Giants agree to six-year deal with Johnny Cueto

We've spent a lot of time worrying about Johnny Cueto's second half, and how it portends doom for the Giants and this contract, and how everything will be a disaster until 2020, when a ragged, recently demoted Cueto will make an emergency spot start 

For three months as a Royal, Johnny Cueto toed the line between brilliant and baffling. He stumbled through an unsightly stretch late in the season, refused to pitch on short rest in the playoffs and sustained an ungodly beating at the hands of the

Johnny Cueto signed a six-year, $130 million dollar deal with the San Francisco Giants on Monday. Cueto went 11-13 with a 3.44 earned-run average splitting time between Cincinnati and Kansas City in 2015. Value Add Baseball rated Cueto the best pitcher 

We've spent a lot of time worrying about Johnny Cueto's second half, and how it portends doom for the Giants and this contract, and how everything will be a disaster until 2020, when a ragged, recently demoted Cueto will make an emergency spot start 

After the Arizona Diamondbacks acquired Shelby Miller and signed Zack Greinke, the Giants reacted with two top pitching acquisitions of their own, first signing Jeff Samardzija and then inking Johnny Cueto to a $130 million contract on December 14