The Giants and right-hander Jean Machi have agreed to a minor league contract, as Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle tweets. Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News tweeted earlier that the two sides were close to finalizing a deal.
Machi, 34, is a familiar face for Giants fans, having spent pasts of the 2012-15 seasons with San Francisco. Machi was particularly effective from 2013-14, logging a combined 2.49 ERA with 7.7 K/9 against 2.3 BB/9 in 119 2/3 innings for the Giants in that span. He struggled through 35 innings with the Giants in 2015, though, and ultimately wound up being claimed off waivers by the Red Sox. His results in Boston — a 5.09 ERA in 23 innings — weren’t any better.
Machi signed a minor league pact with the Cubs this offseason and had been pitching reasonably well with Chicago’s Triple-A affiliate, but he was released last week and then encountered some legal trouble. As the Des Moines Register’s Tommy Birch reported, Machi was arrested for public intoxication and public urination at roughly 2:00am last Thursday morning.
“Machi, 34, is a familiar face for Giants fans, having spent pasts of the 2012-15 seasons with San Francisco.”
This sounds spooky.
Must have thought he was already back in SF where that behavior is allowed.
Too true!
You must be talking about the 49ers, not the Giants, because I can’t think of any current giants player that has had any problems keeping out of trouble off the field.
He meant all the homeless urinating on the streets of SF at all ours of the day
I still remember Machi having a hell of a game somewhere in long relief and Kruk explaining the night that followed the next day during the game…
“We get back to the hotel kinda late and there’s a guy walking through the lobby to the elevator who has had a few drinks. He doesn’t see us but he’s singing ‘Machi Machi Man, I wanna be a Machi Man'” (to the tune of “Macho Man” by the Village People.
I LOVE our commentators but dude… It was years ago and I STILL have that song still stuck in my head!!!!
*note I’m paraphrasing so hope I have told this story correctly.
A class Giants action.
1/3 acknowledging Machi’s ability and 2/3 respect for his past contribution to the Giants.
Daniel9. You hit the nail on the head. This is the Giants way and it shows how classy they are as an organization and who wouldn’t want to come to SF knowing that down the track they’ll give you a shot, even if it’s a long one. Look at Ishikawa. Same thing.. TWICE! I love that about SF. I don’t keep track of other teams buy do other teams do this?