‘Tis the season for adding players and, due to MLB’s roster rules, ‘tis also the season for subtracting them. The San Francisco Giants made one such subtraction on Monday when they announced that right-handed pitcher Gregory Santos had been designated for assignment.
Santos, who is only 23, had an interesting path with the Giants. He joined the Giants in 2017, when the Boston Red Sox traded him to San Francisco as part of the Eduardo Nuñez trade. He performed well in the Minors, but since he had been signed by the Red Sox on his 16th birthday, his five years of Minor League time came at a young age, and the Giants added him to their 40-man roster in 2020 to protect him from the Rule 5 Draft.