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Sami Higgins

Thursday BP: A tale of two pitchers

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The 2025 Giants have a strange phenomenon going on with two members of the rotation.

Good morning, baseball fans!

Since today is an off-day for the San Francisco Giants, I thought we would talk about an extremely bizarre phenomenon plaguing the team at the moment.

I am well aware that pitcher wins aren’t really indicative of much, and matter more for incentive bonuses, arbitration, etc. That said, there is something really funky...

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Jung Hoo Lee Represents Everything Good About This Giants Team

Jung Hoo Lee is the perfect representative of this new-look San Francisco Giants team. He puts the ball in play and then runs the bases well. There are no surprises, then, that he leads the team in runs and is second in RBI.

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Steven Kennedy

Ray of sunshine

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Another dominant start by Robbie Ray helped secure the series win over the Cubs

Based on how the San Francisco Giants played on Monday, I figured this series in Chicago was going to be a humbling couple of games, a smack down against one of the most potent offenses in baseball.

But after redeeming themselves with a historic extra-inning showing on Tuesday, the Giants kept it rolling — albeit in a somewhat subdued manner. Not quite 9 runs in a frame, but three...

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3 Takeaways as the Cubs Drop Series to Giants

The Chicago Cubs fell to the San Francisco Giants in back-to-back games this week, dropping Wednesday's contest by a 3-1 score.  The series looked promising when the Cubs scored an impressive nine runs on Monday and mounted a defiant ninth inning comeback on Tuesday.

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Robbie Ray improves to 5-0 as Giants silence Cubs

Robbie Ray and three relievers scattered four hits in the San Francisco Giants' 3-1 win over the host Chicago Cubs on Wednesday afternoon. Wilmer Flores went 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored as the Giants took two of three games in the series.

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Bryan Murphy

Checking in on LaMonte Wade Jr.

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Some graphs and charts to back up what we’ve seen with our own eyes.

A little over a month ago, we looked at the early returns for LaMonte Wade Jr. and saw that they weren’t promising. His results? Poor. His bat speed? Slow. Has any of this changed in the past 30 or so days and has he improved the lineup for the San Francisco Giants at all?

In a word: no.

His bat speed is averaging 70 mph, which is 22nd percentile in the sport and down 1.2...

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Sami Higgins

5/7 Gamethread: Giants @ Cubs

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Robbie Ray vs. Ben Brown

The San Francisco Giants wrap up this three-game series against the Chicago Cubs this morning at Wrigley Field.

Taking the mound for the Giants will be left-hander Robbie Ray, who enters today’s game with a 3.05 ERA, 4.26 FIP, with 41 strikeouts to 21 walks in 38.1 innings pitched over seven undefeated starts. His last start was in the Giants’ 4-0 win over the Colorado Rockies on Friday, in which he allowed just...

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Brady Klopfer

Minor League roundup, May 6: Lots of action!

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Yesterday’s action on the farm.

Tuesday wasn’t the best day for the San Francisco Giants Minor League Baseball affiliates, but it sure wasn’t the worst day, either. Let’s jump into it.

Link to the 2025 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL)

All listed positions in the roundup are the positions played in that particular game.

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A few small transactions around the farm. Infielder Devin Mann, signed just...

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Sami Higgins

Wednesday BP: May Temp Check

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We’re going to check in with Giants fans periodically throughout the season to find out what they think about the season so far.

Good morning, baseball fans!

We are into the second month of San Francisco Giants baseball. So it’s time for another check-in to see how Giants fans are feeling about the season thus far. I plan to do these about once a month over the season, so there’s plenty of time to get your hot takes in before being proven...

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Giants look to remain unbeaten in Robbie Ray starts

The San Francisco Giants have every reason to smile when left-hander Robbie Ray trots onto the field. After all, they've won all seven of Ray's starts this season.

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Brady Klopfer

Giants take the most bizarre path to victory

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A highly-tense, extremely dramatic, nail-biting 9-run win.

