Denard Span

The full details of the Giants’ offer for Stanton were reported Monday.

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 move frees the Giants of an obligation to pay Moore $9 million in 2018, and also allows San Francisco to slide young homegrown pitching prospects like Chris Stratton, Ty Blach or Tyler Beede into the rotation.

Bobby Evans and Brian Sabean are well aware of the future benefits the franchise would gain by remaining under the CBT this season, but to do that and to achieve the team’s goal of becoming contending in 2018, the Giants need another big contract off the books.

As the end of November approaches, it’s becoming increasingly clear that trading for Marlins’ slugger Giancarlo Stanton could be San Francisco’s primary goal.

Otani is a low-cost superstar, a pitcher who could slot in at the top of the team’s rotation and form a big three with Madison Bumgarner and Johnny Cueto.

There’s an arms race in Major League Baseball, and the San Francisco Giants don’t have plans on participating.

When it comes to the team’s offseason priorities, general manager Bobby Evans doesn’t tend to get into specifics. That changed on Thursday.

An hour before first pitch on Wednesday, 13th-year veteran Matt Cain announced his decision to retire at the end of the season.

It’s safe to assume there will be some major changes to the San Francisco Giants roster come 2018. But if Gary was in charge, there might not be as many as you’d think.