Brandon Kyle Belt (Baby Giraffe) (twitter: @bbelt9)

Positions: First Baseman and Leftfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 5", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: April 20, 1988 in Nacogdoches, TX
High School: Hudson HS (Lufkin, TX)
Schools: San Jacinto College (Pasadena, TX), San Jacinto College North (Houston, TX), University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
Drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 5th round of the 2009 amateur draft.
Signed August 13, 2009. (All Transactions)
Debut: March 31, 2011 (Age 22)   vs. LAD 3 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Team: Giants 2011-2013
2013 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$532k (13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 1.128, Arb Eligible: 2015, Free Agent: 2018 [*],
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• 5/9 BaseballGuys.com: Draft Day Challenge, May 9: I’ve partnered with DraftDay.com to give all my wonderful followers, that’s you, the chance to play the game on a daily basis....
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• 4/17 Raising Matt Cain: Just a 3-run homer short of victory: I like that Brandon Belt got three hits, and Brandon Crawford two (including a homer). Funny thing about this game, the Giants...
• 4/15 Swingin' A's: Oakland Athletics Deemed Inferior by San Francisco Chronicle… Sun Also Rises: It’s not often that anything in the newspaper catches my eye these days, except for the always exceptional work of Athletics...
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• 4/12 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason In Review: San Francisco Giants: The Giants won the World Series in 2012 thanks to a solid core, some savvy trades and a mammoth performance from Buster Posey....
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• 4/6 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 5: A Rookie Shall Lead Them: Shelby Miller earned his first win of 2013 with a shaky-but-effective performance. Aided by some timely offense and solid relief,...
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• 4/5 Splash Hit Blog: Cardinals will have to get comfortable, and today’s lineup: A little less than two years ago, the Giants were still celebrating their first World Series Championship in San Francisco. The...
• 4/5 Injury Report: ()
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• 4/3 mlbreports.com : What Buster Posey’s New Contract Means For The Giants: Like us on Facebook here Wednesday April.3,  2013 By Jon Schifferle ( Giants Correspondent – visit his own personal website here.) ...
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• 4/3 AroundTheFoghorn: Bumgarner Blanks Bums; Giants 3, Dodgers 0: Madison Bumgarner threw 8.0 innings gave up two hits and completely dominated the Dodgers lineup on Tuesday night. Bumgarner...
• 4/2 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Giants @ Dodgers April 2 2013: The Monster’s Debut: So how, exactly, does Hyun-Jin Ryu follow Clayton Kershaw‘s Opening Day fireworks? How do you land in a new country to make...
• 4/2 Splash Hit Blog: Joaquin Arias at 1B tonight for #SFGiants: Lineups have been posted for tonight’s Giants-Dodgers game, and Brandon Belt is still a little sick, so… No Belt,...
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• 2/28 SoDo Mojo: Seattle Mariners Take on San Francisco Giants in Spring Training: So far in the spring training games, the Seattle Mariners are 5-1. The San Francisco Giants, today’s opponent, are 1-3-1...
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• 2/12 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Dear Mr. Fantasy Baseball Podcast: February 11, 2013: Chris McBrien (@cmcbrien) and the Fantasy Doctor (@TheFantasyDR) are joined by Tim Heaney from KFFL and USA Today Sports for...
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• 2/11 Lasorda's Lair: Up Yours Brandon Belt: You know, I haven’t had the chance to comment on the whole Brandon Belt thing yet. Honestly I’ve been trying hard not...
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• 2/8 SF Giants Rumors: SF Giants Rumors: Media Day Notes: Today is the day that really started to get my baseball juices flowing. I attended the San Francisco Giants Media Day at AT&T...
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• 2/8 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Buster Posey Fantasy Baseball: How Good is the Giants’ Backstop?After a gruesome injury ended his 2011 season a little less than two months in, Buster Posey showed what an More......
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• 1/29 AroundTheFoghorn: San Francisco Giants Season In Review: Brett Pill: Ah, where do you start with John Bowker, uh, Brett Pill. The second year player (first, if you want to get technical) made the...
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• 1/15 Fire Brand of the American League: Justin Smoak: A Backup PlanJustin Smoak may be an enticing buy low candidate for a 2013 Red Sox team in need of some depth and injury insurance....
• 1/10 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Pablo Sandoval: What to Expect From the Kung-Fu Panda: Ladies and gentlemen, I am stumped. I have followed his whole career extremely closely and am still pretty stumped. What More......

• 12/29 Blog Red Machine: Best of 2012: #3 Performances: At the middle of our collection of top performances for 2012 and for the #3′s and for this, and you could say that two of...
• 12/26 AroundTheFoghorn: 25 Days of Homeruns #23, Brandon Belt 09/04/12: Brandon Belt hit his third splash hit with hopefully more to come. The ball sailed 387 ft over the Arcade and into McCovey Cove....
• 12/26 mlbreports.com : The Dodgers Might Be The Team To Beat In The N.L. West For 2013: Wednesday, December 26th, 2012 Like us on Facebook here Sam Evans (Baseball Writer):  The Los Angeles Dodgers franchise had...
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• 12/9 MLBRandomFandom: Why the Giants Will Win the World Series: by Jon BeckerTonight the World Series starts in Major League Baseball, with the high-power Tigers against the momentous Giants....
• 12/5 StanGraphs: Free Agent Signing: Marco Scutaro Hopes Giants “Make it Rain” Again: And it’s official! Marco Scutaro will rejoin the Giants on a three-year, $20 million pact that may or may not include some...

