Giants look to bolster 2026 pitching depth

When Buster Posey took over as the Giants’ president of baseball operations last year, he expressed a desire to re-center the organization’s identity around pitching and defense, which was the backbone of the rosters that brought three World Series titles in San Francisco in 2010, ’12 and ’14.

But that vision didn’t quite coalesce in Posey’s first season as an executive.

Logan Webb and Robbie Ray emerged as All-Stars, but the Giants didn’t have enough starting depth to keep them afloat down the stretch. Their lights-out bullpen was pulled apart after Camilo Doval and Tyler Rogers were moved at the Trade Deadline and Randy Rodríguez and Erik Miller went down with injuries. Their defense, meanwhile, finished tied for 23rd in the Majors with -23 outs above average .

All told, the Giant