year deal back on the table. King is entering his age-32 season and unlikely to exceed four years but could command $20-25MM on an annual basis.
Casey Mize, Michael Soroka, Shota Imanaga, Dustin May, Nick Pivetta and NPB righty Hiromi Itoh are among the mid-tier free agent starters. Most of those players will sign for two or three years, potentially with an opt-out included. Those appear to be more realistic candidates for the Giants to add some stability to the middle of their rotation behind Logan Webb and Landen Roupp. They’d ideally add two starters and only need to address one spot with the internal group of Adrian Houser, Anthony Molina, Matt Wilkinson and Yunior Marte.
Posey is already on record about needing to be more aggressive in the bullpen market than they were a year ago. Adrian Morejon and David Bednar both received the QO and are expected to command the two largest contracts in the relief class. The Giants could look at anyone in the next few tiers down, and Posey said it’d “be ideal” to bring in a closer.
Caleb Kilian, who was traded to Philadelphia at the deadline, led the 2026 Giants with eight saves. Twelve different pitchers recorded at least one save as part of a revolving door in the ninth inning. Among returning pitchers, Dylan Smith led the team with four. San Francisco reclaimed Camilo Doval off waivers at the end of the season but isn’t guaranteed to tender him an arbitration contract projected at $6.6MM. Neither Doval nor Ryan Walker had good seasons. They’re getting 2025 All-Star Randy Rodríguez back from elbow surgery, but Posey told reporters they’d prefer to ease him back in a non-closing capacity as they monitor his workload.
Emilio Pagán already came off the board on a one-year deal with Detroit. Raisel Iglesias is a proven closer who’ll likely be available on a one-year contract, probably above the approximate $11MM guarantee that Pagán commanded. Kenley Jansen is two saves away from 500 and surely going to prioritize signing somewhere where he can pitch the ninth. Pete Fairbanks has closing experience but is working back from thoracic outlet surgery. Paul Sewald or Jordan Romano closed at points this year and are going to be available for modest guarantees. The Giants could dangle the closing job to Evan Phillips or Bryan Abreu but might need to go multiple years on those pitchers.
On the trade front, there’s a decent chance the Brewers make Trevor Megill available before his final year of club control. The Giants may not want to trade for a rental if they’re tacitly embracing a short-term reset. The Tigers would surely be happy to offload some of the $10.25MM they owe to Kyle Finnegan, who’s coming off a poor season but saved 20+ games in each of the previous three years. The same is probably true of Seattle’s Seranthony Domínguez.
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