SF Giants lock up Logan Webb long term with five-year extension

DETROIT — Just like their championship years, the San Francisco Giants will have a homegrown ace at the top of their rotation for years to come.

Logan Webb signed a five-year extension that will pay him $90 million and ensures his future with the Giants through 2028, the club announced Friday morning. The contract, which kicks in next year, buys out both of Webb’s two remaining arbitration years as well as his first three years of free agency, and guarantees the 26-year-old right-hander from Rocklin will be in a Giants uniform at least through his age-31 season.

Webb will make $8 million in 2024 and $12 million in 2025 before the contract escalates to pay him $23 million in 2026 and 2027 and $24 million in 2028. He and president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi are scheduled to address reporters at noon PT.

Selected by the Giants in the fourth round of the 2014 MLB draft out of Rocklin High, just outside Sacramento, Webb made his major-league debut as a 22-year-old in 2019 but ascended to top-of-the-rotation starter during the second half of 2021, when he went 10-0 with a 2.40 ERA over his final 20 starts as the Giants won 107 games and held off the Dodgers for the National League West.

Webb was named the Giants’ Opening Day starter in 2022, becoming the Giants’ first homegrown product to lead their rotation since Madison Bumgarner and the youngest to do it since Tim Lincecum in 2009. He set career bests by going 15-9 with a 2.90 ERA in 32 starts, which were rewarded with the first Cy Young votes of his career.

The ultimate reward — financial security — came Friday, something that seemed long in the making. Although Webb was raised to root for the Oakland A’s, he expressed a desire on multiple occasions to remain in San Francisco long-term. Zaidi confirmed talks were under way in spring training. They weren’t able to put a bow on it before the end of camp, but two weeks into the regular season — in time for his fourth start, scheduled to come Sunday — the Giants locked up their ace for the next five years.

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