The Giants have acquired righty Trevor Gott from the Nationals, per Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic (via Twitter). Cash considerations are headed to D.C. in return. The Giants placed injured righty Johnny Cueto on the 60-day injured list to make roster space.
Gott was designated for assignment recently by the Nationals. The hard-throwing sinkerballer becomes the latest relief arm to be targeted by the San Francisco organization.
Still just 26 years of age, Gott turned in a highly promising 2015 campaign but has stalled out since heading to the Nationals in the ensuing offseason. All told, he owns a 4.64 ERA with 6.1 K/9 and 3.8 BB/9 in 75 2/3 MLB frames. Gott’s standout pitch is a blistering two-seamer that has enabled him to carry a 54.3% groundball rate in the majors.
Zaidi strikes again!
Gotcha!
Gott-cha.
Let’s buy every HasBeen person
Farhan is gonna need a tetanus shot for all this dumpster diving
Giants fans were so excited over Zaidi and I told them right away that it wouldn’t last. He was not a loss for the Dodgers. He was never even a factor.
This season, and the next couple, haven’t even began yet, let’s reserve judgement until we have some time to see how things are going. There is absolutely nothing wrong with getting a slew of guys on the cheap and seeing if any of them do well. It’s fiscally wise based upon their recent track record of handing out big money contracts to guys who then don’t perform
Yes, have to wait and see hopefully they give him a good 5 years to prove himself bc Giants are in a bad position. I also agree Zaidi may have not been a huge factor but that might be bc they think so much alike
Giants gave out bad contracts in an attempt to compete- Cueto samaedjza traded pieces for longoria and mccutchen add on belt and Posey.
Not much zaidi can do but wait out the bad contracts, build the farm through high draft picks and IFA spending, and look to compete in 3 or so years.
It’s way too early for I told you so.
Not a loss in the way that dodgers didnt do anything besides choke… hard… so yea, technically no one involved with LA would be a loss since they havent won sht in the first place. Real Giants fans (including me) and stoked off Zaidi. Dunno what you’re talkin bout
Cueto wasn’t a bad contract, he just got hurt. Dodgers didn’t choke, they made it to the World Series in a season where people thought they weren’t even going to make the postseason. If we’re going to talk about choking, I’d say the giants choked in their attempt to prevent the Dodgers from making it to the postseason.
Enjoy last place.
Dodgers are a joke of a franchise. Giants “bad contracts” were rewards for winning 3 championships while the Dodgers watched on tv. Dodgers and their fans are poor sport choke artists. All the evidence points to this. But you enjoy your delusional fantasyland.
Leo is 100% right. Faidi Zaidi has not done anything; he’s not going for it nor is he hitting reset. Either Trade Bumgarner or spend over the luxury to win. Giant fans keep saying the team has a ton of money. Well, what are they waiting for? Oh right, they don’t have the money or refuse to blow by the threshold.
Also….golden rule in baseball: never, ever, ever hire an ex-executive from the Oakland Athletics during the Beane era. They fail. Dodgers can attest to that.
Faidi Zaidi is stalling to prolong his tenure as GM. The longer you wait to make a prominent move the longer you will hold the job.
He can’t reset because he can’t move those contracts. He’s in a tricky position why eat salary on those contracts to replace Crawford, Belt etc with who?
Zach….nobody said EVERY contract has to be moved. Bumgarner is the guy to move. Or was.
That said, Giants fans shouldn’t expect or want Harper. Harper shouldn’t want to play on a team that won’t win for another few years. San Fran is a tweener team; not great, not horrible.
Lol okay so if you move mad bum what do you get right now? Not as much as you would at the deadline… that’s why he hasn’t been moved. Two if you want a rebuild then you do move all contracts you possibly can. They just have more leverage on moving the contracts they have at the deadline. That’s why nothing has been done. If you don’t want to rebuild then add players can’t have it both ways. You been trimmed.
This tree trimmer needs to stick to his day job. First off, Zaidi is not the GM. Second, sitting around doing nothing will get him fired quicker than a couple big signings in which the FO would have to wait n see how they played out before deciding the “GM’s” fate. Stick to gardening.
