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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.
San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder will resume her duties next week after taking a three-month leave of absence due to mental health.
“I’m coming clear-eyed and grounded and eager to serve in this role again,” Fielder said in a video posted to social media Tuesday.
Fielder was first elected in 2024 to serve District 9, which includes the Mission District and Bernal Heights and Portola neighborhoods. In late March of this year, her staffers announced she was taking a leave of absence to address an “acute personal health crisis” after missing a few weeks of Board of Supervisors meetings.
“I left the work that I love so much, not because I wanted to, but because my mental health demanded it, and I say that with no shame,” she said.
In the video statement, Fielder mentioned that the pressure of serving as a supervisor took a toll on her mental health.
“I’ve often felt like the weight of this district and city is on my shoulders, and I, through this leave, have had the silver lining of understanding that it never has,” she said. “I was going 100 miles an hour since early 2023 when I started the campaign for supervisor, and being a grassroots candidate is a lot of elbow grease.”
Fielder’s staff continued some of the work in her district while she was gone. She thanked her colleagues and Mayor Daniel Lurie for their support and allowing her to be excused from meetings.
Fielder will return to work Monday and appear at the June 30 board meeting. She is also expected to host listening sessions in her district through July.
“I am an example that it is possible to come back and heal,” she said. “I could not be more honored to serve and more ready to serve.”
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The 2026 MLB season has surpassed the quarter mark, and after each team’s first 40 games, there’s plenty of reasons to tune in all summer long.
Chicago White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami has already proven doubters wrong by launching 17 home runs, Pittsburgh’s Paul Skenes consistently looks like the best version of himself on the mound and Milwaukee ace Jacob Misiorowski is throwing harder than any starter in the majors.
The MLB action continues on Tuesday as the Athletics visit the San Francisco Giants.
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