Later this month, the Giants will honor for the primary time one of many groups that delivered San Francisco three World Collection trophies in a span of 5 seasons. However 4 of crucial and beloved members of these groups received’t be in attendance.
Twenty 4 gamers and coaches from the 2012 World Collection staff are scheduled to be at Oracle Park on Saturday to rejoice the 10-year anniversary of the championship, however Buster Posey, Tim Lincecum, Pablo Sandoval and Brian Wilson received’t be becoming a member of the festivities.
“We're actually excited to welcome again a lot of the 2012 staff this weekend and we will certainly miss those that couldn't attend for quite a few completely different causes, together with prior commitments, work and sudden life occasions,” Shana Daum, the Giants’ Senior Vice President, Public Affairs & Neighborhood Relations, wrote in an electronic mail on Tuesday.
The Giants introduced the visitor listing Tuesday morning:
- Jeremy Affeldt
- Bruce Bochy
- Matt Cain
- Santiago Casilla
- Justin Christian
- Steve Edlefsen
- Bobby Evans
- Tim Flannery
- Mark Gardner
- George Kontos
- Javier Lopez
- Shane Loux
- Guillermo Mota
- Xavier Nady
- Dan Otero
- Angel Pagan
- Hunter Pence
- Dave Righetti
- Dan Runzler
- Hector Sanchez
- Nate Schierholtz
- Marco Scutaro
- Ryan Vogelsong
- Barry Zito
Though the 2012 staff received the second of these three World Collection titles, it is going to be the primary to be honored, after the COVID-19 pandemic prevented the 2010 staff from gathering in 2020.
The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. Saturday, and the primary 20,000 followers will obtain one in all three bobbleheads: Pence, Scutaro or Posey.
Whereas Lincecum has famously disappeared from the general public eye since retiring from baseball in 2017, Posey has made a number of appearances at Oracle Park since his retirement on the finish of final season.
The Giants hosted Buster Posey Day earlier this season, and Posey was additionally in attendance for Will Clark’s quantity retirement ceremony final month, which Daum wrote was why Posey received’t be on the occasion.
“He was simply right here for Will’s retirement two weeks in the past and along with his house now in Georgia and his children beginning faculty the timing made it a problem and never doable,” Daum wrote. “He was undoubtedly attempting to make it however plans to be right here for the 2014 reunion and plenty of instances earlier than that!”
The final time Linecum was noticed on the shores of McCovey Cove was in 2019 for the retirement of Bruce Bochy, the supervisor of these three World Collection groups. Daum famous that Lincecum “had wished to be on the park for this and different occasions however sadly just isn't capable of be this season.”
Wilson, the colourful and dominating nearer was a last-minute scratch, based on Daum. “He had undoubtedly deliberate to attend however needed to cancel earlier this week,” Daum wrote..
Sandoval, 35, is taking part in for Olmecas de Tabasco within the Mexican League, the place he's batting .311. Sandoval performed in 69 video games with the Atlanta Braves final season.
Aubrey Huff additionally isn’t on the listing, though that isn’t an enormous shock. In 2020 the staff banned Huff from the deliberate 2010 World Collection reunion due to ‘unacceptable’ social media posts.