SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Giants brought all of their players in for individual meetings over the first couple of weeks of camp, and manager Gabe Kapler and his coaches tried to be transparent about what they wanted to see. It turns out they're also remarkably transparent when a player is headed out of the clubhouse.
Seventeen players were sent out on the first day of cuts, with a few surprises. Jandel Gustave seemed to have shown enough last year that he would stick around the bullpen race for a while, and Chris Shaw and Kean Wong stood out as two who might not have expected to end up in minor league camp this quickly, Shaw because of his previous big league experience and Wong because he was the rare left-handed bat in the infield competition.