The Giants announced they’ve selected right-hander Kai-Wei Teng onto the MLB roster. Reliever José Buttó, acquired from the Mets in the Tyler Rogers deal, has reported to the team and will be active tonight. San Francisco also recalled outfielder Grant McCray. Those three players replace Rogers, Camilo Doval and Mike Yastrzemski.
Teng is up for the first time this season. The Taiwanese pitcher made four relief appearances last year. San Francisco non-tendered him but brought him back on a minor league contract. He has been at Triple-A Sacramento all season. Teng has logged 54 innings across 25 appearances, mostly out of the bullpen, and turned in a 3.67 earned run average. He has recorded a monster 38% strikeout rate against a serviceable if slightly higher than average 9.3% walk rate.
The 26-year-old Teng has never had any issues missing bats in the minors. He has been held back by well below-average control, however. This year’s walk rate is his best since he was in rookie ball. He issued free passes at a 12% clip (with an uncharacteristically low 17.3% strikeout rate) en route to an 8.60 ERA at the Triple-A level a season ago. His performance this year has been far better.
Teng is expected to start tomorrow’s game against the Mets, according to Justice delos Santos of the Mercury News. He’d started four of his past five minor league appearances and has gotten up to 5 2/3 innings. He could take on a reasonable workload, but it’s nevertheless an indictment of the San Francisco rotation that they need to turn to a pitcher who has spent the bulk of the year in the Triple-A bullpen. They recently lost Landen Roupp to elbow inflammation and demoted struggling fifth starter Hayden Birdsong to Triple-A. The state of the rotation is a big reason the Giants pivoted late to trading away three notable players. They’ve fallen below .500 and are six games back in the Wild Card race.
Doval had operated as San Francisco’s closer for most of the season. As expected, Melvin has tabbed Randy Rodríguez as the team’s closer with Doval and Rogers now out of the picture (relayed by Susan Slusser of The San Francisco Chronicle). The 25-year-old righty has had a breakout season, earning a deserved All-Star nod with a 1.20 ERA while striking out 36% of opponents across 45 innings. He has recorded 13 holds and one save — the only one of his career — while blowing two leads. He’s under team control for another five seasons and will not reach arbitration until the 2026-27 offseason.
My fantasy teams rejoices after losing Clase! 🙂
Looked up Teng’s numbers or nah? Some of the best in the minors. 3.31 xFIP in the PCL is sick
I didn’t think it would be Teng. It’ll be interesting to see how he does. I wonder what this says about the Giants’ assessments of Black and Winn.
Winn got shelled on Tuesday. Teng has rebounded nicely this year. Teng is the last player remaining from the infamous Sam Dyson trade.
That’s why the Twinkies won’t deal with the Giants unless the Giants make a big overpay to makeup for the Dyson fiasco.
what I was hearing is winn is working on stuff and black has been behind – teng has been one of the better pitchers in the PCL
Stay down Birdsong.
Yeah, Birdsong has upside, but clearly needs to resolve some issues. He’ll be back, but it’ll better if it’s later on, like next season.
he may need to be there for the year -he has stuff to figure out
Ok, Good. Rodriguez Closing is very nice.
He’ll be key to securing their third place finish.
Ha ha ha. Dodger trolls. They are just so clever !
Talk about clever: Start up a chant “Beat LA, Beat LA…”
Ha ha ha. Grown men trolling opposition fans on the internet with stuff that’s been done a thousand times before !!!!
Ha ha ha. I love it !
I’m an 8 year old girl.
Nope. I’ve had a couple of those. Way too cute.
You are a manchild with the mentality of a 17yo boy. Ha ha ha. You guys are so good.
Bivouac Sally then.
I get it.
Enjoy the Girl Scouts !
The best part is that Bivouac cry’s like a toddler when someone dares to troll in a Dodger post. Ha ha. The self awareness of a spoilt child.
Still in your head? Shouldn’t you be leading a chant?
Go hang off a cliff.
