Tag: the best SF Giant blogs
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…
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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…
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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…
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SF Giants Turn an Era-Ending Double Play
Updated:Right now it’s difficult to envision the full effect of the San Francisco Giants’ recent hiring of former Dodgers General…
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SF Giants’ Farm System: A Cluster of Hype and Myths
Updated:What do you do when your MLB team’s organizational ratings have been in the bottom 20% of all thirty teams…
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For the San Francisco Giants, the Old School is Always In Session
Updated:Let’s get one thing out of the way before those of you enjoying an adult beverage do a spit-take and…
Read more »The NL Wild Card Race Should be a Wild Ride in 2018
Last season saw a rumbling tectonic shift in the battle for the National League’s two Wild Card playoff slots. The…
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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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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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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 »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…
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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…
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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 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…
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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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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: 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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The Shifts Have Really Hit the Fan
Writer John Dewane of ACTA Sports recently posted MLB defensive shifting numbers (no source noted but I believe Baseball Info…
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The Matt Cain Game
There’s little question that the San Francisco Giants are by far the dullest franchise in Major League Baseball. And that’s…
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STOP THE PRESSES AGAIN!! BREAKING NEWS FROM MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL!!
Cutting Edge Baseball News From Around the Country and Around the World! This Is News You Can’t Legally Find Anywhere…
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The Giants Try Something New in 2017: Building a Productive Bench
As the San Francisco Giants begin Spring Training their front office management is tinkering with a radically new approach to…
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SF Giants 2017 Schedule: It’s Going to be a Bumpy Ride
In 2016 the San Francisco Giants received a generous gift from Major League Baseball: a relatively lopsided regular season schedule….
Read more »The Giants vs. the Dodgers: Closers/Second Base/Third Base
The San Francisco Giants have made their one off-season move with the signing of free agent closer Mark Melancon. Several…
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SF Giants’ Bold Plan for 2017: Take a Big Step Back
After two consecutive underperforming and very dull seasons in 2015 and 2016, the San Francisco Giants braintrust called a press…
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