Where we tend to talk about the recent past a lot
Good morning, baseball fans! The Women’s Professional Baseball League has announced that their inaugural season in 2026 will feature all teams playing in a neutral location. Unfortunately that location is 2,000 miles away from San Francisco. Despite the league featuring teams from San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Boston, it was announced this week […]
3 months ago | 1 read
The 2025 season was arguably the best in recent memory for the San Francisco Giants farm system, but most of the work has happened at lower levels. As such, the development hasn’t left too many players on the precipice of the Majors, and that was on display Tuesday, with a critical decision the Giants made. […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
Fansided’s Robert Murray reports that, according to his sources, the San Francisco Giants have hired Justin Meccage (pronounced “Message”) to be their pitching coach in 2025. Meccage is a 45-year old former Yankee farmhand with a diverse coaching and development background that probably stood out for the similarly well-traveled Tony Vitello. He was drafted by […]
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Boy, do Yankees fans not have the stomach for Devin Williams. Is he a good idea for the Giants? Jeff Passan seems to think so. And earlier today, Jon Morosi — who has probably lost his credibility after his reporting on Shohei Ohtani — fueled rumors that the San Francisco Giants have interest in this […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! The hot stove is starting to show signs of life, which means the headlines about who the San Francisco Giants are absolutely, definitely going to target in the offseason are starting to roll in. Love to see the rumor mill at work. Instead of focusing on the rumors, though, I wanted […]
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Well, we had a good opening run. After successfully making it through eight names in the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, our quest to rank the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization finally hit a snag. And it was the same snag that we’ve hit so many times in the […]
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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 […]
3 months ago | 0 reads
Plenty of baseball fans are not romantic about baseball, but for the rest of us, there’s a romance in every season. And what’s romance but hopes and dreams? A week before the start of the regular season, I listed out my hopes and dreams for the San Francisco Giants in 2025 and did a check-in […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Things may not have gone exactly how we hoped they would for the San Francisco Giants in the 2025 season. That said, the starting pitchers were pretty dang solid. The Giants’ social media team agrees, which is why they posted a review of some of the best starts from Logan Webb, […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! It’s Saturday, so I thought we’d go with a bit of a fun community question. One thing I have always been extremely envious of baseball players for is the fact that they have entrance music. Whether they’re coming up to bat, or warming up on the mound, their presence is announced […]
3 months ago | 1 read
We’re still waiting for the San Francisco Giants to sign their first free agent of the offseason, but that doesn’t stop us from having fun things to talk about, because the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List marches on, as we move closer and closer to ranking the top 44 prospects in the Giants […]
3 months ago | 3 reads
The San Francisco Giants have kept their cards remarkably close to their chest during Buster Posey’s year-plus tenure. The Willy Adames signing a year ago was surprising, and the Rafael Devers trade was downright shocking. On the surface, Posey and the ownership crew have been a little bit more open going into their second offseason. […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
2025 stats (with SFG): 27 G, 25.1 IP, 3.91 ERA / 2.66 FIP, 24 K, 10 BB, 0 HR, 1.50 WHIP, 52.7 GB%, +0.5 fWAR Waiver claims aren’t lottery tickets like prospects are, they’re an arcade game. A player’s history is the same as staring and watching the high score screen on a loop or […]
3 months ago | 7 reads
Pirates starter Paul Skenes took home the 2025 National League Cy Young Award in an unanimous decision. This isn’t really news. There is no surprise here. The hardware had his name etched on it in September. Skenes followed up his Rookie of the Year campaign by leading all of baseball with a 1.97 ERA over […]
3 months ago | 1 read
2025 stats: 125 G (463 PA), .241 /.307/ .379, 16 HR, 71 RBI, .164 ISO, 7.3 K%, 19 BB%, 95 wRC+, -0.2 fWAR I don’t know Wilmer Flores. Have never met him, will never meet him, but he’s my friend. He’s our friend. And I say that as someone who prefers to leave celebrities alone […]
3 months ago | 0 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! We have an argument for the ages today. Ever since Madison Bumgarner entered Game 7 of the 2014 World Series in relief for the San Francisco Giants, managers everywhere have been attempting to copy that strategy, to varying levels of success. We saw it again in this year’s World Series Game […]
3 months ago | 5 reads
Former MLB manager Joe Maddon went on KNBR and said he considered the San Francisco Giants hiring Tony Vitello to be “insulting.” Current broadcaster Duane Kuiper said he found Maddon’s insulting comments, well, insulting. Joe Maddon won the World Series with the Chicago Cubs in 2016 and reached the 2008 series with the Tampa Bay […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
It was only yesterday that Buster Posey indicated Tony Vitello’s new coaching staff was “still very much a work in progress,” and yet here we are about 24 hours later and one of the key roles has been seemingly cemented. The Athletic’s Blue Jays beat writer Mitch Bannon has reported Toronto’s assistant hitting coach Hunter […]
3 months ago | 3 reads
It’s that time again: free agency. Where you dream about what the San Francisco Giants might do, and then they almost surely do something else entirely. For a few years now I’ve had an annual article that I write at the beginning of free agency, and you’ve stumbled across this year’s iteration. The goal is […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
Today is nomination day! After voting in today’s CPL, head to the comment section to nominate a new batch of prospects for Friday’s CPL. The 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List keeps chugging along, as we seek to rank the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization. And the latest chapter brings […]
3 months ago | 4 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 […]
3 months ago | 1 read
Good morning, baseball fans! Last week, we talked about the fact that San Francisco is one of the first four cities to get a team for the new Women’s Professional Baseball League starting in 2026. Over the weekend, the draft order was drawn, and it was announced that San Francisco will get first pick! This […]
3 months ago | 1 read
8:00pm Pacific edit: I added in the amateur draft and international bonus pools, as they weren’t mentioned in the initial draft of the post. Major League Baseball’s General Managers meetings kick off today in Las Vegas and I figured it’s a good time to check in on the team’s payroll situation. My pet project the […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
The 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List cruises forward, as we continue in our quest to communally rank the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization. And the latest chapter brings us a name that I don’t have a lot to write about, other than to say this: I can’t wait to […]
3 months ago | 3 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 […]
3 months ago | 4 reads