Where we tend to talk about the recent past a lot
2025 stats: 19 G (56 PA), .200 / .214/ .364, .164 ISO, 27 K%, 2 BB%, 57 wRC+ Once upon a time, Jerar Encarnación hit a baseball over a wall in Oakland, California. A lot about that sentence is horribly dated, even fantastical. Once upon a time…professional baseball in Oakland…Jerar Encarnación. Such a time did […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! It was announced earlier this week that former San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy will be returning to the organization in an advisory capacity. Bochy was the Giants’ manager from 2007 to 2019, before announcing his retirement. But baseball was not out of his system yet, so he eventually returned to […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
Last night, MLB Trade Rumors put out their predictions for this offseason’s top 50 free agents (as they see it). It was mainly a chance to project the free agent contract, but they also voted on each player’s next team. I think you should go read the full post, but for our purposes, I’m going […]
3 months ago | 10 reads
It was somewhat controversial that the San Francisco Giants hired Tennessee coach Tony Vitiello as their new manager, despite his having no professional managing experience. Thursday, the San Diego Padres went a step further and hired a new manager who’s never managed before, anywhere. Craig Stammen spent seven years in the Padres organization as a […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
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 after Wednesday’s chapter, we officially have a top five! Winning the election with roughly 40% of the vote was center fielder Dakota Jordan, who has been ranked as […]
3 months ago | 7 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! As many of you may already know, San Francisco was named as one of the first four cities to be getting a Women’s Professional Baseball League team, which is really exciting! I’m looking forward to adding coverage of the new team to our regularly scheduled San Francisco Giants coverage. We are […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
There have already been and figure to be dozens upon dozens of articles about which free agents the San Francisco Giants should or could target this offseason, but before getting too deep into that, I figured it’s worth asking which security blankets new manager Tony Vitello might seek out as he undertakes his first year […]
3 months ago | 6 reads
The San Francisco Giants got the offseason started in earnest on Thursday, when they got in on the flurry of minor moves flying around Major League Baseball. The Giants, after declining Tom Murphy’s option, had one opening on their 40-man roster, meaning they could add one player without having to make any corresponding moves. Instead, […]
3 months ago | 8 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants announced their 2026 Spring Training schedule earlier this week. So let’s gaze longingly at it while the rain pours down around us and the temperatures start to plummet. The Giants will begin the 2026 Cactus League on February 21st, with games running through March 21st. Their first […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
After much speculation, it appears that the San Francisco Giants are closing in on a very sensible hiring. According to a report from The Athletic’s Andrew Baggarly, the Giants are hiring former MLB manager Jayce Tingler to join debuting manager Tony Vitello’s staff. Given the drastic differences between managing in college and professional baseball, it […]
3 months ago | 3 reads
The MLB offseason is good and fully underway, and we’re gaining a lot of momentum with the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List. There have been fantastic discussions and lots of comments as we’ve started to rank the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization … and we still have 40 names […]
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 start our community reviews where we ask you all to weigh in on how you feel like each player did this year […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
2025 stats: 72 G, 243 PA, 4 HR, 9 SB, .217/.278/.327, .111 ISO, 74 OPS+, 7.0 BB%, 28.8 K%, 0.2 fWAR “YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE,” might’ve been all I needed to write for this, but at the end of the day, it’s not a massive surprise that Fitzgerald wasn’t able to follow up his […]
3 months ago | 1 read
On Monday, the San Francisco Giants made perhaps their least surprising offseason transaction in franchise history. As the offseason officially got underway, the Giants declined their team option for catcher Tom Murphy, opting for a $250,000 buyout rather than a $4 million salary. And thus ends the story of one of the worst transactions in […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
The Los Angeles Dodgers held their World Series parade yesterday, and while it’s healthier to ignore what’s going on with other teams, it’s easier said than done as a Giants fan. Despite what some really ignorant and angry people will tell you, the Dodgers winning the last two World Series won’t be the worst thing […]
3 months ago | 11 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! Throughout the season, I checked in periodically to see how everyone was feeling about the San Francisco Giants season as it progressed. Now that both the regular season and postseason are over, I wanted to check in again. Not just about the season that was, but the direction the organization is […]
3 months ago | 3 reads
On Monday, two days after the conclusion of a thrilling, dramatic, historic, and downright awful World Series, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America unveiled the finalists for the four major regular season awards: Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and Cy Young. We knew the San Francisco Giants would have […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
Logan Webb doesn’t take himself too seriously as a defender. He joked after the news broke that he had received his first Gold Glove Award by saying “if I can win it, anybody can win it.” Webb, who relies on his catcher to finesse a lot of border-line pitches or the four infielders behind him […]
3 months ago | 1 read
Today is nomination day! After voting in the CPL, head to the comment section to nominate a new batch of prospects for Wednesday. Well, nothing much of note is happening in the baseball world … right? So we might as well chug along with the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, which will see […]
3 months ago | 1 read
In the 67-year history of the Gold Glove award, only five pairs of pitchers and catchers had won Gold Gloves while playing for the same team. Logan Webb and Patrick Bailey just made it six. Webb won his first Gold Glove and Bailey won his second straight for the 2025 season. Webb had seven defensive […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! Today, we’re stepping away from the game for a bit to discuss something serious. I know, I know. The worst on a Monday morning. But we have people in need of help, and I feel like it is our duty as humans to try to help those in our local communities […]
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Bryce Eldridge’s mid-September call-up was billed as a desperate search for an offensive boost in a desperate and flailing push for the postseason. Admittedly, a big ask for a 20 year old, and somewhat unsurprisingly, the team’s young top-prospect did not provide the much-needed kick in the pants. The Giants pulled at October’s push-door and […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! Today’s BP is a weird one. As of the time this is being written, Game 6 of the World Series has not yet been played and potential starters for Game 7 have not yet been announced because…well…it’s not yet known if there will even need to be a Game 7. However, […]
3 months ago | 0 reads
Technically, the 2025 MLB season is still going on, though we all hope it ends tonight. But it sure feels like the offseason around these parts, as we’re starting to find some rhythm with our time-honored tradition of ranking the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization through the Willie McCovey Memorial Community […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! The 2025 World Series continues between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers tonight, with the series moving back to Toronto for Game 6. The Blue Jays have taken the series lead, 3-2, which is just phenomenal news. I’m not usually one to root against a Game 7, but in […]
3 months ago | 3 reads