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Giants Designate Casey McGehee For Assignment

By Steve Adams | June 30, 2015 at 11:24am CDT

The Giants announced this morning that Casey McGehee has been designated for assignment in order to clear space on the 40-man roster for infielder Ehire Adrianza, whose contract has been purchased from Triple-A.

There was some confusion surrounding McGehee’s first removal from the roster this year. The Giants announced that he’d been designated for assignment, but McGehee had merely been designated off the 25-man roster in order to be optioned to Triple-A. As a player with five-plus years of big league service, he had the right to refuse the option, but he accepted and remained on the 40-man roster.

Today, the Giants explicitly stated in the announcement that McGehee has been removed from the 40-man roster, making this a standard DFA in which the team will now have 10 days to trade McGehee, release or attempt to outright McGehee. (He could refuse an outright assignment without forfeiting his 2015 salary due to service time.)

McGehee was acquired from the Marlins this offseason in a trade that sent Luis Castillo and Kendry Flores to Miami. San Francisco had hoped that McGehee would produce something similar to the .285/.355/.357 batting line he posted in his return to the Majors last season, helping in part to offset the loss of former franchise cornerstone Pablo Sandoval.

That hasn’t been the case, however, as McGehee has struggled to a .213/.275/.299 batting line in 138 plate appearances this season. He did hit well in his initial demotion to Triple-A, slashing .357/.391/.571 with two homers in 46 plate appearances, though, and he’s batted 5-for-17 with a pair of doubles and three walks since rejoining the big league club.

McGehee, though, didn’t receive a crack at regular playing time upon being brought back from Triple-A due to the strong play of Matt Duffy at the hot corner. Duffy has slashed .303/.349/.491 this season, usurping McGehee as the everyday third baseman and leaving him without a clear path to playing time as a member of the Giants.

This offseason, McGehee avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year, $4.8MM contract. He’s still owed $2.54MM of that salary, so it seems unlikely that a team would claim him off waivers and take on the remainder of that deal. However, the Giants will have the ability to eat some cash in a potential trade of McGehee, and teams with interest could also simply wait to see if McGehee ends up a free agent, at which point he could be signed for the pro-rated version of the league minimum. (That portion of his salary would then come off the Giants’ books, though they’d still be responsible for the lion’s share of his remaining contract.)

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  1. hopper15

    6 years ago

    Should have never brought him back.

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  2. Gil Gunderson

    6 years ago

    Hopefully it’s for good this time. Glad the Giants didn’t take too long to cut their losses on this one.

    Duffy is doing a very nice job at third.

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  3. fijisiv

    6 years ago

    Seeing the headline, I was expecting to read that he took somebody down with him.

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    • rootintootinputin

      6 years ago

      Well played, sir!

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  4. rootintootinputin

    6 years ago

    A bit of a disappointment, I was really looking forward to him getting the all-time, single season GIDP record, and doing so in half the ABs of a full time player!

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  5. sfgfan24

    6 years ago

    The Duffman has been great at 3B, no need for McGehee or a big name to play there. Biggest trade need is the bench! Now that McGehee is gone, time to get rid of Arias.

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  6. slider32

    6 years ago

    McGehee to the Mets for Gee!

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  7. blackandorangepride

    6 years ago

    I was hoping he would pan out but he was a colossal disappointment never showed any improvement only kept grounding into double plays

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