{"id":548815,"date":"2026-02-01T08:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/548815\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T08:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:03:31","slug":"luis-arraez-signs-with-giants-three-time-batting-champ-joins-san-francisco-as-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/548815\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Arraez signs with Giants: Three-time batting champ joins San Francisco as free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The San Francisco Giants<\/a> have agreed to terms on a one-year pact with free-agent infielder Luis Arraez<\/a>, according to ESPN<\/a>. Arraez is expected to earn $12 million and play second base, per El Extrabase<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arraez, 28, is a three-time All-Star honoree and Batting Title winner. Over the past three seasons, he’s batted .319\/.355\/.416 (111 OPS+) with seven home runs and eight stolen bases on average. Last year, he hit .292\/.327\/.392 (99 OPS+) while striking out in a career-low 3.1% of his plate appearances.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, Arraez’s unidimensional offensive game and lack of true defensive or positional value landed him at No. 44 on CBS Sports’ offseason rankings of the winter’s top 50 free agents<\/a>. Here’s part of what we wrote at the time:<\/p>\n

Arraez is a unidimensional player. He doesn’t walk or run often and he can’t field or slug. He’s a pure singles merchant who excels at putting the pine on the cowhide, to the extent that he connected on nearly 95% of his swings. That’s an incredible skill, it’s just not one that’s profitable anymore for teams or individual players. Of course, it only takes one club with an outmoded perspective — or a half-understanding of why the Blue Jays<\/a> enjoyed so much success this season — for Arraez to land a more lucrative deal than expected.<\/p>\n

Arraez joins a Giants team that went 81-81 last season while giving at least 40 second-base appearances to Tyler Fitzgerald<\/a>, Casey Schmitt<\/a>, and Christian Koss<\/a>. Collectively, San Francisco’s second basemen hit .217\/.273\/.343 with 14 home runs. Arraez should be an upgrade at the plate. The question, then, is how large the advantage will remain when defense is factored into the equation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The San Francisco Giants have agreed to terms on a one-year pact with free-agent infielder Luis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,9406,7885,85,72384,72385,4,59271,72386,18,66,70,1739],"class_list":["post-548815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-casey-schmitt","tag-christian-koss","tag-luis-arraez","tag-luis-arraez-giants","tag-luis-arraez-padres","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency-rumors","tag-mlb-free-agency-updates","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-tyler-fitzgerald"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115994336686264451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548815","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=548815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}