San Francisco Giants fans are used to the Winter Meetings being over and having a majority of the teams roster already in place. Usually, they leave the meetings with just one or two major holes to plug. Then, once the Giants have fallen out of contention for good players that can actually help the team, they go ahead and panic-sign Barry Zito or Jeff Samardzija.
The new guard led by Farhan Zaidi are playing the long game as they wait for the market to play out and prices to drop.
Instead of rushing into making moves and overpaying players (e.