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Sunday BP: Duane Kuiper passed over for Hall of Fame. Again.
Good morning, baseball fans! Earlier this week, it was announced that ESPN’s Joe Buck had received the Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award, to the consternation of San Francisco Giants fans for multiple reasons. The most unreasonable being that some Giants fans just kind of hate Joe Buck. A lot of it seems to […]
Rumor: Giants in mix to trade for upgrade at second base
This evening, Katie Woo of The Athletic published an article with the headline “Mariners, Giants emerge as front-runners for Brendan Donovan trade: Sources.” Woo was the site’s Cardinals beat writer until this offseason, when she left that beat to cover the Dodgers, but she obviously still has her sources in St. Louis. That could mean […]
2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List No. 18
It’s time for a rarity: a weekend adventure into the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List! Yes, our quest to rank the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization is clocking in for work on a Saturday, because … well … because I never got around to it on Friday. So here […]
Forever Giant Brett Pill named hitting coach for Rockies
To understand the intensity of the Brett Pill Wars, you had to have been online during 2011 through 2013. Giants fans separated into Pro-Pill and Pro-Belt factions, which was ironic because the true enemy was Aubrey Huff. Brandon Belt was a young hotshot left-handed prospect with a great on-base percentage and huge potential who often […]
Saturday BP: Watch every cooler celebration from the 2025 season
Good morning, baseball fans! Last weekend, we watched all of the San Francisco Giants walk-offs of the 2025 season. Today, we’re going to keep that fun going with a video from the Giants’ social media team with every cooler shower celebration. Because half of the fun of a walk-off win is watching the hero/culprit get […]
Former Giants reliever Tyler Rogers signs with the Blue Jays
The San Francisco Giants have had a frugal offseason to this point, with plenty of reports and rumors that frugality will be a central theme over the next few days, weeks, and months. And now we have perhaps the most painful example of it yet, as the team did not sign the one player that […]
Player review: Jung Hoo Lee
2025 stats: 150 G, 617 PA, .266 / .327 / .407, 107 wRC+, .141 ISO, .291 BABIP, 7.6 BB%, 11.5 K%, 2.4 fWAR Remember April? Remember how great the Giants were — the kind of great that got people ridiculously excited, that caused young men to see visions and old men to dream dreams and […]
3 offseason moves the Giants need to make for 2026
I did this exercise last offseason and wound up being off the mark but in the general vicinity. The specifics are where I really stumbled, but the Giants did wind up doing (broadly) what I’d hoped they’d do. My plan: Their actions: I wanted the team to show that they were serious about playing at […]
Friday BP: Giants reportedly pursuing Freddy Peralta trade
Good morning, baseball fans! Earlier this week, it was reported by Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon of The Athletic that the San Francisco Giants are one of five teams that are pursuing trade talks with the Milwaukee Brewers for RHP Freddy Peralta. Peralta, 29, is coming off of a career-best 2025 season that he finished […]
Thursday BP: How do you feel about the Hall of Fame announcement?
