Giants add Mark Canha at trade deadline

They say to keep paying attention after the official trade deadline expiration because some deals simply get announced a little after. I can’t recall that being the case often with the San Francisco Giants, so I was already deep into a brainstorm on a “The Giants have bet on themselves” deadline recap post when news hit the feed that they’d acquired Mark Canha from the Detroit Tigers.

The 35-year old San Jose native (more on that in a minute) and Cal grad who made his name with the A’s (.244/.344/.431 across 7 seasons and 2,492 PA) is in the final year of a 3-year, $36 million deal he originally signed with the Mets (and was questionable at the time) but was playing out the string in Detroit…