Where we tend to talk about the recent past a lot
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants are back on the road this weekend, so it’s time to do our semi-regular temp check to see how everyone is feeling about how the season is going at the moment. Personally, getting swept by the Arizona Diamondbacks two weeks in a row doesn’t really inspire confidence. […]
The San Francisco Giants are dead. Long live the San Francisco Giants. They were killed by one of the funniest cases of oversteering in the history of professional sports when a former jock bound for the Hall of Fame roundhouse kicked an overhyped nerd into baseball oblivion to make sure the team stopped letting computers […]
The Arizona Complex League was off on Wednesday, and the Dominican Summer League still hasn’t started, but the other four Minor League Baseball affiliates of the San Francisco Giants were all in action. So let’s get into it! Link to the 2026 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL) All listed positions in the roundup are […]
Good morning, baseball fans! Every week, I ask everyone to pick their San Francisco Giants Player of the Week. Last weekend, I picked Casey Schmitt, because he’d been on a bit of a tear. That published on Saturday, and you can imagine my delight in seeing that Schmitt hit yet another home run in that […]
There are two types of comedy (note: there are probably more, but work with me here). There’s comedy that is about setting up expectations for an audience before subverting them with the unexpected. Then there’s comedy that plays with the audience’s expectations, that pokes and prods it, teasing it just long enough for a tickle […]
The San Francisco Giants wrap up this three-game home series against the Arizona Diamondbacks this afternoon. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Trevor McDonald, who enters today’s game with a 4.76 ERA, 3.43 FIP, with 21 strikeouts to four walks in 22.2 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ 9-4 […]
Maybe Indiana Jones was right about snakes. The Arizona Diamondbacks have won nine of their last 10 games and climbed into the second wild-card spot in the National League. Their secret? Going 5-0 against the San Francisco Giants in that stretch. It happened again Tuesday night. Arizona took a 6-2 lead after seven innings after […]
After a lengthy hiatus so I could eat my body weight in pasta, the Minor League Baseball roundup is back! Five of the San Francisco Giants’ six affiliates were in action on Tuesday — the Dominican Summer League season still hasn’t started — so let’s talk about them! Link to the 2026 McCovey Chronicles Community […]
Good morning, baseball fans! Before Friday’s San Francisco Giants game, I had not heard a single thing about the “Tarps Off” trend that is sweeping the nation’s sporting events. So I was quite confused when I saw hundreds of fans at the game taking their shirts off and waving them around, to the delight and […]
The San Francisco Giants continue this three-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks tonight from Oracle Park. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Tyler Mahle, who enters tonight’s game with a 6.10 ERA, 4.72 FIP, with 54 strikeouts to 21 walks in 51.2 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ 6-3 […]
Turns out slam-fest over the weekend against the Chicago White Sox means very little to Merrill Kelly, Ketel Marte, and the Arizona Diamondbacks. The five days that elapsed between the Giants last meeting with starter Kelly wasn’t enough to cleanse the palate. The 2026 Giants can’t figure him out, nor could they over the past […]
The San Francisco Giants welcome the Arizona Diamondbacks to Oracle Park this afternoon to begin a three-game series. Just like we did last week, only this time at home! As of the time this is being pre-written (due to the holiday), neither team has announced pitchers for this game. So make sure you head down […]
It’s series finale time! Hopefully this game between the San Francisco Giants and Chicago White Sox goes well, and hopefully the series has been going well. I’m on PTO and writing this article while the Giants are playing the Dodgers, so I know nothing. Hello, future Giants fans. I hope it’s nice over there. Game […]
Good morning, and Happy Memorial Day baseball fans! We’re going to be doing a combined BP for today and tomorrow, due to the holiday. And it is a new week of San Francisco Giants baseball, which means that it’s time to take a look at the week ahead and see what’s on deck. This week […]
Wait, didn’t I just do one of these? No, seriously. Literally a week ago I was in this space talking about how the Giants were going to see how they measured up against a non-Dodger, non-Padre NL West opponent and a team that had all the scrappiness they’ve craved. So… has anything changed since then? […]
For the second time in their home series against the Chicago White Sox, a four-run four-bagger secured a win for the San Francisco Giants. Yesterday, Harrison Bader clapped one over the centerfield wall, and today, Rafael Devers supplied the echo, back-spinning to left to put the Giants ahead for good in a 8-5 victory. The […]
Good morning, baseball fans! Another week of San Francisco Giants baseball comes to an end today, so it’s time to share our favorite highlights of the week! This week, I’ve got to give it to Rafael Devers and Willy Adames hitting back-to-back home runs on back-to-back pitches to lead off the second inning of Tuesday’s […]
It’s time for the second game between the San Francisco Giants and the Chicago White Sox. I’m writing this way in advance, as I am on PTO, so I have no idea if the Giants won the first game of the series, or who will be pitching for either team, or if the Giants even […]
Friday’s 9-4 loss against the Chicago White Sox was just the latest in a growing line of duds, of get-it-over-with games — and it started with an element of promise. They always do: fresh off a day of rest, back home after a nine game road trip, Trevor McDonald on the mound. McDonald’s career still […]
Good morning, baseball fans! Another week of San Francisco Giants baseball is drawing to a close this weekend, which means it’s time to make our picks for Player of the Week! This week, I’m going with Casey Schmitt! The man is on a streak that we love to see. As of the time this is […]
The San Francisco Giants welcome the Chicago White Sox to Oracle Park tonight to begin a three-game series. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Trevor McDonald, who enters tonight’s game with a 2.37 ERA, 3.47 FIP, with 17 strikeouts to three walks in 19 innings pitched. His last start was in the […]
The annual draft is the easiest way for a baseball team to add talent cheaply. To keep things cheap, Major League Baseball has limited the amount of money teams can spend on signing bonuses, with penalties in place for anyone who goes over their limits. The San Francisco Giants are in a unique position this […]
The White Sox spent a little bit in the offseason and acquired a fun player from Japan who has slugged the franchise back into relevance. As fun as it has been to see that the literal Pope of the Roman Catholic church is a White Sox fan, Munetaka Murakami’s fast rise in 2026 has dragged […]
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants return to the bay this weekend for a three-game series against the Chicago White Sox. So let’s take a look at what Oracle Park has on deck for fans who might be thinking about attending. Friday night will be a Special Event for Japanese Heritage Night! Fans […]
The first headline I saw when I searched up our recently cast-off backstop was for an AP article published by the Watertown Daily News: “Baily, Cantillo lead Guardians to four-game series sweep…” While I harbor no real ill-will towards Patrick Bailey, I admit I wasn’t pleased about the news. Petty tribalism inherent in fandom runs […]