{"id":356761,"date":"2025-10-02T09:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/356761\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:43:16","slug":"sf-giants-bryce-eldridge-set-for-wrist-surgery-to-remove-bone-spur-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/356761\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Giants’ Bryce Eldridge set for wrist surgery to remove bone spur"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO \u2014\u00a0Giants rookie first baseman Bryce Eldridge<\/a> will have surgery to remove a bone spur in his left wrist, the Giants announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The team expects Eldridge to need about eight weeks of rehab, so Eldridge will likely be ready for the beginning of spring training.\u00a0 The surgery will be performed by Dr. Steven Shin in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Eldridge, 20, missed the beginning of the minor-league season due to a left wrist injury<\/a> and didn\u2019t make his debut with Double-A Richmond until April 22. The Giants\u2019 top prospect was called up to Triple-A Sacramento in June, then promoted to the majors in mid-September with 13 games remaining in the regular season.<\/p>\n

Over 10 games with San Francisco, Eldridge went 3-for-28 (.107) with seven walks. Despite minimal offensive production, Eldridge impressed during his brief time<\/a> with the Giants by making consistently hard contact and minimizing his chase rate.<\/p>\n

Eldridge, who hit 54 homers over 249 games in the minors before his promotion, could open next season as the Giants\u2019 starting first baseman. Buster Posey and Zack Minasian iterated during Wednesday\u2019s end-of-season press conference that the team will wait until spring training to determine whether Eldridge, a first-round pick in the 2023 MLB draft, or Rafael Devers will get the bulk of playing time at first<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ll try to stay open-minded,\u201d said Minasian, the team\u2019s general manager. \u201cWe\u2019ll go into spring training with the idea of what\u2019s best for the Giants and what\u2019s best for Bryce. Hopefully for him, the offseason focus is just getting healthy, getting that wrist back to 100 percent, come to spring training ready to go and we\u2019ll see where it goes and what the options are for us. I think he did a great job while he was here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLike Zack said, I think we don\u2019t get too far ahead of that one,\u201d said Posey, the team\u2019s president of baseball operations. \u201cI thought Bryce \u2014 I was really impressed. I thought he looked really good at first. I know he\u2019s been working his tail off to improve his defense. I thought Devers got more comfortable at first. It\u2019s a good problem to have, to have two guys that you\u2019re really excited about that are left-handed power bats.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Devers and Eldridge in the mix, it\u2019s difficult to imagine the Giants having room on their roster for either Wilmer Flores and Dominic Smith, both of whom are free agents. Minasian said he wouldn\u2019t \u201cclose the door\u201d on Smith, citing his performance and prior experience in the outfield.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see what the Giants prioritize next spring when determining whether the 20-year-old Eldridge or 28-year-old Devers (they both celebrate birthdays this month) get more playing time at first base.<\/p>\n

Eldridge, at least statistically, made significant strides defensively in his second full season at first base. After making 18 errors over 100 minor-league games in \u201924, Eldridge only committed nine errors over 96 combined games in the majors and minors in \u201925. Along with his towering six-foot-seven frame, Eldridge, a former two-way player<\/a>, has an above-average arm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I could go out and play an above-average first base in the big leagues. That\u2019s how I feel,\u201d Eldridge said before his debut in September. \u201cI think a lot of people downplay, maybe not the work I\u2019ve done on defense, but how well I think I\u2019ve done on defense. I think I\u2019ve had a great year over there.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything that was advertised is what we\u2019re seeing,\u201d Devers said of Eldridge through team interpreter Erwin Higueros. \u201cHe\u2019s really good. He has a lot of power. He\u2019s been playing really good first base. You look at the numbers in the minor leagues, they will translate to this level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Devers, for his part, looked good at first base despite having no prior experience to playing the position. He went through his share of growing pains<\/a> but finished the season worth +2 defensive runs saved (but -1 outs above average) over 29 games.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing has been discussed yet, but I\u2019m ready to play anywhere they want me to (play),\u201d Devers said through team interpreter Erwin Higueros. \u201cThat\u2019s not my decision. That\u2019s management\u2019s decision. They\u2019re going to decide where I play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally Published: October 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014\u00a0Giants rookie first baseman Bryce Eldridge will have surgery to remove a bone spur in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,5776,2178,162,5775,853,4,5777,378,5778,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-356761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-giants","12":"tag-inside-sports","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-peninsula","16":"tag-san-francisco","17":"tag-san-francisco-county","18":"tag-san-francisco-giants","19":"tag-sanfrancisco","20":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","21":"tag-sf","22":"tag-sf-giants","23":"tag-sfgiants","24":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115303927312654954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356761","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=356761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}