{"id":384705,"date":"2026-01-01T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T12:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/384705\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T12:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T12:44:19","slug":"giants-take-a-flier-on-former-padre-after-years-off-the-mlb-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/384705\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants take a flier on former Padre after years off the MLB radar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every offseason, some MLB teams do this little magic trick where they pull a name out of the baseball attic \u2014 a name that sounds like it belongs on the back of a 1978 Topps card \u2014 and suddenly it\u2019s your problem again because you share a division with them.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Giants reportedly agreed to a minor-league deal with Nick Margevicius,<\/a> complete with a big-league spring training invite. And if he actually forces his way onto the MLB roster, the contract reportedly bumps to an $825,000 salary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Giants roll the dice on Nick Margevicius after a long road back<\/p>\n

For San Diego Padres fans, this name brings back memories of the past as much as an old throwback playlist you had no idea you still had on your phone. Margevicius was drafted in the seventh round by the Padres from Rider University in 2017. He finally experienced MLB action with the Padres in 2019. <\/a>Then, as we all know how quickly “life happens,” baseball has a way of turning what may have been a familiar pitching arm into just another trivia answer.<\/p>\n

Following his stint with the Padres,<\/a> he joined the Mariners in Seattle, but after that, he basically disappeared from Major League Baseball for a little while. He appeared in games for only two teams (Padres & Mariners) and has been inactive since 2021 according to Baseball-Reference.<\/p>\n

But there is a part that makes this more than just a nostalgia hit: Margevicius didn\u2019t disappear. He went and found innings wherever they existed. He pitched in Taiwan\u2019s CPBL with the TSG Hawks, and that stop is a pretty loud indicator he was serious about rebooting his career rather than quietly fading out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now he\u2019s landing with the Giants, the Padres\u2019 pesky neighbor who never misses an opportunity to rummage through the clearance rack at Target.<\/a> From San Diego\u2019s perspective, it\u2019s not a franchise-altering move. It\u2019s a minor-league flier. A \u201cmaybe this works and if it doesn\u2019t, no harm done\u201d signing.<\/p>\n

Still, don\u2019t be surprised if Padres fans do that thing where you squint at the name, remember a couple starts, and suddenly have opinions. Because baseball loves a comeback story \u2014 it just loves it a little more when it isn\u2019t happening in the NL West\u2026 in orange and black.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every offseason, some MLB teams do this little magic trick where they pull a name out of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-384705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384705","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=384705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}