I could be wrong but I expect him to be on the 40 man roster through most of spring training 2025. Past that will be determined by his performance in spring and the needs of the team
He will almost certainly opt in, but I wouldn’t consider it a 100% guarantee that he won’t be DFA’d at a moments notice.
3.5M player option...which he likely declines.
You really think he declines his option after the season he had?
He is done. Therefore he will activate his option, collecting the payday.
For $3.5...almost certainly. Somebody will give him more.
Caveat: if he physically can't play any more, then correct. But doesn't he have to report to ST and try?
Not if the Giants DFA him.
Really? That seems risky on his part
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Then Fitz needs to try harder to win it and pull an upset.
Merrill has a full season of full time play going for him. Fitzgerald wasn't even in the big leagues for parts of May, June and July and when he was, he didn't get to start regularly until late July. That is pretty impressive that he is even at the number two position.
Don’t forget the pitchers, which will probably have the top 2 slots in the ROY voting (Skenes and Imanaga). On the hitting side, Fitz has probably already done enough to leapfrog over Merrill.
It'd be fun if he put up 25 bombs though...Skenes is going to win it but still.
He only has 14 right now. Tagging on an additional 11 HR would be tough.
I believe in him.
Sort it by OPS and narrow the requirement to at least 100 ABs and Fitzgerald blows away the competition. He has a .981 OPS and the next closest is James Woods at .826.
