Building from within is important for any front office, but particularly vital for the Giants, who won three World Series titles that way and have seen in the decade since that free agency can be a cruel game.
The deals offer the players flexibility, they also offer the team flexibility because you're not in the realm of long-term commitments. There's going to be a cost somewhere for that, and that's just how it happened to play out in this case.
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