The rosters so far

I count 41 on the 40-man roster. That is, I’ve included free agent lefty reliever Jake McGee despite no official word from the Giants about the signing.

There are 20 pitchers on the Giants 40-man roster (according to the website): Caleb Baragar, Tyler Beede, John Brebbia, Kevin Castro, Johnny Cueto, Anthony DeSclafani, Camilo Duval, Jarlin Garcia, Kevin Gausman, Trevor Gott, Conner Menez, Reyes Moronta, Dedniel Nunez, Wandy Peralta, Tyler Rogers, Gregory Santos, Sam Selman, Logan Webb, Matt Wisler, and Alex Wood. The number goes to 21 if you add FNG McGee. Someone will get bumped from this list once they complete that deal.

There are 4 catchers: Buster Posey, Curt Casali, Joey Bart, and Chadwick Tromp.

There are 9 infielders: Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford, Mauricio Dubon, Wilmer Flores, Tommy La Stella, Evan Longoria, Darin Ruf, Donovan Solano, and Jason Vosler.

That leaves 7 outfielders: Alexander Canario, Jaylin Davis, Alex Dickerson, Steven Duggar, Austin Slater, LaMonte Wade, Jr., and Mike Yastrzemski.

Here’s the latest from FZ:

“I think we’re still going to look to add,” president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said during a Zoom call with reporters on Friday. “Adding another experienced starting pitcher, whether it’s an NRI [non-roster invitee], or potentially a Major League deal or trade, is something we’re still looking at. … Certainly, we feel like on the position player side and in the bullpen, we’re pretty settled, but starting pitching is probably the one area we’re going to continue to look at.”

There are a number if interesting NRIs and I’ll cover them in another post. Starter Tyler Beede and reliever John Brebbia are both recovering from TJS and won’t be available until summer. It will be a year of re-hab for Beede in March and a year for Brebbia in June.

Right now the rotation looks like Kevin Gausman, Johnny Cueto, Anthony DeSclafani, Alex Wood (L), and Logan Webb. The bullpen looks like Reyes Moronta, Tyler Rogers, Jake McGee (L), Matt Wisler, Jarlin Garcia (L), Trevor Gott, Sam Selman (L), and Dedniel Nunez. The last fellow, Nunez, is a Rule V pick which complicates things. If the Giants don’t keep him on the 2021 roster they have to give him back to the Mets.

That’s 13 spots on the 26-man roster. Right now it looks like the 13 position player spots will be Buster Posey, Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford, Evan Longoria, Tommy La Stella, Wilmer Flores, Donovan Solano, Mauricio Dubon, Alex Dickerson, Mike Yastrzemski, Darin Ruf, Austin Slater, and Curt Casali.

The Giants are scheduled for their first full-squad workout on February 22nd.

–M.C.

p.s. Roster Resource (now part of FanGraphs) has a handy quick-reference team depth chart. It’s a good one to bookmark.