The Marlins announced they’ve acquired utilityman Luke Williams from the Giants for minor league infielder Hayden Cantrelle. San Francisco had designated Williams for assignment last week.
Williams returns to the NL East, where he began his career as a third-round pick of the Phillies. He reached the majors for the first time last season, getting into 58 games and hitting .245/.315/.316. Williams showed solid plate discipline and bat-to-ball skills, but he collected just five extra-base hits in 108 plate appearances. It was a similar story at Triple-A Lehigh Valley, where he posted a .270/.329/.341 line through 143 trips to the dish.
The Phils designated Williams for assignment in Spring Training, and the Giants brought him in for minor league third baseman Will Toffey. His stint in the Bay Area was brief, as the 25-year-old got into just eight MLB games and made ten appearances with their top affiliate in Sacramento. The Giants later acquired a pair of infielders — Kevin Padlo and Donovan Walton — from the Mariners, and they’d seemingly surpassed Williams on the depth chart.
Miami picks up a versatile infield option for manager Don Mattingly. Williams has played all over the diamond in the minor leagues, with the bulk of his action coming at third base. He still has all three option years remaining, so the right-handed hitter can bounce between the majors and Triple-A Jacksonville for the foreseeable future if the Fish keep him on the 40-man roster.
Miami already has a fair bit of infield depth, with Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Miguel Rojas comprising the everyday middle infield. Offseason trade pickup Joey Wendle has been the primary third baseman, though he’s been on the injured list for two weeks because of a hamstring strain. That’s left Brian Anderson to step back third base from his corner outfield role, although Wendle is currently on a rehab assignment with Low-A Jupiter and should be back before long. Out-of-options utilityman Erik González is on the active roster as a depth player.
Cantrelle, like Williams, spent less than two months with the club that traded him today. The Marlins landed the 23-year-old as one of two players in the Spring Training deal that sent catcher Alex Jackson to Milwaukee. Cantrelle was a fairly recent fifth-round pick of the Brew Crew. A good runner who’s primarily a second baseman, he has struggled offensively during his pro career. Cantrelle is hitting .185/.312/.337 through 110 plate appearances with Double-A Pensacola. The University of Louisiana product has drawn plenty of walks in the minors, but he’s also struggled quite a bit with strikeouts.
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Good thing the giants traded Dubon! Only four guys to the IL since his trade. 3 days of “full health” was worth it. Longo gonna go on soon with shoulder too.
Dubon ain’t doing much in Houston either…he just has not panned out.
Padlo and Walton are more like roster fillers
where Padlo has more power and Walton looks like he could hit above .200 in MLB
I don’t know why he wants to turn the giants into those athletics teams he and billy boy built ! They where a quaint but untimely waste of time cute story !
Fact is though that’s not how billy boy would roll if he had the current job farhan has now ! Farhan can do the little cute moneyball thing while still doing big market thing he has a advantageous situation he needs to stop yearning to be the Tampa or Oakland like those teams would kill for the giants finical resources
Not sure about Tampa, but Oakland definitely does have the financial resources. The ownership perennially chooses not to invest in the team.
You never want to be a team that needs a player from the Marlins
They don’t “need” any players from the marlins. They lined up on a trade to bring in a player they can work with and try and develop into a major leaguer.
Mr. Cantrelle is hitting a cool .174 across two seasons in the minors
Cantrelle looks like a bum majority of the time in minors he cannot hit over .185, although he did play for the Nerds at one point.
Luke Williams seemed like a good fill-in when needed.
Luckily Will Toffey as part of the deal to get Williams has not done much either.
Tolman who they demoted and parted ways with last year when they brought in Toffey has been killing it for Guardians AAA team this year. Sometimes, the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. Farhan seems to cycle thru guys to fast, without spending time looking to develop.
Nice stats against lefties. Might be a platoon with Wendle?
284/.343/.388 against lefties. Kirshaw, Manea, Will Smith are a few of his victims…
and now he’s back in the division. future Phillie killer.
Cantrelle should maybe stick to Alice in Chains.
Somebody lock Farhan in a room til he makes a splashy signing or two.
Yeah, cause it’s not about winning, it’s about splashy signings. Maybe you should become a Padres fan.
