“The phone buzzing at 5 a.m. is rarely good news,” Zaidi said. “You’re probably not going to get a yes in a 5 a.m. text message.”
SAN DIEGO — It was 5 a.m. Wednesday and Farhan Zaidi couldn’t sleep.
“The phone buzzing at 5 a.m. is rarely good news,” he said Wednesday afternoon, reflecting from the team suite here at the Manchester Grand Hyatt about 12 hours later. “You’re probably not going to get a ‘yes’ in a 5 a.m. text message.”Zaidi unlocked his phone and confirmed the worst: Aaron Judge, the player at the top of their wishlist, whom they dedicated hundreds of hours of manpower to courting, including a two-day in-person visit to San Francisco last month, had spurned them.
While Zaidi couldn’t point to one particular instance where he felt the pendulum had swung in the Giants’ favor, he doesn’t feel like they were merely used as leverage, either. “There’s a lot behind the scenes that happened that, in our view, showed a genuine interest,” Zaidi said, with nothing but kind words for Judge’s two representatives, Page Odle and David Matranga. “Anytime you’re pursuing a free agent, they don’t owe you anything. … I think there’s a perception you can buy this decision. But really you’re trying to sell the decision, you’re trying to sell yourself as an option.
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