The Giants are expected to sign outfielder Daniel Johnson to a minor league contract, reports Shayna Rubin of the San Francisco Chronicle. The former big leaguer opened the season with the Mexican League’s Caliente de Durango.
Johnson, 29, has posted comical numbers in the Mexican League’s supercharged run-scoring environment. He’s hitting .429/.512/.943 with five homers and three doubles through 41 plate appearances (10 games). It’s outrageous production, but readers should bear in mind that the league-average ERA in the Mexican League this year is a sky-high 5.77. The league-average batting line currently sits at an eye-popping .292/.369/.461. Johnson’s numbers remain excellent, of course, but comparing them to the levels of offense one might expect in affiliated ball would be misleading.
A fifth-round pick of the Nationals back in 2016, Johnson was traded to Cleveland in 2018’s Yan Gomes deal. He reached the bigs with Cleveland in 2020 and 2021, and he appeared in a single game with the Orioles just last year, tallying only one plate appearance. Johnson has just 95 big league plate appearances to his credit, during which he’s posted a .200/.242/.333 slash.
While those numbers clearly don’t stand out, the lefty-swinging Johnson has a better Triple-A track record. In parts of five seasons there, he’s a .255/.324/.446 hitter. That includes 500 plate appearances of league-average offense with the Orioles’ Norfolk affiliate last year (.259/.320/.448) and a stronger .296/.384/.583 performance with the Padres’ El Paso club back in 2023.
The Giants don’t have an immediate need for help in the outfield. Each of Heliot Ramos, Jung Hoo Lee and Mike Yastrzemski is enjoying a productive season at the plate — the latter two in particular (although Ramos has been on fire himself the past two weeks or so). Twenty-three-year-old Luis Matos is on hand as a seldom-used fourth outfielder at the moment. Depth options on the 40-man roster but down in Triple-A include Wade Meckler, Grant McCray and former shortstop prospect Marco Luciano, who’s been deployed strictly as a left fielder in 2025.
Johnson will add some further depth to that group. He’s played center field exclusively in Mexico this season but has 1200+ innings at all three outfield spots in his professional career.
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