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Giants Minor League Baseball roundup, June 3: Cesar Perdomo shoves
The rookie ball teams were off on Wednesday, but the San Francisco Giants quartet of A-ball teams were all in action. So let’s dive into the Minor League baseball results! Link to the 2026 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL) All listed positions in the roundup are the position played in that particular game. News […]
6/4 Gamethread: Giants @ Brewers
The San Francisco Giants wrap up this four-game road series against the Milwaukee Brewers this morning. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Adrian Houser, who enters today’s game with a 5.59 ERA, 5.21 FIP, with 35 strikeouts to 21 walks in 56.1 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ 8-3 […]
Thursday BP: So, your team is in last place…
Good morning, baseball fans! As the San Francisco Giants were losing Tuesday night’s game, I predicted that the Colorado Rockies would win their game and push the Giants back into fifth place. And they did just that. Now, I’m writing this before Wednesday’s games, so things might change between now and the time this publishes […]
Old school cool
Since franchise legend Buster Posey took over as president of baseball operations for the San Francisco Giants, he’s preached one thing. Well, he’s preached many things, but one has stood taller than the rest: pitching and defense. Pitching and defense, just as the ballpark was built for. Pitching and defense, just as they leaned on […]
6/3 Gamethread: Giants @ Brewers
The San Francisco Giants continue this four-game road series against the Milwaukee Brewers tonight. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Logan Webb, who enters tonight’s game with a 4.82 ERA, 3.55 FIP, with 47 strikeouts to 18 walks in 52.1 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ 8-6 loss to […]
Giants Minor League Baseball roundup, June 2: Promotions galore!
For the first time all year, all seven of the San Francisco Giants Minor League Baseball affiliates were in action on Tuesday. So let’s dive into a whole lot of action! Link to the 2026 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL) All listed positions in the roundup are the position played in that particular game. […]
Giants place Matt Gage on the 15-Day IL, call up Dylan Smith
The San Francisco Giants are making yet another move, as it seems they have a daily quota to fulfill. This one, unfortunately, was mandated by injuries. Before their Wednesday game against the Milwaukee Brewers, the Giants announced that left-handed reliever Matt Gage had been placed on the 15-Day Injured List, while right-handed reliever Dylan Smith […]
Wednesday BP: All Star voting is here!
Good morning, baseball fans! It’s that time of year again. Phase 1 of voting for the 2026 All Star Game begins today! Last year, I had the idea to coordinate a group effort with the community to try to get specific San Francisco Giants players into the game. It did not work. And I didn’t […]
Kyle Harrison comes back to haunt Giants
When the San Francisco Giants cut bait on top pitching prospect Kyle Harrison last season in the Rafael Devers trade, they knew there was a chance that the then 23-year-old would come back to haunt them. Just under a year after the trade, that possibility became a reality. Harrison tied a career high by striking […]
6/2 Gamethread: Giants @ Brewers
The San Francisco Giants continue this four-game road series against the Milwaukee Brewers tonight. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Trevor McDonald, who enters tonight’s game with a 4.34 ERA, 3.26 FIP, with 27 strikeouts to six walks in 29 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ 3-2 loss to […]
Giants hire Gary Pettis as new third base coach
The San Francisco Giants didn’t take long to find a new third base coach. Just four days after the team announced that they had removed Hector Borg from third base duties, and reassigned him within the organization, they formally hired his replacement: Gary Pettis. Longtime Giants coach Ron Wotus had been serving as the interim […]
Tuesday BP: Jhonny Level promoted to High-A
The biggest news in San Francisco Giants promotions this week came on Sunday, when center fielder Jonah Cox was stunningly promoted to the Majors straight from AA Richmond. But it seems that the Cox move has kickstarted promotion season for the rest of the Giants Minor League Baseball players. Because on Monday — the off-day […]
6/1 Gamethread: Giants @ Brewers
