They say to keep paying attention after the official trade deadline expiration because some deals simply get announced a little after. I can’t recall that being the case often with the San Francisco Giants, so I was already deep into a brainstorm on a “The Giants have bet on themselves” deadline recap post when news hit the feed that they’d acquired Mark Canha from the Detroit Tigers.
The 35-year old San Jose native (more on that in a minute) and Cal grad who made his name with the A’s (.244/.344/.431 across 7 seasons and 2,492 PA) is in the final year of a 3-year, $36 million deal he originally signed with the Mets (and was questionable at the time) but was playing out the string in Detroit after being traded to them in the offseason from Milwaukee, who had acquired him at last year’s deadline from New York.