The Giants have put together a nice enough offseason so far. The signing of shortstop Willy Adames (seven-year, $182 million contract) and the addition of 42-year-old Justin Verlander (one-year, $15 million) are nice, solid pickups.

The San Francisco Giants are heading in the right direction, but are still short of where they want to be in the New Year power rankings.

Verlander was way better than his numbers with the Astros in 2024, and there's almost no such thing as a risky one-year deal. Look for him to pad his Hall of Fame resume.

San Francisco took a risk, but if his career is any indication, it was a risk worth taking. The San Francisco Giants signed future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander to a one-year contract that took the MLB world by surprise.

So far, the San Francisco Giants have made two splashes this winter. First, they handed star shortstop Willy Adames a lucrative contract that makes the left sid