It may not be an excellent yr, however the San Francisco Giants are nonetheless gunning for it.
Jeff Passan of ESPN stories Monday that the Giants have traded for righty bat A.J. Pollock. San Francisco is buying Pollock and utility participant Mark Mathias from the Seattle Mariners.
Pollock, a 35-year-old outfielder, is properly accustomed to the NL West. He spent the primary seven seasons of his profession with the Arizona Diamondbacks (making an All-Star workforce in 2015) after which the subsequent three years with the Los Angeles Dodgers (successful the World Collection in 2020.)
After all, that every one looks as if a good distance off lately given Pollock’s woeful 2023 season to date. He had been a skunk on the plate for Seattle, hitting .173 with an OPS+ of—cowl your eyes, youngsters—53.
However the rationale for the Giants is that they want heat our bodies within the outfield with Mike Yastrzemski nursing a hamstring problem and Mitch Haniger nonetheless on the IL with a forearm harm. Even when Pollock simply offers them a couple of weeks of satisfactory manufacturing, that might be large with San Francisco solely two video games again of the NL West lead (at the moment occupying the primary Wild Card spot.)
In the meantime, the Mariners look like mashing the promote button. They traded nearer Paul Sewald to Arizona earlier within the day on Monday and will ship some extra large names packing earlier than Tuesday’s deadline.
