The Giants are moving struggling left-hander Derek Holland to their bullpen, Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area tweets. Righty Tyler Beede will take the ball in Holland’s place Tuesday.
This is the second noteworthy change of the day in San Francisco’s rotation, as the team previously demoted 2018 rookie sensation Dereck Rodriguez to the minors in response to his discouraging start to the season. Likewise, Holland has thus far failed to follow up last year’s quality performance – one that convinced the Giants to re-sign him to a one-year, $7MM guarantee in the offseason.
A year ago at this time, Holland was in the early stages of a renaissance season after the former Ranger and White Sox accepted the Giants’ minor league offer. Holland ended up notching a 3.57 ERA/3.87 FIP with 8.88 K/9 and 3.52 BB/9 over 171 1/3 innings, making him one of the majors’ top bargain pickups of 2018. Now, though, the 32-year-old’s sitting on a 6.75 ERA/6.35 FIP with a bloated walk rate (5.19) and a sky-high 27 percent home run-to-fly ball rate in 34 2/3 frames. While Holland’s strikeout rate has surged to 10.9 per nine, it hasn’t come close to offsetting his flaws.
Furthermore, it seems bad blood has developed between Holland and the Giants’ front office, as the hurler accused the club of putting him on the IL with a “fake injury” last month (via Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle). Holland added he’s “not happy about” that IL placement, which occurred April 29 on account of a bruised left index finger and ended quickly when he returned May 9.
Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi responded to Holland’s comments, per Schulman, saying in part: “He had a finger issue that he had back in spring training. It flared up. We got an MRI. He felt he could continue pitching. We felt it would be prudent to give him the time off. The decision was collaboratively made. We have extensive medical records of it.”
Zaidi also noted that “players and the staff and front office people sometimes have differences of opinion when they should or shouldn’t play.” It seems Holland’s not the only Giant who has differences with Zaidi & Co., though, with Pavlovic tweeting there’s unhappiness within the clubhouse regarding the team’s recent IL placements and roster moves.
Now, with Holland losing his spot in favor of Beede, the Giants’ staff still has two vacancies after Drew Pomeranz went on the IL on May 9 with a left lat strain. Aside from Holland, Beede, Rodriguez, Madison Bumgarner and Jeff Samardzija, the only experienced, healthy starting options on the Giants’ 40-man roster are Triple-A arms Andrew Suarez and Ty Blach. Those two don’t inspire much confidence, however, which could lead the Giants to make another 40-man promotion (Shaun Anderson’s a possibility, according to Schulman) or deploy an opener.
Isn’t that veird?
There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.
Haha hilarious.
Bong and a blintz?
Dumpster. Fire.
I’m so excited to see just new faces on this roster. Really hoping Farhan makes some big moves, even if it pisses off the badwagoners from the last decade, come July.
What kind of big moves? So far all he really seems to do is claim guys and then release them a week or two later.
Sadler
That’s all he can really do right now is try to catch lightning in a bottle with one of those waiver claims. He’ll make bigger moves late in the summer when they blowup their bullpen. They’ll probably try to find a suitor for Belt as well.
What legit contender, or for that matter why would anyone want Belt?
Seriously, Belt is not worth that contract. I don’t Farhan is interested in dumping him while paying any of that salary.
Dumping him would mean paying down his salary or almost all of it to make him look appealing.
Eat 30M and 2.5 years of Belt for 9M doesn’t look so bad.
With all that recent transactions by the Giants Holland should shut his mouth he could be gone tomorrow
Honestly I immediately looked to Holland’s contract details to see if there was another reason why he might be mad. IE a starts incentive bonus. There was one but it’s for the value of his team option next year. If he makes 28 starts he gets 7.5 MM and if he makes 32 starts this year his option is now a 8.5 MM option instead of 7. None of that matters for Holland at this point though because if he keeps tossing the ball like this he’ll be lucky to get 2MM on the open market. No chance that gets exercised barring a miraculous turnaround.
We would greatly except Holland in a trade to Texas
*Accept
Texas in a sentence.
Cawa – Complete agree, Holland should expect his demotion with his era, his HR rate, his bloated WHIP. This is a guy who had only a decent season in 2018, his first (and only other one) since 2013. The Giants gave him a chance and now he’s blowing it. I’m not pleased to see Beede take his place, but given the options, what are the Giants supposed to do? Produce or shut up. Tired of whiners.
Can’t wait for the Giants to have the majors first all lefty bullpen
Derek, your ERA is 6.75 and what’s incredible is that’s not the most offensive thing about you as a Giant, you just threw the organization under the bus. You’re done pal, get your bag and go!
and go to Texas
Rangers don’t want him.
