Part of the reason for the San Francisco Giants and their slow pace is the volume of high priced veterans on the roster coming off down seasons. It has been hard to find a market to trade players who seem to be unable to play to the stats on the back of their baseball card.
Another reason is there does not seem to be a push from ownership to right the ship immediately.
When the Giants fired Bobby Evans and replaced him with Farhan Zaidi, the clear message was that San Francisco was going to do things differently going forward.