The San Francisco Giants have made some splashy moves this winter under first-year executive Buster Posey by bringing in Willy Adames and Justin Verlander, but they were hoping to make some more.

Every team around the league was hoping to sign Roki Sasaki, and the Giants were no exception.

The 23-year-old Japanese phenom is coming to the United States before the usual posting age, meaning he can only be inked to an international contract instead of the megadeals his fellow countrymen have signed in the past.

Because of that, the competition was fierce for Sasaki.

San Francisco was able to get a meeting with the future star, something that put them in a good position to land the talented youngster, but it sounds like they won’t be signing him.

This is a tough blow for the Giants.

After already signing Verlander to a short-term contract, adding Sasaki on something extremely affordable deal to give them an ace-caliber arm alongside Logan Webb for the future was hard not to get excited about.

It’s long been thought the phenom would end up with the Los Angeles Dodgers, mainly because of his connections to Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and this does nothing to dispel that notion.

Sasaki is known to have met with at least seven teams with it being understood that one of them would be his destination.

That’s why there was hope San Francisco would win these sweepstakes.

But, this report has revealed that general manager Zack Minasian was told they would not be the team Sasaki signs with, ending speculation he would join the Giants.

SAN FRANCISCO – First Lady Jill Biden is coming to San Francisco this week for women’s health initiatives. 

Dr. Biden is expected to arrive at San Francisco International Airport Monday afternoon and will stay through Wednesday. She is traveling to the Bay as part of the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research. 

Dr. Biden is joining Fierce JPM Week on Tuesday to discuss the importance of advancing women’s health research. 

The initiative was launched in November 2023 by President Joe Biden and Dr. Biden with the goal of changing how the U.S. approaches and funds research on women’s health, the White House said on their website. 

“Women are over half the population, but research on women’s health has always been underfunded and under-studied,” according to the initiative.

CONCORD, Calif. – The San Francisco Bay Area was met with another earthquake on Sunday morning, the second quake to affect the area since Friday.

The magnitude 3.7 earthquake’s epicenter was recorded near Concord, California, but a U.S. Geological Survey report indicates light shaking was felt all throughout the Bay Area.

The earthquake happened at about 8:50 a.m. PT. The USGS said the earthquake had a depth of nearly 9 miles. 

EARTHQUAKE RATTLES HEART OF DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO

Friday’s quake, also a magnitude 3.7, was reported just off the coast of San Francisco, in the Pacific Ocean.  

No injuries or damage were reported from either earthquake.