Wilmer Flores has exercised his $3.5MM participant choice for the 2025 season, the Giants introduced. Flores signed a three-year, $16.5MM 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 $8.5MM membership choice to determine on if Flores did choose out.
In fact, this all grew to become a moot level resulting from an injury-marred 2024 season for the veteran infielder. Flores was bothered by knee issues all yr, leading to a pair of journeys to the injured listing and a season-ending Tenex process in early August. Flores concluded his twelfth Main League season with an unsightly .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 choice a fairly simple name, and the $3.5MM 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 workforce 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 kind 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 throughout the 2023 marketing campaign. Flores’ means to play first, second, and third base and his historically robust numbers in opposition to left-handed pitching made him a worthwhile member of the Giants’ platoon combine previous to this previous season. The Giants have been rumored to be within the combine for an even bigger improve at first base, but when such assist isn’t acquired, the workforce might fall again on a Flores/LaMonte Wade Jr. platoon on the chilly nook.