The Giants announced Monday that they’ve designated minor league right-hander Carson Ragsdale for assignment. His spot on the roster goes to lefty Carson Whisenhunt, whose previously reported promotion to the majors has now been made official. Right-hander Sean Hjelle was optioned to Triple-A to open a 26-man roster spot.
Ragsdale, 27, was a fourth-round pick by the Phillies back in 2020 and made his way to the Giants organization in a 2021 trade for reliever Sam Coonrod. He’s steadily climbed the ranks while battling various injuries but had a healthy 2024 campaign in which he tossed a career-high 120 2/3 innings between Double-A and Triple-A. He was more successful at the former than the latter in terms of ERA, strikeout rate and home-run rate, but that’s perhaps to be expected for a pitcher who was pushing his largest workload in three years and went on to set a new personal-best in that regard.
The 2025 season hasn’t been a good one, however. Ragsdale has spent the whole year in Triple-A and currently sports a 5.37 ERA a career-low 19.9% strikeout rate and a career-worst 13% walk rate. His average fastball is down from 93.4 mph last year to 92.6 mph in 2025. He’s run into a particularly tough stretch of late, with 15 earned runs — on the strength of an alarming nine homers — over his past 18 innings pitched.
Ragsdale entered the season ranked 20th among Giants prospects at Baseball America and 13th at FanGraphs. The Giants will be able to trade him up until Thursday’s 3pm PT deadline but after that would have to place him on either outright waivers or release waivers. Ragsdale has a bit of pedigree and is in the first of three minor league option seasons, so a club in need of some pitching depth might have interest in taking him on as a project in the next few days, whether via small trade or waiver claim.
Carson for Carson
From Rags(dale) to riches, and back. Sorry Carson and readers, I have too much time on my hands today!
This almost sounds like someone giving a fake name to the police and all they could think of was Carson Ragsdale.
Looked like he might have been on his way up last season. but he took another step back this year and continues to walk too many batters.
Isn’t Sean Hjelle the (alleged) wife beater? That must still be under investigation…
All I know is unless there’s a police report, allegations coming from a TikTok video should almost certainly not be believed.
Surprised Giants gave up on Ragsdale. Hopefully no team will take him & can return to AAA
Really? He’s terrible. They’re both terrible; I’d DFA Hjelle too.
so the limit is one carson per giants 40 man.
Those screaming for Hjelle, Giants are not about to expose him his minor numbers are pretty good and teams would pick him up.
Before claiming he beat or did something those are alleged and anyone whose been in family court knows accusations fly and end up false.
Sure his numbers are down this year but family court can be very stressful
Apparently the limit is 2. Carson Seymour is also on the 40-man. I guess having 3 Carsons was just too much.
Problem was the third Carson.
His eyebrows simply would not fit on the 40 man roster.
Carson Seymour is also on the Giants
They have a one-Carson garage.
Carson Ragsdale is the kind of name a video game generates for minor league organization filler.
Haha, kind of like “Ford Prefect”.
Carson is the new Austin.
Carson Seymour relieved Carson Wisenhunt tonight. In other words, Tonight’s Show starred Carson.