SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The San Francisco Giants have solely performed one Cactus League sport however the illnesses are already including up.
Supervisor Bob Melvin advised reporters on Sunday morning that left fielder Heliot Ramos is coping with a minor indirect harm that can preserve him out for roughly every week. Ramos, who missed a number of months with a proper indirect pressure in 2023, shall be shut down fully in the meanwhile.
Backup catcher Tom Murphy has additionally been coping with an indirect harm for a couple of week and can obtain a second opinion on the harm. Melvin mentioned there shall be extra updates on Murphy on Monday.
Together with Murphy and Ramos, left-handed reliever Erik Miller is coping with numbness in a finger. Miller, the one left-handed reliever on the Giants’ 40-man roster, will throw a dwell bullpen on Monday. Melvin added that the Giants deliberate to “semi-slow play” Miller this spring after the left-hander threw 67 1/3 innings final 12 months, essentially the most he’s thrown in any skilled season.
With Ramos, a first-time All-Star final season, at the moment unavailable, Marco Luciano began in left subject within the Giants’ 6-1 win over the Texas Rangers on Saturday whereas Jerar Encarnacion acquired the beginning nod on Sunday. For Luciano, who transformed to the outfield this offseason, the 5 innings he performed in left represented the primary time he’d ever performed the outfield for the Giants in a sport — spring coaching, minors or majors.
Luciano, who’s in competitors for the Giants’ fourth outfield spot, went 0-for-3 in his first sport this spring however regarded like a pure outfielder on protection. Within the third inning of Saturday’s sport, the Rangers’ Justin Foscue hit a double off the left-center subject wall. Luciano took the right angle to play the carom off the wall, acquired the ball on a hop then easily spun into an correct throw to second base. Foscue slid into second base safely, however Luciano’s effort made the play shut. Luciano additionally generated an exit velocity of 111.6 when he grounded out in his last at-bat of the afternoon, the hardest-hit ball of the day.
“Lucy is an athlete, for sure,” mentioned outfielder Jung Hoo Lee by way of crew interpreter Justin Han. “He can play ball. Before the game, we talked about how we were going to do in the outfield today as a team. It worked out well.”
Added supervisor Bob Melvin: “He looked comfortable. Left field during these spring training games is the toughest field, especially early on. He made a nice play, looks like he’s a little more grounded at the plate. The bat speed looks good. He’s going to get more reps out there.”
Peguero continues impressing
Proper-handed reliever Joel Peguero pitched a scoreless inning with two strikeouts in Saturday’s win and touched as excessive as 101.7 mph, the quickest pitch thrown by any pitcher on Saturday in all of spring coaching video games. Together with Bryce Eldridge’s 450-foot homer, the Giants have been accountable for the best exit velocity, farthest distance and quickest pitch amongst all video games performed on Saturday.
Peguero, 27, threw eight four-seam fastballs on Saturday, touching triple digits with 4 and hitting 101 mph with two. Peguero’s first heater solely clocked in at 94.3, however he ramped up the rate from there and lit up the radar weapons.
The suitable-hander has pitched for 4 completely different organizations previous to the Giants and has but to succeed in the majors, reaching as excessive as Triple-A. Final season, Peguero had a 3.14 ERA over 51 2/3 innings with 56 strikeouts for the Detroit Tigers’ Double-A affiliate.
“He’s kind of been the talk of camp when you throw 101 in the bullpen the way he had too,” Melvin mentioned. “It gets everybody’s attention. You start to see guys filtering over to him when he throws a side.”
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