• 11/12 Rally Caps: World Series Preview: So the 2012 World Series has started and the Giants and Tigers emerged as the best teams in their respective leagues. The Tigers...
• 11/12 MLBRandomFandom: Why the Giants Will Win the World Series: by Jon BeckerTonight the World Series starts in Major League Baseball, with the high-power Tigers against the momentous Giants....
• 11/11 Raising Matt Cain: 25 for 16: The Brandons: The Giants took a chance on two youngsters this season, and to their credit, showed patience and restraint with both of them....
• 11/9 SF Giants Rumors: SF Giants Rumors: Teams Interested In Belt, Affeldt Looking for 3-Years, Another Posey Award: Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com says (via Twitter) the San Francisco Giants have been receiving calls  from teams inquiring about...
• 11/9 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Receiving interest in Brandon BeltThe San Francisco Giants are receiving a lot of calls on 1B Brandon Belt....[+] The San Francisco Giants are receiving a lot of calls on 1B Brandon Belt.
• 11/9 MLBTradeRumors: Heyman On Red Sox, Hamilton, Mariners, Giants: The latest from Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com.. The Red Sox don't see Zack Greinke as a fit for Boston but they are still...
• 11/9 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Will Leitch’s two month Twitter conversation AT the Cardinals: Denouement (The Playoffs): Sometime in mid-August (ok, August 12 to be exact – it’s right there on the Tweeter box) Cardinal fan Will Leitch began a...
• 11/7 AroundTheFoghorn: Watch San Francisco Giants’ World Series Victory & Parade On NBC’s “Caught Looking”: You guys remember “Caught Looking”, right? We had a post about it a few months back when the San Francisco Giants...
• 11/5 MetsToday.com: Deconstructing the Restructured Giants: During World Series week we discussed the complete overhaul of the San Francisco Giants starting lineup from 2010 to 2012. I suggested...
• 11/1 The Baseball Haven: How the Giants Can Repeat in 2013: The San Francisco Giants won the NL West, won three straight games in Cincinnati in the NLDS to stave off elimination, then won...
• 11/1 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your San Francisco Giants: Team of the 2010 Decade: I was going to post this on a po**** Giants community but then I realized that it would fall on deaf ears anyway and they would...

• 10/29 MLBTradeRumors: Giants Notes: Huff, Scutaro, Pagan, Affeldt: Giants general manager Brian Sabean has the makings of a dynasty centered around strong pitching and affordable young position...
• 10/29 mlbreports.com : Game 4 Recap: Giants Sweep the Tigers to Win the 2012 World Series: Monday October 29th, 2012 Kyle Holland:  If your favorite sport is baseball, what more can you ask for in a game? Even if you...
• 10/29 Tyler's Think Tank: Giants Sweep Tigers: The Giants waited 52 years to bring their first World Series title to San Francisco after abandoning their home in the Polo...
• 10/29 PaulLebowitz.com: The Giants Do It Old School: With the tiered playoff system, single game play-ins, and short series, two World Series titles in three years counts as a dynasty...
• 10/29 Baseball Musings: Dynasty?: The Giants winning their second World Series in three seasons makes one wonder if this team is going to be one for the ages. What...
• 10/29 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2012 Giants Are World Champions!!!: Epic!Wow, what a game!  What a series!  What a season! If ever there was a team effort for World Series MVP, this was...
• 10/29 Motor City Bengals: Detroit Tigers Swept From World Series: Giants 4, Tigers 3 (box score) Well, they put up some semblance of offense, which is all we were asking for during the previous...
• 10/29 Baseball Jerks: World Series Game 4: San Francisco Giants Sweep the Detroit Tigers: The San Francisco Giants and Detroit Tigers went into game four of the World Series with the series being dominated by Giants...
• 10/29 Baseball Musings: Coke is It: Phil Coke comes on to pitch the ninth, since a closer is no use to the home team in a tie game. He faces Hunter Pence of the Giants...
• 10/28 Baseball Musings: Belt’s Height: Watching Brandon Belt play first in the playoffs, I wonder how much his height helps the Giants defense. He stands 6′ 5″,...
• 10/28 Baseball Musings: Walk, CS: Max Scherzer walks Brandon Belt, but Gregor Blanco strikes out as Belt is caught stealing to end the inning. Max has now struck...
• 10/28 Baseball Musings: Extra! Extra!: Hunter Pence follows a Buster Posey strikeout with a ground rule double in the top of the second for the first hit for the Giants....
• 10/28 Through The Fence Baseball: Four reasons San Francisco is dominating the postseason: The San Francisco Giants took a major step toward winning their second Word Series title in three years after Saturday’s...
• 10/28 Baseball Jerks: World Series Game 4 Preview: Giants Sweep, or Tigers Claw Back?: This one is difficult. Either the Giants will complete a four-game sweep of the 2012 World Series, or the Tigers will make it...
• 10/28 AroundTheFoghorn: Giants Put 3-0 Collar On Tigers; One Win Away From World Series Victory: The national media has continued to count the San Francisco Giants out, but despite their proclamations and predictions –...
• 10/26 Tyler's Think Tank: San Fran Shuts Out Detroit: Bumgarner fired seven shutout innings to help give the Giants a 2-0 Series edge In the wake of the offensive fireworks...
• 10/26 mlbreports.com : 2012 World Series Game 2 Recap: Giants Shut Out the Tigers For a 2-0 Lead: Friday October 26th, 2012 Kyle Holland:  What can you say about game 2 in the World Series? Fantastic, amazing, and a thriller....
