Ask the Giants: Tell us something that we don't know about you

This week's question time with the San Francisco Giants aims to get behind the standard biographical information - what don't we know about some players and staff members?

Not everyone wants the general public or nosy reporters to get the goods, though. Some claimed there's not much interesting behind the usual; many players are video-game fiends in their down time, some play golf.

Then there is the elusive Harrison Bader, who said, "Not a lot of people know a lot of things about me - and we're going to keep it that way."

What's the most surprising thing about you most people don't know?

Infielder-DH Casey Schmitt: A lot of people don't know I'm Mexican - I was going to play for Mexico in the WBC, but then I had (wrist) surgery. The Latin guys in here don't believe me, they think I'm just this white kid, but my mom is Mexican and my dad is half Cuban, so I'm like super Hispanic, 75%, and I'm not fluent but I speak some Spanish. The rest of my family is fluent.

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Starter Logan Webb: I'm legally blind; I wear contacts. The trainers have some extra pairs from past years I've given them just in case I lose one when I'm on the mound. That would not be good.

Starter Robbie Ray: I like to read books; I'm a little all over the place, mostly history. I read a lot of World War II stuff. Right now I'm reading a book called "The Wager" (by David Grann) about a British ship that was chasing a Spanish galleon, it's crazy. They went around the tip of South America, shipwrecked on the other side, it's an absolute mutiny and then these two groups get separated, go off on their own and somehow they end up making it back to England, separately.

Outfielder Jung Hoo Lee, with Justin Han interpreting: I'm not sure many people know that I'm a very introverted, shy person, it's hard for me to speak in front of a lot of people. Back in elementary school I had to do presentations and that would be the hardest thing. In baseball, I have a lot of people watching me and that's OK, but outside of baseball, I have a hard time talking to groups. There's a custom in Korea that when you leave Korea for the season or come back, you have a press conference with about 50 reporters, and that's one of my hardest moments. My hands get sweaty.

Coach Ron Washington: I don't know if it's funny, but here's one fact about me: It hurts my feelings when (players) don't come to work. I show up every day to be the best I can be for you, I expect you to show up and be the best you can be every day for your teammates. You will never not find me where I'm supposed to be. You will never not find me ready to go, no matter what I did the night before. I'm on it and it upsets me when players are not on it, it really does.

Reliever JT Brubaker: I'm color blind. When some colors are next to each other, I cannot differentiate them. Like red and green - if you have Christmas tree lights that are red and green, whatever color I see first, that's all I see. Some of the darker colors, like dark blues and purples, yellows and oranges, I don't see any difference. I was trying to set up my kid's bedroom camera, and it's supposed to be blinking orange and green, and I had to ask my wife (Darcia) for help, like, ‘Darce! What color is this?' When I get dressed, sometimes I have to ask her if I match. A lot of my wardrobe is black, gray, navy, jeans. I keep it as simple as possible.

Manager Tony Vitello: As we started to get good at Tennessee, people assumed I was arrogant, and I've always disputed that wholeheartedly, because no one wants to be labeled something that might be seen as negative, and I lacked self confidence as a player so much that it was a huge detriment. I think it's flipped. In the coaching role, you get rewarded for hard work more than you do as a player sometimes, so I've always felt better in this role, but it's never getting to the point of complacency or arrogance. I'm fine taking heat instead of the team, but that's one to me that's nonsensical. I'm so different from what's painted on Twitter and things.

Reliever Ryan Borucki: Rawlings made me one of those customizable gloves and they put my hairless cat Dobby all over it. It was a massive hit in Pittsburgh - people loved it. It's the coolest glove, but I don't wear it anymore; now that Dobby has passed away, I keep it on the mantel. But I wore it on Photo Day during the spring with the Pirates and it wound up on a billboard outside the stadium, you could see the glove. It was the weirdest thing.

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This story was originally published April 21, 2026 at 10:47 AM.