{"id":2149946,"date":"2025-11-11T22:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2149946"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:22:13","slug":"giants-royals-swap-mason-black-logan-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/giants-royals-swap-mason-black-logan-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants, Royals Swap Mason Black &#038; Logan Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Another day, another trade for the Royals. Kansas City acquired pitcher Mason Black, a former third-round pick recently DFA\u2019d by the Giants, in a trade with San Francisco. The Royals sent pitcher Logan Martin, currently playing in the Arizona Fall League, to the Giants as part of the deal.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the Royals get<\/h2>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/blackma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=newbaseballmedia.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-11_br\">Mason Black<\/a> worked 10 games across two seasons with the Giants at the MLB level. He hasn\u2019t had much success at the MLB level, though, as he owns a career ERA of 6.47.<\/p>\n<p>Black possesses a sneaky four-seam fastball, one that netted a Whiff% north of 30% at the Triple-A level. Low-arm slot, also uses a sinker, changeup, and low-80s sweeper that plays off the four-seamer. Black isn\u2019t a big velocity pitcher; it ranges in the 92-96 MPH range.<\/p>\n<p>Walks were a problem for Black with Sacramento (AAA) last season. The right-hander walked 62 over 119 innings for the River Cats.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants burned two options on the 25-year-old Black.<\/p>\n<p>Black became yet another addition for the Royals this winter. On November 10, the Royals acquired <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/misneka01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=newbaseballmedia.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-11_br\">Kameron Misner<\/a> from the Rays via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newbaseballmedia.com\/2025-transactions-royals-trade-for-rays-outfielder-kameron-misner\/\">trade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the Giants get<\/h2>\n<p>New Giants pitcher <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=martin007log,martin006log,martin000log,martin005log&amp;search=Logan+Martin&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=newbaseballmedia.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-11_br\">Logan Martin<\/a> was a 12th-round pick out of the University of Kentucky two years ago. He\u2019s worked almost exclusively as a starting pitcher in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Martin struck out 97 batters over 102 innings in Low-A back in 2024. This past year with High-A Quad Cities, Martin struck out 78 over 91.1 IP, and opposing batters hit just .223 off him. However, he hasn\u2019t put up great numbers in the Arizona Fall League this season. Martin walked eight and gave up 16 earned runs over 11 innings with Surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Martin, the right-hander, has a 92-96 MPH four-seam fastball and two-seamer, coupled with a cutter, mid-70s curveball, and mid-80s changeup.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newbaseballmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Logan-Martin-2025-AFL-Pitch-Movement.jpeg?resize=490%2C556&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Logan Martin 2025 AFL pitch movement\" class=\"wp-image-48904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newbaseballmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Logan-Martin-2025-AFL-Pitch-Movement.jpeg?w=490&amp;ssl=1 490w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newbaseballmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Logan-Martin-2025-AFL-Pitch-Movement.jpeg?resize=264%2C300&amp;ssl=1 264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Martin\u2019s four-seam is a high-carry one, a pitch that regularly hit 20\u201d of induced vertical movement in thee AFL.<\/p>\n<p>Check out more of our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newbaseballmedia.com\/category\/mlb\/\">MLB<\/a> coverage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-168501272-48900-6913b647a178b\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=15.3-a.1#blog_id=168501272&amp;post_id=48900&amp;origin=newbaseballmedia.com&amp;obj_id=168501272-48900-6913b647a178b\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-168501272-48900-6913b647a178b\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source newbaseballmedia.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another trade for the Royals. Kansas City acquired pitcher Mason Black, a former third-round pick recently DFA\u2019d by the Giants, in a trade with San Francisco. The Royals sent pitcher Logan Martin, currently playing in the Arizona Fall League, to the Giants as part of the deal. 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