• 10/26 Baseball Analytics: Nine to Know: The Giants win 2-0, Up 2-0: 1. Just a thought for Tigers fans - The Giants won Game 2 of the World Series and held the Tigers to two hits and won...
• 10/26 Call to the Pen: Bruce Bochy Makes Right Choice In Madison Bumgarner: There have always generally been two po**** schools of thought when it comes to which players to start in the postseason. The...
• 10/26 Baseball News Source: Bumgarner, Giants Shut-Out Tigers – Take 2-0 Series Lead To Detroit: Bumgarner, who lost both his starts in the NL playoffs, struck out eight Madison Bumgarner pitched two-hit ball over seven innings, Brandon...
• 10/25 AroundTheFoghorn: World Series Game 2 – Giants Win & Take 2-0 Series Lead: The San Francisco Giants beat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0  in Game 2 of the World Series at AT&T Park tonight, giving them a...
• 10/25 Motor City Bengals: Valverde and Benoit Tested, Benoit Passes: There are few ways to put a positive spin on last night’s drubbing in San Francisco other than simply hoping a win tonight...
• 10/25 BoSox Injection: BSI Postseason Recap: Sandoval Crushes Three Homers In Game One Win: In the world of baseball today, it seems like it would be foolish to predict so much as a loss to Justin Verlander, who won the...
• 10/25 Baseball Jerks: 2012 World Series Game 1: Pablo Sandoval Powers San Francisco to Victory: On paper, game one of the World Series seemed like it should have gone Detroit’s way—and for good reason. But as is often...
• 10/25 Baseball News Source: Sandoval, Zito, Giants Overpower Tigers In Game One: Sandoval and the Giants struck early and often against Verlander Pablo Sandoval became the fourth player to hit three home runs...
• 10/24 Baseball Musings: From A to Zito: In the bottom of the fourth, a leadoff walk to Brandon Belt leads to another run as Barry Zito lines a single by a diving Miguel...
• 10/24 The Baseball Haven: Move Buster Posey from Catcher: Buster Posey had an MVP-type season in 2012, as I even picked him as the NL MVP for my own 2012 MLB Awards. Posey posted a .336/.408/.549...
• 10/24 Baseball Musings: World Series Preview, Tigers Versus Giants: The Tigers and Giants begin the 2012 World Series Wednesday night, the first time these original modern era franchises meet in...
• 10/24 MetsToday.com: What To Make of Giants Turnover: From Izzy in the comments section: Check the ’10 Giants lineup. Incredible turnover. Only starter from ’10 is Posey. Also,...
• 10/24 mlbreports.com : The San Francisco Giants Are Ready to Return to the World Series: Wednesday October 24th, 2012 Kyle Holland:  The 2012 NLCS will go down as a series to remember. Firstly from a history standpoint,...
• 10/23 AroundTheFoghorn: Around The Foghorn’s San Francisco Giants / Detroit Tigers World Series Preview: Alas, we’ve reached the apex of the playoff mountain, so to speak. After the Around The Foghorn previews and predictions...
• 10/23 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals recap: San Francisco Giants 9 St. Louis Cardinals 0: Monday night's Game Seven match-up in the National League Championship Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco...
• 10/23 Baseball Jerks: St. Louis Cardinals & Joe Buck: Jerks of the Day: Way to ruin the whole **** thing for us, Joe, Cardinals. We thought you were worth having around this time but it appears that...
• 10/23 Baseball News Source: NLCS Game 7 – Giants Win – Will Take On Tigers in World Series: Scutaro hit .500 in the series and was named NLCS MVP The San Francisco Giants scored early and often to stake starter Matt Cain...
• 10/23 AroundTheFoghorn: San Francisco Giants Return to World Series; Win NLCS: The San Francisco Giants defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 9-0 in Game 7 of the NLCS, winning 3 straight games and returning to...
• 10/23 Baseball Musings: Unbreakable: The Giants pull off another three-game comeback, beating the Cardinals 9-0 to win the last three games of the NLCS and advance...
• 10/23 Baseball Musings: Number 9: Brandon Belt blasts a ball to the bleachers as his home run in the bottom of the eighth gives the Giants a 9-0 lead over the Cardinals....
• 10/22 BoSox Injection: BSI Postseason Recap: Vogelsong Dominant As Giants Push Game Seven: The Giants are looking quite a bit like the Red Sox of a few years ago. After the Cardinals went up 3-1 in the series on a combination...
• 10/21 Baseball News Source: NLCS – Giants Force Game 7 With Win Over Cardinals: Giants and Cardinals Will Play Game 7 In NLCS Ryan Vogelsong had a career high nine strikeouts and the San Francisco Giants...
• 10/21 AroundTheFoghorn: Vogelsong Dominant In Giants’ Win Over Cardinals, Force NLCS Game 7: The San Francisco Giants had one objective after they knew they wouldn’t be able to win the series in St. Louis this past...
• 10/21 Baseball Musings: Belt Belts: Brandon Belt hit a ball so high off the wall in right, only a giraffe could catch it. The ball bounds away from the rightfielder,...
• 10/21 Baseball Jerks: NLCS Game 6 Preview: Carpenter Looks to Slam Door on the Giants’ Fingers: The Giants are home, and their two best arms will try to ruin the Cardinals’ hopes of back-to-back World Series berths....
• 10/21 Tomahawk Take: Freddie Freeman – It Was A Very Good Year: To look at the final stats one might think Freddie Freeman’s 2012 was about the same as his 2011 with a slight drop off in his...
