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March 24, 2019 – The Giants acquired C Erik Kratz in a trade with the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for minor leaguer IF C. J. Hinojosa. This season at Giants home games, fans will also get a chance to commemorate an unforgettable moment in the team's history. Carlos Correa reportedly underwent his physical with the Mets yesterday, a necessary step toward finalizing their 12-year, $315MM deal. This is a typical, routine step in a new deal with a club, but it has taken on added significance in this case.
The Rays play in Chicago against the White Sox on Monday, which would complicate plans if the Giants wanted to do a day-night doubleheader on Sunday when there’s only a 10 percent chance of rain. The Giants have scored more than three runs just twice in seven games, so when Dereck Rodriguez gave up two doubles and two homers with two outs in the first, the buzz was taken out of the day. The lineup has made a habit of trying to stage comebacks late, but fighting back against good late-innings arms is no way to go through life. The park was filled with 58,000 fans as the Giants beat the Pirates 8-0.
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Matt Williams drove in five runs with homers in his first two at bats, and John Burkett pitched seven shutout innings. The new season is finally here, and there’s no better way to celebrate the return of Bay Area baseball than with great tickets for the 2023 San Francisco Giants Home Opener! Carlos Rodon, Joc Pederson, and the rest of Los Gigantes will take on the visiting Kansas City Royals early this April, and they can’t start the year off with a perfect home record without a little help from their biggest fans.
Please note that players may not be in the uniform of the correct team in these images. July 31, 2019 – The Giants acquired 2B Scooter Gennett and cash considerations in a trade with the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for a player to be named later. July 26, 2019 – The Giants traded LHP Derek Holland to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for cash considerations. February 13, 2019 – The Giants acquired RHP Trevor Gott in a trade with the Washington Nationals in exchange for cash considerations. January 5, 2019 – The Giants acquired IF/OF Breyvic Valera in a trade with the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for cash considerations.
Game log
SAN FRANCISCO — None of the Tampa Bay Rays wanted to see their old pal Evan Longoria in the batter's box with the game on the line in the ninth inning and two outs. On the strength of back-to-back home runs by Yandy Díaz and Kevin Kiermaier, the Rays took a 4-0 first inning lead and never looked back. For so many in the Giants’ organization, Friday’s festivities were the perfect way to put the sad and in some ways troubling recent past behind them. The Giants paid tribute to some of their franchise pillars at Friday’s home opener. Left-hander Sean Manaea agreed to a two-year deal with San Francisco, filling a gap in the 2023 starting rotation.
Bauer is eligible to pitch in 2023, but that doesn’t mean that he should. This morning while I was finishing writing this newsletter, the Giants reportedly agreed to a two-year, $36 million contract with Michael Conforto, who missed all of last season after having shoulder surgery. The deal, which was first reported by Bob Nightengale of USA Today, includes an opt out. A little while later, The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reported that San Francisco and lefty reliever Taylor Rogers agreed to a three-year, $33 million deal. Just look at all the quote tweets of Emma Baccellieri from when she shared Verducci’s story from Wednesday on Twitter.
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The team also has a plethora of special events scheduled, such as a "Game of Thrones" night and a Metallica night. Fans who arrived at the ballpark were treated to pregame festivities, including live music and a special ceremony honoring firefighters who risked their lives battling Northern California's historic wildfires. The first 40,000 fans in attendance at the home opener received an opening day calendar courtesy of Oracle. After the Giants nearly moved to Florida, more than 56,000 fans showed up for Opening Day as the Giants beat the Padres in the 11th inning.
Kerry has covered every level of baseball, from local preps to the Cape Cod League, and is now on a quest to determine which Major League city serves the best breakfast burrito. Only six games have ever been rained out in the history of the team’s home park, with the last coming April 6, 2018 when the Giants were set to host the Dodgers. Prior to that postponement, the Giants had not been rained out at home since April 12, 2006. San Francisco will also pay tribute to members of the organization who passed away this offseason. The Giants are planning to honor Hall of Fame first baseman Willie McCovey, former managing general partner Peter Magowan and broadcaster Hank Greenwald during Friday’s game.
"We are very happy. The Giants are back. The people are back. Everyone's back to work. It's a great day." Maybe more excited than the fans, businesses up and down the Embarcadero where it looked every bit like a sunny opening day. The Mets swooped in and signed Carlos Correa after his deal with the Giants fell apart. What happened will go down as the biggest undoing of a contract agreement in baseball history. In his final year of eligibility, the all-time leader in home runs for second basemen deserves to be enshrined. As the star of free agency undergoes his physical exam in New York, his agent is confident health will not be a problem this time around.
During pregame introductions, the crowd at Oracle Park stood and cheered for Bochy for 90 seconds as broadcaster Jon Miller allowed the ovation to continue long after Bochy motioned for Miller to move onto announcing the starting lineup. The Giants asked Bochy to throw out the first pitch to Pablo Sandoval, who barely snuck onto the roster at the end of the spring despite being one of his manager’s favorite players. During a 45 minute-ceremony before Friday’s 5-2 loss to the Rays, the Giants made attendees laugh and cry and finally had the chance to reignite the emotional connection between their devoted fans and a storied franchise. “So you have a whole week to be promoting in your games and with your fans that ‘Opening Day is coming, get your tickets.’ And we haven’t had that because we haven’t had games yet. Yes, even the final game of the regular season, when the Giants secured their 107th win and clinched the NL West, was not a sellout. June 10, 2019 – The Giants acquired OF Alex Dickerson in a trade with the San Diego Padres in exchange for minor leaguer RHP Franklin Van Gurp.
Yesterday, a decision was handed down that Dodgers right-hander Trevor Bauer would have his suspension reduced to 194 games. This leaves him reinstated ahead of the 2023 season, meaning that LA will be on the hook for most of his 2023 salary (Bauer’s pay has been docked for the first 50 games of the 2023 season, which cuts into his final payday considerably). The news leaves the Dodgers barely $100K under the first luxury tax threshold, per RosterResource, giving them essentially no breathing room if they wish to stay under the luxury tax, as has been rumored following their unusually quiet offseason. Such a move would represent a considerable shift from LA, who has been one of the league’s biggest spenders in recent years, but it wouldn’t be unheard of.
The Giants paid tribute with a moment of silence to late Hall of Famer Willie McCovey, who died Oct. 31, as well as former manager Frank Robinson, managing general partner Peter Magowan and former broadcaster Hank Greenwald. Broadcaster Mike Krukow read a speech prepared by Magowan before he died in January. Tommy Pham's leadoff single in the third gave him a Rays record 40-game on-base streak over two seasons, breaking Johnny Damon's previous mark accomplished in 2011. Rays reliever Adam Kolarek hit Brandon Crawford to load the bases with none out in the eighth. Diego Castillo came in one out later and got Giants newcomer Kevin Pillar to ground into a double play. Jose Alvarado finished for his third save, getting Longoria with two runners on.
That’s because the Giants pulled back from their 13-year, $350MM agreement with Correa after flagging something in his physical with them, which is what opened the door for the Mets to swoop in in the first place. With Correa’s physical completed, the Mets are reportedly expected to take roughly hours to review the information before the deal is finalized, meaning if all goes well, Correa should be a Met before Christmas. In the meantime, share this newsletter with your friends and family, and tell them to sign up at SI.com/newsletters. A long-time face of the franchise and a savior of baseball in San Francisco, Magowan died on January 27 at the age of 76. April 5 marked the Giants’ 20th home opener at the privately-funded ballpark he helped erect along the San Francisco waterfront, and as Krukow pointed out, Friday would have been Magowan’s 77th birthday.
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