Casali, born in Walnut Creek, has been in the big leagues since 2014, spending four seasons with the Rays and the last three with the Reds. He had a .366 on-base percentage and slugged .500 last season in 31 appearances, with six homers in 76 at-bats.
Casali has never been a full-time starter, but he has a good reputation for his defensive work and clubhouse presence, and he has a .728 OPS as a big leaguer. In his three seasons in Cincinnati, he had a .260/.345/.440 slash line. He ranked 17th last season in Baseball Savant's pitch framing metric, four spots ahead of Chadwick Tromp, who led Giants catchers. Casali is former teammates with current Giants starters Kevin Gausman and Anthony DeSclafani, as well.
Casali joins Posey, Bart and Tromp on the 40-man roster, and given his experience he will enter the spring as the favorite to back up Posey. Tromp re-signed with the organization in December, but even after that move Farhan Zaidi said he wanted to add another catcher. While the Giants have Bart and Patrick Bailey in the system, they are short on catching depth at the upper levels of the minors.
To clear a roster spot, the Giants sold the contractual rights to Andrew Suarez to the LG Twins of the KBO.
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My 13-year-old designed me some sneakers for Christmas. They finally arrived.@BigWos you gotta update your list!!!! pic.twitter.com/
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Jimmy Garoppolo, Nick Bosa, Dee Ford and more: #49ersaim for a much healthier 2021 ... theathletic.com/Durability?: Lynch - “I think we played long, a lot of off season surgeries, plus Covid took us down to 71, we got behind 8 ball, and sometimes stuff just happens. “ We have faith in performance staff “
-Durability?: Lynch - “I think we played long, a lot of off season surgeries, plus Covid took us down to 71, we got behind 8 ball, and sometimes stuff just happens. “ We have faith in performance staff , were asking everyone to take a hard look and see what we can do better. “
Kyle: “Sometimes you have to take risks, some have paid off, some haven’t, VERETT did...doesn’t mean your want to do that all the time, with salary cap , you cant miss a lot of your players, 81m not playing this year, NFL record, have to take some risks, but we know we cant succeed with that number. Risk reward changes a little bit”
They've commited to $149.8M in salaries already, which leaves about $25M in spending, with 26 UFAs.
Biggest cap hits in 2021:
* Garoppolo: $26.6M
* Ford: $20.8M
* Armstead: $12.5M
* Richburg: $11.8M
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When you are a franchise saddled with declining contracts, sometimes you just have to ride it out. That’s what the Giants were going to do in 2020, anyway. While other teams with young, star players like Cody Bellinger and Juan Soto had to sacrifice a year of highly affordable and highly valuable club control, the Giants mostly avoided that misfortune. Instead, they were able to make progress toward whittling down their hefty obligations to aging players like Johnny Cueto, Jeff Samardzija, Evan Longoria, Buster Posey, Brandon Belt and Brandon Crawford. Meanwhile, all their most valuable young players, with the exception of Joey Bart, didn’t earn a day of service time.
And in 2022? That payroll will be wide open. The Giants are only on the hook for the final year of Longoria’s contract plus anticipated option buyouts to Cueto and Posey — a total of just more than $25 million. In an offseason in which arbitration-eligible star players are being non-tendered to save money and even the Cubs are stripping down, the Giants have the impending payroll flexibility to cast a wide net and consider possibilities in both the free-agent and trade market.
That doesn’t mean that they plan to splurge this winter on George Springer or Trevor Bauer, or even that they should. The total wipeout of Minor League Baseball in 2020 meant limited opportunity to develop their prospect core, and as a result, it likely delayed their timetable to augment that homegrown talent with major free-agent acquisitions. The point is this: When those prospects begin to arrive, the Giants will have all the flexibility and financial might to go after the difference-making talent — Seiya Suzuki? Francisco Lindor? Corey Seager? — that could allow them to scale up rapidly.
While we are discussing payroll, it should be mentioned that the Giants laid off roughly 10 percent of their full-time front office staff in October. You might argue that they didn’t have to cut jobs. You might argue that they should be giving shelter and support to as many employees as they can through this difficult time. You won’t find any disagreement here. But it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Giants followed larger trends when it came to cutting costs on scouting, player development and business operations in a time when there were no tickets to sell, no events to coordinate, and there will be fewer players to coach following the elimination of 42 minor-league teams plus a draft this past June that lasted just five rounds. Among all industry trends, downsizing is the easiest thing to copy.
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Video shows a man, identified as the boyfriend of “That ‘70s Show” star Tanya Roberts, moved to tears during a TV interview after allegedly receiving a phone call saying the actress is still alive.trib.al/i0UcNTk 1/5/21, 6:24 AM
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