{"id":321813,"date":"2026-05-18T21:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321813\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:55:22","slug":"san-franciscos-swing-through-sacramento-was-special-for-susac-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321813\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco&#8217;s swing through Sacramento was special for Susac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Giants&#8217; rookie catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/players\/daniel_susac\/911014\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Susac<\/a> came to Spring Training in 2026, not really sure what to expect. And to be fair? Neither did anyone else, including those within the franchise. The young backstop, who turned 25 just a few days ago, entered camp in Arizona as a total X-factor, with no one sure if he would compete for the starting spot or even make the big league roster. His range of potential success was literally that far apart. <\/p>\n<p>However, Susac would indeed make <a>the Giants<\/a>  this season, and he has taken on a much bigger role since the organization traded two-time Gold Glove winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/players\/patrick_bailey\/902606\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Bailey<\/a> to Cleveland on May 9. Hitting batting .407 with five RBI and a .984 OPS in 27 MLB at-bats, despite battling an early-season elbow injury. Still, San Fran skipper  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/giants\/onsi\/tony-vitello-calls-out-team-pressure-mounts-for-san-francisco-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Vitello<\/a> has yet to name him the team&#8217;s official starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giants&#8217; rookie catcher Daniel Susac came to Spring Training in 2026, not really sure what to expect. And&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-321813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321813","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=321813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}