“Managing in MLB, it’s not that hard. Tell him, Wash.” YOUR 2026 San Francisco Giants!

WASH IS READY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TImfFRzFUwA

Really nice Baggs piece about Luis Arraez, Marco Scutaro and their connection:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7077856/2026/02/28/sf-giants-luis-arraez-marco-scutaro-venezuela-connection/?source=user_shared_article

Scutaro’s nickname in Venezuela, El Pulpo, came from a broadcaster who liked his intelligent style of play and considered the octopus one of the world’s most intelligent creatures. Arraez’s nickname, La Regadera, was coined by his sister, Normelis, to describe the way her brother seemingly deposited baseballs off every blade of outfield grass. Arraez wore the name on the back of his jersey during players’ weekend over the past few seasons. It’s the Spanish term for a watering can or sprinkler.

When it rains, sometimes all you can do is embrace it.

Harrison Bader, his muscles, crop top and…aesthetic…are going to be popular
https://i.postimg.cc/sDRKk15S/IMG-0211.png

In an early-morning outfield drill, he was the one with the long, dirty-blond hair, linebacker body, and moves that oozed with the flair and finesse of a Gold Glove center fielder.

https://sfstandard.com/2026/02/16/harrison-bader-sf-giants-outfield/

Scutaro’s nickname in Venezuela, El Pulpo, came from a broadcaster who liked his intelligent style of play and considered the octopus one of the world’s most intelligent creatures.

that is some temu-tier stolen ass valor, may i introduce:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Alfonseca

His nicknames are El Pulpo ("The Octopus"), The Dragonslayer, and Six-Fingers. He has six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, a condition known as polydactyly. His grandfather also had this trait. Alfonseca regards it with pride, as a kind of family emblem.

Six fingers on each hand must make the grip combos crazy. In any case, the Venezuelan commentator was right about the humble octopus

Captive octopuses appear to be aware of their captivity; they adapt to it but also resist it. When they try to escape, which is often, they tend to wait for a moment they aren’t being watched. Octopuses have flooded laboratories by deliberately plugging valves in their tanks with their arms. At the University of Otago, an octopus short-circuited the electricity supply – by shooting jets of water at the aquarium lightbulbs – so often that it had to be released back into the wild. Jean Boal, a cephalopod researcher at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, reported feeding octopuses in a row of tanks with thawed squid, not an octopus’s favourite food. Returning to the first tank, Boal found that the octopus in it hadn’t eaten the squid, but was instead holding it out in its arm; watching Boal, it slowly made its way across the tank and shoved the squid down the drain. (The third-century Roman rhetorician Claudius Aelianus, a more sympathetic observer than Aristotle, identified the octopus’s main characteristic as ‘mischief and craft’.)

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n17/amia-srinivasan/the-sucker-the-sucker

Hayden Birdsong To Undergo Tommy John Surgery

This is terrible news but you're going to lose pitchers to this, nature's beast.

I wanted to take a step back from baseball this year because this team looks average as average as can be. But I'm itching for baseball so they'll have me to start off.

Hopefully I won't annoy too much.

so far I have tix to a Marlins game and a Nats game (I'll be wearing Nats City Connect <3)

The cherry blossom one? Pure gorgeous. Kind of wish I’d bought one in NYC now

Yes, you know me too well, ha!

The Giants are planning to designate outfielder Luis Matos for assignment, reports Susan Slusser of The San Francisco Chronicle. She adds that minor league signee Jared Oliva is expected to break camp in a bench role, so he’ll take Matos’ spot on the active and 40-man rosters.

Bart, Luciano and now Matos are all gone. The Zaidi era feels officially over.

Oliva seemed to do really well but that’s a shock…but I guess doing it right now when rosters are set means they hope he’ll get through waivers and stay on triple A

i sense another 81 win season.

Arson Judge

ugh that was a slaughter last night

giants get a hit challenge

four hits in 18 innings

Lol, will they ever score?

