Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Giants and closer Camilo Doval discussed a contract extension last year that would have paid Doval around $50M. It isn’t known if the Giants have since made a larger offer or if the two sides have continued negotiations in any significant fashion. Regarding the timing of the $50M offer, Slusser writes that Edwin Diaz ’s five-year, $102M deal with the Mets from November 2022 happened “not long before” the talks between Doval and the Giants.
It might, therefore, be safe to guess the two sides held discussions during Spring Training 2023, as teams routinely explore longer-term contracts with their in-house players during spring camp. Doval is still a pre-arbitration player, as the right-hander will only enter the arb process for the first of three times this coming offseason. He is slated to hit free agency following the 2027 campaign, so it seems likely that the Giants’ offer covered Doval’s remaining two pre-arb seasons, his three arbitration years, and at least one of his free agent seasons, with possibly a club option or two also attached.
It would’ve been quite the financial commitment for a pitcher who had only 94.2 MLB innings under his belt heading into the 2023 season, especially for a Giants team that has been wary of giving any kind of long-term contract to a pitcher since president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi took the front office. It should be noted that the spring of 2023 did see th.
