As the Giants’ 2025 season wraps up this weekend, the team is starting to look forward to the offseason and a fresh start in 2026.

Perhaps the biggest question for San Francisco heading into next year will be its bullpen, which went from stellar in the first half to shaky at best since the All-Star break.

In an interview with KNBR’s Brian Murphy and Markus Boucher on Thursday, Giants general manager Zack Minasian discussed how the front office will approach their offseason rebuild of that staff.

“We’ve shown — and teams around baseball have shown — there’s a lot of ways to do it,” Minasian explained. “It doesn’t necessarily have to be the big free-agent reliever, but then again, it can be the big free-agent reliever. We’ve seen both work. We’ve seen both not work. So, it can be minor-league free agents. It can be in trade. I think it’s fair to say we just want to get more arms, more reinforcements, be open-minded to how we use our own players.

“I think we saw Hayden Birdsong early in the year really dominate in the bullpen as a prospect starter. And we put him in the rotation, and I think he flashed it and struggled, but do we consider more young guys in the bullpen?

“Those are all questions that we’ll be asking each other as we really start to roll our sleeves up come Monday, and we’ll look at how we make this team better in 2026.”

Clearly, there are a lot of possibilities for how the Giants’ bullpen will look next spring, and it’s likely to look quite different compared to this past spring.

After having perhaps the best bullpen staff in MLB for the first few months of the season, the Giants traded away Tyler Rogers and Camilo Doval at the deadline, while All-Star Randy Rodriguez was lost to Tommy John surgery. And without those trusty late-inning stalwarts, San Francisco’s relievers have cost the team several games down the stretch.

Prior to the All-Star break, San Francisco’s bullpen posted an ERA of just 3.14 — the lowest in the league. But since then, that mark has fallen to a 12th-best 4.01.

For an organization that prides itself on having a consistently top-notch bullpen, Minasian and Co. have plenty of work ahead of them to rebuild San Francisco’s staff back to its prior form.

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