Insanity! Giants Saved From Foolish Acquisitions

Carlos Lee for 6 years, $112M, or $18.7M per year?
Gary Matthews for 5 years, nearly $50M or $10M per year?
Juan Pierre for 5 years, $44M or nearly $9M per year?

And those were just the Giants best offers - reportedly, by good sources, according to the news reporters - the winning teams - Astros, Angels, Dodgers - offered about the same amount, the Giants even beat the Astros by $2M per year, their "winning" offer was 6 years, $100M.

Thanksgiving Day

This Thanksgiving I give thanks that the Giants did not sign any of these players to exhorbitant salaries, even though they tried their best to be stupid. I thought the Giants said that they were not getting a centerpiece player - though I wouldn't call them them centerpieces, they were certainly trying to pay them like centerpieces, certainly Carlos Lee. I'm glad they didn't but I'm not happy that they tried.

Dave Roberts appear to be nearly signed, to a 3 year deal, with the Giants beating out the Brewers, though his agent has refused to confirm anything. The Giants are reportedly also working on Rich Aurilia and Mark Loretta. Hopefully not crazy money but it appears that the Giants will have to pay that to fill some of the positions since there are so many open, hopefully it does not kill their chances to sign free agents next off-season when actual premier hitters are available, like Andruw Jones, Adam Dunn, Vernon Wells.