26 Jan 18
S.F. Giants 26 Jan 18
The ABC's of the MLB CBA: When is a Luxury Tax Not a Salary Cap
In late November of 2016, representatives of Major League Baseball were engaged in tense and critically important labor negotiations with (…)
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19 Jan 18
S.F. Giants 19 Jan 18
SF Giants’ Plan for 2018: Slap a Team Together to Keep the Money Rolling In
The one thing you have to say about the state of the San Francisco Giants is that the team’s front office executives actually seem to (…)
11 Jan 18
S.F. Giants 11 Jan 18
How the San Diego Padres Just Got Smarter
This is a time when really smart and progressive Major League Baseball organizations are engaged in an ongoing, competitive three-dimensional (…)
04 Jan 18
S.F. Giants 04 Jan 18
Of the Myths Spun and Believed About Major League Baseball Injuries
For some reason there are still baseball fans, bloggers, sports writers and Major League franchises who completely fail to understand (…)
16 Dec 17
S.F. Giants 16 Dec 17
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 someone has (…)
12 Dec 17
S.F. Giants 12 Dec 17
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 Series wins in 2010, 2012, (…)
28 Nov 17
S.F. Giants 28 Nov 17
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 Fake News (…)
15 Nov 17
S.F. Giants 15 Nov 17
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 interest in (…)
27 Oct 17
S.F. Giants 27 Oct 17
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 (…)
13 Oct 17
S.F. Giants 13 Oct 17
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 individual player (…)
27 Sep 17
S.F. Giants 27 Sep 17
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 (…)
22 Sep 17
S.F. Giants 22 Sep 17
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 (…)
14 Sep 17
S.F. Giants 14 Sep 17
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 percentages have home addresses in (…)
07 Sep 17
S.F. Giants 07 Sep 17
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 Francisco Giants, the organization, the media, (…)
26 Aug 17
S.F. Giants 26 Aug 17
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 (…)
17 Aug 17
S.F. Giants 17 Aug 17
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 expectations for (…)
16 Aug 17
S.F. Giants 16 Aug 17
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 stats, (…)
05 Aug 17
S.F. Giants 05 Aug 17
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 hard fought series with the Buffalo (…)
17 Jul 17
S.F. Giants 17 Jul 17
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 (…)
15 Jul 17
S.F. Giants 15 Jul 17
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 and (…)
05 Jul 17
S.F. Giants 05 Jul 17
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 end of (…)
26 Jun 17
S.F. Giants 26 Jun 17
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 current 27-51 record, (…)
22 Jun 17
S.F. Giants 22 Jun 17
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 Giants franchise. Overall, (…)
19 Jun 17
S.F. Giants 19 Jun 17
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 aging, badly put together team that has (…)
13 Jun 17
S.F. Giants 13 Jun 17
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 aging, .500 (…)
