The Philadelphia Phillies have signed infielder Mike Fontenot to a minor league deal, Jim Bowden of ESPN and MLB Network Radio reports. Just before the start of the season, the Giants released Fontenot.
Fontenot posted a .227 avg, .304 OBP and.377 SLG in 252 plate while logging time at second base, shortstop and third base [...]
04/13/12
The San Francisco Giants have release Mike Fontenot, Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
The Giants had signed Fontenot to a one-year $1.05mm to avoid arbitration this offseason.
Fontenot posted a .227 avg, .304 OBP and.377 SLG in 252 plate while logging time at second base, shortstop and third base last season.
Look for Fotenot to [...]
03/30/12
The Giants have signed Bill Hall reports Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports. The Giants became interested yesterday in Hall, after second baseman Freddy Sanchez dislocated his right shoulder diving for a ball.
One option for the Giants would have been Mike Fontenot, but he left Friday night game in Triple-A with a groin injury.
Hall hit .224 in [...]
06/11/11
The San Francisco Giants have added Brandon Crawford and Chris Stewart to the team’s 40-man roster and in doing so they designated Ryan Rohlinger and Henry Sosa for assignment, according to team’s official Twitter page.
In a parallel move, the Giants placed Buster Posey on the disabled list with a fracture to the bone in his [...]
05/26/11
Yesterday, Mark DeRosa re-injured his wrist as he was cocking his bat for a pitch from Clayton Kershaw. Although he’s day-to-day manager Bruce Bochy said “It looks like he’s going to be out for a while.” (Via Chris Haft of MLB.com).
With Pablo Sandoval also on the Disabled List, the Giants will probably use Miguel Tejada [...]
05/19/11
The San Francisco Giants have discussed a possible trade involving Jose Reyes of the New York Mets, according to a Major League source close to Mychael Urban and CSNBayArea.com.
The Giants are short two infielders with Pablo Sandoval out due to a fractured right hand and Mark DeRosa being out due to wrist issues. San Francisco [...]
05/04/11
After losing Juan Uribe to the Dodgers, the Giants decided to sign another veteran shortstop, Miguel Tejada, to a one-year deal for about a third of the money Uribe signed for.
ESPN’s Buster Olneysays that Tejada wasn’t their first choice at shortstop and he may not be manning shortstop by the end of this season either.
The soon-to-be 37-years [...]
03/23/11
San Jose Mercury News’ Andrew Baggarly, says via Twitter that the Giants are out on the Jason Bartlett trade.
There were conflicting reports in regards to the Giants’ interest in Bartlett due to the agreement with infielder Miguel Tejada from earlier today. Having both Tejada and Bartlett on the team may be redundant for the Giants.
Shortly [...]
12/01/10
Yesterday’s trade of infielder Mike Fontenot to the San Francisco Giants may not be the last of the Cubs’ in-season deals.
”It’s hard to say if it’ll be the last one,” assistant general manager Randy Bush said . ”Anything that we can do that we feel is to the betterment of the organization we’re going to [...]
08/12/10
According to Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News, the San Francisco Giants have acquired infielder Mike Fontenot from the Chicago Cubs. Baggarly adds that Fontenot was acquired for Single-A infielder Evan Crawford.
Mychael Urban of Comcast Sportsnet Bay Area was the first to report that the San Francisco Giants were working on a deal [...]
08/12/10