In a twist just before the start of spring training, the San Francisco Giants signed three-time World Series champion and former World Series MVP Pablo Sandoval as a non-roster invitee to the team’s camp in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Sandoval, 37, has been out of MLB since 2021 but is planning on making a comeback bid this spring. On Monday, Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi offered a different reason for bringing in Sandoval, who is nicknamed “Kung Fu Panda.”
Zaidi joked to reporters that the club had to sign Sandoval because the Giants great was sending him too many workout videos, per Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area.
