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Saturday BP: Player of the Week
Good morning, baseball fans! Another week of San Francisco Giants baseball comes to an end this weekend, so it’s time to decide who we think was the Player of the Week! And listen, I know that I’m biased here. I’ve said as much in the past. I don’t intentionally choose Jung Hoo Lee just because […]
8/7 Gamethread: Giants vs. Tigers
The San Francisco Giants head back home to Oracle Park tonight to begin a three-game series against the Detroit Tigers. As of the time this is being written, the Giants have not yet announced a starting pitcher for tonight’s game. Good old element of surprise. Gotta love the consistency there. Anyway, you can head down […]
Giants call up Trent Harris for MLB debut
It’s the time in the season where bad teams, such as the San Francisco Giants, shift their focus from winning games to trying out new talents, and seeing who can stick. We’ve already seen a pair of MLB debuts in the last week, and now we’re getting a third. On Friday, ahead of their series […]
Giants Minor League Baseball roundup, August 6: Henry Lalane and Marty Gair dazzle in debuts
Six games for the San Francisco Giants Minor League Baseball affiliates on Thursday. Not all six teams played, though, as AA Richmond had a doubleheader, while the Dominican Summer League Black squad had the day off. Link to the 2026 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL) All listed positions in the roundup are the position […]
Buster Posey’s deadline moves play into Tony Vitello’s strengths
Nationally, during this disaster of a season, there has been some speculation that the San Francisco Giants could pull the plug on their unique gamble of hiring the green Tony Vitello as their manager after just one season. In total, that mindset seemed shortsighted and a knee-jerk reaction. Yet, after this week’ massive roster overhaul […]
Friday BP: Oracle Park promotions this weekend
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants head home this weekend for a three-game series against the Detroit Tigers. So it’s time to take a look at what Oracle Park has on deck for fans this weekend. Tonight is Top Gun Night at Oracle Park. There are two separate special event tickets required for […]
Giants-Tigers Series Preview
You’ll be relieved to know that these 2026 Giants are still 4 games off the pace of the 100-loss 1985 Giants. Will that have any bearing on this weekend’s series against the Detroit Tigers aka The Team That Just Traded The Best Pitcher In The World To The Los Angeles Dodgers? Well, if they’re swept, […]
Giants Minor League Baseball roundup, August 5: The day for the Js!
Apologies for the late Minor League Baseball roundup, but the Mike Krukow news set me back a bit today, both emotionally and in terms of labor. So let’s speed run Wednesday’s games from the San Francisco Giants affiliates … it was a great day for players whose name starts with a J! Link to the […]
Mike Krukow announces that he’ll retire at the end of the season
It’s been an awful season for the San Francisco Giants, in virtually every way imaginable. But on Thursday morning, arguably the hardest piece of news all season landed: Mike Krukow is retiring. The beloved broadcaster announced on Thursday morning that the 2026 season will be his last in the booth. The news was shared via […]
Thursday BP: Injury updates galore
Buried under the countless moves that the San Francisco Giants have made this week is the fact that the team released a whole bunch of injury updates on Tuesday. Most notably, Matt Chapman had an MRI that revealed a core muscle injury, and is meeting with a specialist next week. Surgery is on the table, […]
Road to Nowhere
I listened to most of the Giants 6-nuthin’ loss to the Texas Ranger while driving on the freeway. The context was fitting. The stretch of I-95 from Portland, Maine to Boston, like much of east coast road travel, is tree-lined. While for a Californian, the dense summer growth of the woods and the thick green […]
Giants Minor League Baseball roundup, August 4: Hunter Dryden powers a good day on the farm
Apologies for not having a weekend Minor League Baseball roundup. With the San Francisco Giants being so active at the deadline, I just wasn’t able to find the time to cover the weekend’s games. But I’m here to talk about what went down on Tuesday! Just five games for the Giants affiliates, as AA Richmond […]
Wednesday BP/Gamethread: Giants @ Rangers
