{"id":578971,"date":"2026-02-18T09:01:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/578971\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:01:57","slug":"dusty-bakers-son-famous-for-2002-giants-world-series-incident-signs-white-sox-contract-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/578971\/","title":{"rendered":"Dusty Baker&#8217;s son famous for 2002 Giants World Series incident signs White Sox contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/chicago-white-sox\/news\/dusty-bakers-son-2002-giants-world-series-white-sox\/b780c035bbd77d8ef8a71854?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dusty Baker&#039;s son famous for 2002 Giants World Series incident signs White Sox contract;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dusty Baker&#8217;s son famous for 2002 Giants World Series incident signs White Sox contract<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary manager Dusty Baker&#8217;s son, second baseman Darren Baker, has signed a minor league contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/chicago-white-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago White Sox;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago White Sox<\/a>, reports USA Today&#8217;s Bob Nightengale.<\/p>\n<p>The younger Baker has nine Major League games under his belt, recording seven hits in 14 plate appearances with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/washington-nationals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Washington Nationals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Washington Nationals<\/a> in 2024. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/washington-nationals\/news\/future-hall-famer-son-requests-release-washington-nationals-contract\/b51099789ff92af66f5704ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:27-year-old stole 26 bases in 32 attempts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">27-year-old stole 26 bases in 32 attempts<\/a> in 107 games last season at Triple-A Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Nightengale added that Baker is likely to open the season at Triple-A Charlotte with the White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Baker&#8217;s 2002 World Series incident<\/p>\n<p>Darren Baker was just three years old when he served as a batboy for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Francisco Giants;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">San Francisco Giants<\/a> in the 2002 World Series against the Anaheim Angels.<\/p>\n<p>In Game 5 of that year&#8217;s Fall Classic, Giants first baseman J.T. Snow had to run out onto the field to grab Baker from harm&#8217;s way while he retrieved a bat at an inopportune time.<\/p>\n<p>Dusty will manage Team Nicaragua at the 2026 World Baseball Classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/houston-astros\/news\/dusty-baker-astros-manager-no-longer-team\/6ee0388e1c5ca05579a99f73\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:after retiring from MLB as a manager;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">after retiring from MLB as a manager<\/a> following the 2023 season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Astros;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Houston Astros<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dusty Baker&#8217;s son famous for 2002 Giants World Series incident signs White Sox contract originally appeared on The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[61567,10105,5,2146,138,49,2561,44549,14843,54,4,66,71,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-578971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-2002-world-series","9":"tag-anaheim-angels","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-bob-nightengale","12":"tag-chicago","13":"tag-chicago-white-sox","14":"tag-chicagowhitesox","15":"tag-darren-baker","16":"tag-dusty-baker","17":"tag-houston-astros","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-san-francisco-giants","20":"tag-washington-nationals","21":"tag-white-sox","22":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116090827134683952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578971","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=578971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}