With Rafael Devers trade, SF Giants commit to a core for years to come. Is that a good thing?

SAN FRANCISCO — On a relatively dreary day in Detroit a little more than two years ago, Logan Webb took a leap of faith of sorts. He signed a contract that tied him to the San Francisco Giants a full three years longer than anybody else in that clubhouse.

That’s no longer the case today.

“I’ve got way less years here than those guys do on their contracts now,” Webb mused from his locker in the starters’ corner of the home quarters at Oracle Park, two floors below the club level where the team introduced its new slugger...