Where we tend to talk about the recent past a lot
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants recently announced their planned promotions for the first half of the 2026 season. So let’s take a look at the highlights. Firstly, as McCovey Chronicles’ resident Brandon Belt superfan, I am delighted to report that the team will be hosting a Brandon Belt Celebration Day event on […]
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The San Francisco Giants haven’t made any moves at the Winter Meetings, but it’s still been a productive week for them because of what happened on Tuesday at the draft lottery. Despite having just the 12th-best odds heading into the lottery, the Giants had good news roll their way, and landed the fourth overall pick […]
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The Los Angeles Dodgers, suffering from an embarrassment of riches, attempted to bolster their late-inning pitching last year by signing not just Tanner Scott, but also Kirby Yates, while re-signing Blake Treinin. It both was an utter disaster and worked out perfectly. The former because all of those players struggled mightily and were nowhere to […]
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Note: Today is nomination day! Head to the comment section to nominate the next group of prospects to be included in Wednesday’s CPL. We’re now in the thick of the Winter Meetings, and while we wait for Buster Posey and Zack Minasian to do something, we’ll continue with our time-honored offseason project of ranking 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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Good morning, baseball fans! It’s been a bit slow on the San Francisco Giants news front during this not-so-hot stove season. So today I thought we could watch something fun to help keep warm (both mentally and physically, as it’s been absolutely freezing in Northern California this week). So let’s take a look at a […]
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The Marco Luciano era is over for the San Francisco Giants, and it’s hard to not feel poignant about it. On Friday, the team quietly announced that Luciano had been claimed off of waivers by the Pittsburgh Pirates, a popular home for former Giants top prospects, as Joey Bart, Alexander Canario, Bryan Reynolds, Kyle Crick, […]
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The Winter Meetings start this weekend, and there’s one topic on the mind of Buster Posey and every other executive gathered in Orlando: the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List. Our communal ranking of the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization is obviously the most critical thing that happens in the […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Yesterday, San Francisco Giants General Manager Zack Minasian made an appearance on KNBR in which he confirmed Bob Nightengale’s social media post stating that the team was finalizing a deal with Ron Washington to join their coaching staff, most likely as an infield coach. Washington, of course, has had an extensive […]
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2025 stats: 76 G, 191 PA, .264/.309/.368, 94 OPS+ (91 wRC+), 1.9 bWAR… 0.00 ERA I’ve always thought it’d be fun to compile an encyclopedia of all the San Francisco Giants utility infielders in the 21st century. A completely frivolous tome of all the what was his name again players that scratch together 150 to […]
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On Monday, news broke about the San Francisco Giants that was both deeply disappointing and not particularly surprising. On Tuesday, news broke about the San Francisco Giants that was both extremely shocking and quite exciting. Monday’s news was that the Giants are not willing to spend the requisite buckeroos to make a competitive offer for […]
6 days ago | 1 read
Good morning, baseball fans! Earlier this week, Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area reported that infielder Casey Schmitt had undergone surgery on his left wrist on Tuesday. Schmitt is right-handed, which means that the surgery was on his glove hand, which should help recovery go more smoothly. Per Pavlovic’s post on social media, the […]
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The Winter Meetings are right around the corner, so hold on to your hats: the MLB offseason is about to get wild. Or perhaps mild. We’ll soon find out. Until then, it’s time to continue on our many-months long quest to, as a group, rank the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization. […]
7 days ago | 1 read
You know, as cranky as some of the fandom has become over the past few days as it becomes clear the Giants are using the press to either tamp down fan enthusiasm about free agency or short circuit Scott Boras’s efforts to use them (again) as a stalking horse, it’s still the case that the […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! Yesterday, Steven wrote about the news that the San Francisco Giants are reportedly not interested in spending the money it would take to pursue Japanese RHP Tatsuya Imai, or really any big name I cannot improve upon Steven’s commentary, because it is absolutely spot-on. Personally, I can’t say that I’m surprised […]
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2025 stats: 3 G (2 GS) 15 IP 1.80 ERA / 2.54 FIP, 14 K, 2 BB, 1 HR, 1.00 WHIP, 53.5 GB%, +0.4 fWAR Trevor McDonald didn’t appear in a Giants uniform until September 16th in relief of Tristan Beck who left after 3 innings and the team up on the Diamondbacks 5-3. In […]
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“Never!” should be your answer. No good San Francisco Giants fan would ever dream of trading the team’s ace. That’s Buster Posey’s job, and if he’s going to be any good as a President of Baseball Operations going forward, he ought to start popping ashwagandha pills before bed. Yesterday, Andrew Baggarly wrote an article for […]
8 days ago | 2 reads
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 […]
8 days ago | 3 reads
The rising excitement around a feast of positive rumors from last week seemed to suggest the San Francisco Giants were primed to sign Japanese starter Tatsuya Imai. Well, that turkey has dried out. All the optimism and hope surrounding Imai is now painfully naive in-light of Monday’s news. The Athletic’s Andrew Baggarly, citing club sources, […]
9 days ago | 0 reads
The calendars have flipped over to December, which means baseball moves are incoming. Buckle up, folks: there will be signings and tradings galore before you know it. Some might even be made by the team you’re rooting for! But while that all happens in the forefront of the league, we have our side quest to […]
9 days ago | 1 read
Good morning, baseball fans! We hope you had a great holiday weekend! Over the weekend, I asked you all to share your favorite home runs of the San Francisco Giants’ 2025 season. Today, I wanted to get into our favorite defensive plays of the 2025 season. There were a LOT of great plays and catches […]
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2025 stats (with SFG): 13 G 48.2 IP 6.47 ERA / 3.65 FIP, 43 K, 20 BB, 3 HR, 1.54 WHIP, 56.4 GB%, +0.7 fWAR Unlike Kyle Harrison’s player review, a look at his whole season won’t be necessary to get a sense of his performance. The Giants have not been able to build up […]
10 days ago | 2 reads
A buffet of juicy gossip and rumors weighed down Giants fans’s tables this Thanksgiving week. A real horn o’ plenty overflowing with speculation about San Francisco landing Japanese right-hander Tatsuya Imai, who many consider to be one of the top starting pitchers available this winter. The Giants front office has been linked to Imai long […]
12 days ago | 1 read
Good morning, baseball fans! We hope you had a great Thanksgiving! Today, I wanted to see what everyone’s favorite home runs of the San Francisco Giants’ 2025 season were. Personally, I feel as though we were blessed with an abundance of my absolute favorite type of home run this season. Grand slams against the Los […]
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The San Francisco Giants have made their first Major League signing of the offseason, and they waited until a federal holiday to do it. I’m sure that wasn’t their intention — nothing has been made official or announced by the team — but it’s when the news broke. On Thanksgiving morning, FanSided’s Robert Murray reported […]
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