Well, it’s time for a new series. I’m not sure if that’s the good news or the bad news, but the San Francisco Giants are in cheeseland for a quartet of games against the Milwaukee Brewers. It begins tonight, with right-hander Landen Roupp on the mound. Through 11 starts, Roupp is 3-3 with a 3.30 […]
Giants Minor League Baseball roundup, May 29-31: Luis De La Torre shines, Jonah Cox gets the call
It’s time for another mega weekend Minor League Baseball roundup, and for the last time for a while, there are only five San Francisco Giants teams in action … the Dominican Summer League gets off and rolling today, and even though it’s the least exciting DSL lineup for the Giants in many years, it’s exciting […]
Giants bring up Wilkin Ramos and Buddy Kennedy, option Jesús Rodríguez
We knew the San Francisco Giants would have to make a move today, after right-handed pitcher Joel Peguero injured his hamstring during an otherwise perfect baseball game on Sunday. But the Giants have decided to take it a step further, with a flurry of moves, as they seem firmly in their button-mashing phase. Ahead of […]
The Giants’ top 10 trade chips
The San Francisco Giants will be sellers at this year’s trade deadline and while they have some obvious “chips,” “chits,” or “pieces,” I figured it’d be a better conversation starter to rank them, as the perception of a player’s value will surely not be uniform across the fandom or even just those who read this […]
Harrison’s Revenge: Giants-Brewers Series Preview
One of my main memories from the 2010 World Series season was being stuck in Las Vegas while the Giants played a 4-game series in Milwaukee. I’m not a gambler and I’m not a dirtbag and so Sin City doesn’t really do it for me and so all I had to look forward to was […]
Monday BP: What’s on deck this week?
Good morning, baseball fans! It’s a new week and month of San Francisco Giants baseball, so let’s take a look ahead at what’s on deck. The Giants continue their road trip, this time headed to the Midwest. First up will be a four-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers, followed by a three-game series against the […]
Mile-high mirage
Unfortunately you can’t spread runs around. Goal differential or aggregate scoring doesn’t decide a series in baseball. If it did, the Giants 19-6 pile on against the Colorado Rockies would’ve secured them a sweep with some runs to spare. Alas, what’s done is done. This ain’t religion: the sins of Friday and Saturday can’t be […]
5/31 Gamethread: Giants @ Rockies
The San Francisco Giants are playing awful baseball, and have lost six straight. Now they’ll try to salvage a win against the Colorado Rockies in their series finale, before mercifully leaving the mountains … and taking on better teams. What could possibly go wrong? Veteran left-hander Robbie Ray takes the mound for the Giants, with […]
Rebuild? In our moment of triumph?
Should the San Francisco Giants initiate a formal, but modest rebuild with just a year and a half left on Buster Posey’s deal? On Wednesday, the San Francisco Standard’s Tim Kawakami made the case that they should, based solely on the results of April and May. Around here, I’ve seen people comment about how “this […]
Jonah Cox gets the call as Ryan Borucki is DFA’d
This site’s manager is Brady Klopfer who also does all the minor league reporting, and upon seeing the news posted by Susan Slusser that the San Francisco Giants would be calling up outfielder Jonah Cox, he posted in our work chat: “I’m sorry WHAT,” which suggests to me that we should all treat this news […]
It would be nice if this was the aging curve’s fault
Matt Chapman is having his worst start to a season ever at the plate. Through 57 games and 239 plate appearances, he’s slashing .234/.314/.322 with a 9.6% walk rate and 22.6% strikeout rate that comes to a wRC+ of 85, or 15% worse than the league average. He turned 33 on April 28th, so that […]
This game doesn’t deserve a recap title
What’s worse? An 8-6 loss decided in the 9th, or an 8-3 loss pretty much decided in the 1st? Trick question, because they’re all the same to the Giants at this point. Some teams can look at Friday’s walk-off bummer, highlight the solid situational hitting that got them six runs, cull the bullpen performances while […]
Sunday BP: Highlight of the Week
Good morning, baseball fans! Another week of San Francisco Giants baseball comes to a close today, which means it’s time for us to pick our favorite highlight of the week! As I mentioned yesterday, I wanted to shout out two players this week and I gave yesterday’s honors to Rafael Devers for his grand slam […]
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