SF Giants Injury Updates: Murphy & Meckler

The San Francisco Giants have provided injury updates for outfielder Wade Meckler and catcher Tom Murphy as Spring Training continues in AZ.

BY FRANKIE CARTOSCELLI

Mar 11, 2025, 8:19 AM

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The final weeks of Spring Training have arrived, and the San Francisco Giants are moving closer to beginning the 2025 regular season on March 27th in Cincinnati.

While the Giants (11-3) are off to an impressive start to Spring action in Arizona, a few players dealing with injuries continue to work their way back to the active roster.

San Francisco provided updates on outfielder Wade Meckler (neck) and catcher Tom Murphy (back) as another week of Cactus League action gets underway:

San Francisco Giants injury updates

Wade Meckler (mild neck strain and concussion) was re-evaluated by team doctors this morning and diagnosed with a mild neck strain and will enter concussion protocol.

Tom Murphy (mid-back disk herniation) is getting his second epidural injection this morning here in Arizona. He will be rehab only for the next two weeks.

With two weeks of Spring Training to go, the San Francisco Giants could get Meckler back in the fold by the team camp breaks, although it’s possible he could start the season with AAA Sacramento.

The Giants have its starting outfield set–Heliot Ramos, Jung Hoo Lee, and Mike Yastrzemski, from left to right–and Luis Matos has a leg up on the backup spot, leaving Meckler on the outside looking in.

As for Murphy, who has dealt with the injury bug since joining San Francisco last season, the prospect of joining the Giants by Opening Day is very unlikely.

Catchers Sam Huff and local product Max Stassi are currently in a battle for the backup catcher spot behind starter Patrick Bailey.

Huff has been impressive in Spring, batting .313 with one home run over eight appearances. Stassi, known for his elite framing skills behind the plate, is batting .154 with one RBI thus far.

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The Athletics will be wearing a reminder of their eventual home on their jerseys this season.

The A’s will wear a “Las Vegas” patch on their sleeves, thanks to a three-year sponsorship deal with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. The A’s will be playing the next three seasons at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento, Calif., then are scheduled to move into a new stadium in Las Vegas for the 2028 season.

Unable to secure a stadium deal in Oakland, the A’s left the city it had called home since 1968 after last season.

“We’re going to be partners for a very, very long time, and we really thought that during these three years of interim play in Sacramento that celebrating coming to Vegas was something that was really important,” team owner John Fisher told The Athletic.

The deal will pay the Athletics $2.5 million in 2025, with the amount going up an additional $250,000 in each subsequent year of the agreement, according to Steve Hill, head of the LVCVA, per The Athletic.

The team that makes the most on its sponsorship deal is believed to be the New York Yankees, who earn roughly $25 million a year from their deal with Starr Insurance, according to the report.

Although the A’s will display the name of their future home on their sleeves, their jerseys will not bear the name of the city they actually play in, Sacramento, across the front. Before moving to their permanent home, they will be known as just the A’s or Athletics.

The Vegas patch will appear on each player’s dominant arm. The team will wear a Sacramento patch on the opposite sleeve.

“We’re very excited to be opening the season shortly here in Sacramento,” Fisher said. “It’s a great city and one that’s been extremely supportive of our coming here. But it’s always been clear from the beginning that our years in Sacramento were going to be interim years. I think Sacramento is an incredible market for an expansion team down the road, but we’re coming to Las Vegas, and so we felt that it was appropriate and was the right thing to just be the Athletics during those interim years.”