SAN FRANCISCO — It was somewhat appropriate that the Jeff Samardzija press conference at AT&T Park came a couple hours after Zack Greinke was introduced at Chase Field. Greinke was the first choice of the offseason, but when he chose the Diamondbacks, the Giants locked Samardzija up within a matter of hours. On Friday, Samardzija donned a No. 29 jersey, smiled for the cameras, and made it clear that he didn’t wait long to accept the Giants’ offer.
“What I kept going back to was the Giants approaching me from the very beginning and being interested in me.