After seeing shortstop Brandon Crawford deliver a career year at the plate and in the field in 2015, you can’t be too surprised that the San Francisco Giants decided to strike early and circumvent arbitration by giving him a multi-year contract extension. Sources indicate he’ll be sticking around for $75 million in the next six seasons. But you also might be asking whether they went too far.
Let’s start with the big question: Did the Giants pay too much for a player coming off a big season, or did they wisely invest in a guy coming into his own?