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SF Giants sign big slugger day before spring training: report
With just a day to go until pitchers and catchers report and their lineup still lacking punch, the San Francisco Giants reportedly agreed to terms late Monday night with one of the National League’s leading home run hitters from a season ago.
Free-agent slugger Jorge Soler and the club came to agreement on a three-year deal, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The terms of the deal have yet to be reported, and an official announcement is still pending a physical.
Expected to serve as the regular designated hitter, Soler gives the Giants the potential for the kind of power they have long lacked.
Soler, who turns 32 this month, led Miami with 36 home runs and earned his first All-Star selection in 2023. He was due to make $13 million in 2024 but opted out of the final year of his three-year, $36 million contract.
Throughout 10 seasons with the Cubs, Royals, Braves and Marlins, Soler has shown prodigious power — often at the cost of contact. With Kansas City in 2019, he led the majors with 48 home runs — a career-high — but struck out 178 times, also the most in the majors. Over his career, he has averaged 32 home runs per 162 games while batting .243/.330/.467.
The 30-homer threshold is something only one other member of the Giants lineup, Michael Conforto, can claim. It will have been 20 years this season since Barry Bonds became the last Giants hitter to reach that figure in 2004.
Last season, San Francisco scored the seventh-fewest runs in the majors and ranked 17th in home runs; Wilmer Flores was the only player to reach 20.
While camp officially opens Wednesday, Soler won’t be required to report until Monday, a day before the first scheduled workout for position players.
A number of high-profile free agents remain unsigned, including Matt Chapman, Cody Bellinger, Blake Snell and Jordan Montgomery — all clients of superagent Scott Boras. Soler is represented by MVP Sports Group.
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San Francisco, Oakland report warmest February morning on record
Saturday morning in the Bay Area was muggy and mild, if not warm. Temperatures only cooled down to the upper 50s to low 60s across much of the Bay Area – five to 15 degrees above average for late winter.
For San Francisco and Oakland, it was a record warm start to the last day of the month. With temperatures only dipping down to 62 in San Francisco, it was the warmest morning in recorded history during the month of February, and those records go back to 1875. The old record was 61° in 1985.
Oakland’s old record was also in 1985, when the low was 60°. Now Oakland’s new record for warmest February morning was set on Saturday, with a low of 61. It was also extremely muggy, with dew points in the upper 50s and humidity over 90%.
Why? It mostly has to do with the extremely warm blob of water sitting off the Bay Area’s coast. It’s technically called a “Marine Heatwave” and the one we are currently dealing with began in May 2025.
Normally this time of year, ocean temperatures are near 53 degrees – but it was about 57 near the Golden Gate Bridge as of Saturday morning.
Warmer ocean water warms up the air above it, and then winds carry the warmer air over land and warms us up. The warmer water also increases evaporation, raising moisture content in the air (aka humidity).
So now you know, you can blame the warm blob of ocean water for the reason it was so muggy.
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Giants scratch Rafael Devers from lineup with tight hamstring
Friday, February 27, 2026 9:48PM
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The San Francisco Giants scratched slugger Rafael Devers from the starting lineup because of a tight hamstring, keeping him out of a spring training game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday.
The three-time All-Star and 2018 World Series champion is starting his first full season with the Giants after they acquired him in a trade with the Boston Red Sox last year.
Devers hit 35 home runs and had 109 RBIs last season, playing 90 games with San Francisco and 73 in Boston. He signed a $313.5 million, 10-year contract in 2023 with the Red Sox.
He was 20 when he made his major league debut in Boston nine years ago, and he helped them win the World Series the following year.
Devers, who has 235 career homers and 747 RBIs, led Boston in RBIs for five straight seasons and has finished in the top 20 in voting for AL MVP five times.
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