• 10/19 mlbreports.com : 2012 NLCS Recap: The Cardinals are 1 Win Away from the World Series: Friday October 19th, 2012 Kyle Holland:  The 2012 postseason has been all but “normal” so far, considering all division...
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• 10/18 AroundTheFoghorn: NLCS Game 3: St. Louis Cardinals 3, San Francisco Giants 1: Well, the St. Louis Cardinals figured out how to deprive San Francisco of any offense. In a game that was delayed 3.5 hours,  the...
• 10/17 StanGraphs: NLCS Game Three: San Francisco Giants (94-68) at St. Louis Cardinals (88-74): 9:40 PM The entire Cardinal dugout stood standing shoulder to shoulder watching as Motte pumped pitch after pitch in the upper-nineties...
• 10/16 Raising Matt Cain: NLCS Game 2: It's All Vogie: The Giants evened the series with the Cardinals behind a great start by Ryan Vogelsong. We all know the Vogelsaga. We all sing...
• 10/15 StanGraphs: NLCS Game Two: St. Louis Cardinals (88-74) at San Francisco Giants (94-68): 10:07 PM Another big hit by the Giants, this time off the bat of former Cardinal Ryan Theriot. San Francisco’s second basemen...
• 10/15 Baseball Musings: Threatening Again: For the second inning in a row, the Giants put two men on with one out. This time, the youngsters Buster Posey and Brandon Belt...
• 10/15 Baseball Musings: In Too Much: After a one-out Brandon Belt double in bottom of the fourth, David Freese played in on Gregor Blanco. Blanco hit the ball down...
• 10/15 Giants Nirvana: NLCS Game Two – Cardinals v. Giants: You should expect some inactivity on this blog over the next several days because, well, life. I’ll do my best to find time...
• 10/15 22gigantes.com: Giants vs. Cardinals: NLCS Game 2 Preview: San Francisco’s Ryan Vogelsong squares off against St. Louis’s Chris Carpenter tonight in Game 2 of the National League...
• 10/15 Baseball News Source: Cardinals Score Early and Hold Off Giants in Game 1 of NLCS: Beltran connected in the fourth inning off Bumgarner The St. Louis Cardinals scored six runs in the first four innings and held...
• 10/15 AroundTheFoghorn: San Francisco Giants Drop Third Consecutive Home Playoff Game, Lose LCS Opener To Cardinals: The San Francisco Giants aren’t one to go down without a fight, but unfortunately, their punches just weren’t powerful...
• 10/14 Giants Nirvana: NLCS Game One – Cardinals v. Giants: The lineups: Giants 1. CF Angel Pagan 2. 2B Marco Scutaro 3. 3B Pablo Sandoval 4. C Buster Posey 5. RF Hunter Pence 6. 1B Brandon...
• 10/14 STLCardinalBaseball: NLCS Preview And Predictions: Both the Giants and the Cardinals had to climb out of impossible holes to reach the final step before the World Series. They are...
• 10/11 Giants Nirvana: NLDS Game Five – Giants v. Reds: This is it. Do or die. Game Five. The lineups: Giants 1. CF Angel Pagan 2. 2B Marco Scutaro 3. 3B Pablo Sandoval 4. C Buster Posey...
• 10/11 SF Giants Rumors: SF Giants Rumors: Game 5, Win Or Go Home: It’s been a crazy series for the San Francisco Giants, but they have found away to for a game five! Matt Cain will get a...
• 10/11 Giants Nirvana: NLDS Game Four Recap: Giants 8, Reds 3: And just like that, the Giants have evened the series at two apiece. Tomorrow’s game — Matt Cain v. Mat Latos —...
• 10/9 Baseball Jerks: NLDS Game 3: Giants Survive With Help of Cardinals Scott Rolen, Ryan Hanigan: The San Francisco Giants were on the brink of elimination Tuesday night. Down two games to none they faced Cincinnati Reds righty...
• 10/9 AroundTheFoghorn: San Francisco Giants & Cincinnati Reds NLDS Game 3 Recap: The San Francisco Giants remain alive in the playoffs after a 10-inning, 2-1 win over the Cincinnati Reds Tuesday evening. It...
• 10/9 Giants Nirvana: NLDS Game Three Recap: Giants 2, Reds 1: I can’t even begin to pretend to understand what I just watched. But I’ll tell you one thing: I was getting ready...
• 10/9 SF Giants Rumors: SF Giants Rumors: Two Disappointment Games, Now Takes Three In A Row:   After two games in the National League Division Series, the San Francisco Giants find themselves with their backs to the...
• 10/9 Blog Red Machine: BRM Week In Review: A high-level look at the week that was for the good guys… 10/1/12 – 10/7/12 Record: 3-2 Runs: 19-8 (+11) Playoffs: up 2-0...
• 10/7 Blog Red Machine: Champions Rise From Adversity: A NLDS Story: I was mesmerized last night as the saga played out.  Before the opening pitch I read tweet after tweet counseling Cincinnati...
• 10/7 Raising Matt Cain: Reds Power Past Cain: The Reds brought their game to San Francisco and used pitching, power, and Brandon Phillips to smother the Giants and take Game...
• 10/7 Giants Nirvana: NLDS Game One Recap: Reds 5, Giants 2: The Giants caught an enormous break in this one when, eight pitches into his outing, Johnny Cueto was forced to exit the game...
• 10/6 Baseball Musings: Falling for Belt: Brandon Belt fell into a seating well as he catches a foul ball in the top of the first inning. Nice to see the young player giving...
• 10/6 Blog Red Machine: Playoff Previews: Reds and Giants: The Giants/Reds Divisional Series should be the most interesting among all fours divisional series. I say this because a number...
