In depth in the career of the giants, Wilmer Flores shows San Francisco too he will be there for them

Wilmer Flores came to beat on Saturday for the 2,000th time as a member of the San Francisco Giants. If he knew he would have been around for so long, he would have invested in the real estate sector.

“I signed a two -year agreement with an option,” Flores explained, smiling. “They collected my option and then I signed a two -year agreement with another option. So this is the option, this is my sixth year. Never purchased.”

Flores has 33 now, with over 11 years of service of the Major League, according to Justin Verlander’s giants. That’s why they got angular lockers from showers in the visitors’ club house to the Yankee Stadium this weekend. State symbols.

Not that Flores worries about this. He tends to beat in the order and guided in all the giants’ runs in a defeat 8-4 against the New York Yankees on Saturday. Flores – who also perforated his sixth home race, linked to the maximum in the majors – now has 19 RBI. The last giant with so many RBI at the beginning of the season was Barry Bonds in 2004.

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“Having that type of production over there (with) the year he has had, you may be a little pungent to hit the Seven Hole,” said manager Bob Melvin. “He just wants to help his team.”

His team, more than any other, will soon be the giants. Flores played 556 games for the giants, only 25 shy of his total with the mets. The child who torn famous on the field in 2015, when he thought that the mets had exchanged him, is now a giant consumed.

“It is one of the best teammates in which he has ever been around,” said the appetizer of the giants Logan Webb, one of the three players, with Tyler Rogers and Mike Yastzemski, who were with the team longer than Flores.

“He is a professional. If he is starting, if he is leaving the bench, if he hasn’t played for 10 days, he is the same boy. The boys see him and want to be around. I think everyone in this Club House would have guaranteed to be here for the rest of his career.”

For Flores, the giants gave him the perspective and the expert he could not have with the Mets, who signed him the day after his sixteenth birthday in 2007. He reached the majors on the day he turned 22 years old and spent most of 2014, his official Rookie season, in a point where he did not adapt.

“I never wanted to play short,” Flores said. “Even when I was doing tests in Venezuela, the boy who managed the academy was like” Oh, move shortly, that’s where the money is. “I was like” I know there is also money with the initial launchers, but I can’t launch! “”

As resting as it was in short circuit, Flores has still started there for the mets in the World Series 2015. The possibility of doing it, believes, is the cosmic reason for his aspiring trade with the Milwaukee Brewers collapsed in that end of July when the fans knew before the Mets were on the edge of an agreement.

“After they gave me an ovation, I wondered why,” Flores said. “I entered and checked my phone – I shouldn’t tell people, but whatever – because I wanted to know, and not even the manager was telling me because he didn’t even know it.

“So I went to check my phone and saw on MLB, do you know when they send you a notification on a trade? It was:” Zack Wheeler and Wilmer Flores for Carlos Gomez. “He said that the team did not confirmed, but I was like” ok, I was mistaken. “It was then that I went back to the field and afterwards I got excited because I just saw that I was exchanged, but nobody told me.”

The Mets stopped for medical concerns and two nights later, Flores beat Washington with a race at home, helping to catapult the team to a post-installation run culminating with an unlikely banner. It took some time for Flores to elaborate everything.

“I didn’t realize how lucky I was,” he said. “It was the first World Series of Bartolo Colon, and had never been in the great championships for 20 years. But I realized all this after – how, years later. Because I was young. I thought:” Oh, this is the playoffs, we are a good team, we will be here every year. “”

Flores was the latest Mets batter in their five -games defeat in Kansas City, hitting looking on a fast ball by Wade Davis who was probably a ball. In his next post-installation series, six years later, with the giants, he made another ending with a much more striking call: while the potential winning race of the series against Max Scherzer and Dodgers, Flores has stuck on a check-sen

“I saw him immediately after, and that’s it,” he said. “I try not to look at the negative things. Bad AT-BAT, no. I only look at good oscillations.”

He had many with the giants, who signed him for the 2020 season after a one -year interlude with Arizona. Flores won the coveted Willie Mac-Chiamato prize for Willie McCovey to mean the most inspiring giant-in 2022, and then he had his best season in 2023: .284/.355/.509, with 23 Homer at the team level.

Flores was a shell of himself last season, which ended with surgery on August 6 to remove the dead fabric around the quadriceps tendon above the right knee. At the time of the operation, Flores was the slowest player of the League with the lowest output speed.

“All my career was like, I really have to suffer for me not to play, because you never know how long you will do it,” Flores said. “If I can play 50 percent, I will play. But sometimes it’s not an intelligent thing to do.”

Flores, who exercised his option after the season, still makes his knee after the games. But it may give us weight again, he said. He confides that his rear leg will sweep and give him the foundations he needs.

He returned to being Wilmer, which means being clutch. Last Sunday, Seattle beat with a single affected by Pizzico for his 13th Walk-Off Rbi career, linking him with Bryce Harper for the most part of the active players since he made his debut in 2013. On Wednesday against Cincinnati, Flores launched the first shot of the bottom of the eighth for a giants in a return of giants.

Constant leadership underlined by reliable production, this is Flores.

“I think it was lost a bit in the game, how important veteran presence is,” said Yastzemski. “He has a constant heart beat, he is calm. It has been in every situation in which you could be, so no time is too large or too small for him.”

Flores still uses the theme of “friends” as his Walk-up music, just like he did with the Mets, in honor of the show that English has taught him. The Clap-Clap-Clap-Clap fascinated it to fans in flowing, but mostly, apparently, it was that moment in tears on the field.

His career will soon include multiple games of giants than Mets games. But the long-term San Francisco re ignist has a permanent-meta-form-Flushing house.

“I went back every year, it’s fantastic,” Flores said. “I know they really appreciate it when you show them that interests you.”

(Photo by Wilmer Flores which strikes a two -pit single in the sixth inning of Saturday’s match at the Yankee Stadium: Sarah Stier / Getty Images)