Giants lose Jung Hoo Lee for season – Passion MLB

This week, the San Francisco Giants learned some very bad news regarding their outfielder Jung Hoo Lee. The 25-year-old Japanese will not play again this season, having to undergo surgery on his left shoulder.

Lee signed a six-year deal with the Giants this winter and many saw him as a potential candidate for National League Rookie of the Year. The signing of Lee paved the way for the arrival of Matt Chapman, Jorge Soler, Jordan Hicks and Blake Snell to the Giants, who had been struggling to attract good players to San Francisco for several years already. Of the lot, Hicks is the one who is performing the best at the moment, with a 3-1 record and a 2.44 ERA as a starter so far this season.

The young outfielder dislocated his shoulder when he violently hit the center field fence against the Cincinnati Reds. For Lee, this will be a second operation of the same kind, he who suffered the same fate in 2018, in South Korea.

So far, the speedy outfielder was hitting for a .262 average with 38 hits in 145 at-bats.

The announcement of Lee's loss for the season coincided with Jorge Soler's return to play. The latter returned to the game yesterday against the Colorado Rockies following a short stay on the injured list. Soler and his teammates doubled the Rockies to a score of 10-5. Luis Matos, who occupied center field in Lee's absence, shone during this victory against the Rockies.

Matos produced half of his team's runs with three hits in five at-bats. He thus became the youngest Giants player, since Pablo Sandoval in 2008, to produce five points in the same game. Matt Chapman and Thairo Estrada also had three hits each in the victory.

So far, the Giants are not living up to the expectations placed on them. Bob Melvin's charges are playing .457 and are in second-to-last place in their division, eight and a half games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The arrival of very good elements via the free agent market had given hope to the team's fans, but the chemistry does not seem to want to settle in and most of the newcomers have disappointed so far. Blake Snell was unable to make his appearance, he who should join the team next week following a move to the AAA level in order to return to form due to discomfort in his left arm.

As for them, Chapman and Soler do not meet their manager's expectations and Chapman even struggles defensively, he who is considered one of the best in his position. Yesterday, Soler occupied the top rung of Melvin's offensive role at the go-to hitter position. He had one hit in four appearances in his return to the game and scored one of the Giants' ten runs.

The experienced Giants manager had to dip into his bag of tricks to allow his club to emerge victorious against the Rockies. To make up for the poor outing of his starter, Mason Black, Melvin used six other pitchers to control the Colorado attack.

To date, the result of the winter work of the president of baseball operations at the Giants, Farhan Zaidi, is negligible, but the best is to come and the return of Snell in the rotation should improve the picture by the end, even if the The team's current position in the standings says otherwise.