The San Francisco Giants are poised to trade big players before the trade deadline as the Buster Posey rebuild resumes.

We’re not even halfway through the 2026 Major League Baseball season, and of course, the San Francisco Giants are ready to throw in the towel.

The Giants, even after beating the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday afternoon, are only 30-43. They are 17 games behind the first place Los Angeles Dodgers. Surprisingly, even with the addition of the third wild card spot, it is eight games behind the San Diego Padres and Washington Nationals, who currently occupy that position.

Even worse, they’ll have to get past the Cubs, Diamondbacks, Pirates, Marlins, Reds and Mets just to get to that third wild card spot. Put differently, only the lowly Colorado Rockies have a worse record than the Giants in the National League.

So it’s no surprise that multiple new reports have said San Francisco’s front office is open for business ahead of the league’s trade deadline. Mark Feinsand of MLB.com, Buster Olney of ESPN and The Athletic all have said, to varying degrees, that the Giants are ready to trade.

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Feinsand and Olney specifically named some of the team’s most expensive players, including first baseman Rafael Devers, Willy Adames and third baseman Matt Chapman, among those the Giants want to deal. Star forward Logan Webb and many of the team’s younger players, however, are not expected to be put on the block.

Less than two years ago, in October 2024, the Giants ownership group announced that they had appointed Buster Posey as president of Baseball Operations. Posey is a Giants franchise legend, and has a wealth of experience in and around the organization. But he also had little experience in the analytics-driven methods of evaluation that are so popular in modern baseball.

That was considered a plus point for baseball fans when he took over from the data-driven Farhan Zaidi. Zaidi joined the Giants front office after helping build the Dodgers into a juggernaut, and despite winning 107 games in 2021, he was fired after three consecutive years of San Francisco playing .500 baseball.

However, in Posey’s first year on the job, they went … 81-81. In his second year, they are expected to get worse. Even playing in the greater San Francisco market and salary increases from $175 million in 2024 to $210 million in 2026. Maybe it’s time to admit that the Buster Posey experiment has already failed.

Not all of San Francisco’s problem is on him, but it’s also clear that some of his big moves haven’t worked.

San Francisco Giants third baseman Rafael Devers reacts around first base coach Mark Hallberg during the first inning against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Denver. (Photos by Ron Chenoy/Imagn)

Matt Chapman signed his extension before Posey took over, but his first move was to bring in free-agent shortstop Willy Adames. And while Adames was a top player in 2025, his plate discipline improved in 2026 and his defensive metrics took a big step back. He was worth 4.8 wins above replacement in 2024, 4 in 2025 and -0.3 so far in 2026 while making $26 million a year in 2031.

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Then there’s Rafael Devers. Devers developed into a star in Boston, but clashed with the front office over being asked to move positions. The Giants swooped in, trading a few prospects to the Red Sox with the goal of building around him at the end of his contract in 2033.

Instead, Devers has just nine homers in 2026, is hitting .234 with a .294 on-base percentage, has been a below-average hitter this season and has earned -0.1 wins above replacement. And now you are in the trading center.

That’s bad enough. But the players Posey traded made it worse.

The key to the trade was former top prospect Kyle Harrison. Harrison was pitched to the Brewers in the offseason, and, surprise, surprise, he quickly thrived. He struck out 80 hitters in 65 innings with a 2.47 ERA and only 18 walks. Devers has a negative WAR, Harrison is +1.7, per FanGraphs. He’s making just $782,000 this year, and doesn’t hit the jackpot until 2028. Devers makes about $29 million a year in 2033.

James Tibbs III was one of the frontrunners in the Devers trade, and he ended up being traded, this time to the Dodgers. He, too, has turned into a great player, hitting .305/.423/.609 in Triple-A, with 19 runs in 67 games. Keith Law ranked him as the 24th best prospect in baseball in his latest review.

It’s not all doom and gloom; Bryce Eldridge looks set to finally make good on his promise, while 18-year-old Joshua Gonzalez could be a star down the road. Luis Arraez has been a pleasant surprise, and Casey Schmitt has become an everyday player. But their pitching staff has been very disappointing, and there is little help from the farm system.

And therein lies the problem. The Giants, despite the size of the market and budget, could not build a complete roster.

Landen Roupp of the San Francisco Giants pitches against the Chicago Cubs in the top of the first inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, on June 12, 2026. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)

The Dodgers, by comparison, are currently without Will Smith and Teoscar Hernandez, and Tommy Edman just played his first game of the season. Blake Snell has pitched three innings this season, and Tyler Glasnow is on the 60-day IL with a back injury. Edwin Diaz had an ERA over 10 before he went down with an arm injury. And LA is 48-27 and headed for another division title. How do they do it?

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With Alex Call, Ryan Ward, Emmett Sheehan, Dalton Rushing, Justin Wrobleski, Will Klein and Kyle Hurt. LA excels in having a farm system full of talent in Triple-A, ready to step in for injured stars. They build quality depth and backups at key positions. Use statistics to compile the best defensive position of any team in the league. And they’re getting bullpen pieces in unexpected places. Blake Treinen, Alex Vesia, Klein, Hurt, Jack Dreyer, Edgardo Henriquez. They all played a big role.

Posey, meanwhile, was involved in the franchise-changing Devers trade. Presented by Kyle Harrison and James Tibbs. Signed Adames, to fall off a cliff. And now he’s looking to shed a salary and rebuild again. It’s chaos, and it’s what separates the best organizations from the rest. The Giants are currently far below what we would call “other.”