Feb. 23: Wick is guaranteed $880K in the form of a $780K salary and a $100K buyout on an $800K club option for 2027, per Jon Becker of RosterResource.
Feb. 13: The Giants have signed right-hander Rowan Wick to a one-year major league deal, the team announced. The agreement includes a club option for 2027. Wick is recovering from Tommy John surgery and is not expected to pitch this season. Jason Foley has been placed on the 60-day injured list in a corresponding move, according to the MLB.com transaction log.
The 33-year-old Wick returns stateside after spending the past two seasons with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. He was excellent out of the bullpen during his time in NPB, recording a 1.75 ERA across 87 2/3 innings. Wick secured five saves last season with the BayStars. He’ll look to impact the San Francisco bullpen next year as he continues to rehab from TJ.
The majority of Wick’s big-league experience has come with the Cubs. He was traded to Chicago straight up for Jason Vosler after a brief stint with the Padres. Wick was a semi-regular in the Cubs’ bullpen from 2019 to 2021. He emerged as the team’s closer in 2022. Wick notched a career-high nine saves that season, but faltered down the stretch and lost some opportunities to trade deadline acquisition David Robertson.
Wick began the 2023 season in the minors. The Cubs would release him in July. He bounced to the Braves and then the Blue Jays, but never made it back to the majors. After posting a 6.66 ERA at Triple-A, he made the jump to NPB.
San Francisco has a history of signing injured pitchers with the intention of getting contributions once they recover. The strategy has continued even after Buster Posey took over as president of baseball operations. The club added right-hander Jason Foley in December. He’s coming back from shoulder surgery and will begin the year on the 60-day IL. San Francisco also signed Sam Hentges this offseason. The lefty hasn’t pitched since 2024 following shoulder and knee surgery, but could be ready for the start of this season.
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Dude is gonna get lit up.
Wick will flame out. 🔥
TAKE THAT!
Typical Giants move. Throwing away money to a pitcher coming off TJ surgery who won’t pitch any time soon.
Yeah, totally didn’t work out with Robbie Ray. Oh wait…
But when the bullpen needs help this season, signing a guy who won’t pitch this season seems like a waste.
Yeah. Just forget about the future. No time for that !
Humans are clever. Some of us can be focussed on the present and the future. Crazy times.
A waste of what ? Your time ? Or is there something significant we should be considering ?
a waste of what – it doesn’t take a roster spot and it isn’t expensive.
Seattle received negative WAR from Mitch Haniger and Anthony DeSclafani.
But they did make the post-season. 😉
I thought desclafani was immediately flipped. they got polanco for him so it is kind of win win that way
it is just locking a guy down in hopes that you can either trade or use him next year. He probably isn;t making much, it is the same as signing a minor league deal except he is guaranteed stuff like healthcare, he is just going to float on the 60 day all year
Hope isn’t a strategy, unless you’re the SF Giants. Meanwhile the Dodgers are spending to sign superstar after superstar and wait, not hoping to be in contention for the 3rd wild card, but oh yeah…winning championships.
if you can’t talk about the giants without mentioning the dodgers then you have nothing constructive to say
They had to answer back on the Cubs, Shelby Miller signing.
Just another reminder that anyone can be annointed as “closer” for a period of time and accumulate saves. There’s nothing magical about pitching the 9th. Often the 7th or 8th is harder. It just depends on which hitters you’re facing.
Who is Rowan Wick? I remember I had a friend called Rowan. Not the same person though.
Mr. Bean’s real name. Should make for comedic moments when he finally takes the hill…
Mr Bean as a pitcher would have made for an awesome skit!
Jah prolly a good 20 minutes watching him trying to get chsnged for the game, trying to fit his head through what’s actually an arm hole
Giants building a bullpen for 2028.
I am seeing a pattern of grabbing up all the available damaged closers from back in 2023 through 2025. Ono of might return to form, so gamble on Buster. Might have future dividends and won’t cost much.
34 years old next season, coming off of TJ surgery. What could go wrong
Wick must be damn happy to be getting a 2026 MLB paycheck… Stash that mother in the bank…
Maybe it’s more about the rehab than the cash. Maybe the odd player wants to rehab at the Giants facilities.
He’s gonna make the National League pay for what they did to his dog!
Oops. Jinx!
I was reading to find the first John Wick reference kiddos
Lots of question marks with him between the age,injury, and coming back from Japan. I like seeing guys come back and do well so wishing him the best in 2027 but this really is a tough signing to judge.
Just why? Buddies with someone high in the organization? Confused with John?
Just looking at then numbers there is nothing worthy of a MLB contract. But hey, good for Mr. Wick.
Good luck Rowan if he can get back to his forner self he breaking pitchers are filthy. I used to call his curveball Wick’d
Without any info on what the guarantee is, it’s hard to judge the “risk” here. I suspect that it’s extremely minimal.
Interesting signing, he averaged 96.2 MPH last year on his fastball which among all pitchers in NPB with 42 IP or more was fourth best in NPB.
NPB ball is slightly smaller and weighs slightly less; easy to spin too…
They killed his dog. League gonna pay
From what I gather, this guy is excommunicado at the Continental. Just sayin’.
So far so good- right now he’s on a motorcycle, fighting off some baddies with a Sabre. Hope he wins!
Update, he’s now on a horse, attempting to fend off an interloper w a bazooka. Hope he thrives!
Came to the comments solely for John Wick references.
He once killed three men in a bar with a pencil. A pencil!
Just imagine what he could do with a bag of sunflower seeds.
Did pencil have eraser? In case you nick the wrong guy
What!? Please don’t tell me there’s a Nick Wick out there.
For a team that’s trying to contend this season, the Giants really needed to do much more to address their bullpen. As of now it’s looking like a bottom five bullpen in baseball.
All good, worry not. Ryan Walker fixed his delivery; read that in a Giants fan blog.
Really ! 😂
He was a hitter when drafted, later converted to pitching.
Exciting stuff!
Mr. Bean on the back of a vespa fighting off baddies with a samurai sword and flamethrower or Keanu mugging for the camera and falling down while trying to restock the unmentionables display at Harrod’s: your choice
I wonder if he can still function as emergency catcher from when he used to don the tools of ignorance