Larry Baer believes the San Francisco Giants should not compare themselves to the World Series champion and NL West rival Los Angeles Dodgers.

The San Francisco Giants will likely be seeing a position change for 2018 international free agent signing Marco Luciano. Per NBC Sports Bay area, he has been reported to be changing to the outfield this offseason after working predominantly as a shortstop and second baseman previously, which is not particularly an easy transition to make. In his 2,909.1 innings played in the field with the Giants organization, he has never played outside the infield, and has exclusively stuck to the middle infield spots. The report made it clear that he has worked primarily in left field this offseason to prepare for spring training.

All the talk around the San Francisco Giants when it comes to prospects is about first baseman Bryce Eldridge, and the chatter is justified. Last season, Eldridge worked up the ladder of the entire Giants' full-season minor league system.

Willy Adames wasted no time establishing himself as one of the faces of the Giants organization. After signing a franchise-record seven-year, $182 million contract in early December, Adames immediately got to work as San Francisco's newest ambassador. Just days after putting pen to paper on his Giants contract, the veteran shortstop reached out to free-agent starting pitcher Corbin Burnes in an effort to recruit him to San Francisco before his former Milwaukee Brewers teammate eventually signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Then, as he continued his offseason training, Adames traveled to the Giants' spring training facility in Arizona two weeks ago, where he got to meet many of his new teammates, including star third baseman Matt Chapman, who he will share the left side of the infield with for years to come.

Willy Adames wasted no time establishing himself as one of the faces of the Giants organization. After signing a franchise-record seven-year, $182 million contract in early December, Adames immediately got to work as San Francisco's newest ambassador. Just days after putting pen to paper on his Giants contract, the veteran shortstop reached out to free-agent starting pitcher Corbin Burnes in an effort to recruit him to San Francisco before his former Milwaukee Brewers teammate eventually signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Then, as he continued his offseason training, Adames traveled to the Giants' spring training facility in Arizona two weeks ago, where he got to meet many of his new teammates, including star third baseman Matt Chapman, who he will share the left side of the infield with for years to come.

Willy Adames wasted no time establishing himself as one of the faces of the Giants organization. After signing a franchise-record seven-year, $182 million contract in early December, Adames immediately got to work as San Francisco's newest ambassador. Just days after putting pen to paper on his Giants contract, the veteran shortstop reached out to free-agent starting pitcher Corbin Burnes in an effort to recruit him to San Francisco before his former Milwaukee Brewers teammate eventually signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Then, as he continued his offseason training, Adames traveled to the Giants' spring training facility in Arizona two weeks ago, where he got to meet many of his new teammates, including star third baseman Matt Chapman, who he will share the left side of the infield with for years to come.

Willy Adames wasted no time establishing himself as one of the faces of the Giants organization. After signing a franchise-record seven-year, $182 million contract in early December, Adames immediately got to work as San Francisco's newest ambassador. Just days after putting pen to paper on his Giants contract, the veteran shortstop reached out to free-agent starting pitcher Corbin Burnes in an effort to recruit him to San Francisco before his former Milwaukee Brewers teammate eventually signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Then, as he continued his offseason training, Adames traveled to the Giants' spring training facility in Arizona two weeks ago, where he got to meet many of his new teammates, including star third baseman Matt Chapman, who he will share the left side of the infield with for years to come.

Willy Adames wasted no time establishing himself as one of the faces of the Giants organization. After signing a franchise-record seven-year, $182 million contract in early December, Adames immediately got to work as San Francisco's newest ambassador. Just days after putting pen to paper on his Giants contract, the veteran shortstop reached out to free-agent starting pitcher Corbin Burnes in an effort to recruit him to San Francisco before his former Milwaukee Brewers teammate eventually signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Then, as he continued his offseason training, Adames traveled to the Giants' spring training facility in Arizona two weeks ago, where he got to meet many of his new teammates, including star third baseman Matt Chapman, who he will share the left side of the infield with for years to come.

Willy Adames wasted no time establishing himself as one of the faces of the Giants organization. After signing a franchise-record seven-year, $182 million contract in early December, Adames immediately got to work as San Francisco's newest ambassador. Just days after putting pen to paper on his Giants contract, the veteran shortstop reached out to free-agent starting pitcher Corbin Burnes in an effort to recruit him to San Francisco before his former Milwaukee Brewers teammate eventually signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Then, as he continued his offseason training, Adames traveled to the Giants' spring training facility in Arizona two weeks ago, where he got to meet many of his new teammates, including star third baseman Matt Chapman, who he will share the left side of the infield with for years to come.

