Giants Extra - An inside look at the San Francisco Giants

This is what gives the Giants whatever chance they may have at bringing in Jon Lester. Six pretty productive players, cost controlled at $13M for this year. When you add in the low cost of Panik, Susac and perhaps Duffy, you can definitely allocate more dollars to the pitching staff side of the ledger. Then hopefully the young pitching prospects come up in 2016 or 2017 and allow you to have some roll off on the pitching side that can reward Belt and Crawford.

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Giants Extra - An inside look at the San Francisco Giants:

It’s non-tender day, and there were no surprises for the Giants. They tendered contracts to all six arbitration-eligible players. Here are the projected arbitration salaries from the excellent MLB Trade Rumors. These are just projections, and you figure at some point the front office might approach the Brandons about buying out arbitration years and getting more cost control. 

Gregor Blanco – $3.5MM
Yusmeiro Petit – $1.6MM
Brandon Belt – $3.4MM
Travis Ishikawa – $800K
Brandon Crawford – $2.5MM
Hector Sanchez – $1.0MM

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