Wilmer Flores has exercised his $3.5M participant possibility for the 2025 season, the Giants introduced. Flores signed a three-year, $16.5M extension with the Giants in September 2022 that allowed him to choose out of the 2025 season, and the membership would’ve then had an $8.5M membership choice to resolve on if Flores did choose out.
After all, this all turned a moot level attributable to an injury-marred 2024 season for the veteran infielder. Flores was bothered by knee issues all 12 months, leading to a pair of journeys to the injured checklist and a season-ending Tenex process in early August. Flores concluded his twelfth Main League season with an unpleasant .206/.277/.318 slash line over 242 plate appearances and a sub-replacement degree -0.7 fWAR in 71 video games.
It made Flores’ resolution to train his possibility a reasonably simple name, and the $3.5M wage is low sufficient that it wouldn’t be a shock if San Francisco selected to maneuver on from the 33-year-old completely within the type of a launch. A commerce additionally isn’t out of the query if one other crew views Flores as a bounce-back candidate, or the Giants themselves would possibly see Flores as a helpful participant to maintain round in the event that they really feel he’ll return to type when wholesome.
In spite of everything, it was only a season in the past that Flores hit .284/.355/.509 with 23 homers for San Francisco throughout 454 PA through the 2023 marketing campaign. Flores’ capability to play first, second and third base and his historically robust numbers in opposition to left-handed pitching made him a useful member of the Giants’ platoon combine previous to this previous season. The Giants have been rumored to be within the combine for a much bigger improve at first base, but when such assist isn’t acquired, the crew may fall again on a Flores/LaMonte Wade Jr. platoon on the chilly nook.
