Yes, I\u2019m aware that Doval was with the Pirates when the Giants claimed him, but the photo tool didn\u2019t show me any pictures of him as a Pirate even though he pitched better for them than in New York (3.79 ERA \/ 3.73 FIP in 19 IP). His Yankees career was\u2026 not good. A 4.82 ERA \/ 4.10 FIP in 18.2 innings last season and a 4.54 ERA \/ 4.61 FIP in 39.2 innings this year. Walks and hits continue to be a problem for him \u2014 he\u2019s still the warts and all pitcher we and the team grew frustrated with \u2014 but he\u2019s still got that 98+ velocity and the slider is still fantastic.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s under team control for 2027 in what will be his final trip through arbitration and, well, cynically, I guess the Giants will be spending money on a reliever with 9th inning experience. It\u2019ll just be Camilo Doval\u2026 who has 107 saves as a Giant (7th all-time). And it will be for significantly less than what they\u2019d have to spend for a closer or quasi-closer on the open market.<\/p>\n
This is just funny. It\u2019s also the sort of things fans wish for all the time \u2014 the trade away and then return to us move \u2014 but rarely happens. The Giants have had so much turnover even in the time he\u2019s been gone that it\u2019s not a given they know him well enough to \u201cfix\u201d him, but gosh, for a team that values nostalgia above all else, this is sort of perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, I\u2019m aware that Doval was with the Pirates when the Giants claimed him, but the photo tool…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,102878,102879,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-474596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants-news","tag-san-francisco-giants-roster","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474596","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=474596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}