Tag: San Francisco Giants
The First Giants: The Cure for a Losing Streak is Always the Phillies
When we last left the 1883 New York Gothams, they had suffered blowout losses in five straight games to close…
Read more »Predicting the 2017 Giants: The “Who Knew?” Defense
When a baseball season goes as badly for a team as the 2017 MLB season has gone for the San…
Read more »How Flawed Free Agents, Poor Trades, and Cheap Player Signings Helped Derail the San Francisco Giants
Precious Resources: Money vs IP and ABs Bad multi-year Major League Baseball player contracts are easy to spot several years…
Read more »Finding Positives (and Negatives) in the Dark Malaise of a Bad Baseball Season
Some Good Numbers It seems like the 2017 season for the Giants has been an unending litany of negative performance…
Read more »MLB Players Appreciation Weekend: Which nicknames reign supreme?
Last week, Major League Baseball released the official jerseys, with nicknames, that each team and player will wear during the…
Read more »The First Giants: The Gothams Get Stomped in New England
When we last left the 1883 New York Gothams, they had just finished up a home stand that featured a…
Read more »MLB Trade Deadline Special: West Coast teams review
The MLB’s trade deadline delivered plenty of excitement on Monday, especially for two west coast teams. One team traded away…
Read more »San Francisco Giants Fumble a Punt at the Non-waiver Trade Deadline
For a professional baseball franchise that has been on the down-trend the past three years, the effort shown by the…
Read more »Aiming at October: MLB Second Half Bullet Points
We’ll start with some distressing news about the San Francisco Giants (surprise). After that, (and brace yourselves for this) we’ll…
Read more »If Things look Bad Now– A Look at the Future of the San Francisco Giants Organization
As the Giants ownership and team management look beyond their historically dismal 2017 season, what is the expectation for 2018…
Read more »2017 MLB All-Star game: West Coast players recap
The 2017 MLB All-Star had the feel of a game that had home-field advantage on the line for the World…
Read more »The First Giants: The Gothams battle the Buffalo Bisons
When we last left the 1883 New York Gothams, they were finally playing good baseball, but found themselves still mired…
Read more »Winter is Coming: The Giants Face Critical Decisions at the Trade Deadline
For the San Francisco Giants the 2017 off-season starts right now. The Giants can’t sit back and wait until the…
Read more »The Sports Daily July 2017 MLB Power Rankings
Behold The Sports Daily July 2017 MLB Power Rankings, hosted by Joseph Coblitz of the excellent Cleveland Indians blog Burning…
Read more »SF Giants Confused About 2017 Freefall, “Quality” Starts
In Baseball You Are What You Pretend Not to Be Are the 2017 San Francisco Giants as bad as their…
Read more »The First Giants: The NY Gothams Return Home from a Hard Road
Last week, we saw the struggling New York Gothams conclude the first road trip in the 135-year history of the…
Read more »The Top Three Myths About the Giants Disastrous 2017 Season
As of Monday June 19, 2017 it has become clear that the San Francisco Giants are no longer simply an…
Read more »MLB Players Weekend Special: Impact and potential highlights
Major League Baseball announced this week that the league will celebrate an event this year called Players Weekend, which will occur…
Read more »The Giants Front Office is Upset
Over the past three years, the San Francisco Giants appear to have settled comfortably into their well-earned identity as an…
Read more »The First Giants: The Gothams vs. “One Arm” in Week 3 of the 1883 Season
As we discussed last week, the New York Gothams began their first road trip in franchise history in the second…
Read more »Good News/Bad News: As the Magic Deflates, the Giants Turn to Minor League Players
First the good news. With a 23-34 record just past the one third point of the 2017 MLB season the…
Read more »The Sports Daily June 2017 MLB Power Rankings
Here are The Sports Daily June 2017 MLB Power Rankings, hosted by Joseph Coblitz of the excellent Cleveland Indians blog…
Read more »The First Giants: The Gothams Go On the Road in Week Two of the 1883 Season
I’ve been reading Edward Achorn’s 2013 book about the 1883 baseball season, The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers,…
Read more »SF Giants Finally Winning Games But Catching Up is Hard to Do
It took a quarter of the 2017 MLB season for the San Francisco Giants to find that elusive sweet stride…
Read more »The First Giants: Week One of the Gotham’s 1883 Premier Season
Last week, we discussed the first game in the history of the Giants baseball franchise. That was May 1, 1883,…
Read more »Why the Giants Won’t be Sellers or Traders at the July Deadline
First, There’s Some Disturbing News The San Francisco Giants’ critically ill 2017 season just received something akin to emergency resuscitation….
Read more »The First Giants: How the 1883 Gothams Acquired Four Future Hall of Famers
On May 1, 1883, 15,000 New Yorkers filled the stands at the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan to witness baseball…
Read more »SF Giants 2017 Season Premier: a Game of Throwns
We know how much the San Francisco Giants organization disdains advanced analytics and anything to do with them fancy computer…
Read more »The First Giants: The 1883 New York Gothams
In honor of the 135th season of the San Francisco Giants Major League Baseball franchise, I will be profiling the…
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