The Giants announced that they’ve designated right-hander Merandy Gonzalez for assignment. His spot on the 40-man roster will go to catcher Tom Murphy, whose previously reported waiver claim has now been formally announced by the team. San Francisco claimed Gonzalez off waivers from the Marlins back at the beginning of March.
Gonzalez, 23, made his MLB debut with the Marlins in 2018 having been previously acquired in the trade that sent AJ Ramos from Miami to the Mets. In his first 22 innings of MLB work, Gonzalez struggled to the tune of a 5.73 ERA as he allowed 31 hits with a 19-to-8 K/BB ratio. That debut came on the heels of a pedestrian season in Double-A, where he logged a 4.32 ERA over the life of 14 starts (73 innings) with unsightly averages of 5.8 strikeouts and 4.1 walks per nine innings pitched.
Gonzalez, who averaged 93.7 mph on his fastball in last season’s debut, made one scoreless appearance with a strikeout with the Giants before being optioned to Triple-A. The Giants will now have a week to trade him or try to pass him throughout outright waivers themselves, as the Marlins failed to do earlier in the month. If he does clear waivers this time around, he’d remain with the organization as a depth piece in the upper minors.
so they traded for two extraneous mediocre catchers and lost three upper minors prospects that could have been useful to them. Yep, Farhan can certianly do no wrong.
Uh, they were useful. They were trade pieces. And they weren’t gonna see time in majors. And Kratz wasn’t mediocre in postseason.
This harping on depth acquisitions is dumb. Especially when you consider that once Vogt is ready, and Garcia has more seasoning, those “mediocre” will likely be gone…and I’m sure they’re aware of that.
The harping is just kids who think every team should be either a super team or in tabk/rebuild mode. It’s sad. Farhan is continuing what has made the giants the most successful team of the last decade. Grow up kiddos.
Look if we don’t sign a few more aging catchers soon I’m gonna lose it
Hearing from my sources that they already have a claim in on Leon and are cornering the market on Bobby Wilson, Brett Nicholas, and are trying to get Salty out of retirement.
Bengie Molina?? Better than Salty. Maybe both
Bobby Estalella anyone?
LOL!
Zaiti is making minor moves like all teams. He is not making magic bullet trades.
Anyone Zaidi acquires better not settle on a place to stay … and certainly not for the whole season. Better check into a check hotel and hope for the best.
Go Giants