I predict that the new front office will radically reinvent the Giants this offseason and through the first half of next year. I have no sense of what direction they might go in terms of the manager, but when it comes to the roster, something tells me they’re very open to the idea of churning through even the players who worked out for them this year.

Does that mean Mike Yastrzemski could be trade bait? I think so. Beyond that, take a look at this list. These are players who’ve had at least 50 plate appearances in the second half of the season, ranked by wRC+ (which is a decent measure of comparing them to the rest of the league). Remember: 100 equals league average.

Solano is arbitration eligible. How the Giants handle him will be very telling. An “analytics-driven” team would simply non-tender him to avoid paying a 32-year old middle infielder anywhere close to a million dollars (or more). But Solano has absolutely crushed left-handed pitching this year (.345/.390/.473 in 118 PA) and could be a good insurance policy in case Mauricio Dubon struggles out of the gate and the Giants want to start 2020 with Brandon Crawford knowing he’s in a platoon.

Yastrzemski has been impressive, too, but I wonder if the Giants won’t be more interested in putting to good use their scouting, in-house data, and best Churn practices to simply find the next Mike Yastrzemski. He’ll be 29 and Oracle Park is unforgiving to unathletic outfielders. Yastrzemski is by no means unathletic, but every step he loses at Oracle will be magnified. The Red Sox might need to fix their PR situation and make some payroll-clearing trades while also trying to compete. There could be a match there. Unlike Solano, Yastrzemski might have more value to the Giants as a trade chip than as a roster presence.

Stephen Vogt turns 35 on November 1st, and while he has been an answered prayer of a player this year, everything he does is just average, and an age-based decline off of average means there will likely be a very thin line between useful and harmful. He’ll be a free agent, too, and even though the Giants have plenty of money and are well under the luxury tax threshold, they might want to concentrate their financial resources elsewhere and hope to get lucky with another backup catcher pickup. Make him the manager, I say.

Longoria and Pillar have basically been average hitters this year. Last month, Brady looked at whether or not the Giants would actually keep Pillar for 2020 (he has one more year of arbitration) and at this point I think even the smartest algorithm might spit out KEEP HIM in the notification window. The Giants are light in the center field department and even though Pillar is not a plus-plus center fielder at this point, he’s still basically an average-to-plus one. Steven Duggar has had trouble staying healthy, too. On the other hand, as valuable as he is to the Giants (this year and next), he might also have strong value as a trade chip, too, for a near-contending team looking for a veteran who can hit for power and play solid defense in the outfield.

The rest of this list is really something. If I’m right and Farhan Zaidi & co. are planning a drastic overhaul, then I think we can assume Pablo Sandoval is gone. Joe Panik and Scooter Gennett have already been cut, which leaves us with Austin Slater, Alex Dickerson, Brandon Crawford, Mauricio Dubon, Brandon Belt, and Buster Posey. Dubon is almost certainly a lock to remain, but what about the rest of that list?

Austin Slater has two options remaining and won’t turn 27 until December, so he’s almost certainly a lock to remain on the 40-man unless the Giants decide to include him in a trade. He has obvious utility, even if he hasn’t hit well enough to make the decision a foregone conclusion. We should probably be excited about him getting another offseason with his private hitting coach and tweaking and perhaps making permanent his new swing.

Alex Dickerson will be an interesting case, too. What do you think will happen? We all saw his potential, but we’ve also witnessed the downside of his talents: injury. Will the Giants stick with it or simply view this year as a nice gamble that worked out for a while? A pure cut shocks even my pessimistic sensibilities, but this is a tough business, and in the 59 plate appearances he’s had since returning from an oblique injury, he has just eight hits as part of a dismal .148/.203/.185 line. The Giants might have enough confidence in their Churn to simply find another Alex Dickerson, and maybe a healthier one.

That just leaves the holdovers: Posey, Crawford, and Belt. Posey isn’t going anywhere unless something drastic happens. Yes, Zaidi was able to get Mark Melancon to waive his no-trade clause and get the Braves to take on all of Melancon’s contract, but I’m not sure he’d be able to get them or pretty much any other team to do the same. Posey is owed a lot of money. He’s also still a really great defensive catcher. Maybe another year removed from hip surgery will give him some dead cat bounce potential with those offensive totals. Not to an All-Star level, of course, but maybe something closer to league average?

Crawford’s situation isn’t as dire as it looked about a month ago. For his career, he’s a 93 wRC+ hitter — he’s always been worse than the league average. But his defense has managed to hold a little bit (on par with his +5.5 Defensive Runs from last year) and, as you can see, he’s hitting just 8% worse than league average in the second half. His contract and NTC make him virtually impossible to trade, but knowing he’ll be on next year’s roster, given his defensive position, doesn’t immediately cause pain.

Nor does the possibility of Brandon Belt’s presence on the roster; however, it’s clear he’s not the player he once was. He certainly does do things well, but not better than league average at this point. And yet, there he is in 113th place in all of baseball when it comes to expected wOBA. His hitter profile is tied with these five batters: Ramon Laureano, Jose Ramirez, J.T. Realmuto, Kole Calhoun, and Nolan Arenado. The majority of Giants fans seem to have wanted to move on from Belt since 2011, and maybe they’ll finally get their wish, but Belt is definitely a player who is setup to go to another team and be everything he was supposed to be with the Giants. The question for the new front office is: “Should we try to make him our 30-home run man or someone else’s problem?”

What do you think?