Where we tend to talk about the recent past a lot
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 […]
Good morning, baseball fans! Last week, we talked about the fact that San Francisco is one of the first four cities to get a team for the new Women’s Professional Baseball League starting in 2026. Over the weekend, the draft order was drawn, and it was announced that San Francisco will get first pick! This […]
8:00pm Pacific edit: I added in the amateur draft and international bonus pools, as they weren’t mentioned in the initial draft of the post. Major League Baseball’s General Managers meetings kick off today in Las Vegas and I figured it’s a good time to check in on the team’s payroll situation. My pet project the […]
The 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List cruises forward, as we continue in our quest to communally rank the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization. And the latest chapter brings us a name that I don’t have a lot to write about, other than to say this: I can’t wait to […]
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 […]
2025 stats: 19 G (56 PA), .200 / .214/ .364, .164 ISO, 27 K%, 2 BB%, 57 wRC+ Once upon a time, Jerar Encarnación hit a baseball over a wall in Oakland, California. A lot about that sentence is horribly dated, even fantastical. Once upon a time…professional baseball in Oakland…Jerar Encarnación. Such a time did […]
Good morning, baseball fans! It was announced earlier this week that former San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy will be returning to the organization in an advisory capacity. Bochy was the Giants’ manager from 2007 to 2019, before announcing his retirement. But baseball was not out of his system yet, so he eventually returned to […]
Last night, MLB Trade Rumors put out their predictions for this offseason’s top 50 free agents (as they see it). It was mainly a chance to project the free agent contract, but they also voted on each player’s next team. I think you should go read the full post, but for our purposes, I’m going […]
It was somewhat controversial that the San Francisco Giants hired Tennessee coach Tony Vitiello as their new manager, despite his having no professional managing experience. Thursday, the San Diego Padres went a step further and hired a new manager who’s never managed before, anywhere. Craig Stammen spent seven years in the Padres organization as a […]
The 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List keeps chugging along, as we seek to rank the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization. And after Wednesday’s chapter, we officially have a top five! Winning the election with roughly 40% of the vote was center fielder Dakota Jordan, who has been ranked as […]
Good morning, baseball fans! As many of you may already know, San Francisco was named as one of the first four cities to be getting a Women’s Professional Baseball League team, which is really exciting! I’m looking forward to adding coverage of the new team to our regularly scheduled San Francisco Giants coverage. We are […]
There have already been and figure to be dozens upon dozens of articles about which free agents the San Francisco Giants should or could target this offseason, but before getting too deep into that, I figured it’s worth asking which security blankets new manager Tony Vitello might seek out as he undertakes his first year […]
The San Francisco Giants got the offseason started in earnest on Thursday, when they got in on the flurry of minor moves flying around Major League Baseball. The Giants, after declining Tom Murphy’s option, had one opening on their 40-man roster, meaning they could add one player without having to make any corresponding moves. Instead, […]
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants announced their 2026 Spring Training schedule earlier this week. So let’s gaze longingly at it while the rain pours down around us and the temperatures start to plummet. The Giants will begin the 2026 Cactus League on February 21st, with games running through March 21st. Their first […]
After much speculation, it appears that the San Francisco Giants are closing in on a very sensible hiring. According to a report from The Athletic’s Andrew Baggarly, the Giants are hiring former MLB manager Jayce Tingler to join debuting manager Tony Vitello’s staff. Given the drastic differences between managing in college and professional baseball, it […]
The MLB offseason is good and fully underway, and we’re gaining a lot of momentum with the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List. There have been fantastic discussions and lots of comments as we’ve started to rank the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization … and we still have 40 names […]
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 start our community reviews where we ask you all to weigh in on how you feel like each player did this year […]
2025 stats: 72 G, 243 PA, 4 HR, 9 SB, .217/.278/.327, .111 ISO, 74 OPS+, 7.0 BB%, 28.8 K%, 0.2 fWAR “YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE,” might’ve been all I needed to write for this, but at the end of the day, it’s not a massive surprise that Fitzgerald wasn’t able to follow up his […]
On Monday, the San Francisco Giants made perhaps their least surprising offseason transaction in franchise history. As the offseason officially got underway, the Giants declined their team option for catcher Tom Murphy, opting for a $250,000 buyout rather than a $4 million salary. And thus ends the story of one of the worst transactions in […]
The Los Angeles Dodgers held their World Series parade yesterday, and while it’s healthier to ignore what’s going on with other teams, it’s easier said than done as a Giants fan. Despite what some really ignorant and angry people will tell you, the Dodgers winning the last two World Series won’t be the worst thing […]
Good morning, baseball fans! Throughout the season, I checked in periodically to see how everyone was feeling about the San Francisco Giants season as it progressed. Now that both the regular season and postseason are over, I wanted to check in again. Not just about the season that was, but the direction the organization is […]
On Monday, two days after the conclusion of a thrilling, dramatic, historic, and downright awful World Series, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America unveiled the finalists for the four major regular season awards: Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and Cy Young. We knew the San Francisco Giants would have […]
Logan Webb doesn’t take himself too seriously as a defender. He joked after the news broke that he had received his first Gold Glove Award by saying “if I can win it, anybody can win it.” Webb, who relies on his catcher to finesse a lot of border-line pitches or the four infielders behind him […]
Today is nomination day! After voting in the CPL, head to the comment section to nominate a new batch of prospects for Wednesday. Well, nothing much of note is happening in the baseball world … right? So we might as well chug along with the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, which will see […]
In the 67-year history of the Gold Glove award, only five pairs of pitchers and catchers had won Gold Gloves while playing for the same team. Logan Webb and Patrick Bailey just made it six. Webb won his first Gold Glove and Bailey won his second straight for the 2025 season. Webb had seven defensive […]