The Giants have agreed to a minor league pact with right-hander James Sherfy and will invite him to Major League Spring Training, per MLB.com’s Jon Morosi (Twitter link). Sherfy is repped by PSI Sports Management.
Sherfy, 29, has spent his entire career to date with the division-rival Diamondbacks, who drafted him in the 10th round back in 2013. He appeared in the big leagues each year from 2017-19, pitching quite well in 2017-18 before stumbling thanks to a some ill-timed long balls with men on base in a small sample of 18 1/3 frames in 2019.
Despite a solid track record, Sherfy didn’t make it to the big leagues with the Snakes in 2020. He was in the club’s initial 60-man player pool and spent the year working out at their alternate training site, however, so he still got some work in last year.
Overall, Sherfy owns a 2.98 ERA in 45 1/3 big league innings. That’s not fully supported by fielding-independent metrics, but his 3.82 FIP and 3.88 SIERA are both solid nevertheless. Sherfy also carries better-than-averages strikeout (25.4 percent) and walk (9.0 percent) rates throughout his limited big league career to date. He’s not an especially hard thrower, averaging 93.3 mph on his fastball, but he’s had success both in Triple-A and the big leagues. On a minor league deal, there’s not much to dislike about the addition for San Francisco.
I like the minor league signings from Farhan. Next thing you know we have another Donovan Solano or Mike Yaz to outperform expectations and be a value piece.
That’s definitely the approach..sign these type of players and see what sticks..it’s been working so far..with addition of a strong farm, this team can rise pretty quick, starting 2022..I love the logic FZ applies and he has a knack for finding these type of gems.
Agreed. Farhan has put together decent teams in the years since he took over. I can’t wait to see what else he can find in low cost acquisitions like this one
Just imagine what he’ll do with the team over the next few years with no more albatross contracts, a good farm and virtually unlimited resources…and we may have a decent/good MLB team to boot!
Can’t help but feel like our patience will pay off
Yup, it’ll be nice and be like the Padres! But maybe/hopefully without huge contracts like Machado/Hosmer..hopefully the Giants would be more so like the Rays, lol
I’d say more like the dodgers in that they’re basically the rays on steroids
yeah, I was thinking Dodgers too but I really feel like not giving them any credit..even tho FZ played a huge part of their success, lol..duck the fodgers!
And don’t call me Sherfy
You can’t be serious.
I look like an owl right now.
“Who?”
Seems like a nice find by SF. I’m no expert on Arizona’s farm, but if he’s not blocking anyone in SF’s system, then nice.
“This next one is the first song on our new album”
Dbacks have obviously moved on from most of last year’s bullpen. Archie Bradley and Andrew Chafin we’re traded at last year’s deadline and have now signed elsewhere this year. Rondon and Guerra were both cut loose this off-season and have both signed elsewhere. Now Sherfy, who wasn’t part of last season’s bullpen, but was the previous 2 seasons, has signed elsewhere.
The Dbacks haven’t signed anyone but fringe, minor league bullpen pieces, so it looks like they are planning to start harvesting some of their pitching talent in a highly regarded minor league system of prospects. Some highly regarded starting pitcher prospects, who are coming back from injuries (Corbin Martin, Jon Duplantier, etc.) will likely see action in the bullpen and as spot starters throughout the upcoming year.
I like his name, Sherfy