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Giants pitcher Hayden Birdsong to undergo Tommy John surgery
Excitement is building for the San Francisco Giants, as Opening Day creeps ever closer … we’re just six days away, now. But unfortunately, the news on Thursday is anything but exciting: a few hours before the Giants play one of their final Cactus League games and their Spring Breakout contest, the Giants announced that right-handed […]
Thursday BP: Congratulations to Luis Arráez and José Butto!
Good morning, baseball fans! The World Baseball Classic finale took place earlier this week between the teams representing the United States and Venezuela. The San Francisco Giants would have been winners either way, with players representing both countries. Ultimately, though, it was the Venezuelan team that came out on top. Which means that congratulations are […]
Giants don’t play well, don’t look good, don’t beat LA
The San Francisco Giants played the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday, in the hot, hot Arizona heat, and it didn’t go particularly well. It was a game with minimal moments of note for the Giants, who played the evil villains of the baseball universe for the final time before their first regular season matchup in […]
Carson Whisenhunt and Jesús Rodríguez highlight 5th round of camp cuts
The San Francisco Giants have a whole lot of camp cuts to make in the next week. They entered Wednesday with 49 players still in Major League camp; next Wednesday, that number needs to be 26. But they’re slowly chipping away at it. After cutting a pair of players on Tuesday, the Giants sent four […]
Giants reveal final Spring Breakout roster
On Thursday night, a group of top prospects from the San Francisco Giants organization will square off against a group of top prospects from the Cincinnati Reds organization at Scottsdale Stadium. It’s the oh-so-exciting Spring Breakout game, back for the third year (though it’s just the second time the Giants have played the game, thanks […]
Giants Reacts: Should Bryce Eldridge make the Opening Day roster?
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Giants fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. When pitchers and catchers reported for Spring Training in Scottsdale more than a month ago, the biggest […]
Wednesday BP: What are you watching for over the last week?
Good morning, baseball fans! Boy, do I have great news for you today. We are officially one week away from Opening Day 2026! That’s right, the San Francisco Giants will be playing meaningful baseball exactly one week from today! So today, I wanted to check in with you all to see what you’re watching for […]
Checking in on former Giants at Spring Training
It’s the most exciting time of the year. The grass is cut. The sun is shining. The bats are cracking. The gloves are popping. You can talk yourself into any prospect being the breakout star to come. You can convince yourself that (almost) any player is in the best shape of their life. Hope is […]
Giants announce 4th round of camp cuts
The San Francisco Giants waited longer than usual to announce their first round of camp cuts this Spring Training, which is perhaps partially due to a new coaching staff wanting to get familiar with everybody, but probably mostly due to the roster logistics required after losing players to the World Baseball Classic. But once they […]
Tuesday BP: This is a Robbie Ray appreciation post
Good morning, baseball fans! Also, Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The San Francisco Giants do not play today, so instead I thought we’d take another look at Sunday’s game. Spring Training games aren’t usually ones that stand out in the memory hole, but Sunday’s game is definitely going to be an outlier. Not only did the […]
Tyler Mahle fans 6, offense hitless when it counts
A day after flirting with perfection, the Giants were perfectly inept at capitalizing on scoring opportunities. In their 3-1 loss against the San Diego Padres, San Francisco bats went hitless in a baker’s dozen worth of at-bats, including three duds in the 9th inning after Osleivis Basabe’s lead-off triple. Tyler Fitzgerald’s sacrifice fly in the […]
Giants make third round of Spring Training roster cuts
The San Francisco Giants have now sent out 9 players from their 19 Spring Training invitees following today’s cuts of catcher Logan Porter, infielder Nate Furman, and lefty Nick Margevicius. They join Friday’s cuts of lefty reliever Juan Sanchez, righty Wilkin Ramos, and Thursday’s cuts of relievers Will Bednar and Trent Harris, catcher Diego Cartaya, […]
Monday BP: What’s on deck for this week
