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For the second time in a span of five months, the San Francisco Giants have signed a former Boston Red Sox infielder to a Minor League contract.

The general manager meetings took place more than a month ago, the Winter Meetings are almost two weeks old, and still, the vast majority of the best players on the market remain available.

There seems to be some dispute surrounding the question of whether new Giants third baseman Evan Longoria’s contract is cheap or expensive, mostly because there is dispute as to how good Longoria is going to be for the next five seasons.

The market for Jay Bruce is starting to heat up, and Jon Heyman reported a mystery team made an offer for the 30-year-old outfielder. Nonetheless, he said the Giants are still in a great position to sign him.

Yesterday, Matt Moore and Christian Arroyo penned their goodbyes to the San Francisco Giants and now it’s Denard Span’s turn and he texted his farewell to San Francisco Chronicle’s Henry Schulman on Thursday evening.

The 49ers are playing a defense that they want to emulate this Sunday when the Jaguars come to town. They still have to make personnel changes in order to be that type of scheme.

For much of the Golden State Warriors’ previous 10 games, they’ve been without their best player on both ends: two-time MVP Stephen Curry and reigning Defensive Player of the Year Draymond Green.

Kendrick Bourne, a rookie free agent from Eastern Washington, is carving out more playing time for himself at the end of the season.

Fear The Fin’s Kyle Demetrius jumps into the Tank and plays the Star Wars Name Game with the boys.

The Giants made their first big move of the offseason on Wednesday morning, acquiring three-time All-Star 3B Evan Longoria in a trade that send both Christian Arroyo and Denard Span to Tampa Bay. Though Longoria wasn’t exactly a world beater at the plate in 2016, he is at the very worst an above average third baseman, and now gives the Giants solid players at every infield position.