{"id":292335,"date":"2026-04-30T01:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/292335\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:13:27","slug":"giants-call-up-righty-gregory-santos-who-has-been-hot-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/292335\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants call up righty Gregory Santos, who has been hot in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA\u00a0\u2014 Sometimes transactions are pretty self-explanatory: The San Francisco Giants<\/a> don\u2019t have an off-day until the middle of the next homestand, Blade Tidwell threw 47 pitches on Tuesday night, the team needed a fresh arm and Gregory Santos was thriving at Triple-A Sacramento.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And yet there might be a bit more going on. Manager Tony Vitello said that Tidwell is getting stretched back out to start at Triple-A Sacramento, and he also mentioned that Carson Whisenhunt had a strong outing for the River Cats on Tuesday night. The Giants might need a spot starter May 4 at San Diego given Wednesday evening\u2019s postponement\u00a0\u2014 and the team does have one pitcher who\u2019s struggling significantly, Adrian Houser, who\u2019s one of the scheduled starters Thursday. Having a starter or two ready to go at Sacramento for any reason, though, is an excellent plan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Santos, 25, was with the Giants organization from 2017-22, making his big-league debut in 2021 and pitched in three games, but he was sent down in late April and two months later was suspended after testing positive for performance enhancing substances. He was traded to the White Sox in December 2022 when the team signed Sean Manaea.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He appeared in 60 games with the White Sox in 2023, then eight in each of the past two seasons with Seattle, but injuries sidelined him much of those two years, and in December, he re-signed with the Giants as a minor-league free agent. He\u2019s been terrific at Sacramento, with a 2.45 ERA and .220 opponent batting average, though two of the three runs he\u2019s allowed came in his last two outings. He last worked Sunday, so he\u2019s plenty fresh.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019ve been pitching very well, controlling the zone, attacking the hitters, and just creating a lot of contact,\u201d Santos said, with Erwin Higueros interpreting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, when you have an arm like his, it\u2019s easy just to get in heater mode,\u201d said catcher Eric Haase, who came up from Sacramento last week when Daniel Susac (elbow) went on the injured list. \u201cBut I think he did a really good job of mixing up his pitches, and that made his fastball that much more effective.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a competitor, man. The persona that he takes on when he\u2019s on the mound, you can tell he\u2019s out there trying to punch people out. It\u2019s great to have when you\u2019re behind the plate, that level of seriousness and whatnot. He\u2019s got purpose and all the confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

To make room for Santos on the 40-man roster, the Giants placed outfielder Jared Oliva (hamate fracture) on the 60-day IL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA\u00a0\u2014 Sometimes transactions are pretty self-explanatory: The San Francisco Giants don\u2019t have an off-day until the middle of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10897,95101,121,123,122,4820,127],"class_list":["post-292335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-giants","tag-gregory-santos","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}