Good morning, baseball fans!<\/p>\n
As we approach Spring Training and the beginning of the season, we\u2019re going to be doing some questions for y\u2019all about your thoughts about the San Francisco Giants and baseball in general!<\/p>\n
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Today\u2019s question: Are the 2026 Giants actually trying to contend, or are they just pretending?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve made my opinion on this known. Many times. I think that if they are actually trying to contend, they\u2019re not doing a particularly good job of showing it.<\/p>\n
They have the dual misfortunes of both being in the same division as the Los Angeles Dodgers in the year 2026, while also somehow pretending that that is not the case.<\/p>\n
If your direct competition is outspending you and building a dang super team, and you aren\u2019t doing anything tangible to actually try to keep up with them, you are not a contender. You are delusional.<\/p>\n
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But that\u2019s just my personal opinion as a fan, based on observing this team as closely as I have for the last decade.<\/p>\n
Now, I\u2019m not saying I don\u2019t think they can be successful. Nor am I saying that I don\u2019t think they are actually making good faith attempts to improve the on-field performance. But I am saying that if they think those moves are enough to truly be competitive in the division, they are lying to themselves (and\/or us).<\/p>\n
Are the 2026 Giants contenders, or pretenders?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, baseball fans! As we approach Spring Training and the beginning of the season, we\u2019re going to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,48,2178,162,19,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,1791,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-561126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-giants","12":"tag-major-league-baseball","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-san-francisco","15":"tag-san-francisco-giants","16":"tag-sanfrancisco","17":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","18":"tag-sf","19":"tag-sf-giants","20":"tag-sfgiants","21":"tag-the-los-angeles-dodgers","22":"tag-willy-adames"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116035371876880679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}