The San Francisco Giants explored options to improve their roster at the trade deadline. While, ultimately, they didn't do much to help their chances of making the postseason, and they've paid the price for that over the past month and a half,

Matt Chapman's extension is a start, but this team will need to shake some things up if it wants to get back to contending.

The Giants’ extension with Matt Chapman was only part one of the their plan to “be really aggressive trying to get things done earlier.”