Giants decline catcher Tom Murphy’s $4M contract option for 2026 MLB season

Tom Murphy’s second stint with the Giants is over with little to show for it.San Francisco on Monday declined the $4 million club option on the veteran catcher’s contract for the 2026 MLB season, and Murphy instead will receive a $250,000 buyout from the team. The Giants have declined the $4 million option on catcher Tom Murphy. He ended up playing just 13 games for them over two seasons. — Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) November 4, 2025 Murphy signed a two-year, $8.25 million contract with the Giants in December 2023, which paid him $4 million in 2024 and $4 million in 2025.The backup catcher slashed .118/.211/.235 with one home run across 13 games to start the 2024 season, before a left knee sprain sustained in a rainy May 4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies sidelined him for the rest of the campaign.Murphy entered the 2025 season primed to return as San Francisco’s No. 2 catcher behind Patrick Bailey, but he started the year on the injured list with a mid-back disk herniation and never returned.The 34-year-old’s MLB career began in 2015 with the Colorado Rockies, where he stayed for four...