Giants Bulletin: Just how bad could this get?

It’s June 3 and your San Francisco Giants are 15, yes FIFTEEN games under .500. They’ve played 61 games under rookie manager Tony Vitello, and have won just 23 of them. The Giants, with their healthy pay roll, are in dead last in the National League. It feels like a nightmare, but the standings, and its ramifications, are very real. 

It’s possible that the Giants will play closer to their .500 destiny for the rest of the year, and finish the season with a poor but stomachable 72-74 wins. But .500 ball seems like an optimistic pipe dream for this squad. It has given us zero reason to expect anything but embarrassing, soulless, frankly pathetic baseball. It begs the question, just how bad could this season get? 

As it stands today, the Giants are on pace to lose 100 baseball games in 2026. It would be the second time since the team moved to San Francisco that it would cross the 100 loss threshold, joining the 1985 club. There have been some awful Giants teams, but this one has a chance to legitimately be the worst. Not the dark days of the early to mid 80s, not the late 70s, not the mid to late 2000s, and not quite 2017 and 2018. It could be 2026. It’s mind boggling, considering that most of those aforementioned bad teams were actively rebuilding. The current Giants are achieving this while selling playoff goals to their fans. 

While the frigid April offense has vastly iomproved, the Giants’ pitching staff has been awful since the early days of May. Each of the Giants six starters that have been regularly in the rotation this season are sporting ugly ERAs over four. Landen Roupp just endured his worst start as a big leaguer. Logan Webb has been either bad or hurt. Robbie Ray seems to have lost his way after a strong start. And Tyler Mahle and Adrian Houser have been as advertised, bad. 

The starters have shown regression, but the bullpen has also been subpar at best in any leverage situation for the entirety of the campaign. The Giants have blown seven saves through 61 games. 

Mike Krukow joined the morning show on Thursday and echoed the sentiment of many Giants fans when it comes to Bryce Eldridge and his playing time. He’s been starting far more consistently of late, but the matchup based benchings are becoming more and more frustrating, especially given that Eldridge has been one of the Giants’ most productive hitters. Murph asked Krukow if he was frustrated by the pattern, and he affirmed what fans have been thinking since he was brought up.