{"id":615251,"date":"2026-03-09T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/615251\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:07:11","slug":"giants-to-re-sign-joey-lucchesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/615251\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants To Re-Sign Joey Lucchesi"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Giants have agreed to bring left-hander Joey Lucchesi<\/a> back on a minor league deal, Jon Heyman of the New York Post reports<\/a>. The CAA client will head to big league camp and be paid $1.55MM if he makes the roster. He has another $300K available via incentives.<\/p>\n

Whether the Lucchesi signing was already in the works when fellow left-hander Reiver Sanmartin<\/a> suffered an injury or whether this signing comes in response to that injury isn\u2019t clear. However, via Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>, Sanmartin\u2019s recent MRI revealed a severe hip flexor strain that\u2019s expected to sideline him for at least three months. Sanmartin, Erik Miller<\/a> and Matt Gage<\/a> were the only left-handed relief options on the Giants\u2019 40-man roster, and Miller has been slowed by a back injury in camp.<\/p>\n

Lucchesi, 32, was effective for the Giants in a middle relief role last season. He appeared in 38 games and tossed 38 1\/3 innings of 3.76 ERA ball. His 18.8% strikeout rate was well below average, but Lucchesi\u2019s 7.3% walk rate was strong and his 53% ground-ball rate was excellent. In 433 big league innings between the Padres, Mets and Giants, Lucchesi has a 4.07 ERA with roughly average strikeout, walk and ground-ball rates. He worked primarily as a starter before last year\u2019s bullpen success. The Giants chose to non-tender him in November.<\/p>\n

Sanmartin, 29, came to the Giants via waiver claim back in November. He\u2019d spent his entire big league career with the Reds, appearing in parts of four seasons from 2021-25. In that time, Sanmartin pitched to a 5.66 ERA with plenty of grounders (53.6%) but a strikeout rate, walk rate and average fastball that were all worse than league average.<\/p>\n

Despite that modest track record, Sanmartin was one of the Giants\u2019 only bullpen additions of the offseason. San Francisco signed relievers Jason Foley<\/a>, Sam Hentges<\/a> and Rowan Wick<\/a> to major league deals knowing none were likely to be healthy for Opening Day. Sanmartin was claimed off waivers, and the Giants signed Michael Fulmer<\/a> to a minor league deal. Outside of that, their bullpen had gone largely untouched this winter \u2014 despite trading Camilo Doval<\/a> and Tyler Rogers<\/a> back in July and losing Randy Rodriguez<\/a> to Tommy John surgery in September.<\/p>\n

Assuming the Lucchesi deal is finalized soon, he should have enough time to build up and be a candidate to break camp in a similar single-inning relief role to the one he had last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants have agreed to bring left-hander Joey Lucchesi back on a minor league deal, Jon Heyman of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,24039,4,44201],"class_list":{"0":"post-615251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-joey-lucchesi","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-reiver-sanmartin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116200318453471099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615251","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=615251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}