Where we tend to talk about the recent past a lot
Good morning, baseball fans! As we are getting closer to the holidays, I thought we could take some time to revisit some of the San Francisco Giants’ best games. Or at least a few of my personal favorites. If you saw yesterday’s BP, you probably have a pretty good idea what we’re going to be […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! As we are getting closer to the holidays, I thought we could take some time to revisit some of the San Francisco Giants’ best games. Or at least a few of my personal favorites. And if you know anything about me, you can probably guess which games are coming this weekend. […]
about 1 month ago | 4 reads
Well folks, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the top 20! Following Wednesday’s chapter of the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, we officially have a list of the top 20 San Francisco Giants prospects. And it looks quite different than last year’s! In fact, only seven of the players in last […]
about 1 month ago | 5 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! As we are getting closer to the holidays, I thought we could take some time to revisit some of the San Francisco Giants’ best games. Or at least a few of my personal favorites. To start things off, we have one of the most iconic games of all time. And that […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! Earlier this week, the San Francisco Giants announced that they had signed RHP Adrian Houser to a two-year, $22 million deal. Bryan covered it more in-depth yesterday, which you can check out here. But I wanted to check in and see what the community thinks about this signing. Personally, I didn’t […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
The holidays are right around the corner, and so is another benchmark event: the halfway mark of the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List. Yes, if you can believe it, we’re almost halfway through our journey of ranking the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization. But we’re not there yet! In […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
2025 stats: 38 G, 38.1 IP, 3.76 ERA, 3.53 xERA, 1.23 WHIP, .253 opp. BA, 7.28 K/9, 2.82 BB/9 Joey Lucchesi made his Major League debut for San Diego in 2018. He made nearly 60 Major League starts over his first two seasons before the 2020 season and an eventual trade to the Mets tossed […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! Earlier this week, Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area wrote about how the San Francisco Giants’ new manager Tony Vitello is preparing for his new role. Vitello, as we know, has no MLB experience as either a player or a coach (though he has coached several MLB players). So he […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
The San Francisco Giants didn’t wait for us to catch our breaths from the signing of quasi-closer Jason Foley as just moments ago Jeff Passan broke that they’ve also signed starting pitcher Adrian Houser to a 2-year, $22 million deal with an option for a third year. Does this move effectively end the team’s exploration […]
about 1 month ago | 4 reads
The San Francisco Giants have announced the signing of RHP Jason Foley to a 1-year major league deal. He missed all of 2025 recovering from right shoulder capsule surgery and will miss probably half of the 2026 season, too. Previously, the four-year veteran was the Detroit Tigers’ closer, registering 28 saves in 2024. He’s thrown […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! While it may be cold and dreary, we have our first signs of spring in the form of the San Francisco Giants releasing the dates for the 2026 Fan Fest Tour! This year’s tour will feature four stops. Three of which will be in January and the event will conclude with […]
about 1 month ago | 4 reads
We’re all sitting around waiting for the San Francisco Giants to make some moves. It seems they won’t, so let’s instead look at the prospects, and continue on with our Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List. We’re almost halfway through ranking the top 44 prospects in the system! The next name to come off the […]
about 1 month ago | 6 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! Last week, it was announced that a new former San Francisco Giants player would be inducted into the Hall of Fame for the first time in a decade as Jeff Kent was announced as the lone inductee from the Contemporary Baseball Era committee. So today, let’s take a look at a […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
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 […]
about 1 month ago | 4 reads
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 […]
about 1 month ago | 4 reads
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 […]
about 1 month ago | 5 reads
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 […]
about 1 month ago | 6 reads
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 […]
about 1 month ago | 4 reads
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 […]
about 1 month ago | 5 reads
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 […]
about 1 month ago | 4 reads
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 […]
about 1 month ago | 4 reads
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 […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
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 […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
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 […]
about 1 month ago | 6 reads
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 […]
about 1 month ago | 4 reads