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2026 by the numbers, part 2
The count drags on. Basic numbers revealing basic problems. 6 — Six wins against the Colorado Rockies. That number should be read with added emphasis: just six. Italics needed. The Giants had double-digit win totals against Colorado in 2025 and 2024, but in 13 confrontations in 2026 against the bottom dwellers of the division, of […]
Wednesday BP: Division Series continue
Good morning, baseball fans! The 2026 MLB Playoffs continue today with Game 3 of the ALDS and Game 4 of the NLDS. As of the time I am writing this, the NLDS games from Tuesday have not yet been played. So at this point I’m not sure if there will be two NLDS games or […]
Tuesday BP: NLDS Game 3
Good morning, baseball fans! The 2026 MLB Playoffs continue today with both NLDS games. This is a rare time where I am not, necessarily, writing in the past. Which is pretty exciting for me. I mean, I am still writing this the day before, but there were no NLDS games on Monday so I can […]
On losing
For the thirteenth time in franchise history, the Giants have ended a regular season with 90+ losses. It’s the tenth time in the San Francisco era where the team has piled up that much losing in a single year and the fourth time in the Oracle Park era. In fact, since 2000, the San Francisco […]
Minasianball: If you take out all the bad, just how good were the 2026 Giants?
Dang, it’s already been over six weeks since Zack Minasian blessed us with his take on Moneyball, where you only focus on certain stats that have a high rate of correlation and predictability? “Something I was looking at the other day,” Minasian stated, “the ninth inning obviously has been a huge issue. Our bullpen ERA, […]
Monday BP: ALDS Game 2
Good morning, baseball fans! Both American League Division Series continues today with Game 2. As of the time this is being written, Game 1 has not yet been played. Because as always, I write in the past baby. The visiting Chicago White Sox will take on the Cleveland Guardians at 2:00 p.m. PT, with national […]
Projected 2027 arbitration salaries for nine (!) Giants
I’ll confess that I don’t know what the plan is for the San Francisco Giants. It was a lot easier when the nerdy front office telegraphed its statistical interests and preferred player profiles, but these 97-game losers are sort of inscrutable. High contact hitters? Sure. Sinker-slider pitchers with strikeouts and velocity secondary? Okay. Winning? Optional. […]
Our first month with an app broke our commenting records
There hasn’t been a lot of good news around these parts lately. But I come bearing some very good news: the San Francisco Giants season is over. I also have some more good news, at a personal and community level: our new app is doing awesomely. A month ago we announced the release of our […]
2026 by the numbers
Numbers are helpful. Numbers make things plain when words muddy things up. What follows are some numbers, basic numbers, that I found before putting some words next to them. They don’t tell the whole story of the 2026 San Francisco Giants — but who wants that? No thanks. Measurable data in small, manageable punches, please. […]
Weekend BP: Division Series
Good morning, baseball fans! The 2026 MLB Playoffs continue this weekend, as the National League and American League Division Series begin tomorrow. As of the time this is being written, the final game of the Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves series has not yet been played. I will try to update that information if I […]
Revisiting my preseason predictions for the Giants
On March 25, 2026, the San Francisco Giants began what would quickly prove to be the worst season in franchise history. You don’t need me to explain all the things that went wrong, but don’t worry: it’s a long and cold offseason, so I will in due time. A few hours before that horrific journey […]
Thursday BP: Wild Card series Game 3
Good morning, baseball fans! The 2026 MLB Playoffs continue today with Game 3 of the National and American League Wild Card series. As usual, I am writing this before all of yesterday’s games have been played. So I don’t yet know the outcomes, which means I don’t yet know which games will actually have a […]
Wednesday BP: Wild Card series Game 2
Good morning, baseball fans! The National League and American League Wild Card series continue today, with all four series playing the second of three potential games. Because I live in the past and have to write these before the games have been played, you have a better idea of how the series are going than […]
A Giants fan guide to 2026 Wild Card Series
2026 marks the fifth consecutive year that the San Francisco Giants have missed out on the MLB postseason. This one, as you may have heard, wasn’t even close. The prospect of October baseball looked pretty bleak when they were slogging through June, like a rusted-out jalopy in Winnemucca, staring east across the Great Basin, knowing […]
Tuesday BP: Wild Card series Game 1
Good morning, baseball fans! The 2026 MLB Playoffs begin today and it will be jam-packed with four games. Here’s everything you need to know to keep up with the action. National League The Atlanta Braves welcome the Philadelphia Phillies to town for Game 1 of their Wild Card series which begins at 11:00 a.m. this […]
The Giants successfully recreated the 2014 season
I admit that I didn’t watch as many non-Giants games as I have in the past nor did I really consume much news about the field, so I suppose this feeling of mine is absent many facts, but, it didn’t feel like the 2026 season was a particularly below average run-scoring environment or a strange […]
Monday BP: Quick Reflections
Good morning, baseball fans! The 2026 San Francisco Giants season is officially over. For better, and mostly worse. I’ll have a lot more to say about this season as a whole in the coming days, as we all likely will, once the dust has settled. But today, I wanted to check in and see what […]
65-97
We got extra baseball on the final day of the season — which afforded the Giants relief pitching enough space to revert to their well-established baseline. The story for 9 innings was that Game 162 was the least 2026 Giants game of the 2026 season, mostly because of how well pitched it was. Tied in […]
9/27 Gamethread: Giants vs. Dodgers
Well folks, it’s here. It’s the final game of the season for the San Francisco Giants, who will try to not get swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers. If they accomplish that, it will keep their Southern California foes from reaching 100 wins on the year. There is perhaps some happiness that the season is […]
Sunday BP: Highlight of the Year
Good morning, baseball fans! Today is the final day of the San Francisco Giants’ 2026 season. So today I would like to do something similar to what we did yesterday and pick our favorite highlight of the season, strictly based on memory. And as I mentioned yesterday, the time will come for real evaluations and […]
A loss, but not a total one
Make that seven in a row. After the Giants came up a run short in Saturday’s 4-3 loss to the Dodgers, San Francisco has now dropped seven consecutive games against their rivals this year. This one wasn’t a hard pill to swallow though. Maybe it’s because after six months and 161 games, I’m pretty numb […]
9/26 Gamethread: Giants vs. Dodgers
Well folks, for worse and most certainly for better, the season is almost over. It’s time for the penultimate game of the 2026 campaign for the San Francisco Giants, who host the playoff-bound Los Angeles Dodgers. For San Francisco, lefty Matt Wilkinson makes the final appearance of his debut season. The 23-year old nicknamed “Tugboat” […]
Postseason prep for Dodgers
Friday night, Oracle Park was far from the intimidating cave it may have once been in the SF-LA rivalry. When the Dodgers from the south, along with their legion of supporters, arrived at the den of these Giants, their faces did not drain of color. They did not breathe dank air, nor pick their way […]
Saturday BP: Player of the Year
Good morning, baseball fans! The final weekend of San Francisco Giants baseball is upon us, and as we have spent the rest of the season picking the Player of the Week, I thought today we would make our picks for Player of the Year. BUT, before we get started, there is to be no stat […]
9/25 Gamethread: Giants vs. Dodgers
The San Francisco Giants begin their final series of the 2026 season tonight against the Los Angeles Dodgers. I have not been willing to give the Giants organization much credit this season, but I do have to hand it to them for making sure that tonight’s game is not being broadcast on Apple, Twitch, or […]
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