Rule 5 Decision: Michael Stryffeler
Who? Time to introduce the new guy!
This is the seventh in a series focusing on the Giants’ upcoming Rule 5 protection choices. There’s a fairly large selection of players who present challenging decisions, so we’ll take a look at them one by one. In previous editions, we’ve looked at:
Of all the players featured in these Rule 5 Decisions posts, Michael Stryffeler is undoubtedly the one who is least familiar to most of us. The kid who went undrafted out of Lake Erie College, signed as a free agent with Seattle in 2019, and then exploded up that system in 2021, came over to the Giants in a deadline deal that sent Curt Casali and Matthew Boyd to Seattle. A member of the Giants’ organization for less than two months, he’s thrown just 16 innings as a Giants’ prospect, posting an unappealing 7.88 ERA in the process (though keep in mind, Stryffeler was promoted to Triple A along with the trade, so those were his very first innings in the explosive PCL). But behind those numbers, there are other numbers that baseball decision makers have come to value much more.
Those numbers tell the story of why the Giants targeted Stryffeler. And those numbers tell the story of why other organizations might be interested in the hard-throwing right hander as well.
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