{"id":7126,"date":"2023-01-13T05:39:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T05:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/zaidi-giants-unlikely-to-add-catcher-to-major-league-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T05:39:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T05:39:18","slug":"zaidi-giants-unlikely-to-add-catcher-to-major-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/zaidi-giants-unlikely-to-add-catcher-to-major-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zaidi: Giants unlikely to add catcher to major league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Farhan Zaidi, president of the Giants&#8217; baseball operations division, met with reporters on Thursday afternoon. Among the topics discussed was the team&#8217;s catching situation, which does not appear to be a top priority for his office at the front.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Designated Backup <strong>Austin Winnes<\/strong> For last week&#8217;s assignment, they just <strong>Joey Bart<\/strong> Rule 5 drafter <strong>Blake Sabol<\/strong> as a catcher on a 40-man roster. Despite a fairly thin tier chart, Zaidi showed that the club is unlikely to add a catcher to the major league free agent contract ( <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvanWebeck\/status\/1613653780867993602\">Evan Webeck of the San Jose Mercury News<\/a>). The Giants&#8217; head of baseball operations hinted that Wins no longer has a waiver bill, but he has the right to elect minor-league free agency as an openly player earlier in his career. .<\/p>\n<p>Zaidi said the team hopes to have Wins back in the organization on a minor league deal. there is.<\/p>\n<p>They seem content to head into exhibition play with just Burt and Sabol on a 40-man roster. It suggests that you are firmly holding on to the number 1 job after achieving The former No. 2 overall pick he connected with 11 home runs, but he punched out nearly 39 percent of his trips to the plate.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a strong confidence vote for Sabol, who has no big-league experience.The 25-year-old spent four years in the Pirates&#8217; system after being selected in the seventh round of the 2019 draft. The left-handed hitter split into Pittsburgh&#8217;s top two affiliates last year, and together he batted an astounding .284\/.363\/.497 average in 513 plate appearances. Despite their own very thin catching situation, it wasn&#8217;t enough for the Bucks to add him to their 40-man roster. The San Francisco Brass was clearly impressed, as it adjusted the deal for<\/p>\n<p>The fourth pick in the Rule 5 Draft, Cincinnati chose Sabol.They quickly turned him over to the Giants, who sent the minor league pitcher back <strong>Jake Wong<\/strong>San Francisco should either keep USC&#8217;s product on the major league roster or injured list all season or put him on waivers and return him to Pittsburgh if he&#8217;s not called for. The lack of urgency to add a league catcher suggests the front office is confident in Sabol&#8217;s ability to hold his own at the big league level.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few free-agent catchers left with potential minor-league deals. <strong>Kevin Prawecki<\/strong>, <strong>Robinson Chirinos<\/strong>, <strong>Jorge Alfaro<\/strong>, <strong>Torres Barrera<\/strong> When <strong>Lewis Torrence<\/strong> Candidate for non-list agreement.This week&#8217;s report focuses on San Francisco <strong>Gary Sanchez<\/strong>but that seems unlikely unless the Giants pivot to make a big-league commitment. I&#8217;m thinking<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/5067886\/300x250_2_MLB -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiZWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm1sYnRyYWRlcnVtb3JzLmNvbS8yMDIzLzAxL3phaWRpLWdpYW50cy11bmxpa2VseS10by1hZGQtY2F0Y2hlci1vbi1tYWpvci1sZWFndWUtZGVhbC5odG1s0gEA?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Farhan Zaidi, president of the Giants&#8217; baseball operations division, met with reporters on Thursday afternoon. Among the topics discussed was the team&#8217;s catching situation,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/USATSI_19092167-1024x683.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}