A double with no outs, is this the moment?

Celebrate good times come on

It's going to be a long season

LFG

One run in three games

Giants Designate Tyler Fitzgerald For Assignment

He was so good in 2024. Got the job in 2025 but lost it with strikeouts. Good luck to him.

Rule 5 backup catcher Daniel Susac debut tonight line:

3-3 1BB

Had a night he will never forget with his family in the stands.

He actually relieved Bailey last night in the 7th. So really his first start in the majors.

Brother of former Giant Andrew Susac!

Ahhh I was wondering why I was confused when I heard "Susac's first game" - I was thinking of Andrew. Hell of a night - hope he can keep it up and bat 1.000 for the entire season

I knew this schedule was tough out of the gate but this is embarrassing. Lucky I haven't been able to watch and seems like i haven't missed anything.

Up next:

3X PHI
3@ BAL
3@ CIN
3@ WAS
3X LA
3X MAI
3@ PIL
3@ TB
3X PIT
4@ LA

I don't see many wins there and think they will be buried.

3 "clubhouse incidents" so far this year. Vitello just casually mentioning that there were a few they managed to hide from the media, thus negating any benefit of having hidden the incidents from the media.
i'm going to guess chapman yelling to "just catch the ball" and then proceeding to not catch a ball and also getting thrown out was not a help in that matter

That’s hardly the ideal time for a manager to draw an ejection, isn’t it?

After the game, Vitello didn’t even contend that plate umpire Edwin Jiménez made the wrong call when he ruled that Jerar Encarnacion, by running on the grass up the first-base line, impeded a throw from Mets pitcher Huascar Brazobán. Vitello said the play merely triggered him because he lost two games in college — one at the University of Tennessee, and the Big 12 championship as an assistant coach at the University of Missouri — because of similar rulings.

“I’m sure he got it exactly technically right,” said Vitello, who might have taken issue with the fact the throw, which didn’t hit Encarnacion, glanced off the glove of Mets first baseman Mark Vientos. “It’s just a play I’ve got a lot of history for. … Lost a game to Lipscomb on that play, lost the game to (Oklahoma State coach) Frank Anderson and a Big 12 championship on that play. The difference between the two that I’m talking about, and I can talk about others, is the runner. In Frank’s instance — and I’ve called his team cheaters — (the runner) completely interfered with the throwing lane for the pitcher. So again, umpires are held accountable by what the rules are, and they enforce those rules.
“And again, I don’t want to replay. I’m sure they did it 100 percent to the tee, but you know, from my perspective, for plays between the mound and the third-base line, you know, the runner’s not going to have much to do with it.

“I said one last thing, just out of frustration or being all fired up. It was complete nonsense. I think it was misinterpreted a little bit, but (if) you’re on the field that long and you’re not a player, you’re probably out of place a little bit.”

imagine being a big league manager and mentioning your experiences battling lipscomb and oklahoma state

over/under on how many of those involved devers?

matt chapman also doesn't seem like the most level headed of dudes based on what i saw in the series with the mets

chappy can gtfo for yelling at my boy casey :/

Susac’s single in the fifth gave him a 5-for-5 start to his major league career, the best career start in the majors since Ted Cox of the Boston Red Sox started 6-for-6 in 1977. Susac popped out in the sixth to end his streak but added a two-run triple in the eighth for his second straight three-hit game.

looking bleak out here

It’s still pretty early but yeah it’s ben ugly. They need Devers to get going, he’s started slow due to that hamstring strain but when he’s going the lineup will look quite different.

I turned out because of Coachella and haven't watched the Reds series either.

