San Francisco Giants

We have all taken a breath, not seen the Giants since last Sunday against the Dodgers (ouch!) and are ready to storm Toronto on Friday with a whole new outlook.

Buster Posey has been on the job less than a year, but it’s clear he took this gig with a self-imposed mandate: Make memories at the yard.

PHOTO: ROBERT EDWARDS By Brian Murphy The Dodgers are spending more money to win than any team in baseball history. The Giants appear to be dumping salary. This, sports fans, is what you call “sub-optimal”. It stinks that all-time Giants icon Buster Posey has to preside over a Giants team whose ownership group is telling […]

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. […]

Photo: Robert Edwards All right, Buster. Whatcha got? Now that the visceral part of satisfying dissatisfied Giants fans is over— Buster Posey! Running the Giants! Really! Buster Posey! — there remains the matter of just exactly what the new president of baseball operations is, you know, *actually going to do.* I mean, don’t get me […]

Sometimes, it’s all about the intangibles. Not all wins are equal, and the two out of three the Giants took from the Dodgers this past weekend mean more than just two tallies in the win column.

Prospects filling veteran injury holes with production, flare

Lee will seek a second opinion expeditiously, but the diagnosis of structural damage likely indicates the need for a surgery that could be season ending.

A day after Giants center-fielder Jung Hoo Lee left Sunday’s game in the top of the first after crashing into the center-field wall, the Giants provided more clarity on the rookie’s injury status.

When things are quite bad, we set a goal: .500 by Flag Day, and take it from there.