Also his take on where Harper should sign is questionable. He shouldn’t want to play for a team that’s out of contention for a few years?
Very few teams are in serious contention every year.
Well since it’s a tweeter team wtf are you insisting FZ do something?!? You’re just being a hypocrite.
The have one of the worst farm systems in MLB that will take a few years to rebuild AND they have an old roster with contracts they can’t move. They must likely will move Bum by mid season.
It would be stupid for FZ to sign a bunch of guys because the tram is not competing this year.
Hopefully, in some far off fantasy land, Harper told the Giants the only way he’d sign with them was if they got Gott. Back to reality, drive safe Bay Area. It’s coming down hard this morning
Haha you never know
Harper will wait until the end of March to get a record setting contract. What are the bids? He should of taken the 10/300 from the Nats
The longer he waits the less chance he will get that record setting contract without it being heavily deferred
Do you mean going down hard?
Gott got got!
I can picture the crowd chanting that.
I guess the Giants
*puts on sunglasses*
Gott their man.
Unfortunately he never developed another pitch to go with the fastball. Some of us in DC thought that he would develop into a decent setup guy, but it never happened. Wish him well in San Francisco.
No move too small for the amazing Farhan.
Yeah I mean he never hit on guys like this with the Dodgers right?
If Trevor Gott could find the plate, he would be more effective. Maybe the Giants help him.
personally i love these moves, all of this random depth dumpster diving is what the giants should have been doing for a few years.
All I know him for is being a great BR pick in MLB The Show. I hope he does well in SF.
Gott’s Roadside at the Ferry Building just got a new endorsement.
Another bum added SMH, let’s start adding some talent. Our best move this off-season so far is G. Parra. Holland isn’t going to repeat what he did last season, and Pomeranz is a Paul maholm type. Sorry Giants fans, looks like another season below .500.
I don’t understand why the Red Sox aren’t pushing for arms like these.
At what point can teams start clearing roster space by putting players, like Cueto, on the 60-day DL?
Maybe as soon as pitchers and catcher report? Good question
except in FANTASY sports. you have to wait for the regular season to use the IL/IR/DL or waht ever other letters you want to through around…
That’s not true at all. I believe guys can be placed on the 60 day the first week of March. I haven’t checked on the exact dates, but it’s generally 2 weeks after P/C report.
So I researched it, and my first guess was right:
“A player cannot be placed on the MLB 60-day Injured List after the conclusion of the MLB regular season, and during the post-season and off-season, up until the start of Spring Training (beginning on the date that pitchers & catchers are scheduled to report).”
Depth moves never hurt a organization. You never know when you stumble upon the next Vogelsong or Blanco.
Side note, now that it is the “injured list,” do we refer to it as the 60-day IL? It’s gonna take a while for me to get used to saying that.
You can never go wrong with depth moves. We nowhere to go but up.
Did disabled people complain?
With signings like these, the Giants will need to put names on the back of their home jerseys.
The key point here after these moves so far is that their minor league inventory is clearly better now than the day he arrived. End of story. Nothing flashy yet, but they’re not tanking either.
If they get off to a surprising start, they’ll try and compete; if they don’t, he’ll be cashing in some of these additions for quality minor league pieces for the coming years or to help sell off costly contracts. At least its a plan with a good strategy behind it.
You got Gott! You got Gott!
Wasn’t that Pauly Shore’s fake show on Entourage when him and Chuck Liddell “got” Johnny Drama?
No relation to Jim Gott?
GOTT HEEM!!! Seriously tho, This is the type of guy to take a flier on! Looked like a back-end of bullpen type guy coming up with the Halos and still has that super-filthy 2-seamer in a ballpark that should really suit him!
I heard trevor Gott singing Billy Joel
“:You might be right
I might be crazy
But it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for”
Gott eeem
what no one is discussing is that Gott and Harper are best friends and this is just the Giants trying to appeal to Harper to sign with them!
You’re misunderstanding something. Harper is all business his friend is not going to buy his luxury lifestyle.
Really Dodgers fans! It’s been since the 80’s since you could talk about a championship. Learn your team’s history first before talking about the Giants choking on anything.
The Giants should be just fine this season. They have one of the best front offices in baseball.