SAN FRANCISCO–Two weeks after Farhan Zaidi was hired as the Giants president of baseball operations, the highest-ranking front office executive has made the first personnel decisions of his tenure.
The Giants announced Tuesday that pitching prospects Melvin Adon, Sam Coonrod and Logan Webb were added to the club’s 40-man roster ahead of Major League Baseball’s deadline to protect players from the Rule 5 Draft.
Earlier in the day, the Miami Marlins claimed right-handed pitcher Julian Fernández off of waivers from the Giants, initially leaving the franchise with six open spots on its 40-man roster. The Giants selected Fernández in the 2017 Rule 5 Draft out of the Colorado Rockies organization, but the hard-throwing reliever underwent Tommy John surgery at the end of spring training.