SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – The Giants and infielder Wilmer Flores have agreed to terms on a two-year contract extension with a player option for 2025. If the player option is declined, there is a club option for 2025. Flores will earn $6.5 million in each of 2023 and 2024. If Flores were to exercise his player option for the 2025 season he will earn a base salary of $3.5 million. If Flores were to decline his player option but the Giants exercise their club option for 2025, he will earn a base salary of $8.5 million.
Additionally, Flores will make a $32,500 donation to the Giants Community Fund in each of 2023 and 2024. He’ll make an additional donation in 2025 if either of the options are exercised.
Flores, 31, has been one of the Giants most consistent contributors in 2022, leading the team in games played (132), runs scored (66), and RBI (65) while tying for the team lead in doubles (26). His 18 homers are second-most on the club only to Joc Pederson’s 22 and his 49 walks are also second-best on the team. Flores’ 18 homers have also matched his career best marks from last year and 2017 (with NYM) while he’s set career-highs in runs scored, RBI, doubles and walks in 2022.
In three seasons in San Francisco, Flores has hit a team-best 48 home runs while slashing .251/.324/.446 with 53 doubles, 150 RBI and a .770 OPS. Since joining the team in 2020, Flores’ 27 go-ahead RBI are third-most on the club in that span behind Brandon Crawford (37) and Mike Yastrzemski (36) while his 18 game-winning RBI since 2020 are second on the team only to Crawford’s 22. Flores has also appeared in a team-best 326 games since joining the Giants in 2020 (Yastrzemski is second with 320).
He’s logged games all over the infield for the Giants in his tenure, playing in 85 games at 1st base, 96 games at 2ndbase and 93 games at 3rd base.
In 10 Major League seasons with New York-NL (2013-2018), Arizona (2019) and San Francisco (2020-present), Flores has slashed .263/.315/.437 with 167 doubles, 125 home runs, 440 RBI and a .751 OPS in 996 career games.