• 10/5 AroundTheFoghorn: Around The Foghorn’s San Francisco Giants / Cincinnati Reds Divisional Playoff Series Preview: With the San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds set to open their Divisional Series round in just over twenty-four hours, we...
• 10/4 AroundTheFoghorn: Looking At The San Francisco Giants’ NLDS Playoff Roster: Now that the regular season has concluded and the postseason picture is clear, Bruce Bochy and company can put together their...
• 10/1 AroundTheFoghorn: San Francisco Giants NLDS Potential Playoff Preview – Cincinnati Reds: With only three games remaining in the regular season, the San Francisco Giants wont know their National League Division Series...

• 9/27 AroundTheFoghorn: San Francisco Giants 2012 Rookie Hazing Dress-Up: Ah. To be a rookie at season end. Per tradition, the San Francisco Giant veterans had some fun with their youngsters today before...
• 9/27 Raising Matt Cain: Ninety: The Giants win their 90th game behind Matt Cain who set the tone right away with a four-pitch 1st inning. He chipped in a leadoff...
• 9/26 mlbreports.com : San Francisco Giants: The Pros and Cons Of Bringing Melky Cabrera Back For The Playoffs: Wednesday September 26th, 2012 Jake Dal Porto: Melky Cabrera went from a legitimate MVP candidate to a lost cause within the...
• 9/25 Giants Nirvana: Playoff Roster Predictions: The Giants have clinched the NL West, and now some important decisions lie ahead with the playoffs looming. Specifically: who...
• 9/23 Raising Matt Cain: Clinch!: The 2012 San Francisco Giants are the National League West Division Champions! This club came home on Monday with the Magic Number...
• 9/23 Giants Nirvana: National League West Champions: Between following the Giants, writing about the Giants, and otherwise thinking about the Giants day after day, I’ve devoted...
• 9/20 AroundTheFoghorn: Panda’s HR Leads Giants; Giant 7, Rockies 1: This game was very unpredictable starting at the top of the 1st inning. Matt Cain walked the first batter. Matt Cain doesn’t...
• 9/20 Raising Matt Cain: Five: Count 'em on one hand, lads, that's all it will take to finish this thing. LA lost the opener of their doubleheader in DC and...
• 9/16 Baseball Musings: The Improving Giants Offense: On August 14th, Melky Cabrera played his last game for the Giants. At the time, it seemed like a huge blow to the team, as Melky...
• 9/14 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2012 Giants are 81-62: Drowning the D-backs: The D-backs are 10 games behind but have 6 games left with the Giants.  If they can win all 6 games, they would only be 4...
• 9/12 RoxPile: New Players, Same Problem For Rockies As They Lose To Giants: Against the San Francisco Giants last night, the Rockies provided the early ingredients for a second consecutive win. They got...
• 9/12 AroundTheFoghorn: Bumgarner Goes Yard; Giants Even Up Series: The San Francisco Giants beat the Colorado Rockies tonight at Coors Field, 9-8, and they did it partly on the long ball. Brandon...
• 9/12 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt with good gameSan Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt homered and drove in four runs Tuesday, Sept. 11....[+] San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt homered and drove in four runs Tuesday, Sept. 11.
• 9/10 RoxPile: Giants at Rockies, September 10, 2012: Game Time, Lineups, and Preview: San Francisco Giants at Colorado Rockies, 6:40 P.M. MT. National League West rivals face off tonight in Denver as the division...
• 9/10 AroundTheFoghorn: Making A Splash: Brandon Belt In Splash Hit History: Last Tuesday, Brandon Belt launched his fifth home run of the season. Ian Kennedy‘s unfortunately-placed fastball brought...
• 9/10 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers and Blanton Blanked; Divisional Hopes Dashed: Dodgers 0 5 0 Giants 4 7 0 WP- Zito (11-8) LP- Blanton (9-13) HR- Posey (20)   Before the game we learned that Clayton Kershaw...
• 9/10 Giants Nirvana: Five and a Half Games Up: The Giants caught a huge break when it was announced earlier that Clayton Kershaw would not be making tonight’s start, and...
• 9/9 Lasorda's Lair: Blanton, Dodgers Go for Series Win At Phony Book Park (Kershaw Scratched With Hip Injury): Dodgers Lineup vs. Giants M.Ellis 4 Victorino 8 Gonzalez 3 Ramirez 6 Cruz 5 Ethier 9 Rivera 7 Ellis 2 Blanton 1   Clayton Kershaw Joe...
• 9/9 Lasorda's Lair: Kershaw, Dodgers Go for Series Win At Phony Book Park: Dodgers Lineup vs. Giants   Clayton Kershaw-12-8 vs. Barry Zito-10-8   Just as it appeared the Dodgers were dead in the water,...
• 9/8 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers Finally Come Up Clutch, To Even Series: Dodgers 3 8 0 Giants     2 6 0 WP-Belisario-5-1 LP-Affeldt-1-2 SV-League-11 Tootblan-Ramirez-Ethier   Before the game, the...
• 9/8 Lasorda's Lair: Deflated Dodgers Drop Game One Against Rival Giants: Dodgers 2 6 1 Giants 5 10 0 WP- Casilla (7-5) LP- Beckett (6-13) S- Romo (10) HR- Kennedy (2)   The down and out Dodgers...
• 9/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt gets start in LF: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt made a start in left field Friday, Sept. 7, against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Until Friday,...[+] he hadn't taken a fly ball in left field since spring training.
