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Called Shots →Ryan Walker does not appear in a major league game for the San Francisco Giants at any point in the remainder of the 2026 regular season, meaning he throws no major league pitch from September 5 through the end of the regular season. RIGHT if he makes no appearance. WRONG if he appears in one or more games. Resolves off the league's official box scores.
Ryan Walker is NOT on the San Francisco Giants' 40-man roster on Opening Day of the 2027 regular season, counting the 40-man as MLB publishes it that day and treating a player on the 60-day injured list as NOT on it. RIGHT if he is absent. WRONG if he is on it. Resolves off MLB's published 40-man roster for teamId 137 on Opening Day 2027.
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San Francisco Claimed A Reliever Milwaukee Waived, So Ryan Walker Is Going To Sacramento For The Third Time
San Francisco optioned right-hander Ryan Walker to Triple-A Sacramento on Saturday morning, the third time it has optioned him in 2026, and activated right-hander Joel Kuhnel, whom it claimed off waivers from Milwaukee on Friday after the Brewers designated him for assignment on Wednesday. The move was forced by two ceilings: the Giants carried 28 active players and 14 pitchers before it, and all thirty major league clubs were carrying exactly 28 and exactly 14 on Saturday, measured off MLB's active-roster endpoint. Walker led the 2025 Giants with 17 saves out of the 41 the club recorded in 162 games, with Camilo Doval taking 15 of the rest. This season he has a 7.16 ERA across 33 appearances and 32.2 innings, with 19 walks, one more than he issued in 80.0 innings in 2024, when his ERA was 1.91. Opponents have scored in 16 of his 33 outings. His three optional assignments came on May 10, July 9 and September 5, with recalls on June 12 and August 24; in his last stint he allowed four runs across 6.1 innings in six appearances, the first three scoreless, two runs on August 29 and one in each of the last two. San Francisco has made 49 optional assignments across 26 players in 2026, led by Tristan Beck's six. Ten different Giants have recorded a save this year, 26 in total through 142 games, with Caleb Kilian's eight the most. Walker was San Francisco's 31st-round pick in 2018, No. 916 overall, out of Washington State. The club is 58-84, eliminated in the National League West, with a wild-card elimination number of five and 20 games left. Sacramento has 14 games left and its regular season ends September 20. Two takes filed.
San Francisco's Active Roster Does Not List A Shortstop
San Francisco placed Willy Adames (left elbow sprain on the transaction log; MLB.com reported an MRI showing a moderate strain of the non-throwing elbow, and the two wordings are recorded here as published rather than blended) and Victor Bericoto (right knee bone bruise) on the 10-day injured list on August 24 and JT Brubaker (bruised ribs) on the 15-day, all three hurt in Sunday's 5-4 loss at Boston. Bryce Eldridge went on the bereavement list and Matt Wilkinson was optioned. The Giants recalled five men from Triple-A Sacramento the same day: Nate Furman, Grant McCray, Anthony Molina, Ryan Walker and Shay Whitcomb. Adames had started 121 games at shortstop and played 1,046.1 innings there; MLB's active-roster page now lists no shortstop among the 26. Christian Koss, a third baseman with 71 innings at short this year and two innings pitched, played the position Monday while Whitcomb made his Giants debut at third. San Francisco won 5-0 behind six pitchers after losing starter Carson Whisenhunt in the third inning to left elbow pain. Whisenhunt was scheduled for an MRI on Tuesday morning and no result has been published. The Giants have used 58 players this season, tied with the Angels and the Athletics for fifth-most in the majors against a league median of 52, and seven of them made their San Francisco debut in August.
