The Giants signed right-hander Miguel Diaz to a minor league contract again in late December, as per Diaz’s MLB.com profile web page. The 30-year-old will presumably even be invited to the Giants’ massive league Spring Coaching camp.
Except for the pandemic-shortened 2020 marketing campaign, Diaz has been part of each MLB season since 2017, starting from a excessive of 42 innings with the Padres in 2021 to a lone inning in a single recreation with the Astros final season. Diaz has a 4.81 ERA, 24% strikeout fee, and 11.7% stroll fee over 127 1/3 innings and 88 profession massive league video games with the Padres, Tigers, and Astros, and he has additionally hung out within the minors with the Brewers and Twins organizations.
Most of Diaz’s higher numbers have come extra not too long ago in his profession, as he has a 2.82 ERA in 60 2/3 innings because the begin of the 2021 season. Regardless of the robust bottom-line efficiency, nonetheless, some underlying metrics (resembling a .222 BABIP) and a few inconsistency along with his management has saved Diaz from getting a lot of a take a look at the massive league degree. A 4.93 ERA over 204 2/3 profession minor league innings additionally hasn’t helped Diaz’s case for call-ups to the Present.
Diaz is out of minor league choices, which makes it troublesome for groups to maintain him on the roster with out exposing him to waivers. In 2024, for instance, the Tigers misplaced Diaz on a waiver declare to the Astros in April, and Diaz was then designated for task and selected free company over an outright task earlier than rapidly re-signing with Houston on one other minor league deal. Diaz was launched by the Astros completely a couple of weeks later, and he accomplished the circle by re-signing one other minor league contract with Detroit close to the tip of June.
San Francisco’s bullpen appears largely set, although groups routinely convey a number of veteran pitchers to camp on minors offers simply in case of damage, or in case any of those unheralded arms can stand out sufficient to win a spot on the Opening Day roster. As famous, Diaz’s lack of minor league choices would possibly damage him in a camp competitors, however ought to he clear waivers and stick round within the group, he might act as bullpen depth for the Giants through the season.
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