TODAY: Anderson’s contract has been officially selected, with Beede heading down to Triple-A in the corresponding move. (Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle was among those to report the news.)
YESTERDAY: The Giants are set to select the contract of righty Shaun Anderson, as Kerry Crowley of the Bay Area News Group was among those to report on Twitter. He’s expected to start the club’s contest on Wednesday.
It isn’t clear yet what the Giants will do to clear roster space. Neither is it known whether Anderson is likely to receive more than a single start’s worth of MLB action.
Anderson, 24, was a third-round pick out of the University of Florida back in 2016. He came to San Francisco as part of the mid-2017 deal that shipped Eduardo Nunez to Boston. Thus far in 2019, Anderson carries a 4.11 ERA in 35 innings over seven starts at Triple-A, with 9.5 K/9 against 2.8 BB/9. The 6’4″, 225-pound righty is generally regarded as one of the Giants’ best pitching prospects, ranking fourth in the system both at MLB.com and on Baseball America’s preseason rankings. He’s viewed as a potential mid-rotation starter who may not have a true plus offering but possesses average or slightly better stuff across the board.
This move represents the latest change to the makeup of the Giants’ rotation mix. The club has optioned Dereck Rodriguez to Triple-A, bumped Derek Holland to the bullpen, and sent Drew Pomeranz to the injured list. Tyler Beede will absorb some of those innings, perhaps pitching behind opener Nick Vincent today. And now Anderson will get a show to show that he ought to be a part of the team’s long-term plans.
Looking forward to seeing what Anderson can do at the ML level – one of the bright spots in the Giants very short list of prospects
That’s awesome! Hopefully he does well and they keep him up. Watching Holland/Pomeranz and Rodriguez this season, has been pitiful.
This is the only fun part about watching a team rebuild a roster–seeing kids come up. Will they sink or will they swim? Flounder or flourish? Let’s find some keepers and keep adding through the draft and trades, selling the few trade chips we have. Bumgarner and bullpen arms is the only value we can offer. Maybe someone values Belt’s defense and ob %
They won’t value belts overinflated contract. That’s gonna be hard to unload.
The Giants would prob have to eat between $15-$20 million is my guess. Teams wouldn’t mind paying Belt $10 million a year for the next 2 years. 20 Mil might sound like a lot, but it really isn’t much and $10 million a year would be a bargain. Again, I know to some that still sounds a lot, but it really isn’t.
I hope the Giants do whatever it takes to unload Belt. Even it that means eating $20 million, they’re better off trying every option they have at first. You can’t audition players with Belt being a regular. The same argument used in 2012 to dump Huff and put Belt in could be used right now. I know someone is going to say but Huff was trash. It doesn’t matter. Belt got the opportunity. The minors is stacked with guys who could play first for the Giants. The Giants aren’t going anywhere this year or next year. Hanging on to Belt and blocking others is pointless. In B4 Brandon Belt is my favorite player argument and cherry picking stats
Aramis Garcia is the Giants 1b of the future – hopefully much sooner rather than later. I realize that makes a Posey/Bart transition much more difficult, but hey, life is difficult.
Not even close. Garcia won’t hit well enough to keep an everyday job.
He was mocking me trying to be cute in the sense that there’s nobody worthy to take the throne away from Brandon. Shaw, Austin, Sandoval, Posey, Green (AAA) and couple other guys in the minors could fill that role. Brandon Belt being the best player in a team that’s going nowhere is like having a muscle car without an engine. Given Belt’s age and the current state of the Giants it’s dumb to keep Belt. Then again people are fascinated looking at the small picture and could never see the bigger pic.
Yeah totally have to try and unload Belt. It will be tough but is the giants eat a lot of his contract he could be a value to someone. I guess the moving posey to first experiment isn’t going to happen. If it was going to happen now would be the time. Fair weather fans aren’t going to like it but the giants are going to have to get rid of these guys with big contracts and no future if they ever want to contend again. The sad part is at this point other than Madison and some bullpen guys no one would give them much in return.
Posey has been playing first for a few years now. Nobody is going to give you anything for Bumgarner.
Jeff Todd… What do you see Anderson being a #4-5 type starter?
They’ll need to clear 2 roster spots – 1 for Shaun and 1 for that glorious mane of hair
Anderson looks great, FaBio has him the #11 pitching prospect I believe.
Imagine Beede sent down and Kratz DFA was to create a 25 man for Altherr and a 40 man for Anderson, or maybe they don’t put Altherr on the roster just yet and send Beede down after tonight.
Zaidi has wanted to give Anderson a look for awhile now, and Rodriguez’s last two outings made that possible. I suspect that he wants all of these guys (Rodriguez, Pomeranz, Holland) to establish some value between now and the All-Star game so that they, the bullpen pieces, and perhaps Belt and Panik are moved before the deadline. There’s no mystery there.
The Giants still have Suarez in AAA and other interesting arms in lower levels that Zaidi will look at over the next season while he clears out those ahead of them that he’s already closed the book on.
Yeah I’m kinda surprised Suarez wasn’t called up first. I’m not sure how he’s doing in the minors but his service time clock had already started. Plus I believe he’s still on the 40 man.
He’s getting hit around pretty hard in AAA. I believe mid 5s era, really high whip
4.11 ERA in AAA? I don’t know. To me this just shows how pathetic the farm is. You can shuffle all you want and maybe you find someone hot for a month or so but nothing is changing the overall picture for a long time. Thanks Evans.
I would take ERA in the Pacific coast league with a grain of salt.
Noah Syndergaard had a 4.8 ERA in the PCL when he got called up
Well, Noah’s hair has got to be 1 inch longer!
I got to see Anderson at the Futures game. He gave up a single to Heliot Ramos. Looked pretty good overall in a tiny sample.
The Giants continue to churn their roster…looking for anyone that can play
The fans are staying away…big swathes of empty seats now at every game
Opposing teams’ fans wearing their swag and making noise
Oracle is becoming simply a corporate event and tourist attraction…
This is so true. Watching the highlights last night and seeing vlad jr hit his first and second homers I was shocked at how empty that park was. Even more shocked at how many blue jay fans were there. I get that a lot of fans were bandwagon fans from when they won the World Series but the drop off is really huge
The Giants equipment manager deserves a raise, or bonus or something!
Real Giants fans are happy with the turnover. Trust me. Bandwagon fans falling off every day. Meanwhile, I watched NYY vs Bal today in a stadium that was basically empty. It was amazing. I felt as if we were at a private showing. The fans who did show up to gm1 were too quiet to be noticed.
MLB is a business and attendance is a big part of the business. If you care about the MLB product, not sure why you would be happy with empty stadiums. this doesn’t bode well for the future of baseball…
Good. Beede was electric last night but still wild as hell. He needs to get his command under control if he ever wants to last in the big leagues. His stuff is filthy, he’s just throwing with zero accuracy
Zaidi seems willing to give Beede a longer leash, and although 7 baserunners in less than 3 innings sucks, he did show the stuff to K five during that time.
As Pickle Britches said above, Suarez’s ERA has now crept up to over 6, and he’s only made it to the 5th inning in 3 of his last six starts sandwiched around some time on the 7-day IL. I suspect that Zaidi thinks that both he and Beede have the requisite stuff to pitch at this level, but will probably need the rest of 2019 to put it together. (I’m not sure Zaidi is sold on Rodriguez)
He’s probably hoping the same for Anderson, and would like to count on at least those three for 2020, because the truck will be backing up soon on the current crew.
Anderson looked really solid today. I think he’ll probably get sent down this year, but he’ll definitely be in the majors to stay in 2020.