{"id":276068,"date":"2025-11-10T19:45:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276068\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T19:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:45:47","slug":"giants-briefly-considered-patrick-bailey-trade-at-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276068\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants “Briefly Considered” Patrick Bailey Trade At Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Giants were 2-12 in the 14 games leading up to the trade deadline, a cold stretch that convinced the team to deal away some impending free agents (i.e. Tyler Rogers<\/a>, Mike Yastrzemski<\/a>) and a controllable asset in Camilo Doval<\/a>.\u00a0 According to Shayna Rubin of the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>, the Giants also \u201cbriefly considered\u201d the possibility of trading another notable player under longer-term control \u2014 catcher Patrick Bailey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The way Rubin phrases the club\u2019s thought process could mean that the Giants front office was simply doing due diligence in assessing its trade chips heading into the deadline, or perhaps another team made an interesting enough offer to at least get Buster Posey<\/a> and company mulling the idea.\u00a0 \u201cThere isn\u2019t a strong motivation to trade\u201d Bailey, Rubin writes, which makes sense given Bailey\u2019s defensive excellence and pre-arbitration status.<\/p>\n

Bailey was the 13th overall pick of the 2020 draft, and his emergence and Joey Bart<\/a>\u2019s struggles led the Giants to opt for Bailey as the team\u2019s proverbial \u201ccatcher of the future.\u201d\u00a0 Through three Major League seasons, Bailey has hit only .230\/.287\/.340 over 1253 plate appearances, but he has won the last two Gold Gloves and Fielding Bible Awards for his superb glovework.\u00a0 In addition to his latest Fielding Bible Award, Sports Info Solutions also named<\/a> Bailey the defensive player of the year in all of baseball for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Bailey fell just a couple of days short of Super Two status<\/a> and an extra year of arbitration eligibility.\u00a0 As a result, his first trip through the arb process won\u2019t come until next winter, and he isn\u2019t eligible for free agency until the 2029-30 offseason.\u00a0 There\u2019s no rush for San Francisco to move the 26-year-old, and trading Bailey would then leave the Giants trying to find a new backstop within a thin catching market.<\/p>\n

Creating a new roster need probably doesn\u2019t appeal too much to the Giants, whose offseason to-do lists includes a focus on both starting and relief pitching, plus right field or second base as areas of concern around the diamond.\u00a0 That said, Rubin suggests the incoming Automated Ball-Strike challenge system might give the team some reason to move Bailey before the ABS system is implemented next season.\u00a0 While Bailey is a strong all-around defensive catcher, his elite framing skills are his bread-and-butter, and Bailey\u2019s ability to frame pitches (and steal strikes) could be hampered now that opponents are allowed to challenge umpire calls.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen exactly how the ABS system will impact day-to-day play in the majors, though we\u2019ve already seen the system in use at the Triple-A level over the last four seasons, and big leaguers got a taste at last year\u2019s Spring Training and in the All-Star Game.\u00a0 It may be that the effect on Bailey or other excellent framers will be relatively minimal, though it could be argued that anything that diminishes his glovework has an outsized impact on his overall value, since Bailey isn\u2019t providing anything at the plate.<\/p>\n

San Francisco\u2019s catching position should get some attention anyway this winter since the team might non-tender Andrew Knizner<\/a>, creating the need for a new backup.\u00a0 The Giants are likely to bring in a veteran or two to compete for the job in Spring Training, plus Jesus Rodriguez<\/a> is an internal candidate for the role.\u00a0 Rodriguez was one of the four prospects acquired from the Yankees for Doval, and Rubin notes that Rodriguez would\u2019ve made his MLB debut with the Giants last year if Rodriguez hasn\u2019t been set back by a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants were 2-12 in the 14 games leading up to the trade deadline, a cold stretch that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,95755,85],"class_list":["post-276068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-patrick-bailey","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}