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It’s almost hard to believe, but we have a top 40 in the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List. We only need four more ballots sent out and counted, and then we will have succeeded in once again ranking the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization. The last chapter of the […]
26 days ago | 7 reads
Good morning baseball fans! As we approach Spring Training and the beginning of the season, we’re going to be doing some questions for y’all about your thoughts about the San Francisco Giants and baseball in general! Today’s question: Who’s to blame when things go wrong? This isn’t necessarily a predictive question on the 2026 team, […]
26 days ago | 3 reads
One of the key moments in the film “Moneyball” comes when Brad Pitt’s Billy Beane and Brent Jennings’ Ron Washington visit Chris Pratt’s Scott Hatteberg to inform him they’re offering him a contract to play first base for the Oakland Athletics, even though he’s only played catcher in his big-league career so far. Beane insists […]
26 days ago | 3 reads
Good morning baseball fans! As we approach Spring Training and the beginning of the season, we’re going to be doing some questions for y’all about your thoughts about the San Francisco Giants and baseball in general! Today’s question: What is going to be the 2026 Giants’ biggest weakness? Yes, I know Spring Training has only […]
27 days ago | 3 reads
The buzz out of Spring Training camp today came from the news that Bryce Eldridge will get some work out in left field. The Giants’ San Francisco Chronicle beat writer Shayna Rubin has the full breadth of the story summed up in this social media post: Well, that’s a sweet capper to the story and […]
27 days ago | 6 reads
Spring Training is here! San Francisco Giants players are in action! Excitement — and more importantly, baseball — is in the air! And still our Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List marches on, as we grow oh so close to finishing our communal rankings of the top 44 prospects in the Giants organization. Only one […]
28 days ago | 4 reads
2025 stats: 68 G, 61.1 IP, 17 saves (24 chances), 4.11 ERA (3.63 xFIP), 8.8 K/9, 2.6 BB/9, +0.6 fWAR Relievers are fungible. In some cases, they’re not and in other cases, we really hope they’re not, but since failure is the core of baseball, it’s unavoidable that most relief pitchers simply get chewed up […]
28 days ago | 0 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! As we approach Spring Training and the beginning of the season, we’re going to be doing some questions for y’all about your thoughts about the San Francisco Giants and baseball in general! Today’s question: How would you rank the 2026 NL West? The Giants have the misfortune of being in one […]
28 days ago | 8 reads
When the San Francisco Giants first made the mildly-surprising news to sign bat-to-ball maven Luis Arráez, there were questions about where he would play. Like most infielders, Arráez had played all over the dirt in the Minor Leagues, though he was viewed as a second baseman by the time he made the Majors. After a […]
28 days ago | 3 reads
Good morning, baseball fans!! Today is the day! The most exciting day of the baseball year! The day in which nothing meaningful really happens, but no one cares because PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT TODAY! That’s right, friends, we’ve made it through the long winter. And the San Francisco Giants pitchers and catchers will be reporting […]
29 days ago | 6 reads
It’s officially Spring Training eve. Fans, reporters, coaches, and most importantly, players have arrived in Scottsdale, Arizona. And after one more sleep, they’ll get to work. Last week, the San Francisco Giants announced their list of 19 non-roster invitees to Spring Training. As a refresher, NRIs are players who are in the system but not […]
29 days ago | 5 reads
2025 stats: 29 GS, 152 IP, 3.85 ERA / 4.24 xERA, 8.1 K/9, 3.1 BB/9, 1.36 WHIP, +2.2 fWAR The first ballot Hall of Famer joined the Giants as a sort of prove-it year to show the sport that he still could be “that guy,” and he pulled it off, becoming just the 48th pitcher […]
29 days ago | 3 reads
It’s the eve of Spring Training for the San Francisco Giants! If you’re sad that this is the first day without football, you can rejoice that it’s the last day without baseball! There will be a little overlap between Spring Training and our Community Prospect List, which will see us rank the top 44 prospects […]
30 days ago | 4 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! As we approach Spring Training and the beginning of the season, we’re going to be doing some questions for y’all about your thoughts about the San Francisco Giants and baseball in general! Today’s question: Which offseason decision makes you nervous? For me, it has to be the hiring of Tony Vitello. […]
30 days ago | 6 reads
It took three trips over the waiver wire through claims by three different teams for former top San Francisco Giants prospect Marco Luciano to finally find a home. He was designated multiple times for so many assignments, but the baseball gods finally took mercy on Luciano and let him pass through waivers and land with […]
about 1 month ago | 5 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! As we approach Spring Training and the beginning of the season, we’re going to be doing some questions for y’all about your thoughts about the San Francisco Giants and baseball in general! Today’s question: Are the 2026 Giants actually trying to contend, or are they just pretending? I’ve made my opinion […]
about 1 month ago | 4 reads
2025 stats: 81 G, 77.1 IP, 1.98 ERA, 2.88 FIP, 203 ERA+, 0.94 WHIP, 5.6 K/9, 0.8 BB/9, 2.4 bWAR w/Giants: 53 G, 50 IP, 1.80 ERA, 2.64 FIP, 222 ERA+, 0.86 WHIP, 6.8 K/9, 0.7 BB/9, 1.7 bWAR So much has already been written. So much praise heaped. What more is there to write […]
about 1 month ago | 5 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! As we approach Spring Training and the beginning of the season, we’re going to be doing some questions for y’all about your thoughts about the San Francisco Giants and baseball in general! Today, we have less of a question and more of a prompt: What grievances do you have with the […]
about 1 month ago | 7 reads
Note: Today is nomination day! Head to the comment section to nominate the next batch of prospects for Monday’s CPL. After today, there’s only one more Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List chapter before Spring Training is off and running. And then we’ll start actually getting some new info and data on some of these […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
Good morning, baseball fans! As we approach Spring Training and the beginning of the season, we’re going to be doing some questions for y’all about your thoughts about the San Francisco Giants and baseball in general! Today’s question is what would a successful 2026 Giants season look like for you? Personally, I’d take a winning […]
about 1 month ago | 6 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! As we approach Spring Training and the beginning of the season, we’re going to be doing some questions for y’all about your thoughts about the San Francisco Giants and baseball in general! Today’s question is kind of an odd one, but interesting to examine, at least for me. Which season changed […]
about 1 month ago | 5 reads
The San Francisco Giants have announced their non-roster invitees to this year’s Spring Training in Arizona and there’s just one surprise addition: veteran righty reliever Michael Fulmer. He had missed all of 2024 following Tommy John surgery and last season for the Red Sox and Cubs he threw a combined 5.2 innings. Previously, he’d thrown […]
about 1 month ago | 9 reads
Spring Training is officially less than a week away! We won’t quite be done ranking the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization when it starts, but we’ll be getting fairly close! Our next name is a player most people aren’t too familiar with, because he hasn’t yet donned a jersey for the […]
about 1 month ago | 5 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! We are less than a week away from San Francisco Giants pitchers and catchers reporting for Spring Training, which might be the best news I’ve heard in a year. The organization has been busy over the last week, signing Harrison Bader and Luis Arráez, so it’s not an unfair assumption that […]
about 1 month ago | 8 reads
On Saturday, the San Francisco Giants made what will likely be their last major move of the 2025-26 offseason, agreeing to a one-year deal with three-time All Star Luis Arráez and his preternatural left-handed contact abilities. It was a move that not many saw coming, but after failing to swing a trade for Nico Hoerner […]
about 1 month ago | 5 reads