6:52pm: According to , the Giants made an offer to Martinez while they were already in talks with Soler and Martinezs camp made a counteroffer that San Francisco bra s werent comfortable with. The specifics of both the clubs offer to Martinez and Khalil Greene Jersey Martinezs counteroffer remain unclear, though Pavlovics report seems to indicate that Martinezs apparent lack of interest in San Francisco may have had more to do with the deals value than soft factors such as geography or club competitivene s. 12:04pm: The Giants made a contract offer at some point this offseason prior to the teams deal with , reports. Martinez rejected the offer because he didnt want to go there, Heyman writes, which could indicate any number of concerns (roster fit, playing time, geography, etc.) beyond perhaps any misgivings about the value or nature of the deal the Giants put on the table. It is safe to a sume that San Francisco didnt offer Martinez anything akin to the that Soler received, given that Martinez is entering his age-36 season and is four and a half years older than Soler. That said, the two players have similar profiles as right-handed hitters with defensive limitations in the field. Martinez is e sentially a DH-only player at this point in his career, and the bulk of Solers time in the Marlins 2023 lineup was spent as a designated hitter. Though Martinez has had more streakine s and variance in his performance as he has aged, he has still been the more consistent hitter than the notoriously inconsistent Soler. Both players were All-Stars and 33-homer hitters in 2023 and had numbers, as Martinez had a 135 wRC+ while hitting .271/.321/.572 in 479 plate appearances for the Dodgers and Soler hit .250/.341/.512 over 580 PA with Miami. Martinezs playing time was limited by groin and back problems, and Soler had much better walk and strikeout rates than Martinez, even if Solers 24.3 K% was still below average. Soler and Martinez werent far apart on MLBTRs list of , as Soler was ranked 16th and Martinez 20th. The age gap was one of the determining factors in the differing rankings, and we predicted a smaller annual average value for Soler (with a three-year, $45MM projection) than Martinez (two years, $40MM). Of course, it now seems entirely po sible that Martinez will end up falling behind Soler in AAV given that were in the last week of February and Martinez still remains unsigned. The Blue Jays, Mets, Angels, and Diamondbacks have all been linked to Martinezs market at various points this winter, though Toronto and Arizona have since already added other veteran bats (i.e. , , ) for the DH role and no longer seem like fits. MLBTRs Anthony Franco po sibilities for Martinezs next landing spot and listed the Mets and Angels as still the most logical destinations based on team need, even if both clubs have indicated they would prefer to use the DH spot to cycle many players through the lineup. Heyman suggested the Rangers as a po sible candidate for Martinez, though Texas also has a lot of promising up-and-comers in need of at-bats. Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi has been generally conservative with free agent expenditures during his five-plus years in charge of San Franciscos front office. As the indicates, this winters signings of Jung Ho Lee and marked the first time that Zaidi signed a player to a deal of four or more years. Speculatively speaking, it seems plausible that Zaidi first checked on the po sibility of signing Martinez or another in before agreeing to go to three years to land Soler. From Martinezs end, we dont know enough about the Giants offer to gauge whether or not he mightve erred in not accepting the deal, or if accepting it at some unspecified earlier point wouldve taken him off the market much earlier. However, if Martinez just wasnt interested in playing for the Giants in particular, money might not have been the i sue whatsoever. Kyle Higashioka Jersey