Willy Adames wasted no time establishing himself as one of the faces of the Giants organization. After signing a franchise-record seven-year, $182 million contract in early December, Adames immediately got to work as San Francisco's newest ambassador. Just days after putting pen to paper on his Giants contract, the veteran shortstop reached out to free-agent starting pitcher Corbin Burnes in an effort to recruit him to San Francisco before his former Milwaukee Brewers teammate eventually signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Then, as he continued his offseason training, Adames traveled to the Giants' spring training facility in Arizona two weeks ago, where he got to meet many of his new teammates, including star third baseman Matt Chapman, who he will share the left side of the infield with for years to come.

Willy Adames wasted no time establishing himself as one of the faces of the Giants organization. After signing a franchise-record seven-year, $182 million contract in early December, Adames immediately got to work as San Francisco's newest ambassador. Just days after putting pen to paper on his Giants contract, the veteran shortstop reached out to free-agent starting pitcher Corbin Burnes in an effort to recruit him to San Francisco before his former Milwaukee Brewers teammate eventually signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Then, as he continued his offseason training, Adames traveled to the Giants' spring training facility in Arizona two weeks ago, where he got to meet many of his new teammates, including star third baseman Matt Chapman, who he will share the left side of the infield with for years to come.

From the day he signed his historic San Francisco Giants contract, Willy Adames has done just about everything he can to establish himself as a face of the franchise.

Very rarely is a top prospect's path to big-league stardom linear. There are the few exceptions, à la a Bryce Harper, for example, but breaking through at the MLB level, let alone immediately, can be extremely difficult and take time, regardless of how talented a young player is. Marco Luciano is finding that out, perhaps the hard way, or perhaps the way he was supposed to. A 16-year-old Luciano signed with the Giants in 2018 as a toolsy shortstop and one of the game's top international prospects.

Very rarely is a top prospect's path to big-league stardom linear. There are the few exceptions, à la a Bryce Harper, for example, but breaking through at the MLB level, let alone immediately, can be extremely difficult and take time, regardless of how talented a young player is. Marco Luciano is finding that out, perhaps the hard way, or perhaps the way he was supposed to. A 16-year-old Luciano signed with the Giants in 2018 as a toolsy shortstop and one of the game's top international prospects.

Very rarely is a top prospect's path to big-league stardom linear. There are the few exceptions, à la a Bryce Harper, for example, but breaking through at the MLB level, let alone immediately, can be extremely difficult and take time, regardless of how talented a young player is. Marco Luciano is finding that out, perhaps the hard way, or perhaps the way he was supposed to. A 16-year-old Luciano signed with the Giants in 2018 as a toolsy shortstop and one of the game's top international prospects.

Very rarely is a top prospect's path to big-league stardom linear. There are the few exceptions, à la a Bryce Harper, for example, but breaking through at the MLB level, let alone immediately, can be extremely difficult and take time, regardless of how talented a young player is. Marco Luciano is finding that out, perhaps the hard way, or perhaps the way he was supposed to. A 16-year-old Luciano signed with the Giants in 2018 as a toolsy shortstop and one of the game's top international prospects.

Very rarely is a top prospect's path to big-league stardom linear. There are the few exceptions, à la a Bryce Harper, for example, but breaking through at the MLB level, let alone immediately, can be extremely difficult and take time, regardless of how talented a young player is. Marco Luciano is finding that out, perhaps the hard way, or perhaps the way he was supposed to. A 16-year-old Luciano signed with the Giants in 2018 as a toolsy shortstop and one of the game's top international prospects.

Very rarely is a top prospect's path to big-league stardom linear. There are the few exceptions, à la a Bryce Harper, for example, but breaking through at the MLB level, let alone immediately, can be extremely difficult and take time, regardless of how talented a young player is. Marco Luciano is finding that out, perhaps the hard way, or perhaps the way he was supposed to. A 16-year-old Luciano signed with the Giants in 2018 as a toolsy shortstop and one of the game's top international prospects.

The San Francisco Giants' previous offseasons were defined by their shortcomings. The failed pursuit of Aaron Judge. The failed pursuit of Shohei Ohtani. With spring training on the horizon, Giants fans are singing a bit of a different tune.

The San Francisco Giants signed veteran ace Justin Verlander to give them a backbone for their rotation that is led by Logan Webb. San Francisco is not expecting the 42-year-old to be the ace that he was just a few years ago. It would also put him in a position to join a handful of Hall-of-Fame pitchers that have reached a key career milestone. BrooksGate, a social media account that tracks baseball statistics, posted recently that Verlander is just 84 strikeouts away from reaching 3,500 strikeouts for his career.