{"id":539220,"date":"2026-01-26T18:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/539220\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T18:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:31:12","slug":"giants-sign-harrison-bader-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/539220\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants Sign Harrison Bader &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Giants and free agent outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/baderha01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-26_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Harrison Bader<\/a> are in agreement on a two-year contract, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/2015851279193440586\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. The deal between San Francisco and Bader, a client of Vayner Sports, is still pending completion of a physical.<\/p>\n<p>Bader, 31, has been a free agent for three consecutive offseasons but now lands the multi-year deal that\u2019s previously eluded him. He signed one-year deals with the Mets and Twins, respectively, over the past two winters. Bader turned in a career-best performance in Minnesota and was red hot for the Phillies down the stretch after joining them in a deadline swap, and the market has rewarded that strong 2025 performance.<\/p>\n<p>In 501 plate appearances between Minnesota and Philadelphia last year, Bader slashed .277\/.347\/.449 with 17 homers, 24 doubles, a triple and 11 steals (albeit in 18 attempts). His 7.8% walk rate was the second-best he\u2019s posted in a 162-game season, though 2025\u2019s bloated 27.1% strikeout rate was also his worst full-season mark since 2019. Much of Bader\u2019s success can be attributed to an increase in playing time and a hefty .359 average on balls in play, but it bears mentioning that his 10.2% barrel rate and 40.3% hard-hit rate were personal bests in a full big league season.<\/p>\n<p>Strong as last year\u2019s performance was \u2014 22% better than league-average, by measure of wRC+ \u2014 offense has never been Bader\u2019s calling card. He\u2019s been clearly above average in four of his nine MLB campaigns, but on the whole, Bader is a .247\/.313\/.401 hitter in a bit more than 3000 career plate appearances, which just barely shy of average. His glovework, however, is among the best in all of baseball, regardless of position.<\/p>\n<p>Bader has played 5925 innings of center field defense in his career and been credited with a gaudy 51 Defensive Runs Saved and 67 Outs Above Average. He played more left field than center field in Minnesota, largely in deference to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/buxtoby01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-26_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Byron Buxton<\/a>, and notched positive marks in both DRS (7) and OAA (3) through 496 frames.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants and free agent outfielder Harrison Bader are in agreement on a two-year contract, reports Ken Rosenthal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,365,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-539220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-harrison-bader","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115962831628831623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539220","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=539220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}