Right-hander Gregory Santos has rejected an outright assignment to Triple-A Sacramento and will instead become a free agent, per Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco had passed Santos through waivers unclaimed earlier in the week.
Santos, 27 in August, returned to the Giants organization (with which he made his 2021 big league debut) as a minor league free agent this past offseason. He found his way back to Oracle Park when the Giants selected his contract in late April. He wound up pitching five innings in the majors, allowing a pair of runs on five hits and three walks with one strikeout. Things have been rockier in Triple-A. Santos has pitched 15 2/3 innings there and been tagged for 12 runs (6.89 ERA) on 17 hits and 11 walks with 11 strikeouts. He also missed about a month due to an adductor strain.
Despite his relative youth, Santos now has experience in parts of six big league seasons — three with the Giants. Originally signed out of his native Dominican Republic by the Red Sox, Santos was traded to the Giants as part of the 2017 Eduardo Nunez deal. He’s since been shipped to the White Sox (for cash) and from Chicago to Seattle (in exchange for Zach DeLoach, Prelander Berroa and a Competitive Balance draft pick).
Santos has one excellent major league season under his belt and several shakier campaigns that have been derailed by injury. In 2023, the right-hander pitched a career-high 66 1/3 innings for the South Siders. He notched a terrific 3.39 ERA with six holds, five saves, a 22.8% strikeout rate, a 5.9% walk rate and a big 52.5% ground-ball rate. The Sox, then rebuilding, promptly sent him to the Mariners in an offseason trade. The Mariners surrendered a pick and a pair of minor leaguers, hoping they’d acquired a bullpen cornerstone they could control for five more seasons.
That might’ve proven to be the case … had Santos stayed healthy. Instead, the injury bug bit almost immediately. Santos suffered a lat strain during spring training 2024, sidelining him into July. He was activated, pitched 5 1/3 innings, and then sustained a biceps injury that sent him back to the injured list for another eight weeks. His 2025 season opened with diminished velocity, and by late April he was undergoing surgery to repair the cartilage in his right knee. He never made it back to a big league mound, and Seattle opted to non-tender him in November.
There’s a clearly talented arm under that pile of injuries, as Santos’ terrific 2023 season illustrates. However, he made his professional debut with Boston’s Dominican Summer League club all the way back in 2016 but still has only 347 1/3 professional innings under his belt due to myriad health troubles. The canceled 2020 minor league season didn’t do him any favors in that regard, but Santos has also never reached even 50 innings in a professional season outside that peak 2023 showing. If he’s healthy, he’ll likely catch on as a minor league free agent somewhere — perhaps back with the Giants. Francys Romero of BeisbolFR.com reports that several clubs have already contacted the righty to show interest. If Santos can pitch his way back to the majors, he’d be optionable for the balance of the 2026 season and controlled three more years via arbitration.
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