The San Francisco Giants have had a Sisyphean run when pursuing top free agent targets in recent years. They’re seemingly always involved with the big-name players but never actually get the player to pick San Francisco. It’s gotten to the point where the fan base was celebrating the fact that the Giants didn’t really even try to land superstar free agent Juan Soto — Giants fans, it seems, don’t want to get hurt again.
But this week, it became clear that new president of baseball operations Buster Posey is ready to put the fan base through the wringer yet again, this time in pursuit of top free agent pitcher Corbin Burnes.