The Giants cleared three more names from their 40-man roster, outrighting left-hander Matt Gage, right-hander Jason Foley and infielder Osleivis Basabe, according to a team announcement. San Francisco also dropped outfielder Grant McCray and right-hander Braxton Roxby on waivers, with McCray going to the Mariners and Roxby landing with the Nationals.
Gage’s year was derailed by elbow trouble, which limited him to 27 1/3 innings. He finished with a 5.60 ERA, along with a 17.5% strikeout rate and a 13.5% walk rate.
Earlier in the season, he looked much more like the version the Giants had seen in previous stops, posting a 2.66 ERA across 50 2/3 innings over parts of three seasons with the Jays, Astros, Tigers and Giants. Even there, the strikeout rate sat around league average at 22%, and the walk rate came in at 9.8%.
His season started well enough, with a 1.96 ERA through the first two months, but things unraveled late. He was charged with 12 runs over his final 4 1/3 innings. Gage is reportedly expected to have a normal offseason, but San Francisco is dealing with 16 players on the 60-day injured list and has to carve out a large number of roster spots, so he became the odd man out.
Foley’s path was different, but the result landed in the same place. He joined the Giants while working back from 2025 surgery to repair a capsule strain/tear in his right shoulder, then made his season debut in mid-July.
In 26 innings, he put up a 4.15 ERA, though the underlying indicators weren’t as sharp. His 12.8% strikeout rate was well below his usual level, and his 9.4% walk rate was high for him.
From 2023-25, Foley struck out 18.4% of opposing hitters with a 5.9% walk rate. He still produced plenty of ground balls for San Francisco, but his velocity was down by more than a mile per hour from his Detroit days.
Basabe, 26, got a brief look with the Rays in 2023 and then didn’t return to the majors until the Giants brought him up this year. In 143 plate appearances, he hit .202/.268/.341.
For his big league career, he now owns a .208/.271/.329 line across 237 plate appearances. He showed solid minor league production through Double-A, but Triple-A has been a tougher test, and he has not come close to league-average offense at the major league level.
Gage, Foley and Basabe will all become minor league free agents and look for new opportunities this winter.
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