Where we tend to talk about the recent past a lot
The San Francisco Giants have excellent players in place at three infield positions. They’re looking to upgrade at the fourth. Second base was not a strength for the Giants during the 2025 season. Tyler Fitzgerald came back to Earth after a strong 2024 season, going from a .280/.334/.497 slash line to .217/.278/.327 and striking out […]
28 days ago | 3 reads
For those just sitting down for their morning coffee & scroll, ESPN’s Jeff Passan has posted that our beloved San Francisco Giants “are aggressively pursuing a second baseman and have been engaged with Chicago on Nico Hoerner and St. Louis on Brendan Donovan, sources tell ESPN.” This is simply a refresh of news reported exactly […]
28 days ago | 4 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants will be kicking off their 2026 Fan Fest Tour this Saturday, and each Saturday for the rest of the month. The first stop will be San Jose on January 17th, followed by San Ramon on January 24th, and then Sacramento on January 31st. The Open House will […]
28 days ago | 3 reads
This time next month, pitchers and catchers will be reporting to Scottsdale for Spring Training. Among those pitchers and catchers will be prospects galore … some who are already on the roster, some who are non-roster invitees, and some who are headed to Minor League camp. We won’t be done with the 2026 Willie McCovey […]
29 days ago | 0 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! Since the season ended, the McCovey Chronicles staff have been doing player reviews that go over each member of the San Francisco Giants’ 2025 season. Today, I’m going to continue our community reviews where we ask you all to weigh in on how you feel like each player did this year […]
29 days ago | 2 reads
2025 stats: 2.42 ERA, 3.43 xERA, 1.03 WHIP, 6.9 K/9, 3.2 BB/9, 17 G, 22.1 IP Joel Peguero threw just 315 pitches in the 2025 season — and each one was thrown hard. Really hard. There is no offspeed with Peguero. No brakes. His average four-seam velocity clocks in at a tenth of a MPH […]
30 days ago | 0 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! Late last year, the San Francisco Giants announced that they would be hosting a celebratory event honoring the contributions of former first baseman, Captain, All Star, baby giraffe, and first-ballot Goofball HOF Brandon Belt. Belt debuted for the Giants in 2011 and played for them until 2022, before signing with the […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
The 2026 baseball season is so close that I can almost taste it. And that means the return of not just Major League Baseball, but also Minor League Baseball. But how can Minor League Baseball begin without prospect lists?? It simply cannot. And so we must finish our 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
Good morning, baseball fans! Since the season ended, the McCovey Chronicles staff have been doing player reviews that go over each member of the San Francisco Giants’ 2025 season. Today, I’m going to continue our community reviews where we ask you all to weigh in on how you feel like each player did this year […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
Mike Yastrzemski was a great San Francisco Giant in his six seasons with the team. Now he’s moved on to the place where so many former Giants end up: the Atlanta Braves. Yaz signed a two-year, $23M contract with the Braves, essentially to provide a reliable veteran corner outfielder with excellent defense and adequate hitting […]
about 1 month ago | 5 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! Representatives of the San Francisco Giants headed to Seoul, South Korea this week. The team’s envoy included owner Larry Baer, President of Baseball operations Buster Posey, GM Zack Minasian, Manager Tony Vitello, as well as Jung Hoo Lee and Willy Adames to represent the players. The group toured local areas of […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
2025 stats: 1.50 ERA, 4.61 xERA, 268 ERA+, 1.467 WHIP, 6.6 K/9, 6.0 BB/9 over 30 IP (36 G) At 6’5’’ and 270 pounds, subtleties aren’t really a strong suit for Erik Miller. His four-seam fastball averaged 97MPH in 2024 and he threw it half of the time he was on the mound. Against same-side […]
about 1 month ago | 0 reads
Note: Today is nomination day! Head to the comment section to nominate the next batch of players for the CPL. I hope everyone had a swell first week of the new year. We’re only a little over a month away from the start of Spring Training, but we’ve still got a lot of work to […]
about 1 month ago | 0 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! Last week, the San Francisco Giants signed starting pitcher Tyler Mahle to a one-year deal, which Bryan covered over here if you missed it. Some have speculated that the team might continue to prioritize the rotation in the remaining offseason. However, as Brady mentioned in his post on Friday, it seemed […]
about 1 month ago | 5 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! There’s nothing worse than getting back from holiday break. Everything that you put off until the new year is knocking down your door with more urgency, the weather is awful, the world is on fire, and there isn’t a lot happening in the baseball world because they, too, have been on […]
about 1 month ago | 4 reads
If you can believe it, Spring Training is right around the corner. Which means we’d better get cracking on the Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, because we have to rank 44 San Francisco Giants prospects, and we’re only just past the halfway mark! Our latest name is one that has been all over the […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! Since the season ended, the McCovey Chronicles staff have been doing player reviews that go over each member of the San Francisco Giants’ 2025 season. Today, I’m going to continue our community reviews where we ask you all to weigh in on how you feel like each player did this year […]
about 1 month ago | 10 reads
Yesterday, I wrote about how I thought the San Francisco Giants were done signing starting pitchers. After adding Tyler Mahle and Adrian Houser on one and two-year deals, respectively, the Giants now have five established starters, as that duo joins incumbents Logan Webb, Robbie Ray, and Landen Roupp. Not everyone agrees with that assessment. Some […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
For the first time, we’re publishing an installment of the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List that is actually in 2026. And for those of you unfamiliar with how time works, the rest of them will be in 2026, too. The last chapter of the CPL was not only the final 2025 installment, but […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
It would appear that the San Francisco Giants have set their rotation. After agreeing to a one-year New Year’s Eve special with righty Tyler Mahle, the Giants now have five established starting pitchers under contract for 2026. You can quibble with the order if you want, but, assuming health (a big assumption, admittedly), these are […]
about 1 month ago | 6 reads
This post could’ve been titled “Reassessing the Giants’ payroll situation for 2026” as a sequel to this post from earlier in the offseason, but it’s less interesting than the truth, which is that, based on what’s publicly known about the team’s expenses, the San Francisco Giants have committed to the largest Baseball Operations budget in […]
about 1 month ago | 9 reads
Bruce Bochy’s job with the team pays off immediately. Shayna Rubin has posted news that the San Francisco Giants “are close” to signing starter Tyler Mahle to a 1-year deal. [Update: Mark Feinsand confirms it’s a done deal.] When healthy, the righty was Bochy’s second-best starter in 2025 when they were both Rangers. Unfortunately, Mahle […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
The time has arrived: we must flip our calendars from December, 2025 to the next page, realize that there’s no calendar on the next page, throw out the calendar, look for the 2026 calendar, realize we haven’t purchased a 2026 calendar, and then order a 2026 calendar so that we can put it up a […]
about 1 month ago | 0 reads
2025 stats: 16 G (3 GS) 36 IP, 4.75 ERA, 5.93 xERA, 1.39 WHIP, 6.5 K/9, 3.3 BB/9, 2.3 HR/9, -0.6 fWAR The San Francisco Giants began the year with three of the five most famous Carsons in western history. Number one, of course, is Johnny Carson. Then there’s Mr. Carson from Downton Abbey. After […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
The calendar is flipping in just a few days, and as we begin a new year, we begin a new task: the second half of the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List. With our last chapter in the books, we’re officially halfway through our quest to rank the top 44 prospects in the San […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read