Some games don’t go according to the plan. Or the backup plan, for that matter. Some games simply don’t follow any plan at all, or even any script that you’ve read before. Such was the case for the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night, in a highly memorable victory over the Chicago Cubs, which somehow was both the most tense nail-biter they’ve played all year, and also the largest margin...

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After blowing 9th-inning lead, Giants erupt for 9 runs in 11th to top Cubs

Jung Hoo Lee belted a two-run homer in the third inning and added an RBI single during a nine-run 11th, lifting the visiting San Francisco Giants to a 14-5 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday.

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Sami Higgins

5/6 Gamethread: Giants @ Cubs

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Justin Verlander vs. Colin Rea

The San Francisco Giants continue their three-game series against the Chicago Cubs this evening from Wrigley Field.

Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Justin Verlander, who enters today’s game with a 4.38 ERA, 4.14 FIP, with 32 strikeouts to 13 walks in 37 innings pitched over seven starts. His last start was in the Giants’ 4-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies on Thursday, in which he allowed two runs on...

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Sami Higgins

Tuesday BP: Giants to feature in upcoming film

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“Caught Stealing” hits theaters in August and features a main character who is a massive Giants fan in the 1990s. Can relate.

Good morning, baseball fans!

The San Francisco Giants aren’t often depicted in feature films. Usually, if being a baseball fan is a prominent part of a character’s personality, the baseball team tends to be from New York or Boston, etc.

However, the Giants will be featured (at least in passing) in the upcoming film...

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Justin Verlander, Giants look to shut down high-scoring Cubs

A night after cooling off the visiting San Francisco Giants, the Chicago Cubs will aim to clinch their third consecutive series on Tuesday night. Chicago has won four of its last five games, including a 9-2 victory over the Giants in the series opener on Monday -- snapping the visitors' three-game winning streak.

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Brady Klopfer

Giants enjoy an off day in Chicago

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Or an ugly loss at Wrigley.

On Monday, in the fourth inning of their series opener against the Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants right fielder Luis Matos stepped into the batter’s box against Matthew Boyd. There were two outs and Matt Chapman stood on second base, with the Giants trailing 2-0.

Matos stood and watched idly as four fastsballs flew out of Boyd’s hand and landed in Carson Kelly’s mitt. The first landed in the zone. The next three...

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Sean Keane

Suspected Dodgers double agent Ross Stripling retires

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The former Giants right-hander is hanging it up after nine big-league seasons, perhaps because his work to destabilize the Giants was complete.

It was always suspicious when former San Francisco Giants team president Farhan Zaidi brought in a player from his past (and now current) employer, the Los Angeles Dodgers. But after helping torpedo the Giants’ 2023 season, and pitching even...

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Brady Klopfer

5/5 Gamethread: Giants vs. Cubs

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Landen Roupp vs. Matthew Boyd.

It’s once again time for a new series, and this isn’t an easy one. The San Francisco Giants are on the road to face the Chicago Cubs, who have the best offense in baseball and one of the best records, too.

Trying to tame that offense in Monday’s opener will be right-hander Landen Roupp, who makes his seventh start of the season. Roupp is 2-2 on the year, with a 5.10 ERA, a 3.87 FIP, and 35 strikeouts to 14 walks...

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Brady Klopfer

Minor League roundup, 5/2-4: Joe Whitman and Jhonny Level dazzle

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The weekend action on the farm.

Well, there’s a whole lot of San Francisco Giants Minor League Baseball to get to! I wasn’t able to get up a Saturday morning roundup, so we have not just the Saturday and Sunday games to get to, but the Friday ones as well. And on top of that, the Arizona Complex League kicked off its season on Saturday, so a fifth team has entered the villa!

We better get to cracking!

Link to the 2025...

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Bryan Murphy

Giants-Cubs Series Preview

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The Cubs have scored literally all the runs. Literally. Is it all a dream or are we living in Pete Crow-Armstrong’s world?

The San Francisco Giants travel to Wrigley Field for a three-game series this week against the Chicago Cubs, whose offense is best described, I think, by the old timey phrase “high flying.” They’ve been a juggernaut since the two-game set in Japan where they stunk it up against the Los Angeles Dodgers and...

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