2023 Stats: 180.0 IP, 2.25 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 11.7 K/9, 6.0 bWAR
Contract Projections: Six years, $144 million (Spotrac); Six years, $150 million (ESPN); Seven years, $200 million (MLB Trade Rumors)
Latest Scuttlebutt: Angels, Cubs, Giants, Padres and Red Sox linked to Snell
Perfect Landing Spot: San Francisco Giants
The whole "Giants no longer pursuing Yamamoto" narrative on Thursday felt a little forced, didn't it?
It was as if they were trying to get out in front of not landing the Japanese ace with a message of "Well, Blake Snell, you were our No. 1 priority all along," right?
But maybe it will work. And perhaps the two-time Cy Young winner should have been San Francisco's primary target all along, as he has both pitched masterfully at Oracle Park (1.59 ERA, 12.3 K/9 in four starts) and owned the Dodgers (2.59 ERA, 11.8 K/9 in 13 starts) over the course of his career.
The biggest selling point for the Giants is their cavernous stadium.
Snell has historically done a great job of not getting burned by home runs. Not only does he have a career HR/9 allowed rate of 0.92, but darn near two-thirds of the home runs he has allowed in his career were solo shots.
Get him pitching home games in San Francisco where home runs go to die, though, and it becomes even less likely that he pays dearly for the occasional innings in which he walks the bases loaded.
And, let's be honest, the Giants need to make a big splash after missing out on Aaron Judge, Carlos Correa, Shohei Ohtani and now Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Jung Hoo Lee was a solid, not cheap pickup, but signing Snell would be the type of home run they've been trying to hit in free agency over the past few offseasons.
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