The Giants have signed catcher Ryan Hanigan to a minor league contract, Jon Heyman of FanRag tweets.
The 37-year-old Hanigan was most recently with the Indians, who signed him to a minors pact in February but released him a month later. While Hanigan has enjoyed some success during his time in the majors, which began with the Reds in 2007, he hasn’t been able to find a big league deal since the Red Sox declined his $3.75MM option after the 2016 season. Nevertheless, he did reach the majors last year as a member of the Rockies, with whom he hit .267/.324/.347 in 112 plate appearances.
Given the Giants’ depth behihnd the plate, returning to the bigs in San Francisco looks as though it’ll be a tall order for Hanigan. Backup Nick Hundley has been outstanding this year behind all-world starter Buster Posey, and the Giants also have promising prospect Aramis Garcia in Double-A (he’s on their 40-man roster) and veterans Hector Sanchez and Trevor Brown at Triple-A.
Dang this would’ve been a good pickup for the Cardinals!!
Would have been a better pickup for the Mets
Would’ve been a good pickup for either team. Being a FA and sitting at home was foreign to him, but teams want to push their “young talent”. Complete business move that was forcing him into retirement. SUPER PUMPED he found a spot where they want to give him a chance. He has so much left to give to baseball
Why? Dont they wanna stay under the luxury tax? Could have signed starting pitching depth rather than the position in which they have the most depth at. Posey, Hundley, and Sandoval can all catch
Minors contract, not on the 40, doesn’t count for luxury tax purposes. It’s basically an insurance policy/lottery ticket. I wouldn’t be surprised if they traded hundley to fill another position, as backup catcher isn’t their most pressing need, and he could start for several teams, then call up one of The two in AAA or hannigan if he plays well enough. Something like this could actually give them some more wiggle room with the luxury tax.
Hundley and Pence for Harvey.
I gotta think Hundley could have got a deal to start for a Major League team but wanted to stay in SF. Would suck for SF to trade him if this is true.
Hundley has been more productive than posey this year, dont think they would trade him.
Depends on the return on a potential trade. I’m not saying anything is immanent, but he’s a chip they could potentially cash in. They don’t have the financial flexibility to take on a contract and stay under the luxury tax if they wanted to upgrade the roster somewhere for a hypothetical playoff run. While hundley is playing well, he is still a backup catcher on the Giants which limits his overall value to them. He could have more value to a different club that could give him more at bats. I’m not advocating his trade at this point, but to take on salary to improve the roster in other areas and stay under the luxury tax, they would have to shed salary. Who is expendable on the team, making decent salary and has positive trade value?
Sandoval cannot catch. There’s no way, barring an emergency, that the Giants would put him behind the plate. The emergency catcher typically gets zero time at the position.
I think it was more of a comment because Sandoval was a catcher before he got to the bigs. Also, a week ago you would of said the same thing about him pitching. You can pretty much garuntee he’s available for any marathon or doubleheader games.
From what I understand they want to transition Posey into more of a daily 1b and Hundley into the starting C to keep both their bats in the lineup which means they need a backup to hundley. Would be a good move since hundley signed a 2yr/4mil deal as a backup and if ry gets called up they’ll spend 1.2mil prorated tops. Good move for some extra veteran knowledge.
If he ever makes it to the Giants, hopefully they alert him about his team stealing signs and cheating.
You really are butthurt arent you
Your name is sad. By nature god doesn’t do anything for you. God simply provides and it’s up to you to do for yourself. The devil does everything for you, so you don’t have to be responsible for yourself. I know religion has been mutilated and trashed by propaganda until nobody can even understand it’s true meaning, but your name is demonstrably false.
You’re a special kind a stupid aren’t you?
The Giants don’t steal signs, the Braves just sucked. That series just showed how bad the NL East teams are playing if Atlanta is leading the pack. The NL East just isn’t able to compete with the superior NL West teams.
Just stop it and take the L
This guy’s reaction was priceless when Posey hit the 2012 NLDS grand slam off Latos
I’m sure you would’ve reacted the same if you were in his shoes and you just saw your team fall apart