LAS VEGAS — It’s a virtual necessity for any big-league team looking to improve its roster with free agents to check in with Scott Boras, the top agent in the business. For the Giants, that meeting took place Tuesday night at the general managers meetings, a league source told The Standard.
The Giants are in the market for pitching, and Boras has the top free agent, Tarik Skubal, the two-time Cy Young Award winner who finished last season with the Dodgers and could sign the biggest contract for a pitcher in history.
A separate league source said the Giants definitely do not plan to be involved in the Skubal sweepstakes.
Perhaps Nick Martinez is more like it. Another Boras client. Martinez would be far cheaper in part because he’s 36 years old, but he’s coming off a solid season with the Rays – 15-6 record with a 3.10 ERA in 31 starts – and could be a nice addition to a rotation that includes Logan Webb, Landen Roupp, and Adrian Houser.
In an interview with The Standard, Boras was asked whether Martinez is more realistic for the Giants than Skubal and said, “I don’t want to limit them.”
Boras has plenty of other clients on the pitching side: Matthew Boyd (an All-Star in 2025 who had a 3.91 ERA in 22 starts for the Cubs last season), Paul Blackburn (who has transitioned to a reliever since his A’s days and posted a 1.59 ERA in 62 outings for the Yankees), and Zac Gallen (who struggled last season with Arizona).
Also, Kaima Taira, a 26-year-old coming off a dominant season in Japan in which he posted a 12-5 record and 1.36 ERA. He’s 5-foot-8 but has an impressive array of pitches including a high-90s fastball that helped him produce a 1.78 ERA in eight seasons with the Seibu Lions.
The Giants have internally discussed Taira.
“He’s got a lot of players. Yes, there’s interest there,” Posey said in general about Boras’ stable of free agents.
Boras’ top position-player client is outfielder Randy Arozarena; the Giants have plenty of young outfielders they value. The agent also represents catcher Ryan Jeffers; the Giants could use help behind the plate as they groom Daniel Susac and Drew Cavanaugh.
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That Boras met with the Giants isn’t surprising. He usually meets with the team at GM meetings and winter meetings as he gathers the strategies of the big-market clubs. At this week’s meetings, he’s sitting down with several teams, the biggest focus being Skubal.
The Giants also met Tuesday with CAA Sports, which represents shortstop Willy Adames, and the conversation with the Giants’ brass turned to his health, offseason training, and expectations in 2027.
“We’re in Vegas right now — if I were a betting man, I’d bet Willy has a pretty good bounce-back year,” Posey said. “I think he’s motivated. I think he was pretty frustrated not just for the team but for himself personally. … I think there’s an emphasis to really structure his workouts to increase his athletic movements. The way I’m thinking, maybe less bulky muscle mass. Once you hit 30, you kind of have to modify your workouts. You can’t just throw around the heaviest weight all the time and expect to keep your mobility the same, so probably a lot of mobility work as well.”
CAA Sports also represents pitchers Nick Pivetta (2.87 ERA in 31 starts for San Diego in 2025, just eight starts last season due to an elbow injury) and David Peterson (3.70 ERA with the Cubs following the trade deadline) and catcher Carson Kelly (a Cub the past two seasons).
According to Spotrac’s payroll rankings, the Giants finished 13th among the 30 teams in 2026. Fans have questioned why the payroll isn’t higher when the team ranked eighth in attendance and fifth in franchise value, according to Forbes and Sportico.
To be fair, the Giants have pursued elite free agents in the past, notably Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge, and more recently signed Willy Adames and Matt Chapman and traded for Rafael Devers. Boras represents Chapman as well as Jung Hoo Lee.
Boras said the Giants play in “one of the top five markets in the game” and added, “It’s amazing that Major League Baseball has not said, ‘We’re putting an expansion team there. You don’t get that market to yourselves.’”
As for the Giants’ potential spending, Boras said, “Let’s put it this way, I think everybody knows when you work for the San Francisco Giants, you’ve got choices at the top all the way down.”