Giants Do The Right Thing Securing Their Pitching

Matt Cain 6yrs/$127.5 million with a vesting option for 2018
Madison Bumgarner 5yrs/$35 million extension with a team option for 2017 and 2018 at $24 million more.
A call to Tim Lincecum's agent to let them know he's still in the Giants plans long term.
A call to Buster Poesy's agent to let them know he's still in the Giants plans long term (although, obviously, he is not a pitcher).

The future of the Giants.

Most Giants fans are not going to gripe about these moves, although I'm sure there are some negative Nancy's out there who would. To anyone who does doubt the moves you need to take a quick look around the National League West, and baseball for that matter, to recognize the importance of these moves.

- Arizona Diamondbacks should have the best rotation in the National league starting next year. You already know about their first 3 starters; Ian Kennedy, Daniel Hudson, and Trevor Cahill but do you know about their 2 studs coming up later this summer? Trevor Bauer and Tyler Skaggs. You put those 5 together and they literally have no weakness in their staff.

- Colorado traded away Ubaldo Jimenez last season and picked up Drew Pomeranz and Alex White. You match them up with Jhoulys Chacin and you have a pretty solid front 3.

-The Dodgers have Clayton Kershaw- He's a Giant killer and according to "baseball experts" they are the next west coast version of the Yankee's and ANY free-agent is ending up in L.A. if he hits the market from now on.

- The Padres... suck.

You take a look around baseball and see...

-Tampa Bay Devil Rays have James Shields, David Price, Jeff Niemann, Jeremy Hellickson and Matt Moore as their starting 5, they even left Wade Davis in the bull-pen, who would be the #2 or #3 guy in the rotation on over half the MLB teams right now.

-There is always the Yankee's and Red Sox and their pocket books.

-Detroit has Justin Verlander, Rick Porcello, and Drew Smyly, with Jacob Turner on the rise.

-The Washington Nationals have Steven Strasburg, Gio Gonzalez, Edwin Jackson, and Jeff Zimmermann.

-And probably the most upside of any staff in baseball belongs to the Seattle Mariners, yes the Mariners. With King Felix Hernandez you might wonder what they have after him? Well Hector Noesi is an interesting project right now for them, but it's the ubber talented prospects Danny Hultzen, James Paxton, and Tajuan Walker that have everyone in baseball keeping an eye on the Pacific Northwest.

The theme around MLB since the Giants won the series in 2010 is; build a dominant staff because once you're in the Playoffs you never know how far it can take you. Teams like the Rays, Mariners, and Diamondbacks have a great chance to repeat what the Giants did in 2010 because of the great strength their rotations project to have over the next 5 years.
Which brings me back to my point, the Giants made a great, and important, move by extending their young pitching because if they didn't retain them then they would have next to no chance to compete with the other teams that have strong staffs.
Now they have to continue to bring up the everyday players like Joe Panik and Gary Brown to support the staff and draft MORE pitching for the future. It's a wait-and-see process but the Giants have made some superb decisions over the past few years and set a standard everyone is quickly catching on to.