Yeah mate. Still laughing at you very hard indeed. Hopefully you stay in my head a bit longer. Please don’t stop !
Forceful.
Keep laughing. It’s healthy for even you.
Yeah mate. The humour created by a manchild
is totally forced !
Bivouac-Sal, I’d bet you’re clueless to the origin of the “beat LA” chant.
Celtics-Lakers oh great wise one.
76ers were involved I believe.
The Celtics fans.
So you do understand the sentiment is somewhat universal, and not SF-based.
Not the point. It’s hilarious, kinda desperate and a bit sad for any team’s fans to measure themselves against their rivals in that manner. No the Giants are not alone. Padres fans use that chant too. In the words of Randy Newman “We Love It.”
Ya. I always measure myself with chants ? Only 8 year old girls quote Randy Newman.
Not measuring anything against the rivals.
The fact that that chant originated as a message to the 76ers, from the fans of the Celtics, their rival, and is also used by SD fans, just shows the lack of love for LA teams.
If you like the LA teams being seen as the villain… well, that says more about you than anything about the Giants
And not only that, the fact that you want to comment on a Giants’ thread, offering zero insight, only to troll, also says much about your character.
Jean.
Sally has a book report due tomorrow and it’s getting close to bedtime. Her mommy was able to get last nights accident stain out of her vintage Rainbow Bright jammies though.
What it says is your fanbase has an inferiority complex, at least when it comes to the Dodgers. The villain? I get that. I felt the same way about the Yankees for decades. BECAUSE THEY WON. Now I respect the Yanks. I don’t like them when they play LAD, but I respect them. What I see when I go to Dodger games here and there around the country–just returned from 3 fun games at Fenway–is Dodger fans in their thousands. You know, the droves of Dodger fans Logan Webb and Willy Adames complained about at Oracle Park last month. What did the RedSox manager Alex Cora say when even more Dodger fans showed up in Boston?
Cora credited Dodgers fans for showing up in big numbers anywhere the team plays, via Tom Carroll of WEEI:
Cora said:
“That was Dodger Stadium-like, to be honest with you. I’ve never seen so many people from the opposition in one ballpark. That was different. Credit to them. They’ve done an amazing job throughout the years, getting to October and making a habit of that. And their fanbase, they travel well. That was loud. That was very loud. I’ve never seen anything like that.”
Do they scream “Beat LA” in Boston? No. in New York? No. Anywhere else other than San Francisco and San Diego? No. You draw your own conclusion about that. As a Dodger fan I have respect for Yankee fans, Mets fans, RedSox fans and other knowledgable fanbases. Giants fans? Get serious.
Ha ha ha. Congratulations.
Now let’s get back to you carrying on like a schoolboy online…..
What a thoughtful, well-reasoned response.
Absolutely. It’s what the chant cop out deserves.
A beat LA chant is the excuse you are proposing for being a little boy online ? Really ? It cuts that deep into your psyche ? My goodness.
I’ve got a thought. You aren’t as clever as you think you are. Your lame excuse is as transparent as fark. It’s just that, a lame excuse.
What the hell are you talking about?
A manchild copping out.
Thanks for a series of meaningless posts. Try for some substance. At least Jean knows enough to conduct an actual dialogue. I’m done with your vacuous, repetitive responses.
Anytime. Thanks for the not vacuous, not repetitive, not the act of a manchild online troll that started it.
Sally just got an A on her vocabulary.
Night night.
Wow. All those Dodgers’ fans at Fenway and Oracle. Yes, you win. The Dodgers have the most bandwagon fans now. Congratulations. That’s a real good reason to be proud.
(To @foppert3, and @oldgfan, Really? Can you imagine being proud of fans jumping on your team’s bandwagon? Being proud that a 1st place team gets support from the casual fans? Plus there’s that delusion that all those fans at Fenway and Oracle aren’t outnumbered by those that will relish in a Dodgers’ defeat in the PS. Well, that’s what’s really sad.)
Now now children…