The San Francisco Giants are lastly beginning to appear like the workforce they have been projected to be after the entrance workplace spent aggressively to overtake this roster throughout the offseason in pursuit of a playoff look.
With a four-game sweep towards the Colorado Rockies over the weekend, they’re now two contests underneath .500 and sit 3.5 again of the ultimate Wild Card spot.
At the moment of the 12 months, a lot of the insiders are gathering details about what would possibly happen forward of the commerce deadline on July 30.
Bob Nightengale of USA TODAY was sharing some info he has been listening to relating to exercise across the league on the commerce entrance, however he additionally dropped just a little nugget of knowledge relating to one of many former Giants catchers and the chance he turns into a Main League supervisor subsequent season.
“Former All-Star catcher A.J. Pierzynski has quietly emerged as a severe candidate to handle the Chicago White Sox in 2025 in the event that they dismiss supervisor Pedro Grifol after the season, as anticipated,” he writes.
That is stunning.
Whereas the Southside legend and 2005 World Collection champion has stayed near the sport by being an analyst for Fox Sports activities and internet hosting his baseball centric podcast “Foul Territory,” he has zero expertise in skilled baseball as a coach or supervisor.
A.J. Pierzynski was additionally in an envoy function for the workforce beforehand, however acknowledged he stepped down from that place due to frustrations he has with the group.
The Chicago White Sox have not shied away from hiring former gamers up to now, and maybe the success they’ve seen Cleveland Guardians first-year supervisor Stephen Voigt have this season after coming into that place with no prior expertise quiets a few of the considerations they could have.
There is no doubt that Pierzynski is a superb baseball thoughts, evident by what he did behind the plate throughout his taking part in days and the way he discusses the sport in his media roles.
Nevertheless, the query is that if that may translate right into a Main League dugout.
Previous to turning into a White Sox legend, the present 47-year-old was traded to San Francisco from the Minnesota Twins previous to the 2004 season in change for Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano, and Boof Bonser p
The 19-year veteran had the worst full-time season of his profession to that time throughout his time with the Giants. He slashed .272/.319/.410 with 11 homers, 77 RBI and an OPS+ of 86.
Pierzynski then left in free company, becoming a member of Chicago for $2.25 million which begun his eight-year tenure with the White Sox that noticed him win a World Collection title, earn an All-Star Sport choice, and get some MVP votes.
Now, it feels like there’s a actual chance he returns to that franchise in a managerial function.