San Francisco Giants News

As the calendar turns to March, the Scottsdale Giants are well into their Cactus League slate. Position battles, auditions of young layers, and last gasps at big league residency for proven minor leaguers are well underway.  One of the premiere headlines of the Spring has been the return of Jung Hoo Lee, who missed the […]

At long last, Giants baseball games are back. The Cactus league schedule got underway this past weekend, and although these contests are simple exhibitions, few things in life are as therapeutic as seeing the orange and black in action after a lengthy winter hibernation.  As the games are off to the races, so too are […]

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Say hello to a Jock Blog being scribbled in the Scottsdale Stadium press box, endless blue sky in front of me, thrill of the grass underfoot. How can you not be romantic about The Giants Way, after all? That’s today’s topic, ball fans: Just what IS The Giants Way? All right, all […]

Spring Training officially started just about a week ago when pitchers and catchers reported to Scottsdale Stadium. But the unofficial starting gun went off on Thursday when Murph and Markus descended upon Old Town for their annual February pilgrimage to Giants camp.  The Giants don’t have any opponents other than themselves yet. But the excitement […]

If you’re a sucker for romantic baseball content, late February is probably high on your list of best times of the year. It’s not the Fourth of July, or the depths of October, of course. But something about those first few days of spring training is nostalgic. Even for fan bases with little to no […]

Last off-season, a handful of big name free agents remained unsigned well into February and even into the first few days of March. Even as teams competed in Spring Training games, some of the game’s hottest winter prizes were homeless. One of which was Blake Snell, who infamously missed all of spring training and subsequently […]

It’s easy to get excited for baseball this time of year. Spring training is on the horizon. Rosters are essentially solidified, and the dawn of spring feels nearer than the heart of winter. Even with that natural hope budding, the palpable excitement surrounding the Giants as the first season of the Buster Posey President of […]

The baseball starved can officially say now that we are in the home stretch of a long off-season. In less than a month’s time, the Giants will be playing Spring Training games in Arizona. In just over two weeks, pitchers and catchers will report to Scottsdale Stadium to officially cut the ribbon on the 2025 […]

In just one short month, Scottsdale Stadium and its surrounding facilities will once again be teeming with life as Giants’ pitchers and catchers will report to Spring Training for the first season of the Buster Posey POBO era. There will be plenty of differences, both on the roster and in the way front office business […]

Final Jock Blog of 2024 and I’ve got bad news for you, Bay Area: No championships this year, kids. (With apologies to Stanford women’s sailing, of course. The canvas can do miracles. Just you wait and see.) The 49ers huffed and puffed and couldn’t blow the Super Bowl house down in February in Las Vegas. […]