Good morning, baseball fans! For the first time in my decade-long tenure at McCovey Chronicles, the San Francisco Giants have a new player heading to the Hall of Fame. Earlier this week, it was announced that Jeff Kent would be the lone inductee from this year’s Contemporary Baseball Era committee. Players on this ballot had […]
Giants add Daniel Susac, lose Spencer Miles and Ryan Watson in Rule 5 Draft
The San Francisco Giants projected to have a fairly busy 2025 Rule 5 Draft, after choosing to make zero protections (thus leaving some intriguing names available), and waiving Marco Luciano to open up a roster spot. And indeed, they had a busy day. The Giants lost a pair of arms in the Major League portion […]
The Giants are projected to be not bad
The 2025 Giants wound up right about where they were expected to be even though they could’ve been a little bit better than 81-81. For the third year in a row, Dan Szymborski’s ZiPS projections for the 2026 San Francisco Giants see them flirting with .500 but with enough in-house talent already to push that […]
2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List No. 17
Within the next hour or so, the San Francisco Giants will likely add a few prospects in the Minor League phase of the Rule 5 Draft … and maybe even one in the Major League phase. If they do, those players will join the many, many prospects vying for a spot on the 2026 Willie […]
Wednesday BP: Giants unveil first half promotions
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants recently announced their planned promotions for the first half of the 2026 season. So let’s take a look at the highlights. Firstly, as McCovey Chronicles’ resident Brandon Belt superfan, I am delighted to report that the team will be hosting a Brandon Belt Celebration Day event on […]
Giants beat the odds, land the 4th pick in July’s draft
The San Francisco Giants haven’t made any moves at the Winter Meetings, but it’s still been a productive week for them because of what happened on Tuesday at the draft lottery. Despite having just the 12th-best odds heading into the lottery, the Giants had good news roll their way, and landed the fourth overall pick […]
Tuesday BP: Edwin Díaz signs with the Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers, suffering from an embarrassment of riches, attempted to bolster their late-inning pitching last year by signing not just Tanner Scott, but also Kirby Yates, while re-signing Blake Treinin. It both was an utter disaster and worked out perfectly. The former because all of those players struggled mightily and were nowhere to […]
2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List No. 16
Note: Today is nomination day! Head to the comment section to nominate the next group of prospects to be included in Wednesday’s CPL. We’re now in the thick of the Winter Meetings, and while we wait for Buster Posey and Zack Minasian to do something, we’ll continue with our time-honored offseason project of ranking the […]
Monday BP: Kyle Harrison community review
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 […]
Weekend BP: Watch every Giants walk-off from 2025
Good morning, baseball fans! It’s been a bit slow on the San Francisco Giants news front during this not-so-hot stove season. So today I thought we could watch something fun to help keep warm (both mentally and physically, as it’s been absolutely freezing in Northern California this week). So let’s take a look at a […]
Giants waive Marco Luciano; Pirates claim him
The Marco Luciano era is over for the San Francisco Giants, and it’s hard to not feel poignant about it. On Friday, the team quietly announced that Luciano had been claimed off of waivers by the Pittsburgh Pirates, a popular home for former Giants top prospects, as Joey Bart, Alexander Canario, Bryan Reynolds, Kyle Crick, […]
2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List No. 15
The Winter Meetings start this weekend, and there’s one topic on the mind of Buster Posey and every other executive gathered in Orlando: the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List. Our communal ranking of the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization is obviously the most critical thing that happens in the […]
Friday BP: Ron Washington reportedly joining Giants coaching staff
Good morning, baseball fans! Yesterday, San Francisco Giants General Manager Zack Minasian made an appearance on KNBR in which he confirmed Bob Nightengale’s social media post stating that the team was finalizing a deal with Ron Washington to join their coaching staff, most likely as an infield coach. Washington, of course, has had an extensive […]
Player review: Christian Koss
2025 stats: 76 G, 191 PA, .264/.309/.368, 94 OPS+ (91 wRC+), 1.9 bWAR… 0.00 ERA I’ve always thought it’d be fun to compile an encyclopedia of all the San Francisco Giants utility infielders in the 21st century. A completely frivolous tome of all the what was his name again players that scratch together 150 to […]
Giants are reportedly interested in Kyle Schwarber
On Monday, news broke about the San Francisco Giants that was both deeply disappointing and not particularly surprising. On Tuesday, news broke about the San Francisco Giants that was both extremely shocking and quite exciting. Monday’s news was that the Giants are not willing to spend the requisite buckeroos to make a competitive offer for […]
Thursday BP: Casey Schmitt injury update
Good morning, baseball fans! Earlier this week, Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area reported that infielder Casey Schmitt had undergone surgery on his left wrist on Tuesday. Schmitt is right-handed, which means that the surgery was on his glove hand, which should help recovery go more smoothly. Per Pavlovic’s post on social media, the […]
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