Daulton Jefferies is in agreement on a deal with the Giants, the right-hander announced this morning. Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle confirms it’s a minor league pact with an invitation to Spring Training. Additionally, Jon Heyman of the New York Post reports that first baseman Yoshi Tsutsugo has agreed to terms with San Francisco (X link). It seems fair to presume that’s also a minor league deal with a non-roster invite.
Jefferies sticks in the Bay Area. A Berkeley product, he was selected by the A’s with the 37th pick of the 2016 draft. Jefferies made his big league debut with one appearance in 2020. He pitched five times the following season and on eight occasions in 2022. In 14 career outings (10 starts), he has worked to a 5.75 ERA through 56 1/3 frames. He has a middling 15.2% strikeout rate while walking fewer than 6% of opponents.
The 28-year-old has lost most of the last two seasons to injury. He underwent thoracic outlet surgery in June 2022 before requiring a Tommy John procedure that September. Oakland ran him through waivers and off the 40-man roster last offseason. Jefferies missed all of last season and elected minor league free agency at year’s end. He’ll get a look in camp with former Oakland skipper Bob Melvin. Jefferies still has an option remaining, so the Giants could freely send him to Triple-A even if he earns a 40-man roster spot.
Tsutsugo, who recently turned 32, spent time in the San Francisco system this year. He signed with the Giants out of independent ball in August, playing in 17 games between Double-A and Triple-A. Tsutsugo, who hit .197/.291/.339 over 640 big league plate appearances from 2020-22, had posted a .249/.380/.432 line with Texas’ top minor league affiliate in the first half of last season.
In before the “lol Farhan making big moves, Giants are World Series bound” comments
I’m only looking from the outside in but this team sucks. Moneyball is dead and Bruce Bochy is the king.
Sucks is putting it strongly, as there are a lot of decent and quality players on the roster. Not the kind of players you can expect to carry a team — hence why they’ve been so hellbent on signing some star players — but the roster has depth.
My point is that every post about a minor league signing gets lazy comments joking that it’s the big signing the Giants have been missing. It was funny the first dozen times, and now it’s funny in how predictable the joke has become. Farhan has absolutely earned criticism, but I always appreciate when someone puts a little effort rather than regurgitate the same joke ad nauseum.
PS Bochy is the man, and I’m happy for him and Rangers fans
Is still funny in that way punching yourself in the head is funny. Farhan can’t get it done. He has no respect in the league. Boot him out now and be done with it. The owners are trash too and cheap and trying to make a profit instead of win, but farhan isn’t even able to succeed in the sad pathetic way he’s been touted as being able to succeed. This team has zero stars, one really good young pitcher and nothing else. Not a single prospect (as fun as they were to watch during the otherwise boring season last year) has any signs of being a star player. This team will completely lose the attention of the casual fans soon, and worse they won’t gain new forever fans like they did with Bonds and Kent and Nen when I was a kid. They have no one that excites those kids into loving baseball. It’s really sad. The Johnson family are terrible and farhan is inept. Time to make a change
Ehhhh your take has some good points and some not so accurate points. You may be right that there aren’t any young up and coming stars on the roster right now and if they don’t start signing and drafting stars and winning ball games then young fans will lose interest. But the owners are actually great, and have given Farhan the green light to spend whatever he wants ever since they brought him in. Not the owners fault guys have refused to sign with the Giants, wouldn’t say going after Stanton, Harper, Judge, Correa and now Ohtani is the owners being cheap. But the biggest mistake they made was letting Bochy go.
You’re not completely wrong, but I think you’re taking things to extremes and painting with a wide brush. Farhan and the Giants have clearly tried to spend some money and make splashes. At some point, they need to succeed, but I can’t in good faith say the owners are cheap and Farhan is inept. And while the farm hasn’t produced as much as it should, it’s also not completely hopeless. Kyle Harrison has legit ace potential, and Patrick Bailey’s defense alone is enough for him to last a decade-plus in the Majors.
