Sources: Haniger to Giants on 3 years, $43.5M

Outfielder Mitch Haniger and the San Francisco Giants agreed connected a three-year, $43.5 cardinal declaration Tuesday, sources told ESPN, filling a spread successful the Giants' outfield arsenic they proceed to their free-agent pursuit of American League MVP Aaron Judge.

Haniger, who turns 32 aboriginal this month, has posted star-caliber numbers successful the 2 seasons helium has been steadfast but has struggled with injuries passim his large league career, astir of which helium spent successful Seattle. With the Mariners past season, helium deed .246/.308/.429 with 11 location runs and 34 RBIs successful 57 games, helping propel the squad to its archetypal playoff berth successful 2 decades.

One play earlier, Haniger showed the benignant of endowment that led the Giants to see a multiyear woody astatine $14.5 cardinal a season. He deed 39 location runs, bully for 5th successful the AL, and drove successful 100 runs portion posting 3.9 Wins Above Replacement implicit 157 games, according to Baseball-Reference.

The Giants' offseason began with outfielder Joc Pederson accepting a $19.65 cardinal qualifying offer. It continues with Haniger and could see Judge, who past twelvemonth spent a bulk of his clip successful halfway tract but has played astir of his vocation successful right. Along with Haniger and Mike Yastrzemski, Judge could beryllium portion of the outfield portion Pederson spends astir of his clip astatine designated hitter.

Long a instrumentality favourite and person successful Seattle, Haniger joined the Mariners successful November 2016, erstwhile Arizona -- which drafted him successful the archetypal circular of the 2012 draught -- traded him on with Jean Segura for infielder/outfielder Ketel Marte and pitcher Taijuan Walker.

Haniger instantly produced for Seattle, putting up OPSs of .843 successful his archetypal season. His champion twelvemonth came successful 2018, erstwhile helium played 157 games and deed .285/.366/.493 with 26 location runs and played good above-average defence successful close field.

The adjacent season, successful 2019, Haniger suffered a ruptured testicle aft a foul shot took an unfortunate carom. The wounded kept him retired for the remainder of the season, and helium missed important clip with backmost and halfway injuries, not playing successful 2020.

His 2021 instrumentality was hailed successful Seattle, wherever Haniger helped steer the Mariners to the cusp of the postseason with a bevy of clutch hits. He'll present slot into the mediate of a Giants lineup that ranked 11th successful shot successful runs scored but mislaid three-quarters of its infield -- archetypal baseman Brandon Belt, shortstop Brandon Crawford and 3rd baseman Evan Longoria -- to escaped agency.