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants are back for their last week of Spring Training baseball. So here’s what’s on deck for this week. Monday The Giants will visit the San Diego Padres for today’s game, starting at 1:10 p.m. PDT. This game will have audio available on the MLB At Bat app. […]
Not perfect — but still pretty good
Is this an omen? Like Benny the Jet knocking the cover off a ball in “The Sandlot” — is Gregory Santos botching a perfect game with two outs in the 9th a sign of terrible things to come? Is this 2026 bullpen going to be the death of the San Francisco Giants? Did not the […]
Giants pitcher Hayden Birdsong has a Grade 2 UCL sprain
Hayden Birdsong’s tough spring just took a turn for the worse. The San Francisco Giants’ 24-year old right-hander entered camp hoping to earn a bullpen role as well as the job of next-man-up in the rotation, but his first two outings of the spring were a disaster, and far too reminiscent of his collapse during […]
Spring Training results matter in this one specific way
With the best record and run differential in the Cactus League for the second Spring Training in a row, it makes a lot of sense that the San Francisco Giants fans are feeling pretty good about the team heading into the regular season. For the moment, let’s ignore what actually happened after last Spring Training’s […]
Weekend BP: Watch Ron Washington and Luis Arraez run drills at second
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants will be at home for the two games this weekend. First up, they will play the Arizona Diamondbacks at 1:05 p.m. PDT on Saturday, which will have broadcasts on NBC Sports Bay Area for local fans and MLB Network for out-of-market fans. Radio coverage will be available […]
Contextualized Spring Training stats: the pitchers
A few days ago, I took a microscope and a fine comb to some Cactus League stats for the San Francisco Giants hitters. Today it’s time to do the same thing, except for the pitchers. The goal is simple: take data that’s already too small to be meaningful, and split it into even smaller, less […]
Friday BP: Netflix to stream Giants Opening Day
Good morning, baseball fans! Per reporting from John Shea of The San Francisco Standard, the San Francisco Giants will get the honor of hosting Netflix’s first baseball broadcast this season on Opening Day. Now, I’m not the best person to write on this. I have been crusading against the streaming wars taking over baseball one […]
Thursday BP: Who are you keeping an eye on over the last two weeks of spring?
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants will take on the visiting Chicago White Sox tonight at 6:05 p.m. PDT, with broadcasts on both NBC Sports Bay Area and KNBR. In the meantime, we are just under two weeks out from Opening Day, which is the best news I’ve heard in a long time. […]
Giants Reacts: Where will the Giants finish in the NL West?
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Giants fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. The 2026 MLB season is about to start, and the San Francisco Giants have high hopes […]
Contextualized Spring Training stats: the hitters
Well, we’re a month into Spring Training, and just two weeks away from Opening Day. So it seemed like a good time to dive into one of my overly verbose spring traditions: contextualized stats. One of the hard things about judging spring results — for individuals or for teams — is that the competition varies. […]
Giants lose bullpen hopeful to hip injury
Last season, the San Francisco Giants defied conventional bullpen wisdom by deciding that left-handed relievers weren’t important. They went most of the season with just one lefty specialist in the bullpen, first Erik Miller and then Joey Lucchesi. Lucchesi finished 13th on the team with 38.1 innings and Miller was 15th with 30 innings in […]
Wednesday BP: Watch Ron Washington and Jerar Encarnación run drills at first
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants will be playing the Kansas City Royals on the road today at 1:05 p.m. PDT. Unfortunately it will not be televised, but you can listen in on the MLB At Bat app (and probably KNBR, but it doesn’t specify.) While we wait, their social media team recently […]
Carson Seymour leads Giants to 5-4 win over Guardians
The San Francisco Giants made the controversial decision this offseason to only mildly shore up their starting pitching. They entered the winter with two holes in their starting five, and they did address those holes with two additions, in the form of Adrian Houser and Tyler Mahle. That was a very modest shoring up. Those […]
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