San Francisco Giants

San Francisco Giants

3rd NL West
 | 29-31
  • Batting Avg
    .264 AVG
  • Runs
    299 R
  • Earned Runs Avg
    4.64 ERA
  • WHIP
    1.32 WHIP
  • Dusty Baker Takes the Long View After a Short-Term Season of Tumult
    Sportico

    Dusty Baker Takes the Long View After a Short-Term Season of Tumult

    When Dusty Baker was diagnosed with prostate cancer during the winter before the 2002 season – his last managing the San Francisco Giants – he had a choice to make regarding treatment: either radiation or an invasive removal procedure known as a prostatectomy. That offseason he traveled to Kauai, the northwestern-most island in the Hawaiian […]

  • Jaylin Davis wasn't given much of a chance
    McCovey Chronicles

    Jaylin Davis wasn't given much of a chance

    Let’s workshop some examples: Optimistic point: He was only given 12 plate appearances, so we can’t really judge his lack of performance because the sample size is too small. Pessimistic counterpoint: He was optioned to make room for Steven Duggar, and then he stayed in Sacramento while the team called up Luis Alexander Basabe and Joey Rickard and Basabe again and Duggar again.

  • Where do the Giants most need to improve?
    McCovey Chronicles

    Where do the Giants most need to improve?

    I do not believe this to be a particularly controversial statement. But where will they target — in free agency and in trades — as the area to get better? Hopefully all of them, but one area usually gets targeted more than the others.