{"id":15182,"date":"2025-05-10T05:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T05:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/15182\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T05:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T05:29:08","slug":"lou-trivino-elects-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/15182\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou Trivino Elects Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lou Trivino<\/a> elected free agency after going unclaimed on waivers, relays<\/a> Susan Slusser of The San Francisco Chronicle. He\u2019d been designated for assignment by the Giants when they recalled Kyle Harrison<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n

Trivino, a former closer of Bob Melvin\u2019s in Oakland, signed a minor league deal with the Giants in February. He made the team out of Spring Training and pitched 11 times over the season\u2019s first few weeks. The overall results weren\u2019t great. He allowed eight runs on 11 hits and four walks over 12 1\/3 innings. That said, the bulk of the damage came in one five-run drubbing at the hands of the Brewers. Trivino held the opposition scoreless in eight of his other 10 appearances.<\/p>\n

This marked the veteran righty\u2019s first big league work in two years, as he spent the 2023-24 campaigns on the Yankees\u2019 injured list. Trivino missed the \u201923 season due to an elbow injury that required Tommy John surgery. He tried to rehab in time to contribute to New York\u2019s playoff run late last year. Shoulder discomfort shut down his rehab assignment, though, and the Yankees made the easy call to decline a $5MM option.<\/p>\n

Trivino\u2019s stuff hasn\u2019t been quite as crisp as it was before the surgery. He averaged 94.9 MPH on his sinker with the Giants, down a tick from his 95.8 MPH average from the \u201922 season. It\u2019s not a dramatic dip, but his ground-ball rate was down and he surrendered four home runs in the early going. While it\u2019s conceivable that he could find an immediate MLB roster spot as a free agent, he might wind up taking another minor league deal as he searches for a more extended opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lou Trivino elected free agency after going unclaimed on waivers, relays Susan Slusser of The San Francisco Chronicle.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,2169,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-15182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-lou-trivino","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114481893495608760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182","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=15182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}