{"id":46173,"date":"2025-11-10T06:54:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/46173\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T06:54:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:54:45","slug":"san-francisco-claims-two-players-off-waivers-in-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/46173\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco claims two players off waivers in MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former Tennessee baseball head coach <a href=\"http:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/baseball\/2024\/06\/27\/photos-tennessee-vols-baseball-head-coach-tony-vitello-through-the-years\/79296693007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Vitello<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/baseball\/2025\/10\/22\/san-francisco-giants-hire-tony-vitello-as-manager-in-mlb\/86774247007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hired<\/a> as the Giants\u2019 manager in MLB on Oct. 22. He was <a href=\"http:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/baseball\/2025\/10\/30\/tony-vitello-introduced-as-san-francisco-giants-baseball-manager-mlb\/86988325007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">introduced<\/a> in San Francisco on Oct. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Since being hired, the Giants have made nine roster moves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On Thursday, San Francisco claimed center fielder Justin Dean off waivers from the Dodgers and left-handed pitcher Reiver Sanmartin off waivers from Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Dean played at Lenoir-Rhyne and was selected by Atlanta in the 17th round of the 2018 MLB draft (No. 502 overall). Sanmartin is from Cartagena, Colombia and debuted in MLB on Sept. 27, 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Giants also activated left-handed pitcher Erik Miller and right-handed pitcher Randy Rodri\u0301guez from the 60-day injured list, while designating right-handed pitcher Mason Black for assignment on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Right-handed pitcher Justin Verlander, first baseman Dominic Smith and first baseman Wilmer Flores elected free agency on Sunday. Catcher Tom Murphy also elected free agency from the Giants on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">San Francisco will open <a href=\"http:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/baseball\/2025\/11\/06\/tony-vitello-first-game-with-san-francisco-giants-announced-in-2026-mlb-spring-training\/87123305007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spring training<\/a> under Vitello on Feb. 21, 2026 against Seattle at Peoria Stadium in Peoria, Arizona. The Giants will host the Yankees on March 25, 2026 to open the MLB season at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:440px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/87143439007-2244405932.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Justin Dean\"\/><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:450px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/87143413007-1252061209.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reiver Sanmartin\"\/>More: <a href=\"http:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/baseball\/2025\/10\/30\/tony-vitello-jersey-number-23-san-francisco-giants-mlb\/86994706007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|spike click:10|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\">Tony Vitello&#8217;s jersey number announced with Giants in MLB<\/a><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/baseball\/2025\/10\/31\/tony-vitello-introduced-as-san-francisco-giants-mlb-manager-photos\/87008845007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - Tony Vitello introduced as San Francisco&#039;s manager in MLB photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/87008879007-usatsi-27455217.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Follow Vols Wire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VolsWire\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VolsWire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tennessee baseball head coach Tony Vitello was hired as the Giants\u2019 manager in MLB on Oct. 22.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[243,101,103,102,104,106,105,14986,14987,5976,1350,22201,5974,5979,11411,508,13588,9203,14988,246],"class_list":["post-46173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-accessfree","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sstssportscollegevolunteersbaseball","tag-sstsnbaseball","tag-tagbaseball","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagfacebook","tag-taglos-angeles-dodgers","tag-tagmlb","tag-tagnew-york-yankees","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsan-francisco-giants","tag-tagsmg-timely","tag-tagtennessee-volunteers-baseball","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46173","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=46173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}