It's early. It's always early. That's the refrain Giants fans have been muttering into their garlic fries for what feels like a decade now. But when your own team president — a franchise legend, no less — admits the same problems from last year are already rearing their ugly heads, "it's early" starts to sound less like patience and more like denial.

Buster Posey, to his credit, isn't hiding from reality. He's acknowledged publicly that the issues plaguing the Giants' dismal 2025 campaign are showing up again in the opening stretch of 2026. Slumping stars. Familiar struggles. The same movie playing at the same theater, just with a new date on the ticket.

Look, nobody expects a front office to panic a few weeks into a season. But there's a difference between steady leadership and institutional inertia, and Giants fans are right to wonder which one they're watching. The 2025 season wasn't a freak accident — it was the product of roster construction decisions, player development gaps, and a payroll that somehow manages to be both expensive and underwhelming. If the early returns in 2026 are echoing those same themes, the question isn't whether it's too early to worry. The question is whether the organization has actually done enough to course-correct.

Posey's candor is refreshing. The man won three World Series rings; he knows what winning looks like, and he clearly knows this isn't it. But acknowledgment without action is just a press conference. Giants fans — the ones still showing up to Oracle Park and paying San Francisco prices for the privilege — deserve more than a diagnosis. They deserve a plan.

The early season is a small sample size, sure. But patterns are patterns. And right now, the pattern says the Giants front office needs to stop treating last year's problems like last year's problems — because they're very much this year's problems too.