Dodgers fans will love Giants rival Logan Webb's salty take on LA's dominance

Perennial Cy Young candidate Logan Webb's loyalty to his hometown San Francisco Giants is nice — they locked him up for a little while on a five-year, $90 million contract extension before the 2024 season — but he's definitely realizing that he put his eggs in the wrong NL West team's basket.

At Giants FanFest this past weekend, Webb didn't mince words on the state of the division and the Dodgers' spending. "It's not my job to add guys or do anything," he said. "It's our job to just go out there and try to compete. Obviously, yeah, it's not fun for me to watch the team that won it and the team that kicked our a— a lot last year go out and get some really good players just to make it more difficult."

We certainly respect his candor, but that's also an interesting thing to say at an event meant to excite fans for the upcoming season.

The Giants are the Dodgers' greatest historical rival, but the Dodgers-Padres rivalry has become much more enthralling over the last few years. San Francisco seems prepared to run it back in 2026 with the exact same lineup they finished 2025 with (apart from Harrison Bader, their first and only signing to address the offense so far), so it makes sense that Webb would be less than enthused.

Logan Webb admitted it's "not fun" to watch Dodgers keep adding while Giants stay still

There were high hopes for Buster Posey when he took the president of baseball operations job on the same day the Giants sent Farhan Zaidi packing (Zaidi has since come back to the Dodgers as a special advisor). To be fair to Posey, it didn't take him long to make what is still the most shocking move of the 2025 season: trading for Rafael Devers.

But the Giants have yet to get an aging monkey off their backs: they're bad at signing free agents. They didn't even really try this year. And, per latest reports, they might not even be very good at trading for players either. Andrew Baggarly ofThe Athletic reported that the Giants had "aggressively pursued" Nationals shortstop CJ Abrams but were rebuffed.

There's a very clear winner and a very clear loser of the NL West already, but there's no clear hierarchy among the Giants, Padres, and Diamondbacks, and maybe that will be of some comfort to Webb. But the Dodgers won nine of their 13 games against the Giants last season, and it doesn't look like San Francisco is poised to improve that record in 2026.