SAN FRANCISCO–On Thursday afternoon, Giants’ manager Bruce Bochy said he’s never dealt with as many injuries in a season as he’s encountered in 2017. Prior to San Francisco’s matchup with a Major League-worst Philadelphia team, Bochy offered injury updates on more than half a dozen Giants players, including prospects like Christian Arroyo and Austin Slater, […]
Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton is on pace to hit 60 home runs this season. If he finishes the season with that number, he would be 13 behind single-season record holder Barry Bonds who hit 73 in 2001, and tied for eighth on the all-time list.
According to many experts, right-handed pitcher Tyler Beede is the best prospect in the San Francisco Giants organization. Beede was the only member of the team included in Baseball America’s Top 100 prospects list for 2017, and is primed to join the big league rotation next season, after their shaky showing this year.
The Giants were hopeful that after top prospect Christian Arroyo underwent surgery to repair a fractured hand in July, that Arroyo would return to the Major League club in September.
When San Francisco arrived in Philadelphia for a three-game series against the Major League-worst Phillies over the first weekend of June, it was supposed to offer a team that dug its way into a ditch a welcome reprieve from the depths it had sunk to.
On Tuesday evening, not even Giants’ ace Madison Bumgarner could put Giancarlo Stanton’s hot bat on ice. But even though Stanton’s bat played a significant role, it was his arm that was the deciding factor.