Tag: SF Giants

As we rant, rave and gnash our teeth on the eve of the annual National Baseball Hall of Fame induction…

As the 2021 off-season kicks into cruising gear, Major League Baseball’s two top power Divisions will shift into super-overdrive to…

If the Los Angeles Dodgers, or New York Yankees, or even the Houston Astros had the highest win total by…

Major League Baseball’s most dynamic history can be found in the geography of franchise domination. Nothing illustrates this better than…

After the first twenty games played at the start of the 2021 season, the San Francisco Giants have a 13-7…

1. Let’s First Answer Baseball’s Most Pressing 2021 Global Questions Will the Baltimore Orioles lose 100 games in 2021? No,…

I can’t swear to this, but there’s a rumor that high up in the rafters of Busch Stadium in St….

The news of Dodger legend Tommy Lasorda’s sad passing last January brought a remarkable flood of stories and remembrances surging…

This week most Major League Baseball teams have passed the 40 game two-thirds point of this most unconventional and paradigm-changing…

There is no spicier MLB blog series in the greater sports webisphere than “Playing Pepper” from the esteemed Daniel Shoptaw….

For 19 years we’ve known that the infamous “Shot Heard Round the World” winning home run in the 1951 National…

When, you might wonder, was the last time the San Francisco Giants had four players on Major League Baseball’s Top…

As we move through the 2020 MLB pre-season, San Francisco Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi continues to clean…

It’s usually around mid-August when the global Major League Baseball picture starts to come into sharper, more precise focus. As…

The recent MLB trade deadline is being described in terms of what the Big Three franchises did or didn’t do…

The 2019 menu for the San Francisco Giants looked to be pretty well laid out. This season they were supposed…

The Major League Baseball landscape in San Francisco is a contorted mishmash as we pause at the All-Star break to…

With the recent embarrassing outburst by demoted San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Derek Holland criticizing his team’s leadership, the discord…

After the first three weeks and 20 games into the 2019 season, the San Francisco Giants appear on the surface…

The San Francisco Giants are definitely not rebuilding. Because a “rebuild” suggests that there was something worthwhile there in the…

“Playing Pepper” is back. Despite the best efforts of science to stop its virulent spread, Daniel Shoptaw’s annual review of…

Every year we get all worked up about the success or failure of various MLB teams, based on what we…

One way or another the San Francisco Giants intend to get a piece of superstar free agent outfielder Bryce Harper….

With the death yesterday of Peter Magowan, a principal member of the SF Giants ownership group, the story of how…

We often hear the following tired clichés when baseball commentators, front office executives or field managers are talking about the…

The recent news that team spending on Major League Baseball payrolls decreased by $18 million in 2018 compared to 2017…

As we assess the moves made during the recent MLB Winter Meetings, and the many free agents still on the…

The addition of new President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi doesn’t change the difficult immediate outlook or profound long-term challenges…

Right now it’s difficult to envision the full effect of the San Francisco Giants’ recent hiring of former Dodgers General…