Holland’s not the problem … if anyone is throwing someone under the bus it’s Zaida. Zaidi continues to play games and must be pouting now that MadBum stood up and said he was going to have final say on any trade discussions.
Madbum only has a “final say” with eight teams with his limited no trade clause.
Do not know which teams, but Zaidi should have no problem finding a trading partner among the 21 teams not on his no trade list. So no pouting for Zaidi
Giants should use the opener with both the shark & Holland. Would work IMO
Yeah, use an opener for Samardzija, one of the games biggest & most vocal guys against teams using an opener. Should go great!!
Send Holland packing. He shouldn’t have tattle tailed on the front office. Not cool. And he’s bad at pitching.
Send Holland packing to Texas
You only need to comment that once
Giants, you do realize you need some starters period? at this rate you wont have any in a few weeks.
This team has officially unraveled. 2nd worst record in the NL (assuming the Marlins are still viewed as a MLB team).
As a follower of this team, it’s difficult to take any interest in this roster. We wanted change and we’re getting it now. ANY player of value is on the trading block with the idea it will help build a contender in 2021. After 2 (and soon-to-be 3 seasons of nearly 100 losses), it’s hard to argue with the approach.
49ers first preseason game is 8/10…just sayin
That money is a sunk cost,contenders will want some of the Giant players and trade some 2nd tier prospects(that’s not a bad thing if you can pick out undeveloped talent) but just not at full price.Eat some money and get some some talent.
Agree. Giants have a few pieces they should be able to turn over for decent value. The others may require DFA of playing out their contract. Hope lies with players like Bart, Ramos, a few young arms, the #10 pick in this year’s draft and a most certainly a high pick in next year’s draft…going to be a while but for what they gave in 2010, ‘12 and ‘14…I’m personally content waiting it out.
Unrest in a Giants clubhouse. After three straight months dating back to last season. Of the worst offensive months in the history of the organization. Pitchers should he held accountable too. . . Holland blew off steam. The way he was treated and the way the guys feel they are being treated. . . It’s all roses when you can do whatever you want. Go on MLB Network shows and goof around. On 100 lose teams. Historically bad. But when you start the season horribly. With an injury dating to spring. Sure. Throw the new front office guy under the bus. . .
Holland class act. Your under fire dude. Maybe you should have started the year the same way you did last year. Instead of blaming others for moves they felt they needed to make. . . The guys a big mouth. Has shown his true colors. I hope he can bounce back in the pen and pitch quality innings. I’m still a fan.
But grow up. Be a pro. This new front office gave you 7 mil. They didn’t have to. . . Spoiled little kid. Who’s had a run of bad seasons. . . Be a man. They did what they felt necessary. And everybody should feel the heat. Even Posey. . . That’s what happens when change comes. You work your ass off to prove again that your worth keeping around. By leading with what you can do… Obviously complaining is what this guy is best at. . .
Hahaha was this a compilation of every comment you’ve ever made squeezed into one giant lump?? What did I just read
Somebody is getting paid by the punctuation
Who. Are you. Talking about.
Zaidi has been by far the best acquisition/move the club has made over the last years. And it’s fair to say he’s inherited a mess of a team with a rather restricted structure. Still, I’m really pleased to see his approach in practise.
He is very busy, tries out a lot of different moves and does not get stuck on one particular idea.. Seems like he really does not keep players on a long leach – if it doesn’t work for you then you’re gone.
come home to Texas Derek be our number 2 starter
Holland/Shark/Pomeranz all need to go. Holland and Pomeranz are too wild and inconsistent. Shark just has a fastball, his off speed pitches are well below avg. Giants are in need of SP so hopefully they can land a few in this years draft. I think they need to draft the best available college hitter 1st pick and the best available SP the 2nd.
This new FO under Farhan sucks and it doesn’t take pissed off players for the fans to see it. Zaidi doesn’t care about people, he only sees numbers and that’s not baseball.
Like OMG!
If that were true then Derek would have moved to the pen a couple of starts ago. Long time coming. Thankfully I don’t have to look at that haircut much longer.
Boy, you really have zero tolerance with a man who was handed a bag of sh#t roster. Long-time fans know it takes time to come back from these years of mismanagement. Zaidi’s just trying every lever, and I’m glad of it. Patience!
Unfortunate that Holland chose to air the teams dirty laundry to the public. ERA above 6 tends to get you yanked from the rotation. The only stable starter is Bum and Shark has been able to limit the damage in his past couple of starts. Bum most likely getting traded so they’ll need some AAA guys to come in and step up. Beede has struggled even with his good stuff, got to limit walks and spot his pitches better.
“I’m not good at my job and my boss is demoting me” yeah that’s what happens when you don’t perform at your profession