@tab2b13 Winning? How bout that beat’n the Mighty Giants took over the weekend from the Splashy Padres ?? #SWEPT
LOL
I don’t normally respond to trolls, but I’ll make an exception. Some of us see a bigger picture that’s more than what happened less than a week ago. You’re really going to gloat about a 3 game series when SD is just 4 and 2 against the Giants with 13 games still to play? Big deal, 2 more wins, but only able to outscore the Giants by 1 run? Wow, domination.
Winning? Yes, 107 of them last season. Padres have never won 100 games. 98 was their top, and that was almost a quarter century ago. They’ve won 90 games only once in this century
What does Preller have to show for all his splashy signings? The Giants have 3 WS titles over the last 10 years. His teams have exactly 1 PS appearance, and talk about being swept. Padres have zero titles over their entire history.
For someone who purports to be a Padres fan you sure talk a lot of nonsense about the Giants. When the 2 teams records are compared you sound like someone clueless about baseball. Basically your comments are laughable and easily dismissed.
107 wins Last year . Then BOUNCED in the first round of the playoffs. LOL
Speaking of 107 wins. Ah…that was Last year. It’s 2022. You need to purchase a 2022 calendar. This Old Rinky Dink Roster will be lucky to finish over .500 .
At least the Giants/Dodgers best of 5 series went the full 5. The Padres, in their only payoff appearance this century, got bounced in 3 games. #SWEPT out of the playoffs.
You want to talk only 2022, because 2021 had to be a huge embarrassment for you. But nobody has won anything in 2022 so far.
And it’s so easy to see when someone can’t come up with anything decent, when they have to rely on a prediction of a sub .500 record, 4+ months from now. Pathetic.
“…Old Rinky Dink Roster…”
Once again, how uninformed are you? The Padres pitching staff is the 4th oldest in MLB. Only the Cubs, Mets and Red Sox have an older pitching staff. The Giants are 14th oldest, 0.1 years over league average.
The Giants batting age is older, but between pitchers and batters, I’d worry more about those old pitchers in SD going down.
Yes . I’m taking about 2022 because that is the season that’s being played right now . LOL
Like 4 days ago when we SWEPT you
You’re ridiculous. 2022 is barely a quarter of the way through. No one knows how this season will turn out. Anyone that knows anything about baseball, or life for that matter, knows you haven’t won anything in May.
But of course you want to talk about 2022, because at this point, geez, you’re ahead, wow, BFD. And no wonder you want to avoid past seasons, since 2021, like many, many others, was just another in a long series of utter failures.
Giants well under CBT. Zaidi continues to dumpster dive. Only splash Zaidi is going to make or see is balls being hit into McCovey Cove.
Giants would never have gotten Bonds if Zaidi had been around.
One of the first things Zaidi did as PBO, was try to sign Bryce Harper as a franchise-anchoring star. By all accounts, it came down to either the Phillies or the Giants for Harper. Since it was going to be a choice about where to play through his age 39 season, it’s not surprising that Harper chose a ballpark that was much friendlier to play in, both offensively and defensively.
It was very similar in fact, to the situation where the Giants went after Bonds as soon as he became a free agent in 1993. In the Harper situation, Giants ownership also signed-off on the idea and gave their brand-new PBO, Zaidi, the power to reshape the teams direction as he saw fit.
We don’t know when or if Zaidi will see fit to try take on another massive contract commitment (he had also tried to get Stanton and all the money owed to him). But the idea that he is “never” going to do something like that doesn’t track with those prior efforts.
Coming in 2nd is not winning. No one ever remembers who came in second.
How many times have Giants come in second on free agent players? And like Harper, how many players use Giants to getting a higher contract and years?
Since you’re the one that’s treating speculation as certainty – “Giants would never have gotten Bonds if Zaidi had been around.”, why don’t you answer those questions you’ve posed, yourself? Speculate as you wish … but that’s really all you’re doing.
Frisco fans are so ridiculously overly sensitive. It’s annoying. Geez, GROW A PAIR
Way to totally miss the point FakeTony.
Maybe? But he also probably would not have dished out big contracts to Aaron Rowand or Zito or Samardzija or traded away future stars for rentals like A.J. Pierzynski or Carlos Beltran or McCutchen… or maybe he would have. Who knows?
Cantrelle? so far, he Cant hit in pro ball, and apparently he hasn’t found a hat that fits yet.
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Kapler – if you can’t respect what men and women fought for the freedom we have in the United States … pack your bags and find you another country to live in!!