SF Giants' Offensive Outlook: Assessing Confidence Levels for the Upcoming Season

The San Francisco Giants' disappointing 2023 season was largely defined by the team-wide offensive collapse that started in late June. Outside of Wilmer Flores, pretty much every SF Giants player struggled offensively from July through the end of the season. Overall, the Giants have been below average offensively since the start of the 2022 season. With that in mind, even with the SF Giants' addition of Jung Hoo Lee, how much confidence should fans have in the team's offense heading into 2024 if they don't make any more acquisitions? The answer? Not very confident. The Giants still have a lot of work to do offensively, unless they want to go all-in on pitching and defense, which is a possibility given the pitching-heavy state of the free agent market.

Among the other questions asked and answered on today's mailbag edition of Locked On Giants:

Why would the Giants even entertain the idea of signing Matt Chapman if that means blocking Casey Schmitt for six years or whatever it would take to sign him. He (Chapman) hits like J.D. Davis and fields like Casey. Should put resources toward another position.

It seems people are down on Chapman because they have Schmitt. Can you touch on this? Just seems unfair towards Chapman.

Is there a trade or free agent upgrade that would be better than the LaMonte Wade Jr./Wilmer Flores platoon at first base? Could this platoon be a sneaky strength of the team? Flores and Wade, overall, had fine 2023 seasons.

Are the KBO/AA comparisons legit? If so do you think Lee can adjust to the MLB? He is coming to one of the hardest parks to hit in after all.

I think the standard of national baseball reporting has been shown up badly this off season. How can “ordinary fans” discern reliable hotel stove reporting?

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