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2026 MLB Team Preview Series: San Francisco Giants

The past 15-20 years of the San Francisco Giants’ existence has been a wild ride. The highs have obviously been quite high, with their three World Series titles in 2010, ‘12, and ‘14. While that run would often get a team a “dynasty” designation, it was hard to do that with the Giants, considering they […]

Five Dumb Predictions for the 2026 MLB season

The 2026 Major League Baseball season will reportedly begin tomorrow, March 25th, when the San Francisco Giants take on the New York Yankees in the hallowed grounds of the Bronx. (We all know the season doesn’t really begin until the next day when the Cincinnati Reds play host to the Boston Red Sox at Great […]

Tuesday BP: Last call for 2026 predictions

Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants kick off their 2026 season tomorrow, with Opening Day against the New York Yankees. So this feels like the best time to get our last minute predictions in for how we think this season is going to go. I’ll let you determine what you would like to […]

Who makes your Yankees Opening Day roster?

We’re a day away. In just over 24 hours, the Yankees will take the field in San Francisco for a special opening night matchup with the Giants. We know who the starting pitchers will be, as Max Fried will square off with Logan Webb. And for the most part, we know what the Yankees’ roster […]

Giants do what they set out to vs. Sultanes

The San Francisco Giants played their penultimate game of the spring on Monday night, hosting Sultanes de Monterrey at Oracle Park, less than 48 hours before the start of the 2026 MLB season. You can’t draw many conclusions from such a contest, but the Giants did a lot of the things they hoped to do […]

10 things to do before Opening Day

The 2026 Major League Baseball season begins in about 48 hours and, for reasons still unbeknownst to me, the San Francisco Giants have drawn the opening assignment. A brand new season, full of brand new baseball, kicks off on Wednesday at Oracle Park, with the Giants hosting the New York Yankees, while the rest of […]

Orange & Black wisdom

In the latest SB Nation Reacts poll, we learn that San Francisco Giants fans have a pretty sober view of the roster: This question was asked before the Giants optioned Bryce Eldridge to Triple-A Sacramento; and, as you can see here, the majority saw which way the wind was blowing, given the performance of the […]

Monday BP: What’s on deck for this week

Good morning, baseball fans! Welcome to the first week of the regular season! It’s time to take a look at what’s on deck for the San Francisco Giants this week. Monday The Giants welcome the Sultanes de Monterrey to Oracle Park for an exhibition game tonight at 6:45 p.m. PT. The game will have television […]

Giants sign reliever Ryan Borucki 4 days before Opening Day

It’s been an offseason of unexpected moves for the San Francisco Giants. No one expected them to pursue Luis Arráez as the answer to their second base conundrum, and adding a catcher (Daniel Susac) in the Rule 5 Draft wasn’t an obvious move. They addressed their rotation, as was necessary, but not the way that […]

Victor Bericoto wins Barney Nugent Award

Victor Bericoto got good and bad news from the San Francisco Giants Friday. He learned he’d been reassigned to the team’s Minor League camp. But he left as the 2026 winner of the Barney Nugent Award. The annual Barney Nugent Award goes to the Giants player making his spring training debut“whose performance and dedication in […]

Weekend BP: How are we feeling going into the season?

Good morning, baseball fans! We have officially reached the last weekend before baseball gets back! Opening Day for the San Francisco Giants is right around the corner. So this weekend, I wanted to get one last temperature check before the season starts. Personally, I’m just excited for baseball to be back. I have a tiny, […]

Spring Training Game Thread: San Francisco Giants at Texas Rangers

Today, on the Spring Equinox, the Texas Rangers welcome a sliver of San Francisco Giants to Surprise for a Cactus League night game. RHP Nathan Eovaldi makes what is surely his final appearance of the spring ahead of his Opening Day start next Thursday. San Francisco will counter with RHP Spencer Bivens for the split […]

