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Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants kick off their 2026 Fan Fest Tour Saturday in San Jose! Admission is free, but fans will need to have tickets in order to enter. You can get those on the Giants’ website here. The event will take place Saturday, January 17th at San Pedro Square Market, […]
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Note: Today is nomination day! Head to the comment section to nominate the next group of Giants prospects. Spring Training is less than a month away, and the smell of baseball is almost in the air. To prepare ourselves, we’re continuing with the Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, which will see us work together […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Earlier this week, MLB.com announced the important dates we were all waiting for with regards to the 2026 San Francisco Giants Spring Training. That’s right, pitchers and catchers, baby! Pitchers and catchers report for their first workout on Tuesday, February 10th. The first full squad workout will follow a few days […]
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On Thursday, the 2026 international signing period opened up in baseball. And, as suspected, the San Francisco Giants were waiting in the wings to make a huge splash. The Giants sent a large contingency to their Felipe Alou Baseball Academy in the Dominican Republic, to mark a momentous occasion: the signing of Venezuelan shortstop Luis […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Earlier this week, former San Francisco Giants outfielder Jaylin Davis announced via a social media post that he will be retiring. Davis was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 24th round of the 2015 draft, and made his MLB debut with the Giants back in 2019 after being traded in […]
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Spring Training 2026 is closer than it’s ever been … but it’s only getting closer. We won’t be done with our communal rank of the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization by then, but we’ll be a little bit closer. We almost have a top 30! The next name on our list […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! It’s been a minute since we’ve had any updates about the Women’s Professional Baseball League starting later this year. That’s because there hasn’t been a lot of news since the draft a few weeks ago, in which the as-yet unnamed San Francisco team drafted Kelsie Whitmore with their number one pick. […]
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The San Francisco Giants have excellent players in place at three infield positions. They’re looking to upgrade at the fourth. Second base was not a strength for the Giants during the 2025 season. Tyler Fitzgerald came back to Earth after a strong 2024 season, going from a .280/.334/.497 slash line to .217/.278/.327 and striking out […]
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For those just sitting down for their morning coffee & scroll, ESPN’s Jeff Passan has posted that our beloved San Francisco Giants “are aggressively pursuing a second baseman and have been engaged with Chicago on Nico Hoerner and St. Louis on Brendan Donovan, sources tell ESPN.” This is simply a refresh of news reported exactly […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants will be kicking off their 2026 Fan Fest Tour this Saturday, and each Saturday for the rest of the month. The first stop will be San Jose on January 17th, followed by San Ramon on January 24th, and then Sacramento on January 31st. The Open House will […]
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This time next month, pitchers and catchers will be reporting to Scottsdale for Spring Training. Among those pitchers and catchers will be prospects galore … some who are already on the roster, some who are non-roster invitees, and some who are headed to Minor League camp. We won’t be done with the 2026 Willie McCovey […]
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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 continue 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: 2.42 ERA, 3.43 xERA, 1.03 WHIP, 6.9 K/9, 3.2 BB/9, 17 G, 22.1 IP Joel Peguero threw just 315 pitches in the 2025 season — and each one was thrown hard. Really hard. There is no offspeed with Peguero. No brakes. His average four-seam velocity clocks in at a tenth of a MPH […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Late last year, the San Francisco Giants announced that they would be hosting a celebratory event honoring the contributions of former first baseman, Captain, All Star, baby giraffe, and first-ballot Goofball HOF Brandon Belt. Belt debuted for the Giants in 2011 and played for them until 2022, before signing with the […]
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The 2026 baseball season is so close that I can almost taste it. And that means the return of not just Major League Baseball, but also Minor League Baseball. But how can Minor League Baseball begin without prospect lists?? It simply cannot. And so we must finish our 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, […]
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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 continue 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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Mike Yastrzemski was a great San Francisco Giant in his six seasons with the team. Now he’s moved on to the place where so many former Giants end up: the Atlanta Braves. Yaz signed a two-year, $23M contract with the Braves, essentially to provide a reliable veteran corner outfielder with excellent defense and adequate hitting […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Representatives of the San Francisco Giants headed to Seoul, South Korea this week. The team’s envoy included owner Larry Baer, President of Baseball operations Buster Posey, GM Zack Minasian, Manager Tony Vitello, as well as Jung Hoo Lee and Willy Adames to represent the players. The group toured local areas of […]
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2025 stats: 1.50 ERA, 4.61 xERA, 268 ERA+, 1.467 WHIP, 6.6 K/9, 6.0 BB/9 over 30 IP (36 G) At 6’5’’ and 270 pounds, subtleties aren’t really a strong suit for Erik Miller. His four-seam fastball averaged 97MPH in 2024 and he threw it half of the time he was on the mound. Against same-side […]
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Note: Today is nomination day! Head to the comment section to nominate the next batch of players for the CPL. I hope everyone had a swell first week of the new year. We’re only a little over a month away from the start of Spring Training, but we’ve still got a lot of work to […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Last week, the San Francisco Giants signed starting pitcher Tyler Mahle to a one-year deal, which Bryan covered over here if you missed it. Some have speculated that the team might continue to prioritize the rotation in the remaining offseason. However, as Brady mentioned in his post on Friday, it seemed […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! There’s nothing worse than getting back from holiday break. Everything that you put off until the new year is knocking down your door with more urgency, the weather is awful, the world is on fire, and there isn’t a lot happening in the baseball world because they, too, have been on […]
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If you can believe it, Spring Training is right around the corner. Which means we’d better get cracking on the Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, because we have to rank 44 San Francisco Giants prospects, and we’re only just past the halfway mark! Our latest name is one that has been all over the […]
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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 continue 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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Yesterday, I wrote about how I thought the San Francisco Giants were done signing starting pitchers. After adding Tyler Mahle and Adrian Houser on one and two-year deals, respectively, the Giants now have five established starters, as that duo joins incumbents Logan Webb, Robbie Ray, and Landen Roupp. Not everyone agrees with that assessment. Some […]
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