Giants make splash, add Snell
San Francisco reportedly in agreement on 2-year, $62 million contract with opt out after 2024 season
With less than two weeks until Opening Day, the Giants reportedly made one of their biggest additions of the offseason Monday evening.
Blake Snell, the reigning National League Cy Young winner, will reunite with manager Bob Melvin and shore up San Francisco's depleted starting rotation, according to multiple reports. The deal, first reported by the New York Post's Jon Heyman, is for a reported two years and $62 million and includes an opt out after this season.
Pending a physical, the deal has not been officially announced by the team. Snell, however, appeared to offer his own confirmation with a photo posted to his personal Instagram of him edited into the Giants' home uniform, captioned with two orange and black heart emojis.
Snell, 31, joins third baseman Matt Chapman as exclamation points on the Giants' offseason, bringing their total commitments made this winter north of $300 million, second only
to the Dodgers. Like Chapman, Snell is a client of superagent Scott Boras who didn't receive the nine-figure deal he was originally seeking.
Playing the waiting game paid off for the Giants, who now feature the top two finishers in last year's National League Cy Young voting at the top of their rotation.
One of three pitchers to win the award in both leagues, Snell should slot into the No. 2 spot in the rotation behind Logan Webb, boosting a group that has two starters rehabbing from surgeries (Alex Cobb, Robbie Ray), another lost to injury this spring (Tristan Beck), another limited by injury this spring (Keaton Winn) and two more who have combined to start 15 games in the major leagues (Jordan Hicks, Kyle Harrison).