How Giants provided Luis Matos ‘reality check,’ per Mike Krukow
August 25, 2025
How Giants provided Luis Matos ‘reality check,’ per Mike Krukow
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“For him to get that confidence [playing winter ball in the Dominican Republic], I expected more,” Krukow added. “I expected once he got hot earlier and started to put things together, I thought, ‘OK, here he goes.’ And then all of a sudden, the same old thing that’s plagued him, his inability to stay in the strike zone, his lack of discipline identifying strikes and good pitches to hit, sent him back down.
“But I think what they did, about a month ago, think back, when Drew Gilbert came up and they brought Tyler Fitzgerald back [in right field] … That was a massive head-slap to Luis Matos. That’s how you motivate from the front office to a player in the minor leagues. You move somebody right past him. And you talk about a reality check, it absolutely happened to Matos.”
Let’s see how the next month goes.
How many times has this Mofo been slapped on the head? Banged on the head? Upper cutted to the head? And just plain bitch slapped to the head?
I was thinking about this earlier today, did Matos get slapped with the infinite option card? He’s gotta be running out of options, right?
Just play him. Let him make the decision. Quit kicking the can.
He could just not be any good. 🤷🏽♂️ We don’t have the best track record at developing good baseball players. In fact, Matos looks like just another in a long line of top SF prospects who wouldn’t make another org’s top 20. We’ll see next season, if he gets any playing time at all.
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“For him to get that confidence [playing winter ball in the Dominican Republic], I expected more,” Krukow added. “I expected once he got hot earlier and started to put things together, I thought, ‘OK, here he goes.’ And then all of a sudden, the same old thing that’s plagued him, his inability to stay in the strike zone, his lack of discipline identifying strikes and good pitches to hit, sent him back down.
“But I think what they did, about a month ago, think back, when Drew Gilbert came up and they brought Tyler Fitzgerald back [in right field] … That was a massive head-slap to Luis Matos. That’s how you motivate from the front office to a player in the minor leagues. You move somebody right past him. And you talk about a reality check, it absolutely happened to Matos.”
Let’s see how the next month goes.
How many times has this Mofo been slapped on the head? Banged on the head? Upper cutted to the head? And just plain bitch slapped to the head?
I was thinking about this earlier today, did Matos get slapped with the infinite option card? He’s gotta be running out of options, right?
Just play him. Let him make the decision. Quit kicking the can.
He could just not be any good. 🤷🏽♂️ We don’t have the best track record at developing good baseball players. In fact, Matos looks like just another in a long line of top SF prospects who wouldn’t make another org’s top 20. We’ll see next season, if he gets any playing time at all.