CHICAGO (AP) — Kyle Harrison has a new role in his return to the San Francisco Giants.
Harrison joined San Francisco's bullpen ahead of a three-game series at the Chicago Cubs. The left-hander, one of the team's top prospects, started each of his first 106 appearances as a professional ballplayer.
“We've told him to be ready to pitch,” Giants manager Bob Melvin said Monday. “What we're trying to do here is, you know, you pitch well and you perform well then you work your way back, not necessarily in the role that he was in there. But in talking to him, he's going to embrace any opportunity that he gets.