After five years and two years removed from a crazy 107-win season, it’s fair to expect the franchise to be in a better spot. But after inheriting an expensive, again roster and losing Buster Posey unexpectedly, I think Farhan & co deserve another year or two. The prospects he drafted are starting to come up, and get a few more opportunities to make a splash in free agency. His seat should feel hot, but I think it’s a little too soon to fully cut him loose
Ouch, but that’s an accurate take.
So you don’t consider All-Stars Alex Cobb or Camilo Doval star players? Or Logan Webb, who finished (a distant, but still) second place in the Cy Young voting? Patrick Bailey has shown flashes of brilliance behind the dish. Hard to take any of your points seriously when you make sweeping generalizations about a team’s “lack of stars.”
What has made San Francisco such an undesirable place to play? This is from the outside looking in but San Fran has always been known as a world class city,The Giants have a winning tradition I know Bochy and Sabean are gone. Correa wanted to come but the Giants and the Mets dodged a bullet on that one. But failing to land Judge,Harper,or Othani is so confounding. Is it a clubhouse thing? Is ownership meddlesome? I just don’t get why they can’t get somebody to play there. I get Judge wanting to stay a Yankee but dollars are dollars.
I’m genuinely not trying to do the politics thing, but San Francisco has become one of the nastiest cities over the years. I go a few times a year for work and 10+ years ago I loved it. Now it’s just gross, sad, and not at all a place I enjoy spending time. Idk how much that is relevant, but it’s true of SF more than any other major city I’ve been to.
I have lived in the Bay Area my entire life, Alameda to be exact. Oakland, San Francisco, Richmond, Emeryville, and Berkeley, All have been crap holes for decades. I just drive to the ballpark and drive right back out of town.
Unbelievable… nothing but a dumpster diver
Every organization needs to make minor league deals for depth. Don’t have an aneurysm.
Pirates fans should be familiar with this type of acquisition so sure
Anyone mlb team that has a minor league farm system makes these kinds of moves.
You are defending one of the worst organizations in sorts by trying to mansplain to me how every team signs scrubs and hopes it works out?
No, everyone knows Farhan missed out on Judge and Correa, so now he wears a trench coat and hangs out in dark alleyways saying “Got any scraps??”
Farhan was not anti/Correa……his med staff determined that he was DAMGED goods….
When you ask that question in a dark alley in SF you better hope the answer is no.
Is it really depth when you don’t have much major league talent to start with?
Exactly
The Giants are a team made completely of depth. They have Major League talent at virtually every position, but the problem is that a team full of 1-2 WAR players is a team that will fight to play .500 ball. The upside is that if they can grab a couple stars, that depth becomes an asset. As a tertiary trait, the depth shines; as the one and only trait, the depth is unremarkable.
Thanks for playing Neal…next time, before you respond, at least do a little research on the front office’s past performance, you might look a little less clueless.
Are you aware they have a AAA roster to fill?
I guess I didn’t realize they don’t have a minor league team.
Zaidi’s MO hasn’t changed this offseason. More of the same & unless something remarkable changes Zaidi’s headed for another disastrous offseason.
How can we measure his MO when almost no one has signed and the entire market is held up by two players? Once Ohtani and Yamamoto are off the board, the rest will fall into place and then we can judge. Right now, we’re going off nothing but speculation
Yoshi Tsutsugo != Yoshinobu Yamamoto
LOL Farhan making BIG Moves. WORLD SERIES BOUND!!
Okay troll
Well, You asked for it……Come on man, Have a sense of humor. Giants fans are always so uptight and Biitchy. Take it from a Phillies fan, you gotta grow a pair
It’s just the same joke over and over, be original at least
in this case, TheBull is directly quoting my comment, which was the first comment on the post and lamented the lazy dumpster diving jokes. They get a pass, in my opinion
There are more PAIRS in SF…..than Phillyville
Nah, it’s old and tired. That’s 27rings, Tonygwynn, aaronjudge99, whatever other account level jokes. Low hanging fruit
AKA ; The troll patrol.
