Camilo Doval began last year as the Giants closer for years to come. Now he’s fighting to remain in the bullpen. He became known as an elite closer in the sport by making a name for himself with an electric fastball and wicked slider.
San Francisco Giants 2024 record: 80-82 (4th place, NL West). He gone: LHP Blake Snell, OF Michael Conforto, LHP Taylor Rogers, OF Mark Canha. New faces: RHP Justin Verlander, SS Willy Adames.
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Players transitioning from being on the field to in the broadcasting booth is a long-standing tradition. Which current player do Giants fans think would make the best broadcaster?
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While it’s not necessarily a requirement for the San Francisco Giants broadcasting team to be former players, it definitely is a fairly common career path for them to take once they are done playing.
Recently, we’ve seen Hunter Pence,...
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Luis Matos, David Villar and Lisbel Diaz went deep but the Brewers hit four bombs of their own
Luis Matos hit his second home run of spring training and saved another big hit with his glove Friday, but it wasn’t enough to save the San Francisco Giants from an 11-5 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers.
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Diving deep into the pitcher stats.
The San Francisco Giants have made it crystal clear that they intend to return to their long-lost winning ways the good ol’ fashioned way: with pitching and defense. And if Spring Training is any indication, they’re headed in the right direction.
Any way you slice it, the Giants have been brilliant on the mound this spring. After Thursday’s loss to the Texas Rangers, which dropped them to 13-4, the Giants were...
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The Giants came into the offseason with a plan that they executed to perfection. But is there still an opportunity to spend less?
The San Francisco Giants have had a great time in the Cactus League which might signal a great regular season. That could mean the team’s shareholders would receive healthy returns on their investment — beyond projections! But what if they could make even more?
It was just about six weeks ago that the team, so unimpressed...
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In what could be the most contentious debate seen in these parts since “cake vs. pie,” today we’re asking the tough question: should the Giants retire Brandon Crawford’s jersey?
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The San Francisco Giants used to have a pretty well-established tradition of only retiring the jersey numbers of players who have made it into the Hall of Fame. That is until the Hall of Fame decided to stick their fingers in their ears and...
With Opening Day rapidly approaching, the San Francisco Giants still have one major question to answer this spring: Who will be the team’s fifth starter?
The Giants have the best record in all of baseball this spring. With so many players having something to fight for, it is easy to see why. In every department, you can find intense competition.
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What baseball-related games do Giants fans play to pass the time before the season starts?
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We are inching ever forward towards Opening Day for the San Francisco Giants. In the meantime, today I wanted to ask you what some of your favorite baseball related games (think video or computer games) to play?
Personally, I am a cozy gamer. So while I don’t currently have a favorite baseball video game (unless you count Buster...
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Everyone pull out your magnifying glasses.
Things have certainly changed since my first attempt at contextualizing the San Francisco Giants Spring Training stats. The roster and the team’s priorities have come into much clearer focus since then. There have been a few waves of camp cuts, and a handful of lineups that the Giants have not shied away from admitting are lineups they intend to use when the regular season begins.
But while we’re...
Once a controversial figure among San Francisco Giants fans, Mike Yastrzemski is set to play a pivotal role this season. At 34 years old and with six seasons in San Francisco under his belt, ‘Yaz’ has emerged as a key leader for the team.
The San Francisco Giants completed one of the more intriguing acquisitions of the offseason by signing future first-ballot Hall of Famer Justin Verlander to a one-year, $15 million deal.
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If any of you say the Dodgers, we’re banishing you.
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We are all fans of the San Francisco Giants. At least I’d like to think so, given you are here, reading a blog about them. But today, I want to know which other teams you root for when the Giants aren’t involved.
I have a complicated tier of rooting interests, myself. But I’d have to say my second favorite National League team is the New York Mets....
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A good spring for the team overall has made some borderline decisions much easier to answer.
Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle just posted the latest Spring Training cuts by the San Francisco Giants: IF Sergio Alcántara, RHP Justin Garza, LHPs Antonio Jimenez & Helcris Olivárez, and catcher Adrián Sugastey.
The cuts the day after the team optioned SS Osleivis Basabe to Triple-A Sacramento and a couple of days after...
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Over the years, MLB has pursued many streaming deals that have forced fans to search high and low (and pay for multiple streaming options to catch all the games.) Are there any streaming services that Giants fans would like to see MLB work with in the future?
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Today, I have a bit of a sarcastic question for you all. Over the last few years, we have seen MLB trot out exclusive streaming deals with various platforms. To an almost obnoxious...
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Monday updates have arrived.
It’s Monday at Spring Training and ... well ... everywhere else in the country and most other countries, too. But Mondays have a way of bringing about news and updates, and the San Francisco Giants provided a few of them.
The Giants announced their fourth round of camp cuts, though it’s just one player this time: infielder Osleivis Basabe, who has been optioned to Minor League camp. Basabe was the...
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Who is the 44th-best prospect on the farm?
Well folks, we’ve almost done it. Only one chapter and one ballot remain — barring a runoff — before we finish the 2024 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, and conclude our ranking of the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization.
The last chapter was a bit of a blowout. Earning nearly half the votes in a five-player ballot was third baseman Charlie Szykowny,...
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Hopefully yes, because it’s coming to the Majors sooner rather than later.
If you’ve watched or listened to the right games this Spring Training, then you might have noticed a new quirk in the rules, which the San Francisco Giants have attempted to take advantage of with mixed results. And if you like watching AAA baseball, then you’re probably fairly familiar with it.
MLB has done a trial run on their Automated Balls and Strikes (ABS) system this spring,...
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The third round of camp cuts commences.
The San Francisco Giants opened Spring Training with three Carsons in camp. They now have none. On Sunday, ahead of their split-squad games (one of which is available on KNBR, the other on MLB TV), the team announced that right-handed pitchers Carson Seymour and Carson Ragsdale had both been optioned.
It’s a very unsurprising move, as optioning the righty Carsons was always a matter of “when” not “if.” The...