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McCovey Chronicles

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Where we tend to talk about the recent past a lot

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Monday BP: World Series Game 3

Good morning, baseball fans! The 2025 World Series continues tonight between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The series moves to Los Angeles for Game 3 tonight. Taking the mound for the Blue Jays will be right-hander Max Scherzer, who is no stranger to World Series appearances. Scherzer ended the regular season […]

about 1 month ago | 1 read

Weekend BP: World Series Game 2

Good morning, baseball fans! We’ve got one game this weekend, and that is Game 2 of the 2025 World Series between the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays Saturday night from the Rogers Centre. Taking the mound for the Dodgers will be right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who finished the regular season with a […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Player review: Matt Chapman

2025 stats: 128 G, 535 PA, .231/.340/.430, .198 ISO, 13 BB%, 25 K%, 118 wRC+, 3.7 fWAR Here it is. The moment that the Giants’ 2025 season tripped over itself and started its long tumble to kaput.  Note Matt Chapman’s right hand. See the squish of digits, wrist bent awkwardly over palm, all crushed by […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Friday BP: World Series Game 1

Good morning, baseball fans! The world’s biggest Toronto Blue Jays fan has arrived to discuss tonight’s World Series Game 1 between the Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers from the Rogers Centre in Toronto. Taking the mound for the Dodgers will be left-hander and former/not-forever Giant Blake Snell, who finished the regular season with […]

about 2 months ago | 0 reads

Player review: José Buttó

2025 stats: 67 IP, 55 G, 3.90 ERA / 3.70 FIP, 1.40 WHIP, 20.4 K%, 11.3 BB%, 0.5 fWAR After a mini breakout in 2024, José Buttó looked like he might be a reliable dude in the Mets’ grand plan. He pitched 74 innings (the first 38 of which came as a starter) and was […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Thursday BP: Tim Lincecum makes rare Bay Area appearance

Good morning, baseball fans! Today I wanted to highlight a post from Gabe Lehman of SF Gate from earlier this week that touches on a topic that is near and dear to not only my heart, but the hearts of San Francisco Giants fans everywhere. That topic is the sighting of an elusive figure from […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Giants officially hire Tony Vitello

After an odd stop-and-start week of news, the San Francisco Giants have finally made it official: they’re hiring Tony Vitello to be their next manager. On Saturday, Andrew Baggarly of The Athletic broke the news that the Giants were “closing in on hiring” Vitello, who is currently the head coach at the University of Tennessee, […]

about 2 months ago | 2 reads

Matt Chapman is a Silver Slugger finalist

This morning, Major League Baseball announced the finalists for the 2025 Silver Slugger Award, given to the 10 best hitters in each league by position (one player at each infield position, three outfielders, one DH, and one utility player). For the second year in a row, San Francisco Giants third baseman Matt Chapman, who posted […]

about 2 months ago | 2 reads

Wednesday BP: Best Giants strikeouts of 2025

Good morning, baseball fans! The 2025 World Series doesn’t start until Friday. I know we are all ready to do our part in cheering for the Not-Dodgers, but we’ve still got a couple of days to go. So in the meantime, the San Francisco Giants social media team shared a video on their YouTube channel […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Stock up, stock down: Community Prospect List Part 2

Yesterday, I started to take stock of some of the highest-ranking San Francisco Giants prospects. I planned to look at how the stock had changed for the top 44 prospects, as determined by our preseason Community Prospect List. I only made it halfway through, then decided it was best to break this into two articles. […]

about 2 months ago | 2 reads

Tuesday BP: The World Series is set

And then there were two. The World Series field was officially set on Monday night, following a thrilling baseball game to conclude the ALCS. Thanks to a three-run home run by George Springer in the seventh inning, the Toronto Blue Jays completed their comeback (in both the game and in the series), winning 4-3 (in […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Stock up, stock down: Community Prospect List Part 1

The 2025 baseball season ended quite a while ago for the San Francisco Giants. Not just for their Major League team, but for their seven Minor League Baseball affiliates as well. With the exception of the seven prospects currently getting a little extra seasoning in the Arizona Fall League, it’s onto the offseason for everyone […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Player review: Spencer Bivens

2025 stats: 81 IP, 54 G, 4.00 ERA, 3.70 FIP, 1.33 WHIP, 6.78 K/9, 2.78 BB/9, 0.4 fWAR In 2024, the 29-year old right-hander’s debut in the big leagues was the feel-good story of the year. He had spent a decade on a very long-and-winding road with no promise it would guide him anywhere. Still […]

MLB

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Monday BP: Will the Giants officially hire Tony Vitello today?

News broke on Saturday that the San Francisco Giants were going outside the box … extremely outside the box … with their managerial search, and intended to hire University of Tennessee coach Tony Vitello. Yet nearly as soon as The Athletic’s Andrew Baggarly, the most trusted voice in Giants reporting, broke the story with a […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Player review: Hayden Birdsong

2025 stats: 65.2 IP, 21 G (10 GS), 4.80 ERA / 4.96 FIP, 1.492 WHIP, 22.8 K%, 12.4 BB%, 0.0 fWAR Some of us will spend most of this offseason wondering what happened to Hayden Birdsong. It’s not just that the 6’4” 23-year old who captured hearts and minds last season only to lay a […]

MLB

about 2 months ago | 0 reads

Tony Vitello the next manager?

If Andrew Baggarly isn’t as close to an unimpeachable source when it comes to Giants rumors and breaking or near-breaking news, then no beat writer is. He mentioned Tennessee Volunteers coach Tony Vitello as a possible replacement for Bob Melvin when this whole search began, and just moments ago on The Athletic, he, Brittany Ghiroli, […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Weekend BP: NLCS Game 5 (if necessary) and ALCS Game 6

Good morning, baseball fans! The playoffs continue this weekend, although as of the time this is being written it’s not yet clear whether there will be two games played this weekend or just the one. If the Los Angeles Dodgers won last night, then the NLCS is over, to the detriment of us all. However, […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Friday BP: ALCS Game 5 and NLCS Game 4

Good morning, baseball fans! Both the American and National League Championship Series continue today. First up will be Game 5 of the ALCS featuring the visiting Toronto Blue Jays vs. the Seattle Mariners. As of the time this is being written, Toronto does not yet have a starting pitcher listed. Whoever it ends up being […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Player review: Patrick Bailey

2025 stats: 135 G, 452 PA, .222 / .277 / .325, 6 HR, 55 RBI, 73 OPS+ (70 wRC+), .265 wOBA, 1.1 bWAR, 31 FRV (best in baseball) Looking back at the 2025 San Francisco Giants season, the apex may have come in a July 8 game against the Philadelphia Phillies. Trailing by two runs […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Thursday BP: Championship Series continue

Good morning, baseball fans! Both the American League and National League Championship Series continue today. First up, the Milwaukee Brewers head west to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 of the NLCS. Which is unfortunate, because the Dodgers currently have a 2-0 series lead. The Brewers have not yet named a starting […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Wednesday BP: ALCS Game 3

Good morning, baseball fans! Today’s playoff game will be Game 3 of the American League Championship Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners. The game will start at 5:08 p.m. PT, airing on Fox Sports 1, with national radio coverage available on ESPN Radio. It seems as though the Blue Jays’ time […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Player review: Tristan Beck

2025 stats: 4.61 ERA, 4.25 FIP, 1.112 WHIP, 18 K%, 7 BB%, 31 G (1 GS), 56.2 IP In a season of low-leverage appearances, of lumbering through middle-innings in blow-outs, Tristan Beck finally had a chance to pitch with some purpose on September 16th in Arizona.  The Giants sat at .500. They teetered on the […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read