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If you are confused by what the SF Giants accomplished at the trade deadline, you are not alone. Bob Nightengale of USA Today assigned the trade deadline winners and losers with the Giants ending up as one of the losers on his list.
The Giants shipped off Jorge Soler and Luke Jackson to the Atlanta Braves, whereas Alex Cobb was sent to the Cleveland Guardians in a separate trade. In a last-minute move, they swung a deal to acquire veteran outfielder Mark Canha from the Detroit Tigers in exchange for pitching prospect Eric Silva.
Farhan Zaidi told KNBR that he believes that the Giants have the best rotation in baseball with Robbie Ray returning from Tommy John surgery and Blake Snell looking more like the pitcher who took home his second Cy Young Award in 2023. Only time will tell if that is true.
Of course, if the Giants believed that they had the best rotation in baseball, it would have made a lot of sense for them to be buyers at the trade deadline and bolster the lineup. To a marginal degree, they did so with the addition of Canha.
That said, a right-handed-hitting first baseman was barely on the list of needs for the team to address. Sure, it was a need but in the same way that a team needs a solid fifth-inning reliever.
