Where we tend to talk about the recent past a lot
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 start 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: 72 G, 243 PA, 4 HR, 9 SB, .217/.278/.327, .111 ISO, 74 OPS+, 7.0 BB%, 28.8 K%, 0.2 fWAR “YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE,” might’ve been all I needed to write for this, but at the end of the day, it’s not a massive surprise that Fitzgerald wasn’t able to follow up his […]
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On Monday, the San Francisco Giants made perhaps their least surprising offseason transaction in franchise history. As the offseason officially got underway, the Giants declined their team option for catcher Tom Murphy, opting for a $250,000 buyout rather than a $4 million salary. And thus ends the story of one of the worst transactions in […]
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The Los Angeles Dodgers held their World Series parade yesterday, and while it’s healthier to ignore what’s going on with other teams, it’s easier said than done as a Giants fan. Despite what some really ignorant and angry people will tell you, the Dodgers winning the last two World Series won’t be the worst thing […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Throughout the season, I checked in periodically to see how everyone was feeling about the San Francisco Giants season as it progressed. Now that both the regular season and postseason are over, I wanted to check in again. Not just about the season that was, but the direction the organization is […]
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On Monday, two days after the conclusion of a thrilling, dramatic, historic, and downright awful World Series, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America unveiled the finalists for the four major regular season awards: Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and Cy Young. We knew the San Francisco Giants would have […]
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Logan Webb doesn’t take himself too seriously as a defender. He joked after the news broke that he had received his first Gold Glove Award by saying “if I can win it, anybody can win it.” Webb, who relies on his catcher to finesse a lot of border-line pitches or the four infielders behind him […]
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Today is nomination day! After voting in the CPL, head to the comment section to nominate a new batch of prospects for Wednesday. Well, nothing much of note is happening in the baseball world … right? So we might as well chug along with the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, which will see […]
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In the 67-year history of the Gold Glove award, only five pairs of pitchers and catchers had won Gold Gloves while playing for the same team. Logan Webb and Patrick Bailey just made it six. Webb won his first Gold Glove and Bailey won his second straight for the 2025 season. Webb had seven defensive […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Today, we’re stepping away from the game for a bit to discuss something serious. I know, I know. The worst on a Monday morning. But we have people in need of help, and I feel like it is our duty as humans to try to help those in our local communities […]
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Bryce Eldridge’s mid-September call-up was billed as a desperate search for an offensive boost in a desperate and flailing push for the postseason. Admittedly, a big ask for a 20 year old, and somewhat unsurprisingly, the team’s young top-prospect did not provide the much-needed kick in the pants. The Giants pulled at October’s push-door and […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Today’s BP is a weird one. As of the time this is being written, Game 6 of the World Series has not yet been played and potential starters for Game 7 have not yet been announced because…well…it’s not yet known if there will even need to be a Game 7. However, […]
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Technically, the 2025 MLB season is still going on, though we all hope it ends tonight. But it sure feels like the offseason around these parts, as we’re starting to find some rhythm with our time-honored tradition of ranking the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization through the Willie McCovey Memorial Community […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! The 2025 World Series continues between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers tonight, with the series moving back to Toronto for Game 6. The Blue Jays have taken the series lead, 3-2, which is just phenomenal news. I’m not usually one to root against a Game 7, but in […]
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2025 stats (with SF Giants): 46.2 IP, 47 G, 3.09 ERA / 3.22 FIP, 1.20 WHIP, 26.2 K%, 12.6 BB%, 0.6 fWAR 2025 stats (overall): 65.1 IP, 69 G, 3.58 ERA / 3.47 FIP, 1.32 WHIP, 25.9%, 12.6 BB %, 0.6 fWAR Camilo Doval bounced back from an ugly 2024 season with the San Francisco […]
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For the third time in six years, the San Francisco Giants held a press conference to introduce a new manager. Tony Vitello is the 40th manager in franchise history — 42 if you count interim managers — and a wholly unknown quantity at the major league level. A successful Division I college coach with no […]
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It was hard not to feel a sense of betrayal when Blake Snell signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers after spending the 2024 season with the San Francisco Giants. It was even tougher to watch him dominate in the early rounds of the playoffs, beating the Cincinnati Reds and blanking the Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee […]
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It’s time! Tony Vitello is here, and the San Francisco Giants are introducing him as their next manager. You can watch the press conference below:
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Good morning, baseball fans! With today being an off-day for the World Series, let’s get back to some of our regularly scheduled content about the San Francisco Giants for today’s BP. While the team may have had another lackluster season on the whole, they did have some absolutely awesome defensive gems. And the Giants’ social […]
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The first chapter of the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List is officially in the books. And not only did it go as expected, it ended the only way it possibly could have. Even though we had to honor the election process and go through the steps of a proper election, the reality is […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! The World Series continues tonight with Game 5 between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers from Dodger Stadium. The series is currently tied 2-2. Taking the mound for the Blue Jays will be right-handed rookie Trey Yesavage, who finished the regular season with a 3.21 ERA, 2.35 FIP, […]
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2025 stats w/SFG: 90 G, 395 PA, .236/.347/.460, .224 ISO, 29 K%, 14 BB%, 126 wRC+, 1.3 fWAR Phase 1 of the 9-phase master plan was a dud. Rafael Devers was not the quick download for a desperately needed offensive upgrade. At times, that rotating rainbow wait cursor seemed to spin endlessly next to his […]
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I don’t know if I jinxed anything by talking up the Giants’ replacement bullpen that pitched them through August, but let’s stand back and admire the scale at which the whole thing crashed and burned in September. Their 4.39 ERA was not the worst in the sport (it was merely 20th), nor was their 4.31 […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! The World Series continues tonight with Game 4 between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers from Dodger Stadium. Taking the mound for the Blue Jays will be right-hander Shane Bieber, who finished the regular season with a 3.57 ERA, 4.47 FIP, with 37 strikeouts to seven walks in […]
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On Friday, we began the latest iteration of McCovey Chronicles’ most time-honored tradition: the Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, in which we will work as a community to rank the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization. In the introductory post, everyone selected a group of nominees to choose from, and today […]
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