SF Giants promote recent trade acquisition to Triple-A

The Sacramento River Cats will have a new arm in the bullpen. The SF Giants have promoted recent trade acquisition Braxton Roxby to Triple-A, per a team announcement.

SF Giants promote recent trade acquisition to Triple-A

The Giants acquired Roxby in a trade that sent Taylor Rogers to the Cincinnati Reds. Rogers spent two seasons with San Francisco before the trade. Despite a solid 2.40 ERA in 64 appearances last year, manager Bob Melvin rarely relied on him in leverage situations.

Rogers was no longer much of a fit with the club, even if the trade has left the Giants without a second left-handed reliever in the bullpen. He is in the final year of a three-year, $33 million deal. The Giants were able to unload half of his 2025 salary to the Reds while adding Roxby. This has turned out to be a solid move for Cincinnati, as Rogers has recorded a 2.89 ERA in 34 outings.

In Roxby, the Giants added a bullpen prospect with huge strikeout numbers and subpar command. In fairness to that second point, it does look like he would rather miss away from the zone than the middle of the plate. This leads to a lot of misses around the edges of the strike zone. To Roxby's credit, the control has been cleaned up since joining the Giants organization.

Overall, he has a 3.83 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 12.3 K/9, and a 3.10 SO/W ratio across five minor league seasons. This includes a strong 2025 campaign with the Richmond Flying Squirrels, where he has registered a 1.20 ERA, 1.96 FIP, 0.80 WHIP, 12.0 K/9, and a 4.44 SO/W rate across 30 innings.

The right-handed reliever has been incredibly stingy at allowing home runs. He did not yield a home run with Richmond, and the last home run he allowed was on May 1 of last season. That is 54 straight appearances without allowing a long ball.

On the mound, Roxby throws from a low, three-quarters release point. He relies on a mid-90's sinker with a sweeper that sits in the low 80's. Roxby will throw an occasional changeup. The sinker gets a healthy number of ground balls, whereas he deploys the sweeper as his swing-and-miss pitch. At times, he has shown a better feel for his sweeper than his sinker.