SAN FRANCISCO -- The injuries are beginning to pile up for the struggling Giants, who saw another position player go down in a 4-2 series-opening loss to the Reds at Oracle Park on Friday night. With Jung Hoo Lee nursing a sore left foot, the Giants tapped Austin Slater to

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Pirates right-handed pitcher Paul Skenes, the No. 1 pitching prospect in baseball, will make his Major League debut today at 4 p.m. ET, and you can watch his start -- and nearly everything else on the diamond this weekend -- for free!

DENVER -- What’s the difference between a 4-6 record and a 3-7 record? The obvious answer is: one game. But for the Giants on another cold day in Colorado on Thursday, one game meant a lot. “Today would’ve been a big swing game for us,” said manager Bob Melvin after

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DENVER -- After the Giants were swept in Philadelphia on Monday, manager Bob Melvin held a team meeting. San Francisco had just lost for the eighth time in 11 games, and in that span, the lineup averaged 2.5 runs per contest. Something needed to be said. And judging by what

This story was excerpted from Maria Guardado’s Giants Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. The Giants knew they’d have to be patient with pitching prospect Randy Rodríguez when they added him to the 40-man roster in November 2021.

Big league closers can come from all areas of the pitching world. Some are guys who have always been relievers, from college all the way up to the big leagues. Some were starters whose power stuff (and perhaps lack of command) were better suited for shorter stints coming out of

DENVER -- The first three innings of Tuesday’s series opener between the Giants and Rockies looked deceptively like a pitchers’ duel, with the game scoreless through three and with each team notching a couple of hits. But while Rockies starter Dakota Hudson walked five and left the game in the

PHILADELPHIA -- Tara Black has a picture on her wall of her two sons, Mason and Dixon, walking into Citizens Bank Park with their Phillies jerseys on when they were kids. She never could have imagined that one of them would end up entering the Majors at the very same

The Rookie-level Arizona Complex and Florida Complex leagues began play last Saturday, a month earlier than they did a year ago. The changes mean that the circuits will be populated more by players making the jump from the Rookie-level Dominican Summer League the season before and less by guys coming

After a multi-season hiatus, Crooked Numbers returns with a heaping portion of Minor League Baseball on-field oddities and absurdities. This edition, covering the start of the season through the end of April, has a disproportionate number of items from the Triple-A level. As for why that is, who knows? Maybe

Willie Mays thrived partly by turning imagination into reality. “I would go home at night and create what I was going to do the next day,” Mays told MLB.com in a 2008 interview. “It sounds kind of childish. But if I feel that we’re going to have a good crowd

PHILADELPHIA -- Logan Webb couldn’t catch a break. The Giants right-hander thought he recorded the final out of the fourth inning when he got J.T. Realmuto to hit a slow roller up the middle, but the Phillies catcher managed to beat it out for an infield single, which was confirmed

The way that our history keepers and record books mythologize the greatest sports stars and icons of our lifetime often produces a double-edged sword. We develop obsessions with the beginnings and ends of their journeys, hyper-fixating on the environments and upbringings that made them special over the subsequent results of

PHILADELPHIA -- The Giants were already down a catcher after placing Patrick Bailey on the seven-day concussion list prior to Saturday night’s game at Citizens Bank Park. Hours later, they lost another one. The club saw its catching depth further thinned after Tom Murphy suffered a left knee injury in

This story was excerpted from Maria Guardado’s Giants Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. PHILADELPHIA -- It’s that time of year. For the fourth consecutive season, the Giants are bringing back Mustache May, with outfielders Mike Yastrzemski and

PHILADELPHIA -- The Giants lost one of their cornerstone players on Friday night, when catcher Patrick Bailey was forced to depart a 4-3 series-opening defeat to the Phillies after taking a foul ball off his face mask. Bailey started behind the plate, but was shaken up after taking a direct

BOSTON -- When the baseball gods are present at Fenway Park, that’s usually good news for the home team, but a pregame visitor to the Giants’ clubhouse on Thursday morning handed the visiting club some much needed mojo as they pulled off a 3-1 victory and avoided a sweep. Prior

BOSTON -- There’s only so much room that frustration can build before reaching a breaking point. Jorge Soler put that metaphor to the test on Wednesday night at Fenway Park. After hitting a Statcast-projected 110.7 mph rocket directly into the glove of Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers in the

You know it’s really Draft season when the first mock draft is out. Between now and July 14, when the 2024 Draft begins, Jim Callis and I will be providing prognostications of the first round on a fairly regular basis with the hope that our final mocks the night before

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