Maybe you were ready to move on from Joe Panik, but I wasn’t, and apparently, neither were the Giants. Tonight was the deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players. The Giants had five such players: Panik, Will Smith, Sam Dyson, Gorkys Hernandez, and Hunter Strickland. The headline gives it all away, so what does it mean?
Farhan Zaidi has made some minor league free agent moves already (follow giantsprospects on Twitter to get the latest news), but the non-tender deadline was the first public declaration of the team’s direction.