• 9/6 AroundTheFoghorn: Series Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers (73-65) vs. San Francisco Giants (77-60): Since August 30th, the number “4.5″ has been involved in many-a-sentence when talking about the NL West since that’s...
• 9/6 AroundTheFoghorn: Giants Bested By Diamondbacks in Series Closer: You know it’s back when the hosts of the KNBR post-game wrap have a hard time picking players of the game and spend more...
• 9/5 AroundTheFoghorn: Belt Ends Drought; Giants Lose In Extras: It was a hard fought game. Unfortunately, the Giants came out on the losing end of extra innings tonight. Brandon Belt did hit...
• 9/5 Raising Matt Cain: Extra Effort: Both the Giants and Dodgers lost in extra innings last night. Arizona spoiled a great comeback by hanging on for the win. The...
• 9/3 Raising Matt Cain: Scootie & the Rostermen: . . . . and their big hit "Gettin' It Done" is Number One with a Bullet! It is that crazy time of year with the expanded rosters,...
• 9/2 AroundTheFoghorn: San Francisco Giants Complete Comeback, Win Series Over Chicago Cubs: Alfonso Soriano might not want to play for the San Francisco Giants – but he certainly felt like tormenting them through...

• 8/31 Raising Matt Cain: The Comeback Kids: The Giants made it two come-from-behind wins in Houston with a 3-run 7th inning, erasing a 4-0 deficit. It was a lot of little...
• 8/31 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt with four hitsSan Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt had four hits Thursday, Aug. 30....[+] San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt had four hits Thursday, Aug. 30.
• 8/30 AroundTheFoghorn: The Return of Barry Zito, Giants Still Win 6-4 Over Houston: Remember that guy we’ve been bagging on for years? The one that for the most part has been missing this season? Well, the...
• 8/29 Giants Nirvana: August Has Been Kind: Last night, it looked like the Giants were going to waste yet another strong outing from Matt Cain. With the game tied 1-1 in...
• 8/29 Raising Matt Cain: The Rook Gets It Done: Hector Sanchez got the big hit in the 9th to bail out Matt Cain and the Giants. Brandon Belt, no-longer rook, and Joaquin ...
• 8/23 Giants Nirvana: Announcing the Winners of the Matt Cain DVD Contest: The Giants/Dodgers series is over. The Giants won all three games, scoring a total of 14 runs. Brandon Belt failed to get a hit...
• 8/23 Raising Matt Cain: Arias-ness: The Giants pull off the sweep, stuffing the Smogsuckers behind a career night from Joaquin Arias. The 27-year old well-traveled...
• 8/21 Full Spectrum Baseball: The Waiver Wire: Jon Jay: As we head into the final weeks of the baseball season, staying active on the waiver wire could be the difference between finishing...
• 8/21 AroundTheFoghorn: Giants Take Back the Lead in the West With a Victory in LA: The Giants scored a first inning run off Clayton Kershaw. Knowing that runs were at a premium, Madison Bumgarner decided to make...
• 8/21 Lasorda's Lair: The Dodgers Come Home, but Their Offense is Still On the Road: Dodgers 1 5 0 Giants 2 6 1 WP- Bumgarner (14-7) LP- Kershaw (11-7) S- Lopez (2) HR- Ramirez (19)   The much anti**** showdown...
• 8/20 Lasorda's Lair: The Dodgers And The Melky-Less Giants Battle For First Place: Dodgers Lineup vs. Giants Victorino 7 M.Ellis 4 Kemp 8 Ramirez 6 Ethier 9 Rivera 3 Cruz 5 Ellis 2 Kershaw 1 Madison Bumgarner-13-7...
• 8/20 Giants Nirvana: Win a Matt Cain Perfect Game DVD: On June 13th, Matt Cain threw a perfect game. Thanks to A+E Home Entertainment/MLB Productions, it’s now on DVD. I was contacted...
• 8/19 District Sports Page: Fantasy Baseball: Scouting the Waiver Wire — Week 22: My All-Star break was a bit longer than planned. It included a huge uptick in “work” and the birth of our second child. But,...
• 8/16 AroundTheFoghorn: Moving On From Melky – What Are The Options For Giants Post Melkman: While reinforcements have been dispatched to San Diego in hopes of bolstering the Giants roster for the short term, one thing...
• 8/15 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt hot: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt has nine hits in his last 16 at-bats and is hitting .407 (24-for-59) in his last 18 games....[+]
• 8/15 High Heat Stats: Tuesday game notes: Shutouts, shutouts everywhere…. @Yankees 3, Rangers 0: Hiroki Kuroda lost his no-no on an infield single in the 7th when...
• 8/15 District On Deck: Game 117: Giants 6, Nationals 1: Unfortunately, it looks like the Nats used up all their offense last night. Jordan Zimmermann was a bit off, falling an out short...
• 8/15 Giants Nirvana: Brief Thoughts on a 6-1 Giants Victory: Madison Bumgarner. Just a tremendous outing — the kind where he’s in complete control, mixing all his pitches well...
• 8/15 Baseball Musings: Fun With the Wild Card: The Giants beat the Nationals 6-1 behind a five-hitter by Madison Bumgarner, and three hit games by Marco Scutaro, Hunter Pence,...
• 8/14 El Maquino: ZITO HAS HIS DAY, MEDIA BOTCHES THE OSWALT COVERAGE, JON JAY’S A BEAST AND MORE FROM THE P-D PEANUT GALLERY:   THE POSTGAME: GIANTS 4, CARDS 2 The baseball gods always get what they want.  And for whatever sick, twisted reason, they...
