Giants General Manager Brian Sabean says that relief pitcher Brian Wilson will not be returning to the San Francisco Giants' ball club in 2013 and that the New York Mets have targeted him.
Wilson appeared in only two games last year before undergoing Tommy John Surgery. The Giants' closer made $8.2 million last year before he was non-tendered in November making him a free agent. The minimum the Giants could have offered Wilson would have been $6.8 million for 2013.
Sabean did leave the possibility open however for a one year Wilson return.
“I’m going to be brutally honest as I always am, I don’t [think Wilson will return],” Sabean said during an event in Midtown on Saturday. “In this case, where you are getting a second Tommy John…it’s the type of rehab where he’s still not further up along to judge exactly where he may be able to come back in major league fashion, let alone as a closer.”
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Sabean did leave the possibility open however for a one year Wilson return.
“We spoke to [Wilson’s] agent repeatedly before we made the initial decision not to tender him a contract, to speak about, which in this case is very normal, starting with a low base and then from there building with incentives,” Sabean said.The closer is a three time All Star who the Giants owe a debt of gratitude. He's saved 171 games over seven seasons including a league high of 48 saves in 2010 when the Giants won the World Series.
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