The Giants announced they’ve designated reliever Mike Baumann for assignment. The move opens an active roster spot for Spencer Bivens, who has been recalled from Triple-A. San Francisco also appointed Hayden Birdsong as the 27th man for today’s doubleheader with the Rockies.
San Francisco just acquired Baumann in a cash deal with Seattle last week. He made one appearance in black and orange, allowing two runs while recording two outs in yesterday’s blowout win over Colorado. He’s out of options, so the Giants had to take him off the 40-man roster if they wanted to remove him from the active roster.
This is the third time this season that Baumann has been designated for assignment. The former Orioles’ third-round draftee has bounced from Baltimore to Seattle to San Francisco. He has struggled in all three stops and owns a 4.84 ERA over 35 1/3 innings. Baumann was a solid piece of Baltimore’s middle relief corps a year ago. The Jacksonville product worked to a 3.76 ERA with an average 22.3% strikeout percentage while logging 64 2/3 innings. This season hasn’t gone to plan, but he hasn’t lost any velocity off a fastball that sits north of 96 MPH.
The Giants can trade Baumann before next Tuesday’s deadline or place him on waivers within the next five days. He hasn’t made it through DFA limbo unclaimed to this point.
Baumann DFA – who didn’t have it on their bingo card list for short term meaningless Farhan pickup
Thanks Farhan for that 2/3 of an inning tryout.
Why Baumann was there and not Bivens is a head shaker.
Birdsong is the real deal Holyfield.
Screw it, don’t sell and let’s go Giants!
Giants announcer Dave Fleming was livid on the postgame show that Baumann was chosen over Bivens too. Maybe Dave has more power than we think…
Dave should be the next PBO when Farhan gets canned. Stanford alum, obviously smart AF when you you hear him speak.
We need more offensive pieces…the best pitching in the world is useless when runs are more scarce than raindrops in the Mohave?
Like being at the Flea Market. You buy something and then you keep walking and you find a better one 2 booths down so you throw away the old one. Welcome to the trade deadline.
Or Farhans world? How can a fan stomach this roster churn? Or like ….see ya later Slater and Too late to say Goodbye Alex Young? Baseball’s version of Goodwill?
I don’t think we have flea markets anymore. I haven’t been in one since the 80s!!!
Alameda and Santa Cruz, brother.
Agree, and the seasoned guys often know what “better” looks like before they buy the placeholder. 😉
Except FZ finds someone he doesn’t really like, gets him anyway and then sometimes dumps him before getting a chance. It is absurd how he churns through players.
Baumann lasted 2/3 of an inning & surrendered 2 R
Typical Zaidi trying to catch lightning in a bottle that never caught on
Baumann was signed at the expense of Bivens – who never should have been sent to the minors. If anything should have DFA Jackson
Armchair amateur managers are the best.
These are the type of moves Zaidi makes that irritate the heck out of people. He picks up Baumann on the 22nd, Bevins pitched on the 23rd and 25th so he can’t say Bevins pitching in AAA was a factor in the decision. Same garbage he did when he sent Fitzgerald to AAA to make room for McKenna who lasted 6 AB’s. Fitzgerald went down and hit 5 HR in the next 3 games! That was in May didn’t get him back on the roster until a few weeks ago.
Do the Giants have someone at the GM position or is everything run thru Zaidi at POBO ??