The Giants made some minor league free agent signings this week. Let's get to know them a bit better:
Sam Long LHP. DOB: 7/8/1995. 6'0", 180 lbs.
2019 A(White Sox): 8-5, 97.0 IP, 10.39 K/9, 2.60 BB/9.
Another in a long line of LHP signings by FZ. Long had a distinguished college career at Sacramento St and was drafted in round 18 of the 2016 draft by the Rays. He put up excellent numbers in 2019 but at a low level for his age. As with most minor leaguers now, we have no recent data to analyze. Long is assigned to the AAA Sacramento roster.
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Jason Krizan OF. DOB: 6/28/1989. B-L, T-R. 6'0", 185 lbs.
2019 AA(Mets): .257/.335/.443, 22 2B, 12 HR, 10.4 BB%, 9.8 K%, 367 PA.
2019 AAA(Mets): .365/.467/.603, 9 2B, 2 HR, 15.8 BB%, 11.8 K%, 76 PA.
Krizan is a grizzled minor league veteran who was drafted in round 8, 2011 by the Tigers. He has spent parts of 5 seasons in AAA not counting 2020.
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Daniel Alvarez RHP. DOB: 6/28/1996. 6'2", 190 lbs.
2019 AA(Yankees): 7-2, 2.31, 58.1 IP, 11.7 K/9, 3.5 BB/9, 21 Saves.
Alvarez was an IFA signed out of Venezuela by the Yankees and made is pro debut way back in 2014, but is still just 24 yo. He put up nice numbers as the Closer for the AA Trenton Thunder in 2019.
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Andy Sugilio OF/3B/SS. DOB: 10/26/1996. B-L, T-R. 6'2", 170 lbs.
2019 A+(Reds): .294/.331/.360, 11 2B, 5 3B, 3 HR, 23 SB, 485 PA.
Thin, weak hitting OF whose speed is comped to Billy Hamilton. Some analysts think he could turn his career around with a total revamping of his swing. If so, the Giants coaching and development staff seems like the ticket. Gotta say, FZ seems to have a fascination with top-end speed at the fringes of his roster building strategy.
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There were many new minor league free agents created yesterday as teams approached the deadline for protecting minor leaguers eligible for the Rule 5 Draft by adding them to the 40 man roster. No big surprises for the Giants as they dropped Chris Shaw 1B/OF, Aramis Garcia C and Jordan Humphreys RHP. In case you are wondering who Jordan Humphreys is, he was acquired from the Mets for OF Billy Hamilton.
These moves plus 2 open roster spots allowed the Giants to add Alexander Canario OF, Kervin Castro RHP, Camilo Doval RHP and Gregory Santos RHP to the 4 man roster as well as Jason Vosler IF who had previously agreed to a MLB contract. The main surprise here is keeping Kervin Castro over Tyler Cyr RHP as Cyr seems much closer to helping at the MLB level.
I see the Jon Lester rumors have started to circle again. That seems to happen every time he is a free agent. Any thoughts on the Giants signing Lester?
ReplyDeleteDecent bounceback candidate. If the Giants coaches see something they can fix, go for it. Just don't pay a whole lot!
DeleteLooking at Lester's 2020 stats, his average FB velocity dipped under 90 MPH and all of his pitches lost effectiveness so it will take more than just pitch selection to turn that around.
DeleteLooks like Snell may be available for a trade and we may have the depth in our minors at the OF position to do something if we wanted to. Ramos or Bishop too much to include in some package? Rays are going to want at least a couple of high level prospects to do a deal...Ramos/Bishop, Bailey, Hjelle...would you do that?
ReplyDeleteSnell puts up dominant numbers and has 3 years left on a fairly team-friendly contract. On the other hand, he averages less than 5 innings per start. That's comparable to Drew Smyly who the Giants did not want to give a similar contract to. So no, I would probably not want the Giant to spend their prospect capital on Blake Snell.
DeleteA lot of Snell's 5-inning stints is the Rays' commitment to not going thru the l/u a third time.
DeleteIf Atlanta and TB made comparable offers to Morton, he chose to leave his Bradenton home across the bridge from the ballpark and kiss Cash's hooks goodbye.
Still, why would the Giants spend prospect capital on a pitcher who's never been more than a five and dive guy regardless of the reason?
DeleteWell, it appears as if Shaw will be the Orioles attempt at payback for Yaz. Albeit a payback that is also three years younger than Yaz.
ReplyDeleteGarcia landed in Texas.
In his third AAA season, Chris Shaw has a 6.5 BB% and a 25.2 K% while in his third AAA season, YtY had a 11.8 BB% and a 20.1 K%. Both ratios were very close to their minor league career averages.
DeleteI think that's about all you need to know about the chances of Shaw having a Yaz-like MLB career.