MLB-Kevin Gausman: The San Francisco Giants “never made me an offer”

It was known that San Francisco Giants looking to re-sign pitcher Kevin Gausman, and as the free-agent right-hander neared his decision, it seemed the Giants were one of the favorites to put Gausman’s name on the dotted line.

As interested as the club may have been in a meeting, it appears the Giants’ explorations never manifested into an actual contract offer. According to Gausman himself through his Twitter account:

I want to make things clear [porque] there have been many [BS] about this. SF never made me an offer. Simple as that.”

It doesn’t appear that Gausman necessarily resented the lack of an offer, since after signing with the Toronto Blue Jays Before the lockout, he sent out a couple of tweets thanking both Giants and San Francisco fans.

Gausman’s 2020 season in San Francisco was impressive enough that the Giants issued him a qualifying offer after the season, and the two sides discussed a multi-year deal before Gausman finally he will choose to accept the QO of one year and $18.9MM.

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With Gausman pitching even better in 2021, the right-hander was now well lined up for a much larger multiyear contract than what would have been on the table from the Giants or other teams in the 2020-21 offseason, and Gausman wound up landing a five-year, $110 million deal from the Blue Jays.

Raphael Martinez

I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and all Mexican baseball in general. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover major events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterruptedly since 2009), signatures of important players. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, although as a fan. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but I have baseball in my veins. Degree in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and a reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I arrived at El Debate as a journalist reporter and it was almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to the radio providing my services at Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and a few days later, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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