• 8/14 Baseball News Source: Seven Players Whose 2013 Options Won’t Be Picked Up: As September nears, and pennant race heat intensifies, it is becoming clearer what Major League teams will do in the off-season...
• 8/14 Full Spectrum Baseball: Better Late Than Never: Chris Carter, Oakland AthleticsIn Better Late Than Never, I will be profiling 25 year old Oakland A's post-hype prospect Chris Carter....
• 8/13 High Heat Stats: Sunday summary: @White Sox 7, Athletics 3: H.R. Pierzynski broke a tie in the 6th with his 23rd HR, touching off a 5-run uprising, and Chris...
• 8/13 Giants Nirvana: Buster Posey and the Plate Appearance of the Season: Fast-forward to the eighth inning. Buster Posey is up. The bases are loaded, with one out. The Giants are down by one run. The...
• 8/13 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt with four hitsSan Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt went 4-for-4 Sunday, Aug.12....[+] San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt went 4-for-4 Sunday, Aug.12.
• 8/12 Baseball News Source: NL Recaps – Cueto Dominates Cubs for 15th Win: Cincinnati 3 – Chicago 0 -  Johnny Cueto won his 15th game of the season allowing three hits over eight innings of work....
• 8/12 RoxPile: Rockies Show Signs of Life on Pitching and Defense, Still Drop Series to Giants: Rockies 6, Giants 9 Well, this was a tough game to watch. At this point in the lovely 2012 season, I no longer expect miracles...
• 8/12 AroundTheFoghorn: Power Of The P – Pence And Posey Produce Pwins POver PRockies: It took a five spot in the bottom half of the eighth inning, but the only thing that mattered was the end result – a Giants...
• 8/12 Raising Matt Cain: Heating Up: It hit 100 here this afternoon, the hottest day of the year so far. Things are getting hotter and hotter in the NL West, too....
• 8/11 Giants Nirvana: Giants Defeat Rockies, 9-3: The Giants, at least for now, have regained sole possession of first place, thanks to — well, everybody… Matt Cain,...
• 8/9 AroundTheFoghorn: Vogelsong Shuts Down Birds; Giants 15, Cardinals 0: What was really lost throughout the game was that Ryan Vogelsong threw 7 shutout innings and allowed only 3 hits and 3 walks....
• 8/9 Giants Nirvana: Giants Pythag the Cardinals, 15-0: Tonight’s game was what you’d call a good old-fashioned “Pythagging.” The Giants already had a seven-run...
• 8/8 Baseball News Source: Giants Hope to Retain Cabrera, Pence Long Term: With a pair of shrewd acquisitions, one last off-season and the other at last month’s non-waiver trade deadline, the San...
• 8/5 mlbreports.com : The Reds Should Not Call Up Billy Hamilton This Year: Sunday, August 5th, 2012 Sam Evans: Double-A Pensacola shortstop Billy Hamilton is one of the best prospects in baseball. He might...
• 8/2 Rising Apple: Game Recap: Ronny Cedeno Leads the Way as Mets Win 9-1:   The Mets were trying to secure their first series victory since they took two of three from the Phillies during the week...
• 8/2 AroundTheFoghorn: Former Giant Nate Schierholtz Didn’t Care For Bruce Bochy’s Managing: When it comes to being a “players” manager, few will rank higher than current Giants skipper Bruce Bochy. He’s...
• 8/2 Mets360.com: Defense Must Be A Priority For Mets’ Off-Season: When I was a small child, the Mets were contenders every year. From age four through age eleven – with the slight blip of 1974...
• 8/1 AroundTheFoghorn: Giants Acquire Hunter Pence and Beat Mets; Giants 4, Mets 1: I do believe Hunter Pence is an upgrade over Angel Pagan, Nate Schierholtz (who went to the Phillies), Gregor Blanco and Justin...
• 8/1 Rising Apple: Game Recap: The Tim Lincecum of Old Silences Mets Bats in 4-1 Loss: The Giants made plenty of news Tuesday afternoon before the trade deadline passed, as they acquired Hunter Pence from the Phillies,...
• 8/1 Raising Matt Cain: The New Tim?: Start #22   WIN !!!   ( 5-11 )   7 innings  6 hits (only 2 doubles)  1 run  ...

• 7/31 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Deadline Day - Hunter Pence to Giants: The San Francisco Giants have acquired right-fielder Hunter Pence from the Philadelphia Phillies in exchange for catcher/first...
• 7/31 Baseball News Source: Phillies Trade Hunter Pence to Giants: Less than an hour after trading outfielder Shane Victorino,  Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro traded Hunter Pence to the...
• 7/31 AroundTheFoghorn: Say Goodbye, Aubrey Huff: Aubrey Huff is to the Giants as Franklin Gutierrez is to the Mariners. Sure, he hasn’t been hit in the face by a pickoff...
• 7/31 Rising Apple: Game Recap: Scott Hairston’s Two Homers Help Mets in Wild 8-7 Win: The bullpen had a hard time holding the lead in the late innings, but the Mets were able to put together multiple late inning...
• 7/29 SoDo Mojo: League, Belt, and A Whirlwind of Rumors: Right around the start of this afternoon’s game, the Twitter sphere exploded with a series of rumors involving Seattle,...
• 7/29 SoDo Mojo: Potential Life After The Trade Deadline:   Update: According to Dave Cameron of USSM (via Twitter), the Mariners are pushing hard to Brandon Belt, so throw the Giants...
