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Brady Klopfer

Grit (and stuff)

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A dynamic young battery emerges.

If there’s one compliment you can pay the San Francisco Giants this year, one thing that you really just admire their affluence at, it’s the ability to lose games that they probably should win. Trust me when I say that the Giants are not as adept at this as it feels like they are, but they’re still pretty darned good at it.

They get picked off. They load the bases and then don’t score. They have that one...

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Giants' Patrick Bailey beats Pirates with walk-off homer

Patrick Bailey crushed a walk-off, three-run homer with no outs in the bottom of the ninth inning Friday night, producing the only scoring of the San Francisco Giants' 3-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Sami Higgins

4/26 Gamethread: Giants vs. Pirates

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Kyle Harrison vs. Quinn Priester

The San Francisco Giants welcome the Pittsburgh Pirates to Oracle Park tonight to begin a three-game series.

Taking the mound for the Giants will be left-hander Kyle Harrison, who enters today’s game with a 5.00 ERA, 4.55 FIP, with 24 strikeouts to five walks in 27 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ 7-3 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks last Saturday, in which he allowed three runs on six...

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Steven Kennedy

To all the boys I’ve loved before

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A look at how the 2023 Giants diaspora are doing in 2024 as Joey Bart rolls into town

Old friends, or spurned ones? It’s part of the business of baseball that familiar faces become unfamiliar ones. The business of life as well. People come and go. Fandom like any other relationship comes with its doubts, fretful wonderings, and insecurities.

A month in with these San Francisco Giants and all these new players—it’s only natural to check-in on...

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Brady Klopfer

Minor League roundup, April 25: Mason Black is ready

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Yesterday’s action on the Giants farm.

The San Francisco Giants are back in action tonight, and their four Minor League Baseball affiliates were all in action last night. So let’s talk about them!

Link to the 2024 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL)

All listed positions are the positions played in that game.

News

Fangraphs just released one of my favorite annual bits of prospect literature, their list of the top...

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Bryan Murphy

Series Preview: Joey Bart vs. the Giants

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It’s always nice when the kids come home to visit.

The older I get, the more my dying brain cements around the idea that fans invoke “small sample size” primarily when they don’t like the results. In a small sample size, Joey Bart is doing very nicely as a new member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who’ve come to play the San Francisco Giants this weekend in a 3-game series.

He’s 7-for-23 with a trio of dingers, a double, and 8 RBI to go with...

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Sami Higgins

Friday BP: Giants promotions for this weekend

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Here’s what you can expect if you’re headed to Oracle Park this weekend!

Good morning baseball fans!

It’s time for another weekend of San Francisco Giants baseball at Oracle Park. The Giants will be welcoming the Pittsburgh Pirates to begin a three-game series before another off day on Monday.

Tonight’s game does not have a giveaway, but it is a Fireworks Night, so it should be a good one to take the family to.

Tomorrow...

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Bryan Murphy

The practicality of Nick Ahmed

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Can he hit? No. Is he good? Also no; but, he’s useful, and that matters.

As you watch Joey Bart hit bombs for another team, it’s important to remember that position player development has never been one of the strengths of the San Francisco Giants organization. They’ve always been better at adding guys from outside to improve their position, and Nick Ahmed is a near-perfect example of this.

Sure, the shortstop...

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Brady Klopfer

Minor League roundup, April 24: Marco Luciano blasts off

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Yesterday’s action on the Giants farm.

The San Francisco Giants have an off day today, which seems like a good time to talk about their four Minor League Baseball affiliates, who were all in action on Wednesday. Let’s dive into it!

Link to the 2024 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL)

All listed positions are the positions played in that game.

AAA Sacramento (15-8)

Sacramento River Cats lost to the Las Vegas Aviators (A’s)...

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Sami Higgins

Thursday BP: Temp Check

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We’re a month into the season, how are you feeling, Giants fans?

Good morning, baseball fans!

We are officially one month into the San Francisco Giants season, and with today being a rare homestead off day, I thought it would be a good time for us to do a temp check into how everyone is feeling about the 2024 season so far.

For me, it’s still early enough in the season that I’m not going to freak out over anything. But with a month of...

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'Got to change my focus,' Blake Snell ‘disappointed’ to land in 15-day IL following adductor strain amid regular season chaos

San Francisco Giants lost their star pitcher Blake Snell only after a month of a 2-year $62 million contract signed on March 19. Snell’s unexpected injury threw the team into chaos as they lost 2-8 against the NY Mets in their latest matchup.

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Steven Kennedy

Popped up

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The Giants failed to set the tone early in the series finale against Sean Manaea and the Mets

After taking the first two games of the series against the Mets, the San Francisco Giants had the opportunity to claim not only their first series sweep, but their first 3-game winning streak of the 2024 season.

The good times appeared primed to roll with a bases-loaded, no-out situation in the 2nd against a clean-shaven and shorn Sean Manaea.

Back in his old...

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SF Giants Ace Has the Lowest ERA in Baseball of Pitchers with 400+ Innings

It’s four weeks into the season but Logan Webb is on a roll for the San Francisco Giants. He didn’t throw a perfect game, but Webb’s performance was masterful.

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Brady Klopfer

Minor League roundup, April 23: Depth on display

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Yesterday’s action on the Giants farm.

All four of the San Francisco Giants Minor League Baseball affiliates were in action on Tuesday, with a whole bunch of notable performances to track. Here’s the action down on the farm.

Link to the 2024 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL)

All listed positions are the positions played in that game.

News

This was where I was supposed to write that RHP Landen Roupp (No. 18 CPL) had been...

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Sami Higgins

4/24 Gamethread: Giants vs. Mets

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Blake Snell vs. Sean Manaea

The San Francisco Giants wrap up this three-game series against the New York Mets today at Oracle Park.

Taking the mound for the Giants will be left-hander Blake Snell, who enters today’s game with a 11.57 ERA, 4.64 FIP, with 12 strikeouts to five walks in 11.2 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ disastrous 17-1 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday, in which he allowed five runs...

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Giants place 2023 NL Cy Young winner on injured list

The San Francisco Giants (12-13) are floating around .500 right now, but their latest injury concern could be a killer.

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Reigning Cy Young winner's disastrous 2024 continues

Blake Snell's no good, very bad 2024 just keeps being no good and very bad.

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Giants' Blake Snell scratched from start, put on IL

The San Francisco Giants scratched left-hander Blake Snell from his scheduled start on Wednesday and placed the two-time Cy Young Award winner on the 15-day injured list with a left adductor strain.

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San Fransisco Giants Place Cy Young Award Winner On Injured List

Just mere hours before the series finale against the New York Mets, the San Francisco Giants placed probable starter Blake Snell on the injured list with a left adductor strain.

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Bryan Murphy

Oof. Blake Snell placed on 15-day IL

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It’s... not what you want.

Well, this is... suboptimal. Alex Pavlovic reports that the San Francisco Giants have placed Blake Snell on the IL (retroactive to yesterday) with a “left adductor strain.” The team has invested a lot of money for a big performance in a short period of time from the reigning NL Cy Young, and so far, it hasn’t worked out. And yet, it’s going about as well as could be expected.

This is the exact...

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