Pretty sure it’s a 12 year old girl by all the LOLs she posts.
Finally somebody wants to sign with the Giants! I can’t imagine how excited gfan really is? Obviously he is very, very, very, sensitive. Poor guy. Lolololololol!!! Are you going to mute me also now? I’m so frightened. LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!
Blame the guy that Saud in b4 this happens.
None of that makes sense
lol well played
FFS, it’s December 8th and only Nola and Gray have signed FA contracts.
crazy, I thought maybe after the Winter Meetings a majority would’ve been signed by now..everyone really waiting on Ohtani
Say the word- Tsu Tsu Tsutgo
I can feel it in the air tonight!
Man, it’s been a while since I’ve listened to some Phil Collins. Thanks for the idea & the chuckle.
Yes every team makes these kinds of moves, but they do more than others and seem to think that just signing a ton of marginal guys is better than a few good ones. Like the entire outfield they signed last year that sucked along with the multiple starters who can’t go 5 innings or pitch well.
Right. Other teams have actual stars and talent and exciting young dynamic players to tout while they make these nothing signings behind the scenes. Two guys who will never have a positive impact on the big league club, but that’s all giants fans have. Year after year. It’s a depressing joke
I don’t understand, their payroll is kind of high, but who do they have? Who’s in the middle of their lineup? Bunch of random guys.
Part of the reason their payroll is currently this high is because they’ve signed almost exclusively short-term free agents. They’re not saddled with decade-long contracts that’ll shape their future acquisitions, they chose to spend at higher AAVs on short deals to augment their roster while the farm develops. The old guard of Posey, Belt, Crawford, etc had one last hurrah in 2021 but the farm wasn’t ready to replenish the Major League roster. Rather than follow up 107 wins by sitting on their hands and letting payroll drop, they made short-term additions to bridge the gap. It didn’t work out so well, but they avoided a full-scale rebuild that Giants ownership is against. Agree or disagree with that approach, but it’s why the team has a fairly sizable payroll right now but has virtually nothing on the books a year or two from now
Hi cainer18, thanks for being basically the only voice of reason and intelligence on this thread. I was busy yesterday and didn’t get a chance to comment, plus it’s getting so tiresome fighting back the negativity and repetitive pablum these trolls toss out over and over and over. They don’t have one original comment. So thank you for understanding the complexity of the situation.
Sabean and Evans left the farm basically barren (except for Doval) and we we are finally seeing Zaidi’s picks come up. He’s made some bad picks too but Bailey is amazing and I hope his concussion has cleared. Harrison, Whisenhunt, Black, Birdsong all look exciting too.
I do think ownership didn’t want Zaidi to tank since he arrived, so we’ve fallen out of the top 10 picks where the best talent is and kept the major league club fairly competitive but in retrospect it probably would have been better to tank for a few years and get top picks. Although the draft is a crap shoot.
I really hope our kids continue to shine and Z can sign a star or two, and we start to gel. It would be so nice to shut the repetitive trolls up. Thanks for what you wrote cainer18, you get it.
Anything for you, Agnes Gooch lol
Well at least we signed a Yoshi. Hopefully not the last.
Military grade bench fodder – Good Job Farhan
maybe Yoshi can convince Ohtani
In other news the Waste Management teamsters union local 350 is requesting Farhan start paying dues. One waste management employee was quoted as saying “he handles more garbage than any of us and he needs to pay like the rest of us”.
In a related story the Dollar Store announced their customer of the year award was won for the fifth year in a row by none other than Farhan Zaidi by a landslide.
The other Yoshinobu & Shohei gonna need friends on the team.
World Sharkers.
Yes, Arson Judge can be their new friends on the team? LOLOLOLOLOLOL!
It is possible Ohtani changed his name, after all he doesn’t want anyone to know what he is doing.
