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That one bad outing didn\u2019t overshadow the amount of good work Nabholz did over his two seasons with the ValleyCats. He had a 3.08 earned-run average and 52 strikeouts in 49 2\/3 innings over 32 appearances with Tri-City. He averaged 1.19 walks and hits per innings pitched.<\/p>\n
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ValleyCats manager Greg Tagert worked in the Giants’ system in 2022 as manager of their Arizona Complex League team. He knows Kyle Haines, San Francisco\u2019s senior director for player development.<\/p>\n
Haines played for Tagert with the Gary Southshore RailCats of the American Association.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I evaluate players, the talent, everybody\u2019s got,\u201d Tagert said. \u201cBut it\u2019s the human being first, and this guy (Nabholz) is the whole package.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nabholz, 25, suspected something was up on Monday when Tagert texted him about his medical history. Nabholz had Tommy John surgery on his right elbow two years ago when he was at Towson University.<\/p>\n
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\u201cDidn\u2019t ask him why, but (the Giants) were probably asking\u00a0about it,\u201d Nabholz said.<\/p>\n
He said he\u2019s fully recovered and his top\u00a0velocity ranges from 92 to 95 miles per hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tagert called Nabholz at his Troy apartment on Thursday afternoon to let him know of the Giants’ interest. Nabholz came to Bruno Stadium and signed the release from his Frontier League contract. The ValleyCats receive the standard fee of $12,500.<\/p>\n
He got congratulations from his teammates.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt feels great,\u201d Nabholz said. \u201cObviously, you play independent baseball; it\u2019s what you work for. I\u2019m super excited. Going to be a lot of new things. Never been to California or anything. I\u2019ve never been to that side of the country, so I\u2019m excited.\u201d<\/p>\n
He becomes the second ValleyCats pitcher to join an MLB organization this season. Left-hander Stephen Still is with the Delmarva Shorebirds, the Baltimore Orioles’ Single-A affiliate. He has a 1.13 ERA in 16 innings, including three starts.<\/p>\n
Nabholz, a native of Cressona, Pa., has MLB pedigree in his family. His uncle Chris was a lefthanded pitcher for Montreal, Cleveland, Boston and the Chicago Cubs in the 1990s.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAt the end of the day, it\u2019s just a game and the guy with the ball has to beat the guy with the bat,\u201d Nate Nabholz said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to try to overlook it or try to just do too much. Just try and do what I do best and pound the zone. Make them try to earn it and try to get on base.\u201d<\/p>\n
His departure creates an opportunity for pitcher Noah Estrella, signed by the ValleyCats on Friday. Estrella, Adam Maher and Skidmore graduate Quinn Hocom combined on a five-hitter in the win over New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ValleyCats pitcher Nate Nabholz will sign a contract with the San Francisco Giants, if he passes his physical,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[118133,972,146330,101,103,102,104,106,105,127,146329],"class_list":["post-359553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-latestnews","tag-local","tag-rensco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sports","tag-valleycats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359553","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=359553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}