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Trevor McDonald is among the Giants pitchers who saw his 2026 season cut short by injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Charlie Riedel\/Associated Press<\/p>\n
Jose Butto\u2019s stint with the Giants ended when he was claimed off waivers\u00a0this past week by the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n
Gregory Bull\/Associated Press<\/p>\n
Infielder Osleivis Basabe, one of 71 players to appear with the Giants this year, was\u00a0outrighted to Triple-A Sacramento by the Giants on Oct. 29.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tony Gutierrez\/Associated Press<\/p>\n
Baseball\u2019s general managers meetings kick off Tuesday in Las Vegas in what could be one of the league\u2019s final organized events before a potential lockout.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That would begin on Dec. 1, if and when the current collective bargaining agreement expires and both the league\u2019s owners and MLB Players Association haven\u2019t reached an agreement on a new one. That appears imminent with no agreement in sight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 2027 season\u2019s status is uncertain, but business must go on until it can\u2019t anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Shortly after the Milwaukee Brewers won their first World Series late last month, the San Francisco Giants<\/a> cleared a significant logjam on their 40-man roster and saw an unexpected coaching staff departure.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Giants lost hitting coach Hunter Mense to the Kansas City Royals, where he\u2019ll serve as an assistant hitting coach, according to reports. Mense played under San Francisco manager Tony Vitello<\/a> at the University of Missouri 20-plus years ago and joined Vitello\u2019s staff last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n Despite offensive firepower in the lineup, the Giants\u2019 offense got off to a rough start in 2026 that essentially buried the team\u2019s chances to contend. The group recovered \u2014 starting with Rafael Devers<\/a>\u2019 outstanding run from May on that made him a Silver Slugger finalist \u2014 but ultimately didn\u2019t produce at a rate matching its talent.<\/p>\n Their .245 average ranked 10th in the league and their .400 slugging percentage ranked ninth. However it didn\u2019t translate to enough runs and they walked the fewest times of any NL team (449).\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The Giants could hire their third hitting coach in three years or promote from within. Assistant hitting coach Oscar Bernard has been with the organization since 2025.<\/p>\n There was plenty of movement on the roster to go along with the coaching staff shift.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Giants used an MLB record-tying 71 players this past season, though 17 have left the roster since Oct. 29.\u00a0<\/p>\n The day after the World Series ended, outfielder Grant McCray was claimed off waivers by the Seattle Mariners; the Washington Nationals claimed\u00a0right-hander Braxton Roxby. Pitchers Matt Gage and Jason Foley cleared waivers and were outrighted to Triple-A Sacramento along with infielder Osleivis Basabe and, the next day, catcher Andrew Knizner.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Giants traded infielder Nate Furman to the Nationals for left-hander Tony Neubeck.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Days later, pitchers Jose Butto and\u00a0Duncan Davitt, along with position players Brett Harris, Shay Whitcomb and Zach Morgan, were claimed off waivers by various teams. Pitcher JT Brubaker became a free agent.<\/p>\n Butto, picked up by the Texas Rangers, is perhaps the biggest surprise as he was once seen as a back-end bullpen mainstay, but missed a majority of the season after surgery to remove a blood clot. The Cincinnati Reds claimed Davitt, Philadelphia Phillies took Harris and Whitcomb and Baltimore claimed Morgan.<\/p>\n Tristan Beck, with the organization since he was traded from Atlanta in 2019, was released and signed a contract with the KBO\u2019s LG Twins, the team announced. The Giants outrighted pitchers Joel Kuhnel and Seth Lonsway off the roster to Triple-A Sacramento, and left-hander Reiver Sanmartin was designated for assignment.<\/p>\n On Friday, the Giants traded Sanmartin to the Washington Nationals for 23-year-old right-hander Robert Cranz. Cranz has strikeout upside, fanning 128 over 95\u2154 minor-league innings since he was drafted out of Oklahoma State in 2024, but hit a snag once promoted to Triple-A when he allowed 17 runs over 11\u2154 innings.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n A majority of those who filtered through the roster were there as a result of the many injuries toward the latter half of the year to key players. Devers, Matt Chapman<\/a> and Casey Schmitt<\/a> were among the position players to undergo season-ending surgery while the pitching staff took significant hits throughout.\u00a0<\/p>\n Young pitchers Hayden Birdsong, Carson Whisenhunt, Blade Tidwell and Trevor McDonald underwent Tommy John surgery during the season, cutting into the pitching depth and development in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trevor McDonald is among the Giants pitchers who saw his 2026 season cut short by injury.\u00a0 Charlie Riedel\/Associated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,185],"class_list":["post-848601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-giants","tag-baseball","tag-giants","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfranciscogiants","tag-sf","tag-sf-giants","tag-sfgiants","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117580856213826616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848601","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=848601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
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