Giants just need a star player or two to round out the roster. They somehow built the team backwards, have excellent role players but no “star” core.
It’s Zaidi and the rest of the Brass;they couldn’t Sell Water in the Sahara.
Unlikeable Stiffs permiate that organization’s hierarchy and until that changes Nobody with any name Value or Pizzaz is signing in San Fran.
You’re such an insider. Why don’t you start a column.
I will just as soon as you take a long hike of a short pier Dopey Doolittle.
4th place next year in the NL West. At least we still have Kruk and Kuip.
Yup. The offseason is over and we missed out on everyone.
Eyore mentality.
So much negativity. Anger and depression are your only friends.
Why are you here ? Do you really think the owners or management will read your posts and make moves on your dribble ?
If the team is so bad go find another. It’s that simple.
Nobody will miss you.
I’m just glad the Giants didn’t waste Posey, Bumgarner, or Lincecum’s prime years…can’t say that about a lot of teams currently
I hope for Webb’s sake they actually commit to a full rebuild when the strike out on the rest of the available talent this off season and trade him to a team that has a real chance to win, not just float endlessly in the abyss of mediocrity.
If Zaidi strikes out on Ohtani, Yamamoto, Lee what’s left? More leftovers & same ole Zaidi excuses.
Giants desperately need some great news that finally superstars (yes more than one) have been signed.
In a related move, the front office has authorized the printing of 2024 Playoff Tickets !!
While I understand this is just a minor league move and irrelevant to the Giants greater plans this offseason, this is an underwhelming minor league move to say the least.
Lots of jokes but Yoshi was honestly pretty dang solid a few years ago and looked competent enough at AAA this year. Solid depth option.
Looks like 2024 it will be another great year for the River Cats.
This is Farhan’s time to make it happen. He has the resources. It’s a results oriented business. He had bad luck with Correa and got played by Judge but NOW or just resign.The roster churn and dumpster diving is something the Giants fans should not tolerate another season.
Yoshi getting traded to the Seoul Super Smash Bros!
Always lookin’ for junk laying around… Why don’t you do somethin’ more productive for once?!
Dodgers sign Ohtani..SF signs Daulton Jeffries…FARHAN! Do something resembling anything!
FU Farhan and FU moneyballl
Better sign top 3 free agents or this season is a bust. La has so much money it’s not funny. Now they have how many former mvp’s??? The tax threshold needs to be changed or la will get every great player they want.
Giants have as much money as anyone. They own their stadium and have a very little payroll. There’s no excuse to run this team like the A’s, but of course Farhan learned from the destroyer of baseball, Billy Beane, and now Bob Melvin is the manager.
As someone mentioned money ball is dead, but was it ever even alive? How many WS have the A’s played in the past 2 decades? How about the Rays?
I don’t believe anything is going to change for the Giants until Zaidi is gone. What player wants to play on a team doing the crap the Giants have been doing since he arrived? This is just like the Trent Balke years the 49ers had. No one wants to play for GMs like that. Look at how the 49ers team changed with they finally showed Balke the door. This is what the Giants need to do with Zaidi!
Agree. It’s an insult to the fans that the only thing Farhan has done in the off season is signing two players that only makes the team worst. And for those who say there’s still a lot of time to sign players, well, the problem is that teams have been making moves early. I’m not talking about Ohtani. It would’ve been a mistake to spend so much $$ on just one player anyway and we also know Ohtani was not going to sign with SF. There are many holes to fill. Now there are not many players available. Snell, Bellinger, etc. won’t sign with a team like the giants either. They should’ve focused on good cheaper free agents. If the fans go to the ballpark, that’s their problem. So next season the giants are going to be fighting for last place.
I hate Billy Beane for Moneyball. Of course, Farhan worked under him and now runs this team like the pathetic A’s. They own their stadium. They have very little payroll on the books. They have as much money as anyone else. Pathetic!!!!