This lineup leaves a lot to be desired, looking at you Lee, Ramos and Bailey mostly. Speaking of Bailey, I read our gold glove catcher got pitched hit for in the ninth. I wonder how long it will be before Susac knocks down the door and demands more playing time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUEjgxM1hJc

even in victory they are brutally shitty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBkJR0mxOXU

Per usual you don't know what actually happened. The teams were going about it all game, Adames was hit too and was alluded to this going on for this series. What happened at the end with Eric Miller was a nothing burger.

was kinda happy to see them get into it. they need something to wake them up

Seriously, this is such a listless and empty start - we're edging into sample sizes being meaningful territory as we inch toward May

https://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/sf-giants-ceo-spending-22210512.php

Thank God for the Washington Nationals.

Susac was the catcher for Logan Webb tonight, so it begins

those phillies jerseys

The Giants have taken the first two games against the Dodgers. 3-run homer by, check notes, Patrick Bailey!

They beat Yamamoto and Ohtani, they both started but Ohtani didn't get the loss. His on-base streak did come to an end.

Huge. They didn't win a series against the Dodgers at all last year. Last time they even just took 2 of 3 was late June 2024.

They've won 4 series against the Dodgers (including this one) since the beginning of the 2022 season (yikes). Since that magical 2021 season they've had an absolutely putrid record against them (20-40, including the two wins so far this season). Historically they play .500 ball against each other even when one of the two are bad, but the trend absolutely bucked during Zaidi's tenure. Was he a rogue agent? hmm

Let's see if they can win more than a single series this year. Maybe Vitello has some juice.

Devers missed most of spring training with a sore hammy and it looks like he’s starting to get going now. Honestly I’m shocked they won this series but it’s huge for them. Let’s hope they can build off this.

loved webb's smirk when asked about beaning rushing

Brandon Belt day at the ballpark today, it was a delight. He made me laugh several times.

looking bleak out here

― You better go listen to lemonade and pray about it (Spottie), Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:23 AM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

and somehow has gotten worse

Rafael Devers is blaming the media. One positive tho is he did apologize to Tony Vitelto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMasEDO2NGA

at what point does buster's teflon wear off, and are we there yet?

At this point I'm not even sure. The ownership probably see more value in the real estate they now own that's quite close to the AI big boys over in China Basin and Dogpatch. Looking at their recent actions: dumping Renel, switching to Aramark, hiring Vitello, putting Chick-fil-A ads on the left field foul pole, rising prices, there's clear signs of enshittification and not really caring about the fans, like at all. Then you have Kushner money coming in - It's as if they are putting a baseball team on the field to "go through the motions". There's guaranteed revenue through sharing and TV contracts. Posey represents a "face", a connection to the glory years, maybe he's a convenient figurehead.

They clearly don't care about the blowback locally. If they had, this would have been handled differently, day 1. Will they care if attendance and team revenue drop? They don't have to. Looking clear eyed at ownership, it's almost as if are intentionally poisoning the well.

Posey is part of ownership!

he's a(n extremely) minority holder; if the actual powers want him gone, he'll be gone

given who the actual powers are, i'm sure it would take a lot! but even apart from this pride night fiasco, his track record sucks

funny thing to call a press conference and then just refuse to answer any questions or defer to the manager you hired

That was a bad look. Face the music and answer the questions for heavens sake.

It has worn off for me after the pride thing and then didn't take a leadership role after this Devers thing? Burn it down and start over

i *really* want to know what buster/the giants (thought they) saw in tony vitello

i was sort of optimistic just because i heard him interviewed last year about the giants draft pick from UT. he came across extremely sharp and eloquent.

"i'll answer baseball questions"

IT HAPPENED ON THE FIELD.

Buster Posey calls a presser 2.0

KNBR tomorrow at 7:30am PDT

Posey's fall from grace is almost as steep a dive as Daniel Lurie's.

Bruh what

7.30 am is 15.30 for me

Posey's fall from grace is almost as steep a dive as Daniel Lurie's.

Uh no, dude's still polling over 70%. In your head perhaps...

oh dang, are you on his payroll?

buster's probably just going to spew some weird jesus crap

Is he really going to face the music? I'm stunned this is happening.

