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Tuesday BP: Are you heading to a Fan Fest event this month?
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 […]
2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List No. 28
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 […]
Monday BP: Christian Koss community review
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 […]
Player review: Joel Peguero
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 […]
Weekend BP: Watch Brandon Belt’s career highlights
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 […]
2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List No. 27
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, […]
Friday BP: Luis Matos community review
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 […]
Mike Yastrzemski signing continues Giants-to-Braves pipeline
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 […]
Thursday BP: Giants express strong interest in playing in South Korea
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 […]
Player review: Erik Miller
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 […]
2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List No. 26
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 […]
Wednesday BP: Giants confirm rotation likely set
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 […]
Tuesday BP: Watch the best behind the scenes Giants moments of the 2020s
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 […]
2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List No. 25
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 […]
Monday BP: Jung Hoo Lee community review
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 […]
Weekend BP: What move comes next?
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 […]
2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List No. 24
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 […]
Friday BP: Grade the rotation
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 […]
Surprise! The Giants have increased their budget
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 […]
Giants sign RHP Tyler Mahle to 1-year deal
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 […]
Wednesday/Thursday BP: New Year’s Resolutions
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 […]
Player review: Carson Seymour
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 […]
2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List No. 23
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 […]
Monday/Tuesday BP: Predict the next player the Giants sign
We’re in the holiday dead zone. Christmas has come and passed. Hanukkah long since ended. New Year’s isn’t here yet, and Kwanzaa is bridging the finished holidays and the yet-to-arrive one. It’s usually all quiet on the baseball front, but not everyone has gotten the message. Over the weekend, among other moves that were made, […]
Player review: Grant McCray
2025 MLB stats: 26 PA, 22 G, .091/ .160/ .182, 7.7 BB%, 42.3 K% AAA: 510 PA, .250/ .329/ .512, .167 ISO, 10.8 BB%, 27.1 K%, 27 SB Grant McCray’s entire 2025 season, in terms of significance, spanned roughly five minutes on September 12th. In the bottom of the 9th inning of a tied game […]
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