Tag: 2019 San Francisco Giants
The SF Giants Serve Up a Delicious Problem
Updated:The 2019 menu for the San Francisco Giants looked to be pretty well laid out. This season they were supposed…
Read more »A Critical Mid-Season Turning Point for the SF Giants and Farhan Zaidi
Updated:The Major League Baseball landscape in San Francisco is a contorted mishmash as we pause at the All-Star break to…
Read more »In the SF Giants Dugout the Veterans are Leading by (Worst) Example
Updated:With the recent embarrassing outburst by demoted San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Derek Holland criticizing his team’s leadership, the discord…
Read more »The SF Giants and the First Rule of Holes: Just Stop Digging
Updated:After the first three weeks and 20 games into the 2019 season, the San Francisco Giants appear on the surface…
Read more »For the SF Giants “Rebuild” Doesn’t Begin to Describe What’s Happening
Updated:The San Francisco Giants are definitely not rebuilding. Because a “rebuild” suggests that there was something worthwhile there in the…
Read more »“Playing Pepper” Adds Spice to the 2019 MLB Season
Updated:“Playing Pepper” is back. Despite the best efforts of science to stop its virulent spread, Daniel Shoptaw’s annual review of…
Read more »2019 MLB Teams: False Positives and Completely Wrong Negatives
Updated:Every year we get all worked up about the success or failure of various MLB teams, based on what we…
Read more »The SF Giants: Smoke, Mirrors, and Bryce Harper
Updated:One way or another the San Francisco Giants intend to get a piece of superstar free agent outfielder Bryce Harper….
Read more »How Peter Magowan Saved The San Francisco Giants
Updated:With the death yesterday of Peter Magowan, a principal member of the SF Giants ownership group, the story of how…
Read more »Debunking Two Losing MLB Strategies: The “Open Window” and Having a “Core”
Updated:We often hear the following tired clichés when baseball commentators, front office executives or field managers are talking about the…
Read more »National League Playoff Spots Will Be Hard to Come By in 2019
Updated:As we assess the moves made during the recent MLB Winter Meetings, and the many free agents still on the…
Read more »New SF Giants Executive Team Will Inherit an Organization in Disarray
Updated:Once the San Francisco Giants go through the process of selecting a new President of Baseball Ops and a new…
Read more »The Biggest Challenge for the SF Giants is Changing their Culture
Updated:When San Francisco Giants Chief Executive Officer Larry Baer announced on September 24th that the team’s General Manager Bobby Evans…
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