SAN FRANCISCO — Giants second baseman Freddy Sanchez is sticking around for another year.
San Francisco rewarded Sanchez with a new deal Friday that adds a $6 million salary for 2012, securing a key member of the infield for the World Series champions.
The 33-year-old Sanchez signed a $12 million, two-year deal with the Giants on Oct. 30, 2009, after coming to San Francisco at the trading deadline from Pittsburgh that year.
He has dealt with his share of injuries in his short stint with the Giants. But the 2006 NL batting champion and three-time all-star hit .254 with four doubles and three RBIs in 15 games in his first career postseason last fall after nine years in the big leagues.
Sanchez was the first player in major-league history with three doubles in his first three World Series at-bats as the Giants captured their first championship since moving West in 1958.
Former Red Sox GM dies
BOSTON — Former Red Sox general manager Lou Gorman, the architect of the team that came within one strike of winning the 1986 World Series, died of congestive heart failure. He was 82.
“All he wanted to do was make it to opening day, and he made it,” said his nephew, Tom Dougherty. “He lived a great life.”
Gorman died peacefully after an illness of almost a year, surrounded by his family at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dougherty said.
James “Lou” Gorman was the Red Sox general manager from 1984-93, building the 1986 AL championship team led by Roger Clemens, Wade Boggs, Jim Rice and Dwight Evans that was one strike away from winning the World Series. It wasn’t until 2004 that the Red Sox finally won it all and ended what had become an 86-year title drought.
Footnotes.
Orioles left-hander Brian Matusz was scratched from his scheduled start today because of soreness on the left side of his mid-back.
• The Diamondbacks hired former NBA executive Jerry Krause as a special assistant to help in scouting and player development. Krause had been the director of international scouting for the White Sox since last May.
