The San Francisco Giants did make a ton of moves at the MLB trade deadline which was questioned on it’s own, but the move they did make might have been even more confusing to some.

In recapping the deadline moves, Mark Feinsand of MLB.com spoke to executives around the league to see what they thought of the action.

The Giants were one of the teams that came up a couple of times, but for different reasons.

“I get the teams that made moves and why they made them, but I was more interested in the teams that didn’t do much,” said one AL executive. “If you’re the [Detroit] Tigers or [San Francisco], you can squint and see a path to contention over the next couple years because they have good resources and some good young players.”

Now it’s not the most shining review of the future of the team, it is at least somewhat of a positive one.

While they won’t be catching up to the Los Angeles Dodgers for the top spot in the NL West, San Francisco could potentially battle for a Wild Card berth. They got back to a .500 record are just 3.5 games back from the Arizona Diamondbacks, whom they have two more series against this season.

That could be reason enough for the front office to believe that they are in the right for keeping players that are likely leaving after the year such as Blake Snell and Matt Chapman.

Players like Jung Hoo Lee, Heliot Ramos, Patrick Bailey, Logan Webb and Kyle Harrison could be the young talent that the executive could be talking about for the future.