Former World Series MVP Pablo Sandoval agreed to a contract Saturday with the Staten Island FerryHawks of the independent Atlantic League, nine days after he was released from a minor league deal with the San Francisco Giants.

Sandoval, 37, hit .250 with two RBIs in 28 spring training at-bats for the Giants, the team he helped to World Series titles in 2010, ‘12 and ’14.

“Not even just on his accolades, as a player, he's just a great human being. A fun loving guy who is great for our community and we're really excited to bring in to Staten Island,” Mark Minicozzi, manager of the Staten Island Ferryhawks, said.

“It puts Staten Island on the map as a place where high level baseball players wanna come,” Eric Shuffler, president and co-owner of the Ferryhawks, said.

A fan favorite nicknamed Kung Fu Panda, the two-time All-Star was last in the major leagues in 2021 when he hit .178 with a .302 on-base percentage, four homers and 11 RBIs in 69 games with Atlanta.

Minicozzi said Sandoval is the first ever world series MVP to play in the Atlantic League.

“He had a great spring training. He was probably one player away from making the major league team three weeks ago with the Giants. So that's saying the caliber of talent that he is,” Minicozzi said.

Sandoval has a .278 batting average, .330 on-base percentage, .443 slugging percentage, 153 homers and 639 RBIs in 1,380 career games while primarily playing third base. He played in major league baseball for 14 years.

“When people are seeing Pablo Sandoval coming, there's a lot of other players saying I want to be part of this. So that's really cool for us,” Shuffler said. "There’s several players who were in the major leagues in last two or three years who are going to be close to signing with us."

The Ferryhawks season begins April 25 in Charleston. Their first home game is May 3.