Giants righty Anthony DeSclafani will be out for the rest of the season. He was placed on the injured list on June 28 for what, at the time, was judged to be right ankle inflammation.
It’s now been determined that he needs surgery to “set the peroneal tendon in his right ankle,” per MLB.com’s Maria I. Guardado (via Twitter). Recovery time is expected to be four to five months. As his surgery is set for July 12, he will not return to the hill this season.
DeSclafani seemed to find himself last season in a prove-it contract year. He made 31 starts for the Giants, logged 167 2/3 innings, and pitched to a 3.17 ERA/3.62 FIP with career-best strikeout and walk rates.
The 32-year-old is in the first year of a three-year, $36MM deal that he signed this past winter. Both parties certainly hoped for more than five starts and the 9.95 ERA DeSclafani currently owns. Of course, those five starts (19 innings) hardly means much in the grand scheme of things. Even so, a 4.86 FIP certainly provides a touch of promise for team and player to dream on as they look to 2023.
The Giants have survived without DeSclafani thanks to a strong front four of Logan Webb, Carlos Rodon, Alex Wood, and Alex Cobb. Jakob Junis and Sammy Long have been the primary stand-ins for DeSclafani so far, with seven and five starts, respectively. Both have performed well. Still, as the year wears on, it would not be surprising to see the Giants explore adding reinforcements from outside the organization.
Your season is over. Please trade players for prospects st this point
Trade who? Yaz? Flores maybe… Crawford and belt? Might as well bring Joey Bart back at this rate
At the very least Rodon might get something interesting at the dead line and with his penchant for hitting clutch October tanks so would Joc
Yaz, Flores, Pederson, Rodon, junis, brebbia, wood, Cobb, boyd
Belt, if anyone will take him with his remaining (high) salary and injury history. Deal LaStella. Make room for Villar, Vosler, Gonzalez. Time to move on.
You got your wish!
They are competing with the Phillies for the last wild card at this point and the Phillies are a better team.
As a Giants fan, the news about Desclafani is pretty low on the list of concerns right now. Wish him the best, but given what he’s done so far this season, it’s not hard to imagine any AAA arm giving you the same value. The Giants have many more significant issue to overcome at the moment.
Bigger picture, it kinda feels like the Giants are revealing who they really are and that the April 2021-May 2022 Giants were more of an aberration than fans care to admit. Comparing the Giants’ starting 9 against other contenders in the NL, its hard to imagine many position by position matchups where the Giants actually have the edge(aside from SP).
I said the same thing before the season started and got torn to shreds over it. The Giants played so far above their heads last season and I feel like everyone but their fans and their FO knew that. How can any baseball fan look at that roster and think ‘yeah they’re good’? Joc Pederson is okay but they needed much more than that to take the next step. I really thought the Giants were going to go hard over the off season but they kind of just floundered.
Not signing an everyday RH bat was the biggest error. Even with his miserly .221 average, Trevor Story’s 12 HRs, 52 RBI and solid glove would have prevented the G’s from falling apart when Longo was injured, when Craw can’t hit and LaStella is the DH. I like Estrada but Story would have made a difference. And how about Freddie Freeman . . .think he might have made a difference at 1B EVERYDAY?
Yea, as a Giants fan last year was great, but I knew it was a standout year at best, and a fluke at worst. It was the best year that Belt and Crawford have ever had, and Posey’s best since either 2014 or his MVP year.
We had a ton of production from guys like Ruf and Wade and not a ton of assurance that it would continue.
The pitching on this team isn’t bad, but the bats and health need to keep up. If the Giants are buyers they need a couple of bats and it doesn’t seem very Farhan to trade for that sort of thing.
The San Francisco Giants. R.I.P.
This fake Tony is a blight on this great app, San Diego disowns him and his unworthy takes.
“Trust Farhan”
Giants lookin fierce
Farhan thinks you can build a roster of waiver claims and half measures. It’s no coincidence as soon as he left LA, the Dodgers started getting big names. Zero chance there was another team willing to sign Disco to this contract. The Giants version of Brandon McCarthey.
I mean your not completely wrong. Only counter argument though is without him, do you have Max Muncy or Justin Turner? 3 big name busts come to mind immediately. Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford, and Adrian Gonzalez…. You’ve also developed well possibly because of Farhans drafting (this one I’m not sure who handles) Buehler, Bellinger, and Lux come to mind
1. Zaidi was with the A’s in 2012. Please let us all know how he was involved with the Dodgers-Red Sox trade. Or are you trying to suggest that one trade prior to his time with the Dodgers demonstrates how lost in the woods they were without him?
