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Monday BP: What’s on deck this week?
Good morning, baseball fans! It’s a new week and month of San Francisco Giants baseball, so let’s take a look ahead at what’s on deck. The Giants continue their road trip, this time headed to the Midwest. First up will be a four-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers, followed by a three-game series against the […]
Mile-high mirage
Unfortunately you can’t spread runs around. Goal differential or aggregate scoring doesn’t decide a series in baseball. If it did, the Giants 19-6 pile on against the Colorado Rockies would’ve secured them a sweep with some runs to spare. Alas, what’s done is done. This ain’t religion: the sins of Friday and Saturday can’t be […]
5/31 Gamethread: Giants @ Rockies
The San Francisco Giants are playing awful baseball, and have lost six straight. Now they’ll try to salvage a win against the Colorado Rockies in their series finale, before mercifully leaving the mountains … and taking on better teams. What could possibly go wrong? Veteran left-hander Robbie Ray takes the mound for the Giants, with […]
Rebuild? In our moment of triumph?
Should the San Francisco Giants initiate a formal, but modest rebuild with just a year and a half left on Buster Posey’s deal? On Wednesday, the San Francisco Standard’s Tim Kawakami made the case that they should, based solely on the results of April and May. Around here, I’ve seen people comment about how “this […]
Jonah Cox gets the call as Ryan Borucki is DFA’d
This site’s manager is Brady Klopfer who also does all the minor league reporting, and upon seeing the news posted by Susan Slusser that the San Francisco Giants would be calling up outfielder Jonah Cox, he posted in our work chat: “I’m sorry WHAT,” which suggests to me that we should all treat this news […]
It would be nice if this was the aging curve’s fault
Matt Chapman is having his worst start to a season ever at the plate. Through 57 games and 239 plate appearances, he’s slashing .234/.314/.322 with a 9.6% walk rate and 22.6% strikeout rate that comes to a wRC+ of 85, or 15% worse than the league average. He turned 33 on April 28th, so that […]
This game doesn’t deserve a recap title
What’s worse? An 8-6 loss decided in the 9th, or an 8-3 loss pretty much decided in the 1st? Trick question, because they’re all the same to the Giants at this point. Some teams can look at Friday’s walk-off bummer, highlight the solid situational hitting that got them six runs, cull the bullpen performances while […]
Sunday BP: Highlight of the Week
Good morning, baseball fans! Another week of San Francisco Giants baseball comes to a close today, which means it’s time for us to pick our favorite highlight of the week! As I mentioned yesterday, I wanted to shout out two players this week and I gave yesterday’s honors to Rafael Devers for his grand slam […]
5/30 Gamethread: Giants @ Rockies
Well, the San Francisco Giants lost in fairly ugly and embarrassing fashion to the Colorado Rockies on Friday night. And now it’s Saturday night, and they’re looking for a little bit of revenge. Let’s see if they can get it. Adrian Houser takes the mound for the second game of the series, as they look […]
Harrison Bader returns to the Injured List; Will Brennan recalled
Will Brennan’s most recent stint with AAA Sacramento didn’t last long. A day after the San Francisco Giants optioned the veteran outfielder to make space for the returning Jung Hoo Lee, they called him back up to replace Harrison Bader, who returns to the 10-Day Injured List for a second stint this year. The Giants […]
Saturday BP: Player of the Week
Good morning, baseball fans! Another week of San Francisco Giants baseball is drawing to a close, which means it’s time to pick our Player of the Week! Sometimes you have to make decisions in life that aren’t necessarily easy. This week, I wanted to feature two players who had huge moments for the Giants this […]
Did the Giants give up another walkoff? Coors they did.
