It took until the final week of spring training, but Zaidi’s persistence and Melvin’s relationship ultimately convinced the two-time Cy Young winner to sign with the Giants.
New San Francisco Giants pitcher Blake Snell, left, smiles as he is introduced during a baseball news conference as agent Scott Boras, right, listens Wednesday, March 20, 2024, in Scottsdale, Ariz. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — As time wore on this offseason, Scott Boras began to hear less from Blake Snell and more from Farhan Zaidi.
“It was a long time,” Snell said, wearing his newly issued No. 7 jersey and a pair of Nike basketball shorts. “I know Scott got annoyed of hearing from me. Early on, I was like, ‘What’s happening?’ all the time. But we had a good plan and over time got lost in that plan.” “With Farhan’s interest and how much I kept hearing his name come up in conversations with Scott, he just pushed me to want to come here more because of how much he was trying to get me here,” Snell said. “What happened in free agency had a mind of its own. But now I’m here and my focus is here. I’m excited to learn what it is to be a Giant.”
“I actually just got off the phone with the White House. I called to ask if negotiating three deals with Scott Boras in one offseason qualifies you for a Presidential Medal of Freedom. They said they’d get back to me on that,” Zaidi joked to groans and strained smiles from the gathered crowd. Boras joked that the Giants’ new manager “has actually cost me a lot of money this offseason. Because I have players that really, really like playing for Bob.”
While San Francisco’s proximity to Seattle was appealing to Snell and his fiancé, Haeley Mar, “it doesn’t matter what city I’m in,” Snell said. “I know I’ve got baseball and I’ll be there all day anyway. It was more how are they going to treat me, what’s the clubhouse like, how’s the fanbase, how’s the coaching staff. Questions like that were more important to me.”In four career starts at Oracle Park, Snell has never lost and has a 1.59 ERA.
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