2. I don’t think you can label the trade with the Red Sox as a bust. The Dodgers needed a jolt. They didn’t win the division in 2012…but did win in 2013…2014…2015…2016…2017…2018…2019…2020*…and then won 106 games last season. Meanwhile, zero of the players dealt to the Red Sox amounted to much of anything. Meanwhile Adrian Gonzalez was a very good player the first few years following the trade (and certainly better than James Loney). Beckett completely fell off of a cliff. You can’t always predict that. They actually got some marginal value out of Carl Crawford the first couple of years following the trade. That is all to say: no, the trade wasn’t a bust. It would have been a bust if it cratered the team. A new ownership group wanted to make a big splash and they went on to rip off 8 division titles in a row.
3. Max Muncy WAS IN THE A’S SYSTEM DURING ZAIDI’S TENURE! Was he stashing him for a rainy day? He performed somewhat well in the minors in the A’s organization but struggled at the major league level and didn’t have much defensive value. Meanwhile the Dodgers didn’t pick up Muncy until 2017 where he immediately had his best triple slash at AAA. But yes, that was clearly on Zaidi, all credit to him there for scouting him, developing him, bringing him over, etc.
I guess your counterargument then is…Justin Turner?
I failed to mention that your argument for Zaidi is to point to a trade from a decade ago that involved zero players currently at the major league level.
Dude take a breath, you’re lucky I was willing to read all that to be honest. My argument was pointing out how “big names” don’t equal success. Nothing about Farhan.
What’s an FIP? Never mind, I don’t care.
Remaining ignorant of new things is good?
Kapler went woke and the Giants went broke.
Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Gia,
Whatever helps you sleep at night.
True dat!
Nah, Zaidi will be half in, half out at the trade deadline.
He’ll be looking to the future but also no need to throw in wild card towel in July.
Dump The Woke Kapler……he is and was a loser……. Ring back Ron Wotus….
Going after Kapler feels like low hanging fruit. Hard to imagine another Manager would have this Giants’ roster seriously contending in that division.
Aside from Belt going down entering the playoffs, nearly everything broke in the Giants favor last year. Belt and Crawford having career years, all-star production from Posey, Wade, Jr. coming out of nowhere, Ruf being a solid bat off the bench, Webb being a monster in the second half. Reality has struck hard and all of those things are coming back down to earth this year. Belt, Longoria, Wade and Crawford are regularly hurt and/or underperforming. Injuries forcing Vosler and Walton into the every day lineup. The bench has been as dead as dead can be. As good as Pederson has been, he’s an accessory bat on a contender, not the anchor.
Last year was likely false hope. It should have been one of the bridge years until the next crop of Giants prospects were ready in ’23/24. Lightning struck and that team somehow defied the odds by playing well above their on-paper talent level and giving fans hope. Unfortunately, 2021 looks like an outlier, not a trend.
azcrook — Absurd. You’d make a mess of any major team if you were in control.
Maybe he wasn’t fully healthy to start the season? Stinks that it’s happened but that’s life, Giants need to work something out as they are flatlining fast. Farm system is looking good but 1-2 years away from impact names. Keep treading water until then I guess.
I Agree. Tread water until some of these prospects start to deliver. It was the plan from the Beginning. The fact they won so many games last year was an aberration. They need stars Yes. But they need base players whom can build a core and Crawford Belt ain’t it. As the guys in the farm grow, The positions at the MLB level will be spoken for. And, No big contracts yet to boot. Why loose money on a free agent. When they are trying to build sustained success, Like The Dodgers. Be Patient. Wait it out. But I Agree, Kapler Night not be the Guy. The DH Rule seems to have clipped him a Bit. We shall see.
I agree with ya, Jay. Last year was a lot of fun, this team is STILL above .500. If the GIants really wanted to go for the World Series they would have done a lot more in free agency and trades.
Zaidi is waiting on some of those farm prospects before finally going all in. Due to 2020 the prospect plan is going to take another season to develop.
I truly think Zaidi is looking at 2023 and 2024. After 2022 Longo and Belt are gone. Flores too. Right now their 2023 payroll is projected to be $92 million. I got a feeling it’s not going to stay that way. I smell trades more than free agents, but we’ll see!
Trades would be Cool. Free Agents, They know they have to be Careful. Health Factors, etc. Look at the guys they have Been Signing. I don’t expect that to change too much. But a Judge Type changes the whole offense. And that type of player is Big Time. Something the front office always wants on this Team. Judge would be Fantastic. Especially with the DH now. I hate it. But offense is the game. And power pitching. Like the AL has been for many years. Become the Yankees I say. Screw the Dodgers
JayRyder — I agree with everything you say EXCEPT about Kapler; he’s doing the best with what he has. He’s a very smart guy and I have faith in him and Farhan/Harris, but last year built false hopes and something more could have/should have been done this past winter once they knew Posey and Gausmann were gone..