{"id":126675,"date":"2025-06-24T04:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T04:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/126675\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T04:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T04:10:11","slug":"giants-clear-space-for-justin-verlander-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/126675\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants clear space for Justin Verlander move"},"content":{"rendered":"

The post Giants clear space for Justin Verlander move<\/a> appeared first on ClutchPoints<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Giants<\/a> are set to take on the Miami Marlins in The Bay on Tuesday for a three-game set. Ahead of the game on Tuesday, the Giants made an interesting move that may just be short-term.<\/p>\n

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Future MLB Hall of Famer Justin Verlander<\/a> is coming back off the Paternity List<\/a>, and he will start Tuesday\u2019s game against The Fish. The right-hander is still looking for his first win as a Giant. He is currently 0-4 with a 4.45 ERA and has not really had any success yet this season. The Giants are 44-34 this season and are fighting for a playoff spot in the National League. They even have a chance to win the NL West if they continue to play at the rate at which they are. SF needs a healthy Verlander to help reach that goal.<\/p>\n

The corresponding move is a questionable one, but one that may just be short-term. Infielder Tyler Fitzgerald is being sent back down to Triple-A to free up a roster spot for Verlander\u2019s return. The Giants decided on keeping Christian Koss over Fitzgerald, despite Fitzgerald coming off an incredible rookie season. Fitzgerald is not having a good season and may want to work on some things in Triple-A to benefit him when he does return to the big leagues.<\/p>\n

On the year, the infielder has just two homers and 10 RBIS with an average of just .230. He hit 15 homers with a .280 average last season in his breakout year.<\/p>\n

SF has a crowded infield. One of those players had to go down, and the Giants feel that Fitzgerald can benefit from extra at-bats in the minors. Adding superstar Rafael Devers is massive, and he could start playing first base<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Brett Wisley and Dominic Smith are left-handed bats, while Koss and Casey Schmidt are right-handed bats who have seen a lot of success this season. Willy Adames and Wilmer Flores are not going anywhere anytime soon. It shouldn\u2019t be long until Fitz is back with the Giants as they make a push towards the postseason.<\/p>\n

Related: Red Sox\u2019s Alex Cora shares feelings about Rafael Devers after Giants series<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Giants\u2019 Sean Hjelle breaks silence on wife\u2019s abuse allegations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The post Giants clear space for Justin Verlander move appeared first on ClutchPoints. The San Francisco Giants are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[26444,5,7885,18701,162,388,58,4,505,863,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,852,1739,103,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-126675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-ahead-of-the-game","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-christian-koss","11":"tag-dominic-smith","12":"tag-giants","13":"tag-justin-verlander","14":"tag-miami-marlins","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-national-league","17":"tag-rafael-devers","18":"tag-san-francisco","19":"tag-san-francisco-giants","20":"tag-sanfrancisco","21":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","22":"tag-sf","23":"tag-sf-giants","24":"tag-sfgiants","25":"tag-the-giants","26":"tag-tyler-fitzgerald","27":"tag-willy-adames","28":"tag-wilmer-flores"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114736386993714823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}