The Giants announced that they have designated right-hander Gregory Santos for assignment. The club will need to open one more roster spot, to allow for recent signees Sean Manaea and Carlos Correa to fit onto the 40-man.
Santos, 23, began his career in the Red Sox organization but came to the Giants in the 2017 deadline deal that sent Eduardo Núñez to Boston. The Giants were impressed enough with his development to give him a 40-man roster spot ahead of the 2020 Rule 5 draft. In 2021, Santos made a brief MLB debut but was handed an 80-game suspension in June after testing positive for Stanozolol, a banned performance-enhancing drug.
In 2022, Santos served as optional depth, throwing just 3 2/3 innings in the big leagues. In 33 Triple-A innings, he posted a 4.91 ERA with strong strikeout rate and ground ball rates of 23% and 51.7%, respectively. However, control was an issue with Santos walking 13.5% of batters faced, something that has been a persistent problem in recent years. He has a 16.7% walk rate in his brief MLB tenure as well.
The Giants will have one week to trade Santos or pass him through waivers. Despite those control issues, there are reasons Santos might find some interest from other clubs. He’s still quite young and has one option year remaining, allowing him to serve as depth in the minor leagues. He also has excellent velocity, with his fastball averaged at 98.8 mph in his brief showing this year. For any club that feels they can better harness that power, Santos could be a worthwhile pickup.
That surprises me, thought they were pretty high on him despite his injury..
I think the issue with santos is control
He and Kervin Castro failed to live up to expectations..
having watched him, santos just has no command whatsoever (like someone else said) and i’d imagine that his standing in the org wasn’t helped by the drug suspension. waites passed him in the depth chart and i don’t think dabovich is that far behind either.
if someone wants to try and fix him, then more power to them. good luck.
he is gonna end up a mariner.
Maybe, but I bet he sticks with baseball for a few years more
They had to cut him loose – at least for this week. You see, he had this special clause – a Santos Clause – in his contract. He’s needed at North Pole. (Sorry.)
Happy Holidays, everybody! And Go Giants!
Merry Christmas & Happy 2023
One week to work on his delivery.
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Ouch!
Love this goob! Happy Holidays to you too! Go Giants!!!
very surprising to me
KBO contract by 7pm Pacific.
Let’s get a RH power bat now, Drury seems logical.
I thought you said power bat.
I think Profar fits the bill best, as well as being a switch hitter and more versatile. The Giants say they want another outfielder.
I don’t like profar as much as I like drury for one reason, your buying high with profar and low with drury.
It’s buying high on either one of them. Not to say they shouldn’t sign one of them anyway.
Drury signed a minor league contract with the Reds last offseason. Maybe the prior couple of season were just a health issue. Or maybe he just had a career year in 2022.
I think it’s buying high on both. Anyway Drury is an Angel now and I still think Profar might be perfect for SF right now.
I think the link you have for Eury Perez is wrong. I think you want baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=per…
Oops. Meant for the Marlins article.
Pirates can always use another hard throwing reliever
Good option for pirates
The Twins need some arms, but he’s about 10 years too young for them being he’s only 27.
The Twins need some pitchers, but at 27 years old, he’s 10 years too young.
Scott Harris has likely already made the call and he’ll be a Tiger in 10 days.
Oh crap. Now I have to change my moniker to ‘Second best’