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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 […]
From McCovey Chronicles | 29 days ago | 2 reads
What goes up must come down. Since I just wrote an article ranking the five best Brewers games of the season, here are the five worst. No, I didn’t include every NLCS game. #5: August 25th — Giants 4, Brewers 3 This game, as some of you may remember, was the celebration of life in […]
From Brew Crew Ball | 29 days 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 […]
From McCovey Chronicles | 30 days ago | 1 read
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 […]
From McCovey Chronicles | 30 days ago | 1 read
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 […]
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month 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 […]
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month ago | 1 read
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 […]
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month ago | 2 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 […]
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month ago | 1 read
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 […]
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month 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 […]
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month ago | 1 read
1903 The drama surrounding the fate of future Hall of Fame shortstop George Davis finally appeared at an end, as the New York Giants left Davis off of their reserve list, essentially ceding the fight over his services to the White Sox. The White Sox had convinced Davis to jump from his longtime New York […]
From South Side Sox | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Luis Torrens and David Peterson, both of whom were previously named finalists for the 2025 Rawlings Gold Glove Awards, will be spending the offseason without any extra hardware. The winners were announced live on ESPN this Sunday night, with a pair of Giants in Patrick Bailey and Logan Webb earning the National League awards for […]
From Amazin' Avenue | about 1 month ago | 1 read
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 […]
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month ago | 1 read
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 […]
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month ago | 0 reads
Braves History 1960 – The San Francisco Giants acquire veteran shortstop Alvin Dark from the Milwaukee Braves and then sign Dark to a two-year contract as team manager. The Giants send infielder Andre Rodgers to the Braves as compensation for Dark. 2021 – Houston remains alive in the World Series with a 9 – 5 […]
From Talking Chop | about 1 month ago | 4 reads
2025 stats (with SF Giants): 46.2 IP, 47 G, 3.09 ERA / 3.22 FIP, 1.20 WHIP, 26.2 K%, 12.6 BB%, 0.6 fWAR 2025 stats (overall): 65.1 IP, 69 G, 3.58 ERA / 3.47 FIP, 1.32 WHIP, 25.9%, 12.6 BB %, 0.6 fWAR Camilo Doval bounced back from an ugly 2024 season with the San Francisco […]
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
For the third time in six years, the San Francisco Giants held a press conference to introduce a new manager. Tony Vitello is the 40th manager in franchise history — 42 if you count interim managers — and a wholly unknown quantity at the major league level. A successful Division I college coach with no […]
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month ago | 1 read
It was hard not to feel a sense of betrayal when Blake Snell signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers after spending the 2024 season with the San Francisco Giants. It was even tougher to watch him dominate in the early rounds of the playoffs, beating the Cincinnati Reds and blanking the Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee […]
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month ago | 3 reads
It’s time! Tony Vitello is here, and the San Francisco Giants are introducing him as their next manager. You can watch the press conference below:
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month ago | 1 read
Good morning, baseball fans! With today being an off-day for the World Series, let’s get back to some of our regularly scheduled content about the San Francisco Giants for today’s BP. While the team may have had another lackluster season on the whole, they did have some absolutely awesome defensive gems. And the Giants’ social […]
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month ago | 1 read
I don’t know if I jinxed anything by talking up the Giants’ replacement bullpen that pitched them through August, but let’s stand back and admire the scale at which the whole thing crashed and burned in September. Their 4.39 ERA was not the worst in the sport (it was merely 20th), nor was their 4.31 […]
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
On Friday, we began the latest iteration of McCovey Chronicles’ most time-honored tradition: the Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, in which we will work as a community to rank the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization. In the introductory post, everyone selected a group of nominees to choose from, and today […]
From McCovey Chronicles | about 1 month ago | 1 read
It’s Sunday, and you know what that means — it’s time for our weekly social media roundup! With the baseball season in the rearview mirror, New York sports fans turn towards football, and with the Giants and Jets being, well, the Giants and Jets, they immediately turn their eyes to the Knicks and Rangers at Madison […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 1 read
More than usual, I really want the Eagles to smash the Giants on Sunday. Losing to New York on Thursday Night Football in the Meadowlands two weeks ago, coupled with the Phillies getting eliminated from the postseason in humiliating fashion the same evening, made for one of the worst sports nights of my life. The […]
From Bleeding Green Nation | about 1 month ago | 3 reads
With the World Series upon us, we thought we’d spend some time looking at iconic moments from past series. In this case, let’s look at the legendary play from the 1954 World Series. Mays, who played for the Giants in New York and then San Francisco and a brief stint with the New York Mets […]
From Duke Basketball Report | about 1 month ago | 1 read