Tag: the best San Francisco Giants blogs
SF Giants Make a Short-term Positive Move— Matt Moore to the Rangers
At The Giants Cove we try to hold the San Francisco Giants to the highest professional sports franchise standards. Because…
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San Francisco Giants Paying the Price for a Fumbled Legacy
Whenever any criticism of the San Francisco Giants comes up, fans are quick to point out the team’s three World…
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STOP THE PRESSES!! WE HAVE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL BREAKING NEWS!!
Cutting Edge Baseball Headlines From Around the Country and Around the World! This Is the Real Made Up News that…
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Why Signing Giancarlo Stanton Would Be a Disaster for the San Francisco Giants
Since the World Series ended, the San Francisco Giants have gotten a great deal of media play over their self-advertised…
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The Giants’ Bold Plan for 2018: Devise a Series of Inept Distractions
We have breaking news. The San Francisco Giants’ historically catastrophic 98-loss 2017 season wasn’t simply about wins and losses. And…
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Dusty Baker’s Managerial Resume Continues its Relentless Freefall
Responsibility for success or failure in professional sports can cut a fine line. Is it defined by the quality of…
Read more »SF Giants Executives Laser-Focused on Team’s #1 Critical Need: Explaining Away 2017
The San Francisco Giants organization is planning on big changes happening in 2018. Without actually doing very much. Following the…
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Giants Use Unique Strategy to Go After Japanese Superstar Shohei Otani
Just about everyone knows who the number one free agent will be this off-season: twenty-three-year-old Japanese baseball mega-star Shohei Otani….
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In the Dominant National League West, Here’s the Next Powerhouse Team
With two weeks to go in the 2017 season, three of the four National League teams with the best winning…
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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 »What the SF Giants Will Look Like on Opening Day 2018
The San Francisco Giants will close their disappointing 2017 season in six weeks with a complex, and contradictory, set of…
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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…
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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 »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…
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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 »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…
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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 »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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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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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