We've reached the finish line of spring training and it's time for the games to start mattering. The Giants are a much different team than the one we saw report to camp six weeks ago. Did they add enough over the winter and spring to catapult them into playoff contention? What are some keys to success this season? We'll get into all that and more in the 2024 season preview. A winter that started out a little slow and concerning for Giants' fans, really came into form in the spring and was capped beautifully by a Blake Snell signing just over a week before opening day. The Giants are inde ..read more

 The move that everyone was predicting after the Giants made Bob Melvin their new manager finally went down over the weekend. A little later than anyone would have guessed, but Farhan Zaidi's patience paid off. Coming off the heels of adding Jorge Soler a couple weeks back, after camp had gotten underway, the Giants made another late addition to their starting lineup, bringing in 4-time gold-glover, Matt Chapman. The former A's and Blue Jays' third basemen will help solidify the infield defense and give Melvin another bat he can pencil into the middle of the order on a daily basis. The G ..read more

 We're less than a month away from pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training, yet there's still a lot that needs to settle among this free agent class before that happens. The question is, will the Giants be involved? After the Jordan Hicks signing became official last week, Farhan Zaidi held a state of the union interview and gave off indications that the team is likely done shopping at the top end of the market, at least for pitching. The Matt Chapman rumor that has surrounded this club all winter long won't go away until he signs somewhere, but any chance of pairing Logan Web ..read more

 Over the last month, the Giants have handed out their largest free agent contract and also swung their biggest trade during the Farhan Zaidi era. Both are nice steps in the right direction but may take a little time to yield fruitful results.  As we stand, a week into the new year, I would say this team is pretty equal to the one that finished below .500 last year. I do think the Jung-Hoo Lee signing will wind up a good one at the end of the day. I know they had to go a little higher than his projected price tag heading into the offseason, but with the way the free agent market is i ..read more

 The question at the forefront of the baseball world for the last couple months finally came to resolution over the weekend and it was a double gut punch for Giants fans. Shohei Ohtani will not become that superstar the Giants franchise has so desperately been in search of for the better part of the last decade. Instead of the Giants, Blue Jays, Cubs and Angels, Ohtani chose to sign a record breaking, 10-year deal worth $700 million with Dodgers. Which should have been a surprise to absolutely nobody. Now, being a Giants fan, I held out a glimmer of hope that Shohei may want to challenge ..read more

We're mid-way through June and we've already seen about a season's worth of injuries run through the Giants' clubhouse. However, as the injuries keep popping up, the Giants keep on persevering. Just to give you an idea of how bad it's been healthy wise, the only positional guys who have not hit the injured list or have missed games in bulk this season have been LaMonte Wade Jr. and J.D. Davis. The latter, however, has now missed most of the last week with an ankle sprain. You never like to see players hit the IL, but the reality is, it's part of the game. You have to find a silver lining. Th ..read more

 The Giants' quick trip to the mid-west didn't quite end the way they would have liked on Sunday in Milwaukee, but there are a few things they can feel good about as they head back home. Aside Alex Cobb's rough two innings to begin Sunday's finale vs. the Brewers and the defensive meltdown they had in Minnesota, pretty much every aspect of this road trip went well for the Giants.  San Francisco rode some impressive pitching and some timely clutch hitting to a solid 5-2 trip. They went up against the first place team in each the NL and AL Central, and they looked much better than both ..read more

After finally getting it going here in late April and winning five of their last six ballgames heading into the weekend, the Giants had a largely forgettable 2-game set with the Padres in Mexico City. They were out-slugged by San Diego in an offensive juggernaut on Saturday, then lost a game they'll tell you they probably should have held on to on Sunday. They had the late-inning lead but their two best relievers to date couldn't shut the door in the eighth. Not only did they lose the series, but they may have lost their starting center fielder for a little while. Just when it looks like the f ..read more

 After an overall tough weekend in New York with the Yankees, the Giants really got their offense kick-started in game one against the White Sox on Monday. It's taken a few games to get there, but we saw much of what Farhan Zaidi and Gabe Kapler envisioned with this offense. Things got off a bit of a slow start, as Michael Kopech struck out three of the first four batters he saw. After that, however, it was all San Francisco. Joc Pederson got the party started with the a solo shot in the second, then Roberto Perez laced an RBI single to left later on in the inning. The Giants never looked ..read more

 The Giants opened their 2023 season on Thursday in New York and it can't come as much of a surprise as to how things turned out. Facing one of the best starting pitchers in the game on a cold day in the Bronx, you knew runs would be tough to come by and they were indeed. The Yankees beat the Giants 5-0 backed by a dominant outing from Gerrit Cole and a couple of clutch big flies. Logan Webb pretty much matched Cole pitch for pitch, but unfortunately for Webb, he was the one who had to face Aaron Judge. The guy who flirted with the idea of joining the Giants this winter, and actually was ..read more