A little bit of a surprise came yesterday afternoon in the form of reporting by John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle: neither Farhan Zaidi nor Bob Melvin received 3-year deals last offseason as had been widely reported.
Instead, the San Francisco Giants simply didn’t correct the notion that they were 3-year deals when in reality they were 2-year guarantees with a 3rd-year club option. Like major league deals, they’re guaranteed, so if the Giants were to move on from either, they’d still have to pay them for that guaranteed year — unless they’re allowed to interview elsewhere and leave, but that seems extraordinarily unlikely, given, you know, their track records.