If Major League Baseball gave out an award for best offseason, the San Francisco Giants would have been a top contender.
After a rather inauspicious start that featured a prominent member of their ownership group waxing poetic about the joys of breaking even, the emergence of a disingenuous narrative on how San Francisco itself was the problem and seeing their two top targets in free agency sign with the Dodgers, the Giants managed to rebound quite nicely. For the first time in what seemed like forever, they spent to their capabilities, resulting in one of the more hopeful offseasons in recent memory.