Brandon Crawford gave the San Francisco Chronicle’s John Shea a rundown of his daily routine, as the Giants shortstop is busy balancing his time with his wife and four young children alongside workouts and engaging in whatever baseball activities he can manage from his house. On this particular day, for example, Crawford and the Giants’ team yoga instructor met via video conferencing for a session “based on baseball mobility and movements that we need,” Crawford said.
Some more from the National League…
- While Crawford is one of many players staying at home with his family during the shutdown, newly-signed Cardinals left-hander Kwang-hyun Kim is in St. Louis while his family is in South Korea. Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak told reporters (including MLB.com’s Anne Rogers) that Kim could potentially return to Korea while Major League Baseball is on hiatus. “I can only imagine the mental challenge [Kim is] under with his wife and children back in South Korea, trying to adapt to a new country, a new team, and then have all this thrust upon him,” Mozeliak said. “So we’re trying to navigate that as best we can, but…clearly this has not been easy for him, and I think all of us could understand why.”
- From that same teleconference earlier this week, Mozeliak also provided updates on some injured Cardinals players. Miles Mikolas continues to make progress after suffering a flexor tendon strain in February and receiving a platelet-rich plasma injection, as Mikolas will soon throw a bullpen session and is currently throwing from 120 feet. Brett Cecil recently took time off from his hamstring injury rehab for personal reasons, but Mozeliak said Cecil will resume the process next week. Cecil suffered what manager Mike Shildt described as a “fairly significant” right hamstring strain in mid-March, and while no specific timeline was put in place, it was thought that Cecil was facing “multiple weeks of treatment.”
- After pitching in Japan in 2019, Pierce Johnson signed a two-year, $5MM deal with the Padres this offseason to mark his return to North American baseball. As Johnson told Fangraphs’ David Laurila, “a few other teams kicked the tires” on the right-hander’s availability, and he also came “really close to taking” an offer to remain with the Hanshin Tigers. Ultimately, Johnson chose the Padres and MLB in order to bring his family back closer to home. Johnson posted only a 5.44 ERA over his 44 2/3 career Major League innings with the Cubs and Giants in 2017-18, though his season in Nippon Professional Baseball greatly elevated his stock, as the righty posted a 1.38 ERA, 14.0 K/9, and 7.00 K/BB rate over 58 2/3 relief innings for the Tigers.
Kim is a lefty.
Thanks?
Monty, can you please go outside for an hour? We’re all getting very concerned.
Wrong time to comment this bud… most of us are locked in our house.
Sorry I’m well into operation shutdown.
Sucks for you
“Sorry I’m well into operation shutdown”
So is your creativity.
And mikolas is a righty
Pads did well giving Johnson a second year. given there will be, at best, a markedly shortened season this year.
Kim looked like a stud in Soring Training.
Canning and Mikolas for TJS
No deal
Mikolas is usless. And cecil should be released immediately. And then the bum that signed both
Mikolas isn’t useless, he pitched very well in the NLCS and recieved cy young votes in 2018. Cecil or Fowler should have been DFA when they signed Kim instead of Garcia, but MO is to proud to admit when he’s made a mistake so he’d rather make mistake after mistake after mistake, like trading Mercado because he was blocked. I’m just imagining an outfield of Arozarena, Mercado, Carlson, with the top 3 spots in the line up belonging to them. The potential run support would be tremendous.
Please look past 1 season of stats/memories before coming to such conclusions. Many players bounce back literally every year and he was a very good player the year before last and for several years overseas
FYI, Nobody cares or looks at overseas stats. It’s like AAA baseball.
Brandon Crawford. Lol. Another bad overpaid Giants player. Whats the over under on a Zaidi DFA for him?
Over under? How would that apply here? Perhaps you’re looking for the odds, like, +450 he gets DFA’d and -400 he doesn’t.
How about these odds. I say it’s -400 that he didn’t sign your glove when you were 10 in 2014 when you leaned over the rail and yelled at him that he was fat and slow.
So he’s not overpaid?
Looks like you missed the point. Shocker
A majority of baseball players are overpaid.