CHICAGO \u2014 Kyle Harrison has a new role in his return to the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n
Harrison joined San Francisco\u2019s bullpen ahead of a three-game series at the Chicago Cubs. The left-hander, one of the team\u2019s top prospects, started each of his first 106 appearances as a professional ballplayer.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe\u2019ve told him to be ready to pitch,\u201d Giants manager Bob Melvin said before a 9-2 loss to the Cubs. \u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do here is, you know, you pitch well and you perform well then you work your way back, not necessarily in the role that he was in there. But in talking to him, he\u2019s going to embrace any opportunity that he gets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harrison, 23, was officially promoted after a 9-3 victory over Colorado. Right-hander Lou Trivino was designated for assignment.<\/p>\n
Harrison was selected by San Francisco in the third round of the 2020 amateur draft. He made 31 starts for the Giants over the previous two seasons, going 8-8 with a 4.47 ERA.<\/p>\n
He was in the mix for the fifth starter job in spring training, but he was slowed by an illness at the beginning of camp. He was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento on March 22.<\/p>\n
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Harrison had a dip in velocity, but Melvin said it looked as if he found his form in the minors. Harrison went 1-0 with a 3.46 ERA in six starts with the River Cats.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was sick for a while. You know, spring training was kind of uneven for him,\u201d Melvin said. \u201cNow you\u2019re looking up there and not seeing the numbers that you want to see, and I think he was very understanding and patient with the fact that it was probably going to take a little while for it to come back and the last few times out it has.\u201d<\/p>\n
The move puts a second lefty in San Francisco\u2019s bullpen, with Harrison joining Erik Miller.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old Trivino has a 5.84 ERA in 11 appearances with the Giants this season. He allowed two hits while pitching a scoreless inning against the Rockies.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou look around the league and there\u2019s going to be opportunities for Lou, and probably a better opportunity for Lou,\u201d Melvin said. \u201cWith the way our bullpen was pitching, he wasn\u2019t getting regular work. He wasn\u2019t pitching in the type of roles that he was used to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Kyle Harrison has a new role in his return to the San Francisco Giants. Harrison joined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,1865,24,167,162,2168,2169,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-5634","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-bob-melvin","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-colorado","12":"tag-giants","13":"tag-kyle-harrison","14":"tag-lou-trivino","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-san-francisco","17":"tag-san-francisco-giants","18":"tag-sanfrancisco","19":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","20":"tag-sf","21":"tag-sf-giants","22":"tag-sfgiants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634","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=5634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}