The Giants will have two players in Tuesday night’s All-Star Game, with second baseman Luis Arraez on the National League bench and Logan Webb on the roster even if he probably won’t pitch. But the stranger part of this year’s midsummer showcase is that two other All-Stars with brief Giants ties are also in Philadelphia - and neither one ever played a big league game for San Francisco.
Tristan Peters, now with the Chicago White Sox, is an American League reserve. Otto Lopez of the Miami Marlins made the National League team as a reserve. Both passed through the Giants organization during the Farhan Zaidi years, and both were easy to overlook at the time.
Peters arrived from the Milwaukee Brewers in 2022 in the Trevor Rosenthal deal, then did very little in Double-A for San Francisco. He hit .212/.302/.303 with one home run and 17 runs batted in, which made it easy for the Giants to move on later that year.
They sent him to the Tampa Bay Rays for Brett Wisely, a swap that looked straightforward enough at the time. Wisely became a useful utility piece for San Francisco, while Peters kept moving.
His path got even more unlikely from there. Peters made his big league debut with Tampa Bay last year and went hitless in 12 plate appearances.
The Rays later dumped him for cash, and Chicago has gotten the payoff. This season, he’s batting .301/.354/.478 with six home runs and 36 runs batted in.
Lopez’s Giants stint was even shorter. He was in big league spring training with San Francisco in 2024, didn’t do much, and was designated for assignment in early April.
Miami claimed him, and he settled in as a solid player over the last two seasons before taking another step forward this year. Lopez is hitting .334/.368/.505 with nine homers and 45 runs batted in, and he currently owns the best batting average in MLB.
The batting title race may come down to him and Arraez.
It leaves the Giants with a weird little what-if attached to this All-Star Game. There’s a version of the story where Lopez is the shortstop of the 2026 Giants and Peters is the right fielder. Instead, both are making noise elsewhere, a reminder that players can look ordinary one year and turn into All-Stars the next.
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