Alex Pavlovic reported earlier this morning that OF Austin Slater and switch-pitcher Pat Venditte had been optioned to the minors, representing the first real surprise transactions of 2019.
Venditte, you’ll recall, was Farhan Zaidi’s first major league deal as the Giants’ President of Baseball Ops (really need to abbreviate this going forward — POBOps? PBOps? Prez?) and his switch-pitchingness inspired me to write this:
He’s better overall as a left-handed pitcher, which just adds to the possibility that the Giants will trade Tony Watson and/or Will Smith.