I will be asleep

He's going on KNBR, I doubt they'll ask hardball questions...

Oh, so this is just the scheduled weekly/monthly thing.

Steve Shasta is putting me on.

@octobeard:

https://i.imgur.com/lUYBBNm.png

He's going on KNBR, I doubt they'll ask hardball questions...

― octobeard, Wednesday, June 24, 2026 7:32 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah but idk, brian murphy made buster audibly frustrated during their last interview, pressing him about how shitty the team is.

You okay Steve? Not the biggest fan of Lurie; he's just like any SF mayor, not great or terrible. He's no Mamdani, but he's certainly not Adams. Thinking he's as bad as Posey in this moment (and continuing try and troll me) indeed warrants a bit of the "bruh" response you already received before my post.

Take your Lurie axe and grind it in the SF thread or something, let's keep our forceful eye of hate focused on the Giants

Ok Tony this was great lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KirZDW9r_E8

Nobody drops in interesting info like Baggs. Almost as insightful as the PH blowup

It might have been the case last Saturday when Vitello sent Bericoto to pinch hit while representing the tying run with two outs in the ninth inning. It was the rookie’s first at-bat in 10 days and he flied out to right field. On the long flight back to San Francisco Sunday night, after Devers took a seat next to Vitello to apologize for initially refusing to be removed for a pinch runner, the conversation shifted to several aspects of the team. The Bericoto pinch at-bat was among them. Devers told Vitello that it was a difficult assignment for a young player.

Vitello agreed with Devers but also said, “The only way you get at-bats is if you get at-bats. So I’m hopeful that Miami at-bat, even though it didn’t work out the way he wanted, helped him today.”

Buster no-showed the KNBR spot and sent Larry Baer instead for some additional hot air about concerning stances/achieving their potential instead of why nobody in the front office wants to own up to why this team is so bad.

At least he wasn’t strangling someone while he was on air

Cowards, the whole lot

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4odp6vszu7nnkvfgp5bwb3n3/post/3mp57635kvs2p

Top 9, 2 outs, 3-1 count, low slider called strike 2, Sodastream ABS's... and he walks.

A's go on to send 4 more batters to the plate, 4 runs score... Giants lose.

Not even Victor BeriBondSoto's heroics can save this sinking ship.

This was going to be the Giants first sweep of the year but no

controversial take but perhaps Roupp should spend less time cherrypicking the bible and focus on his pitching.

...or is he sandbagging so he can pull a Kyle Harrison?

if you can't make it on charles johnson's team . . .

well, obviously the rangers . . . probably all the others too (maybe not toronto) . . . nevermind

0-8 against the Diamondbacks to start the season. Haven't lost the first eight since 1977 against the Cubs. Finding new lows.

I'm usually negative in this thread but Logan Webb was NL Pitcher of the Month for June. 5GS (3-1), 38.0 IP, 0.71 ERA, 29K,. First time for him.

And then Webb give up 7 in three innings at Colorado tonight.

Surprised you're still watching, Bee. But I won't kink shame!

Baseball has a hold of me like nothing else, tho I did dispatch

One last thing as it sort of blew my mind. Giants use both ABS challenges in the first inning tonight, one on the very first pitch

The drama came during the next segment. As Murphy and Boucher dissected Posey’s responses, an unnamed KNBR producer could be heard in the background. The producer did a microphone test, saying “talk” several times before saying, “Yeah, I hear ya, I gotcha. I gotcha 100%.”

The last thing the unnamed producer said was a three-word statement: “Posey sucks, man.”

https://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/buster-posey-knbr-hot-mic-22348109.php

> “Posey sucks, man.”

Should be the thread title now

Was going to tune in to see the Dodgers @ Yankees but get the Giants instead.

oh no!

Logan Webb was dealing until he wasn't.

The Giants deserve to lose this game. They are just bad.

Called it