Colorado Rockies Spring Training Game No. 28 Thread: Juan Mejia vs. Nick Pivetta 

The Colorado Rockies dropped a high-scoring affair yesterday, falling 14–11 to the San Francisco Giants. Willi Castro and Kyle Karros each had two hits to lead the offense, but bullpen struggles proved costly—most notably Seth Halverson, who continued to have a tough spring.  Tonight in Peoria, the 12–13 Rockies take on the 14–11 Padres, where temps could still be triple digits at first pitch. The roster is now trimmed […]

Spring Breakout and Royals at Giants Spring Training game thread

At 3 PM Kansas City time, the Royals and Rangers prospects will kick off a Spring Breakout game, meant to highlight what the two farm systems have to offer. The rosters have been set, but here is the starting lineup for that game: For many Royals fans, this will be the first opportunity to see […]

Friday BP: 2026 Wall of Fame ceremony planned for August

Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants are planning to hold their 2026 Wall of Fame ceremony for some of our most beloved former Giants players from the World Series championship era this season on Saturday, August 8th. Joining the Wall of Fame this year will be Forever Giants Buster Posey, Brandon Crawford, Brandon […]

Notes on a Colorado Rockies 14-11 loss to the Giants

Tonight, the Colorado Rockies welcomed the San Francisco Giants to Salt River Fields. In a high-scoring game, the Rockies lost, 14-11. For more game information, click here. Let’s start with postgame comments from manager Warren Schaeffer: Starting pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano also spoke with the media following the game: And here are some game highlights for […]

Bryce Eldridge optioned in latest round of cuts

In a teeny tiny bit of a shocker, the San Francisco Giants have optioned top prospect Bryce Eldridge to Triple-A Sacramento, according to Maria Guardado via social media. Joining him are IF/OF Tyler Fitzgerald and OF Grant McCray, bringing a lot of the roster decision questions towards a swift answer. It looks like the team […]

Netflix hires Barry Bonds for studio show

Move over, Tiger King. The newest Netflix star is the home run king. Netflix announced Thursday that Barry Bonds would be a special guest studio analyst for their telecast of the season opener between the San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees Wed., March 25. Bonds will join Albert Pujols and Anthony Rizzo as part […]

Alfredo Duno, Edwin Arroyo lead Reds in Spring Breakout vs. Giants

Thursday night the Cincinnati Reds will send the best and brightest pieces of their farm system to Scottsdale to take on the best and brightest prospects from the system of the San Francisco Giants, the 2026 edition of the Spring Breakout Game. Cincinnati won’t be sending the likes of Rhett Lowder or Sal Stewart, I […]

Giants pitcher Hayden Birdsong to undergo Tommy John surgery

Excitement is building for the San Francisco Giants, as Opening Day creeps ever closer … we’re just six days away, now. But unfortunately, the news on Thursday is anything but exciting: a few hours before the Giants play one of their final Cactus League games and their Spring Breakout contest, the Giants announced that right-handed […]

Dodgers notes: Shohei Ohtani shines, Miguel Rojas gets apology

Wednesday saw the return of Shohei Ohtani to the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and in typical Shohei style, he picked up where he left off last season (aside from that Game 7 clunker). Against the San Francisco Giants, Ohtani went 4 2/3 innings, allowing only one hit along with two walks and a […]

Thursday BP: Congratulations to Luis Arráez and José Butto!

Good morning, baseball fans! The World Baseball Classic finale took place earlier this week between the teams representing the United States and Venezuela. The San Francisco Giants would have been winners either way, with players representing both countries. Ultimately, though, it was the Venezuelan team that came out on top. Which means that congratulations are […]

Spring Breakout games have arrived

With the Major League spring camps winding down, the Minor Leagues will take over the training complexes for their respective teams. To begin that transition, MLB is hosting the third annual Spring Breakout Series in the spring facilities of all 30 MLB clubs. There will be eight games in both the Cactus League and Grapefruit […]