Where we tend to talk about the recent past a lot
Don’t look now, but pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training is really and truly right around the corner. In less than three weeks, San Francisco Giants will be descending upon Scottsdale, ready for a new season and all the hopes, dreams, and platitudes that come with it. We won’t be done with our Community […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! With the news earlier this week that (briefly) former San Francisco Giants outfielder Carlos Beltrán will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame this year, there was unfortunately bad news for another former Giants outfielder. Hunter Pence, the very definition of a Forever Giant, did not receive enough votes to […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Yesterday, it was announced that the San Francisco Giants will have yet another former player inducted into the Hall of Fame this season. This time, it will be Carlos Beltrán getting the honors. Congratulations to Beltrán first and foremost. But my goodness, the hypocrisy is strong with this one. This is […]
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Jung Hoo Lee and the San Francisco Giants suffered a scare on Wednesday night, though thankfully all seems to be well. Lee, returning to the states ahead of Spring Training next month, was detained at Los Angeles International Airport by Customs and Border Protection agency. That, unfortunately, is not a particularly surprising item of news […]
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It’s an exciting day for fans of San Francisco Giants prospecting. Over at Baseball America, the best top-100 list around has dropped, and for the first time in a long time, it features four Giants: Bryce Eldridge (No. 18), Josuar González (No. 30), Bo Davidson (No. 87), and Jhonny Level (No. 98). Over at There […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Over the weekend, the San Francisco Giants held the first stop on their 2026 Fan Fest Tour in San Jose. Fans were able to sit in on player and coach Q&A sessions, queue up for autographs and pictures, and take part in a lot of fun activities put on by the […]
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It’s a pretty exciting time for the San Francisco Giants and the Hall of Fame. Sure, Barry Bonds and Duane Kuiper have been passed over more times than I was anytime we picked teams for any sport at the playground. But in December, Jeff Kent was elected to the hall by the Contemporary Baseball Era […]
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2025 stats: 8 G (7 GS), 29.2 IP, 6.37 ERA / 4.00 xERA, 11.8 K/9, 5.2 BB/9, 1.55 WHIP, +0.3 fWAR It’s down to Kai-Wei Teng and Tristan Beck as the players left in the organization following the flurry of trades former President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi made at the 2019 trade deadline. Both […]
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2025 stats: 63 G 225 PA .284/.333/.417, 5 HR, 26 RBI, 6.7 BB%, 18.7 K%, -6.3 Def, 111 wRC+, +0.4 fWAR Dominic Smith missed the final 15 games of the Giants’ season, and while that time didn’t wind up impacting what’ll happen to his career in 2026, it wound up being a huge pivot point […]
3 days ago | 1 read
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants certainly have many things to celebrate this season. As they have learned from the past decade or so, two Brandons are better than one. In addition to honoring the career and contributions of former first baseman Brandon Belt in April, Brandon Crawford will be getting his own […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants kick off their 2026 Fan Fest Tour Saturday in San Jose! Admission is free, but fans will need to have tickets in order to enter. You can get those on the Giants’ website here. The event will take place Saturday, January 17th at San Pedro Square Market, […]
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Note: Today is nomination day! Head to the comment section to nominate the next group of Giants prospects. Spring Training is less than a month away, and the smell of baseball is almost in the air. To prepare ourselves, we’re continuing with the Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, which will see us work together […]
7 days ago | 1 read
Good morning, baseball fans! Earlier this week, MLB.com announced the important dates we were all waiting for with regards to the 2026 San Francisco Giants Spring Training. That’s right, pitchers and catchers, baby! Pitchers and catchers report for their first workout on Tuesday, February 10th. The first full squad workout will follow a few days […]
8 days ago | 1 read
On Thursday, the 2026 international signing period opened up in baseball. And, as suspected, the San Francisco Giants were waiting in the wings to make a huge splash. The Giants sent a large contingency to their Felipe Alou Baseball Academy in the Dominican Republic, to mark a momentous occasion: the signing of Venezuelan shortstop Luis […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Earlier this week, former San Francisco Giants outfielder Jaylin Davis announced via a social media post that he will be retiring. Davis was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 24th round of the 2015 draft, and made his MLB debut with the Giants back in 2019 after being traded in […]
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Spring Training 2026 is closer than it’s ever been … but it’s only getting closer. We won’t be done with our communal rank of the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization by then, but we’ll be a little bit closer. We almost have a top 30! The next name on our list […]
9 days ago | 1 read
Good morning, baseball fans! It’s been a minute since we’ve had any updates about the Women’s Professional Baseball League starting later this year. That’s because there hasn’t been a lot of news since the draft a few weeks ago, in which the as-yet unnamed San Francisco team drafted Kelsie Whitmore with their number one pick. […]
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The San Francisco Giants have excellent players in place at three infield positions. They’re looking to upgrade at the fourth. Second base was not a strength for the Giants during the 2025 season. Tyler Fitzgerald came back to Earth after a strong 2024 season, going from a .280/.334/.497 slash line to .217/.278/.327 and striking out […]
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For those just sitting down for their morning coffee & scroll, ESPN’s Jeff Passan has posted that our beloved San Francisco Giants “are aggressively pursuing a second baseman and have been engaged with Chicago on Nico Hoerner and St. Louis on Brendan Donovan, sources tell ESPN.” This is simply a refresh of news reported exactly […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants will be kicking off their 2026 Fan Fest Tour this Saturday, and each Saturday for the rest of the month. The first stop will be San Jose on January 17th, followed by San Ramon on January 24th, and then Sacramento on January 31st. The Open House will […]
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This time next month, pitchers and catchers will be reporting to Scottsdale for Spring Training. Among those pitchers and catchers will be prospects galore … some who are already on the roster, some who are non-roster invitees, and some who are headed to Minor League camp. We won’t be done with the 2026 Willie McCovey […]
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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 […]
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2025 stats: 2.42 ERA, 3.43 xERA, 1.03 WHIP, 6.9 K/9, 3.2 BB/9, 17 G, 22.1 IP Joel Peguero threw just 315 pitches in the 2025 season — and each one was thrown hard. Really hard. There is no offspeed with Peguero. No brakes. His average four-seam velocity clocks in at a tenth of a MPH […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Late last year, the San Francisco Giants announced that they would be hosting a celebratory event honoring the contributions of former first baseman, Captain, All Star, baby giraffe, and first-ballot Goofball HOF Brandon Belt. Belt debuted for the Giants in 2011 and played for them until 2022, before signing with the […]
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The 2026 baseball season is so close that I can almost taste it. And that means the return of not just Major League Baseball, but also Minor League Baseball. But how can Minor League Baseball begin without prospect lists?? It simply cannot. And so we must finish our 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, […]
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