Good morning, baseball fans! Since the San Francisco Giants have a morning game today, I thought we’d go ahead and just combine the BP and Gamethreads for today. Unfortunately, as of the time this is being written, neither team has announced a starting pitcher. I would imagine that is probably because neither team is entirely […]
Giants get walked-off by Rangers on missed catch
You follow the San Francisco Giants, so you’re familiar with bad baseball. You’re well aware of it from watching the Giants, both this year and in many other years. But you’ve also become keenly alert to bad baseball through divisional foes such as the woeful Colorado Rockies, who, in most years, make you feel a […]
The Giants’ trade deadline finally made them interesting
Buster Posey and Zack Minasian did quite well at the trade deadline yesterday, but where does that leave the San Francisco Giants today and beyond? In the midst of another rebuild. Buster Posey might not call it that, and the Giants have strenuously objected to such a practice in the past, but make no mistake: […]
8/4 Gamethread: Giants @ Rangers
The San Francisco Giants continue this three-game road series against the Texas Rangers this afternoon. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Blade Tidwell, who enters today’s game with a 3.00 ERA, 3.51 FIP, with 10 strikeouts to three walks in 12 innings pitched in relief for the Giants this season, this will […]
Recapping the Giants trade deadline
The 2026 MLB trade deadline is in the books, and it was the most active the San Francisco Giants have been in a very long time. For that matter, I covered the Giants for the entirety of Farhan Zaidi’s churn-driven reign, and I can’t remember a period of activity like what we saw from the […]
Giants call up Eddys Leonard
After playing with only 25 players on the active roster during Monday’s victory over the Texas Rangers, the San Francisco Giants have finally filled out their roster for tonight’s game. Prior to the second game of the three-game series, the Giants announced that infielder Eddys Leonard had been called up from AAA Sacramento. Leonard was […]
Tuesday BP: So, how are we feeling?
Good morning, baseball fans! The 2026 MLB Trade Deadline has now passed, at least for you. I am writing this ahead of the deadline, and so far the San Francisco Giants have moved Tyler Mahle, Robbie Ray, and Luis Arraez. Those were three moves I mostly expected, so there’s not really anything shocking there. But […]
Trade grades for the San Francisco Giants
Andrew Baggarly just described today’s activity as “frenetic,” and he’s right. The past two trade deadlines have been practically Zaidian for Buster Posey, Zack Minasian, and the San Francisco Giants. For as much as the franchise has oversteered from the 2019-2024 days, the new regime is a lot like the old one in that no […]
Giants call up 5 players after deadline trades
The San Francisco Giants traded six players off of their Major League roster between Sunday’s series finale against the San Diego Padres and Monday’s series opener against the Texas Rangers. And so, naturally, after parting ways with Luis Arráez, Heliot Ramos, Robbie Ray, Tyler Mahle, Erik Miller, and Caleb Kilian, the Giants had some work […]
8/3 Gamethread: Giants @ Rangers
The San Francisco Giants (or what’s left of them) begin a three-game road series against the Texas Rangers this afternoon. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Logan Webb, who enters tonight’s game with a 3.93 ERA, 3.42 FIP, with 93 strikeouts to 30 walks in 119 innings pitched. His last start was […]
Giants trade Erik Miller to Red Sox for Marcelo Mayer
The San Francisco Giants have had a remarkably busy trade deadline day, and they just pulled off perhaps the most fascinating of all their moves. According to multiple reports, the Giants are sending left-handed reliever Erik Miller and outfield prospect Carlos Gutierrez to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for infielder Marcelo Mayer. Mayer is […]
Thanks, Heliot Ramos
The Giants are finalizing a trade that sends outfielder Heliot Ramos to the New York Yankees for at least prospect Henry LaLane, a left-handed pitcher. But before I dig into that, I want to take a moment to editorialize here (also, Brady is writing up the concurrent trade that’s breaking on the wire as I […]
Giants trade Robbie Ray to the Padres for Miguel Mendez and Joniel Hernandez
The San Francisco Giants are continuing their busy trade deadline. On Monday, about four hours before the deadline, it was reported that the Giants are trading left-handed starting pitcher Robbie Ray to the San Diego Padres. ESPN’s Jeff Passan was first to report the news. According to a report from Jon Heyman, the return for […]
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