“We tried.” They’re the two most pathetic words in baseball. They used to belong to shambolic poverty franchises, but they’ve somehow found a place to live in San Francisco. As in, “We tried to sign Bryce Harper.” “We tried to sign Shohei Ohtani.” “We really tried to sign Aaron Judge.” And now, “We really, really, really tried to sign Carlos Correa, but something just wasn’t right with his physical, and you know that rapscallion Scott Boras.”
Now that the Giants have decisively missed out on every single major free agent this winter, it’s worth revisiting what was the previous low point of the Giants’ offseason, when they missed out on and/or were masterfully played by Aaron Judge.