Here in 2026, the trade deadline will decide just how serious the San Francisco Giants are about competing. 

Absolutely no one expected this team to be 14 games below .500 at the All-Star break. Sitting at 41-55 simply isn't going to cut it, and they've consistently been flirting with being in last place in the National League West Division.

San Francisco knows they should be sellers; it's just a matter of who they move at the deadline. These decisions won't impact their first-half report card, but it's going to be extremely important for this team to regroup at the deadline and cut as many of their losses as they can.

The Giants are nowhere near ready to compete in the current landscape of the NL West, or even fight for a Wild Card berth. Crazier things have happened, but it would take an incredible turnaround for this team to be taken seriously.

On paper the talent is there, but the results simply haven't been. San Francisco is three games below .500 at home and is just 19-30 on the road. They were 5-5 in their last 10 games of the first half, but notably took are of business against the last-place Colorado Rockies, a team that beat them in a three-game series just a few days prior.

Rafael Devers may lead the team with 19 home runs and 52 RBIs, but he's just not worth what this team is paying him.

The Giants love to hand out massive contracts to lock up veterans for the long run, but that hasn't worked for Willy Adames. Adames continues to struggle, and his .230/.281/.420 slash line isn't anywhere near what the team expected when they paid him $182 million.

Matt Chapman has arguably been worse as he sports just a .692 OPS and is now on the 10-day Injured List. It's going to take a miracle for them to move the $151M man, but the Giants need to pull out all the stops to host a fire sale at the deadline.

The most notable Giants player on offense has been Luis Arraez, someone who's on a one-year deal and is the most likely candidate to be traded. No one is going to be afraid of his $12M price tag, especially with the way he's been playing. Arraez leads the team with his .330 batting average, .369 OBP, and his 119 hits.

Pitching wise, Robbie Ray, Landen Roupp, and Logan Webb have all been rock solid. Ray's eight wins and 3.38 ERA are team highs while Roupp has a team leading 104 strikeouts. Webb was notably named Pitcher of the Month, but now all of a sudden he's given up 12 earned runs in his last two starts. 

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