The prospect of Aaron Judge, notable real-life giant, becoming a member of the San Francisco Giants is nothing if not a fun concept.

But a good idea? Less so.

Granted, it's a partnership that could happen anyway. The 6'7", 282-pound Judge—late of an American League MVP Award-winning season with the New York Yankees in which he smashed an AL-record 62 home runs and led MLB in numerous other categories—had a meeting with the Giants last Tuesday. They even tabbed Stephen Curry to help in the recruitment.

The next step is a formal offer, which MLB Network's Jon Morosi said was forthcoming.

The Giants may not have a shot at Judge if they aren't willing to guarantee a nine-figure sum that begins with a three, but they're surely capable of promising such a commitment. Their 2023 payroll projects at $133 million, almost $70 million south of the franchise's high mark.

"From a financial standpoint, there's nobody that would be out of our capability to kind of meet what we expect the contract demands will be," Farhan Zaidi, San Francisco's president of baseball operations, told reporters at the general managers meetings in early November.

What Makes Judge and the Giants a Good Fit

Look, even we can acknowledge that the 30-year-old Judge would be a three-for-one solution for the Giants' most outstanding needs.

The four right-handed hitters projected for San Francisco's everyday lineup in 2023 hit six fewer home runs in 2022 than Judge did on his own. He also boasts 61 defensive runs saved for his career, so he'd be quite the salve for an outfield that was last in DRS.

The Giants also have a dire need for a star that goes beyond the voids left by recently departed mainstays such as Buster Posey and Brandon Belt. As Joel Sherman of the New York Post wrote Nov. 11, the Giants need a "marketing centerpiece" as much as anything.

Somebody to sell tickets, in other words. The Giants ranked in the top five of the National League for attendance 17 times in their first 19 seasons at Oracle Park. They've yet to do so since then, even amid a run to a franchise-record 107 wins in 2021.

To this end, the appeal of bringing in the biggest star in baseball—literally as much as figuratively—is obvious.