A drunken lifeguard. A laptop with no disk space. A millenial regularly buying and consuming avocado toast. The San Francisco Giants bullpen. What do they have in common? They’re not good at saving. That was the case Friday night at Coors Field, where the Colorado Rockies hit two home runs and scored five runs off […]
Resistance was not futile: Giants reassign Borg
In the Star Trek universe, the Borg are a race of cyborgs who share a single hive mind and attempt to “assimilate” other beings and cultures into their Collective. On the 2026 San Francisco Giants, Hector Borg was a third base coach who assimilated base runners into easy outs at home plate. Friday, the team […]
5/29 Gamethread: Giants @ Rockies
The San Francisco Giants head to Coors Field tonight to begin a three-game series against the Colorado Rockies. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Logan Webb, who enters tonight’s game with a 5.06 ERA, 3.52 FIP, with 42 strikeouts to 15 walks in 48 innings pitched. His last start was in the […]
Giants activate Logan Webb and Jung Hoo Lee, place Tyler Mahle on IL
As expected, the San Francisco Giants made a handful of moves on Friday, as they return from the off day to kick off a 10-game road strip, which starts a stretch of 13 games in as many days. We’d known for a few days that All-Star pitcher Logan Webb would be returning on Friday as […]
Giants Minor League Baseball roundup, May 28: Brilliance from Luis Hernández and Nate Furman
Thursday was an off day for the San Francisco Giants, but not for their Minor League Baseball affiliates. All five of the teams who are in season played on Thursday (the Dominican Summer League doesn’t begin until Monday), and there were some exciting performances to talk about. So let’s talk about them! Link to the […]
The battle for 4th place: Giants-Rockies Series Preview
Paul DePodesta made a name as one of Billy Beane’s acolytes during the Moneyball era and in 2004, at the age of 31 became the Dodgers’ GM. He was hounded by the musty old LA Times sportwriters (who called him “Google Boy) and local LA media for the two seasons he lasted in the job […]
Friday BP: Friday Temp Check
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants are back on the road this weekend, so it’s time to do our semi-regular temp check to see how everyone is feeling about how the season is going at the moment. Personally, getting swept by the Arizona Diamondbacks two weeks in a row doesn’t really inspire confidence. […]
It’s a cruel, cruel summer
The San Francisco Giants are dead. Long live the San Francisco Giants. They were killed by one of the funniest cases of oversteering in the history of professional sports when a former jock bound for the Hall of Fame roundhouse kicked an overhyped nerd into baseball oblivion to make sure the team stopped letting computers […]
Giants Minor League Baseball roundup, May 27: Drew Cavanaugh has a day to remember
The Arizona Complex League was off on Wednesday, and the Dominican Summer League still hasn’t started, but the other four Minor League Baseball affiliates of the San Francisco Giants were all in action. So let’s get into it! Link to the 2026 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL) All listed positions in the roundup are […]
Thursday BP: This is a Casey Schmitt appreciation post
Good morning, baseball fans! Every week, I ask everyone to pick their San Francisco Giants Player of the Week. Last weekend, I picked Casey Schmitt, because he’d been on a bit of a tear. That published on Saturday, and you can imagine my delight in seeing that Schmitt hit yet another home run in that […]
Yabadee, yabadee…That’s All Folks!
There are two types of comedy (note: there are probably more, but work with me here). There’s comedy that is about setting up expectations for an audience before subverting them with the unexpected. Then there’s comedy that plays with the audience’s expectations, that pokes and prods it, teasing it just long enough for a tickle […]
5/27 Gamethread: Giants vs. Diamondbacks
The San Francisco Giants wrap up this three-game home series against the Arizona Diamondbacks this afternoon. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Trevor McDonald, who enters today’s game with a 4.76 ERA, 3.43 FIP, with 21 strikeouts to four walks in 22.2 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ 9-4 […]
Diamondbacks turned around season at Giants’ expense
Maybe Indiana Jones was right about snakes. The Arizona Diamondbacks have won nine of their last 10 games and climbed into the second wild-card spot in the National League. Their secret? Going 5-0 against the San Francisco Giants in that stretch. It happened again Tuesday night. Arizona took a 6-2 lead after seven innings after […]
Giants Minor League Baseball roundup, May 26: Carson Whisenhunt keeps stating his case
After a lengthy hiatus so I could eat my body weight in pasta, the Minor League Baseball roundup is back! Five of the San Francisco Giants’ six affiliates were in action on Tuesday — the Dominican Summer League season still hasn’t started — so let’s talk about them! Link to the 2026 McCovey Chronicles Community […]
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