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Andrew Baggarly

Andrew Baggarly

Senior Writer at The Athletic

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J.D. Davis released, loses most of his $6.9 million salary after Giants exercise a loophole - The...

players scored what they considered a long-sought victory when the last Collective Bargaining Agreement was ratified prior to the 2022 season. For the first time, one-year contracts for arbitration-eligible players — encompassing most players with greater than 2 1/2 and fewer than six years of service time — would be fully guaranteed. But there was a loophole. And it didn’t take long for a team to exploit it. The were that team. Third baseman J.D. Davis was the ensnared party. In a dramatic rev…
10 months ago
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Giants Mailbagg: Assessing the J.D. Davis decision, Brandon Crawfor...

Welcome to this spring training edition of the Giants Mailbagg. Thanks to everyone who submitted questions. As you might expect, the majority of them were about about the end of his tenure with the organization and , who will be paid just 16 percent of the $6.9 million he had been awarded in arbitration a month earlier. I tried to pick questions that were the most representative. Apologies if I didn’t get to yours. We’ll have plenty of future Mailbaggs so I guarantee you’ll have another chance…
9 months ago
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Giants Opening Day roster projection: A lot rests on San Francisco'...

Predicting the San Francisco Giants’ roster two weeks before Opening Day is like trying to fill out a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket. It’s virtually impossible to be 100 percent accurate. There will be upsets. There will be injuries. There will be unforeseen circumstances. Didn’t have Saint Peter’s or Valparaiso crashing the Sweet 16? Don’t feel bad. Nobody had and starting as the Giants’ Opening Day corner outfielders in 2019, either. Advertisement We’re a long time removed from that first f…
9 months ago
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The Giants sign Blake Snell to complete an ambitious offseason — an...

When the introduced their new manager last October, Bob Melvin with stories about his past connection to the organization, his sense of wonder whenever he walked into the early-afternoon emptiness of their waterfront ballpark, and the times when he’d sneak past security to slide down the Coke bottle for good luck. That is how the offseason began. This is how it ended Monday: with yet another thrilling free-agent addition, a stomach-dropping total payroll investment of almost $400 million in ne…
9 months ago
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The Giants have a date to debut Blake Snell, but who can they trust...

LOS ANGELES — The finally have a date circled to introduce . The left-hander is scheduled to make his season debut Monday against the on the shores of McCovey Cove. It’s a softer landing than you might expect for the pitcher who won the National League Cy Young Award last season. The Giants would’ve loved to have Snell on the mound Wednesday at Dodger Stadium against an explosive lineup that he held to a .128 average in four starts last season for the . Technically, they will. But his mound ac…
9 months ago
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Shohei Ohtani ‘very relieved’ after crushing first home run as a Do...

LOS ANGELES — had come up to the plate 40 times in his brief career, and had yet to hit a home run. He’d yet to sap a stadium of its breath, only to hear it explode as a ball zips well over a wall. His swing. The crack of his bat. That sound has been heard many, many times. His homers captivate a ballpark in a way that others simply cannot. Advertisement This homer-less drought was starting to become uncomfortably long for a slugger who homered once every 13.6 plate appearances in his MVP camp…
9 months ago
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Giants squeak out victory on Logan Webb's day, await Blake Snell's ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The squandered last season. He finished second in National League Cy Young Award balloting. He led the major leagues with 216 innings. He matched the New York Yankees’ for the most quality starts (24) and highest quality-start rate (73 percent). He generated 5.7 bWAR, which made him the third most valuable starting pitcher in the majors. It also made him the most valuable player on the Giants’ roster by a factor of two. Advertisement The Giants went 15-18 in his starts. Their…
9 months ago
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2 SF Giants takeaways: Bob Melvin’s misstep and Joc Pederson’s retu...

SAN FRANCISCO — Bob Melvin has managed 2,964 major-league games over 21 seasons. He’s made thousands upon thousands of pitching changes. He’d never signaled to the bullpen, walked out to the mound and been surprised to see a reliever he didn’t anticipate walking through the gate. Until last Monday in Miami. Advertisement Melvin wanted closer in the eighth inning for a four-out save. He got left-hander instead. And then Melvin got a whole lot of grace from plate umpire Laz Diaz, who took enough…
8 months ago
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It's another Yastrzemski homer at Fenway Park as Giants avoid getti...

BOSTON — A legend returned to Fenway Park on Thursday morning. But Carl Yastrzemski did not wave to the crowd. He did not soak up applause. He didn’t even stay for the first pitch. He has not mingled or shaken hands for years. He was there to visit his grandson, outfielder , before the played the final game of their three-game interleague series here. At just past 11 a.m. the elder Yaz appeared as a blur in the visitors clubhouse, his snow-white hair and bowed back contrasting how fast he doubl…
8 months ago
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Giants lose another catcher in miserable and wet loss to Phillies -...

PHILADELPHIA — The were obligated to do the responsible thing Saturday afternoon. Catcher departed in the second inning the previous night because of blurred vision after taking a foul tip off the mask. Bailey woke up with similar symptoms Saturday morning. Even if he were clear-eyed and alert, it probably wouldn’t have mattered. The scientific evidence is unambiguous about concussions, especially the exponential damage caused by repeated blows to the head in short succession. There is no grit…
8 months ago
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Frustration abounds for Giants despite Mason Black's encouraging de...

PHILADELPHIA — set a pre-dawn wake-up call for Sunday morning. His girlfriend, Bridget Casey, had entered the Broad Street Run, a 10-mile straight shot that started at 7:30 a.m., cut through Center City, passed underneath the gaze of the William Penn statue atop City Hall, skirted Passyunk Square, continued past Citizens Bank Park and ended at Navy Yard on the banks of the Delaware River. Advertisement “I’m just happy she finished 10 miles,” Black said. “I can’t do that.” Black’s distance speci…
8 months ago