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Lopez to Serve as Special Instructor During the San Francisco Giants’ Spring Training

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Javier Lopez has a Giant(s) responsibility…

The 39-year-old Puerto Rican former baseball pitcher, who recently retired from the San Francisco Giants, will work as a special instructor for the team at spring training.

Javier Lopez

Giants general manager Bobby Evans says that Lopez — an important reliever on the Giants’ World Series winners in 2010, ’12 and ’14 — would join the team at its Scottsdale spring home. Pitchers and catchers report Monday with their first workout Tuesday.

“Good for him. We really appreciate what he did here,” manager Bruce Bochy said of Lopez. “When we acquired him in 2010, he helped solidify that bullpen and helped us win that World Series in 2010, getting those big left-handers out for us. As good a player as he is, he’s a better person. Javi’s one of those guys that everybody likes, very much respected and appreciated as a teammate and of course, for me, what he did in the bullpen.”

The four-time World Series champion, who began his career with the Colorado Rockies in 2003, has also played for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates.

Boston Red Sox Reportedly Offer Sandoval a Lucrative Five-Year Deal

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Pablo Sandoval may soon be seeing Red (Sox)…

The 28-year-old Venezuelan professional baseball player, a free-agent third baseman, has reportedly been offered a five-year, $95 million contract with the Boston Red Sox, according to the Boston Globe.

Pablo Sandoval

The Red Sox have had their eye on Sandoval, whose nicknane is Kung Fu Panda, since the beginning of his free agency. He arrived in Boston on Monday night, had dinner with slugger David Ortiz, and according to a club source, met with team officials Tuesday before leaving the next day.

The San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres and Toronto Blue Jays also have interest in the switch-hitter, but a major league source indicated to the Globe on Friday that the Red Sox’s offer might be in the lead.

Sandoval would represent a significant offensive upgrade at third base for Boston. A career .294 hitter, he hit 16 home runs with 73 RBIs and 68 runs scored this past season for San Francisco.

Sandoval played a huge role in the Giants’ 2012 and 2014 World Series title runs, but the team did not discourage him from testing his value on the free-agent market. But they’ve also stayed involved in the bidding this offseason, with assistant general manager Bobby Evans telling the San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday: “I think the interest is sincere. I think Pablo loves this fan base as much as any player loves a fan base, and that could go a long way.”

The Red Sox have the financial flexibility under the luxury tax threshold to handle a five-year, $95 million contract. But given the weight issues that have saddled Sandoval since 2010, the club isn’t expected to display much enthusiasm for the six-year deal that agent Gustavo Vasquez said his client wants.

SF Giants Re-Sign Scutaro to $20M, Three-Year Contract

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Following in the footsteps of teammate Ángel Pagán, Marco Scutaro is staying in the Bay Area…

The 37-year-old Venezuelan baseball star has agreed to a $20 million, three-year contract with the San Francisco Giants.

Marco Scutaro

The team’s vice president of baseball operations, Bobby Evans, said all sides had agreed to the deal, pending a physical.

Earlier in the evening, Scutaro had been weighing a two-year contract offer that included a vesting option — but he was seeking a three-year deal to remain with the World Series champions.

The Giants and Scutaro’s representatives met Tuesday at the winter meetings in Nashville, Tenn.

Scutaro, the National League championship series MVP, batted .362 with three homers and 44 RBIs in 61 games with the Giants after he was acquired in a July 27 trade with Colorado Rockies.

Pagán & the San Francisco Giants Agree to Four-Year, $40M Deal

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It looks like free-agent center fielder Ángel Pagán is staying put in the Bay Area…

The 31-year-old Puerto Rican professional baseball player is thisclose to sealing a $40 million, four-year deal with the San Francisco Giants.

Angel Pagan

Bobby Evans, the team’s vice president of baseball operations, said the pact with Pagán was “very close” to being finalized and that the leadoff hitter would be subject to a physical to finalize his return to the reigning World Series champions.

Retaining Pagán was among the top priorities for the team’s general manager Brian Sabean this offseason, along with keeping recently re-signed left-handed reliever Jeremy Affeldt and second baseman Marco Scutaro.

Pagán batted .288 with eight home runs, 56 RBIs and a San Francisco-best 15 triples in his first season with the Giants. Pagán said late in the season and again after the World Series parade that he hoped to return, but wanted to test free agency and sought some job security in the form of a multiyear deal.

Whether NL championship series MVP Scutaro returns is still a question. He very well could have a new suitor in the mix after the New York Yankees said Monday that third baseman Alex Rodriguez will have surgery on his left hip and could be lost until the 2013 All-Star break.

Sabean said he likely wouldn’t address his bullpen until after first negotiating with the representatives for Pagán and Scutaro.

The 37-year-old Venezuelan Scutaro hit .362 with three homers and 44 RBIs in 61 games with the Giants after he was acquired in a trade with the Colorado Rockies.