The Giants signed Mitch Haniger to a three-year, $43.5 million deal, but they likely aren’t done yet.
, the Giants are still involved in the market for starting and relief pitching, one more outfielder and, perhaps, one of the three remaining shortstops on the board.President of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi explained from the Giants’ suite at the Manchester Grand Hyatt.One Giants player last season logged at least 500 at-bats: Wilmer Flores.
Haniger, they believe, will be an everyday presence in the middle of the lineup. In his two best seasons, he played 314 of a possible 324 games, and he has practically even splits against right-handed pitchers and lefties . He also joins Austin Slater as the only right-handed hitter in an otherwise entirely left-handed outfield.
Here’s the thing: those two seasons, when Haniger missed a combined 10 games, came three years apart, with three surgeries in between. After a breakout season in 2018, with career-highs in home runs , RBIs and numerous other offensive categories, he missed 99 games in 2019 and missed all of the shortened 2020 season. In 2021, he topped both those totals, with 39 homers and 100 RBIs, but followed it by missing more than half of Seattle’s game last season.
“When you talk about health, you’re not just looking at how many injuries a guy has had — some of it is bad luck — but what kind of workload can a guy handle over a full season,” Zaidi said. “We look at his 2018 season and his 2021 season, he has the ability to play a lot.”
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