• 7/29 MLBTradeRumors: Mariners Seek Controllable Hitters: 2:35pm: The Mariners are trying hard to obtain Brandon Belt, Dave Cameron of FanGraphs reports (on Twitter). 1:32pm: Mariners...
• 7/28 AroundTheFoghorn: Hanley Strikes As Giants Drop Series Opener To Dodgers In Extra Innings: It was a Matt Cain start, so you knew it would have one thing – little run support. And little run support it had. The Giants...
• 7/28 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers Swing For Series Win In San Francisco: Dodgers Lineup vs. Giants Chad Billingsley-5-9 vs. Barry Zito-8-6   Momentum is a funny thing in Baseball, but can be very...
• 7/28 Lasorda's Lair: Hanley’s Tenth Inning Heroic Homerun Gives Dodgers Win in San Francisco: Dodgers 5 12 0 Giants 3 11 0 F/10 WP- Tolleson (1-0) LP- Romo (3-2) S- Jansen (20) HR- Ramirez (15) The Dodgers and Giants continued...
• 7/27 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Dodgers @ Giants July 27, 2012 – Fife II: Fife Harder: As expected, the Dodgers today placed Scott Elbert on the disabled list with left elbow soreness, which either means that it’s...
• 7/26 AroundTheFoghorn: Hey Brandon Belt, Welcome To 2006 And Bruce Bochy’s Doghouse: This really isn’t a slight to Bruce Bochy, so for those that a) love Bochy or b) dislike Brandon Belt, I don’t need...
• 7/25 AroundTheFoghorn: Pablo Sandoval, Gymnast: Following last night’s 3-2 win over San Diego was the unsettling news of Pablo Sandoval‘s left hamstring strain after...
• 7/24 AroundTheFoghorn: San Francisco Giants’ Brandon Belt Ethers His Haters: Tired of the mounting struggles and backlash, Brandon Belt took to the blog he shares with Brandon Crawford this afternoon and...
• 7/24 AroundTheFoghorn: San Francisco Giants’ GM Brian Sabean Working 12 Hour Days, Trying To Find Trades: The San Francisco Giants appear to be dead-set on adding some new blood before next week’s trade deadline, so much so that...
• 7/24 WahoosOnFirst: Could Indians, Giants Trade Chris Perez for Brandon Belt?: For the last few weeks there have been whisperings that the Cleveland Indians might trade closer Chris Perez if they fall out...
• 7/24 Giants Nirvana: Giants Beat Padres 7-1, Improve to 54-42: The Giants tagged Clayton Richard for four runs in the first inning of tonight’s game and it was cruise control the rest...
• 7/22 Raising Matt Cain: The Brandons: I got to see Brandon Belt strike out with a runner on second and no outs, and I got to see Brad Penny cough up the winning run....
• 7/22 AroundTheFoghorn: Giants Can’t Sweep Phillies, But Make Most Of Road Trip: For those that watched, today’s game was quite the snooze fest. The Giants’ offense was non-existent and the Phillies...
• 7/21 Raising Matt Cain: Homer happy happenings: The Phillies finally got their lineup back together and it paid off in the 6th inning when Ryan Howard went deep off Matt Cain...
• 7/20 AroundTheFoghorn: Behind Longball And Tim Lincecum, Giants Roll Past Phillies In Opener: It wasn’t very long ago that the Giants headed East and came home with tails between their legs after getting ran out of...
• 7/19 Jays Journal: Bring me the Head of Brandon Belt (and the rest of him too, if possible): To say the Wednesday afternoon Blue Jays game was a horrific event to watch might be a bit of an understatement. The excitement...
• 7/18 Giants Nirvana: Hector Sanchez to the DL, Eli Whiteside Called Up: Earlier today, the San Francisco Giants placed Hector Sanchez on the 15-day DL with a left knee strain, with Eli Whiteside coming...
• 7/18 AroundTheFoghorn: Guess Who’s Back? Giants Place Hector Sanchez on the DL:   According to the Mercury News, the Giants have placed Hector Sanchez on the disabled list after he sprained his left knee...
• 7/17 AroundTheFoghorn: Giants’ Manager Bruce Bochy Says They’re In The Market For A Bat, Maybe Two: While speaking to ESPN’s Jim Bowden earlier today, San Francisco Giants skipper Bruce Bochy dropped a few nuggets, one of...
• 7/16 Giants Nirvana: Thoughts on the Giants’ Sweep of the Astros: Yesterday, the Giants completed a three-game sweep of the Houston Astros at home to begin the second half. It’s no extraordinary...
• 7/15 StanGraphs: Fantasy Sleepers for the Second Half: Prior to the start of this season, we unveiled a very lengthy and comprehensive list of sleepers to consider when drafting your...
• 7/15 Climbing Tal's Hill: New “whiff & run” strategy works for league’s worst team: The Houston Astros entered Saturday night’s game against Tim Lincecum and the Giants with 711 strikeouts, the most in the...
• 7/13 Bay Area Sports Guy: Mid-season Progress Report: Can the Giants repeat their first half success?: It is the traditional midpoint (even if it isn’t the mathematical midpoint) of the season, which means there is no better time...
• 7/13 Giants Nirvana: 2012 First Half Review: The Position Players: Yesterday, I looked at how the Giants’ rotation fared in the first half. Today, I’ll look at the position players...
• 7/11 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: All Star Repost: How to Panic Well in a Snake Draft: During the Baseball All-Star break we’ll be reposting some of our “All-Star” articles. This is a repost written...
• 7/10 MLBTradeRumors: Sabean Discusses Giants' Deadline Plan: The Giants made one of the biggest moves of last season's trade deadline, acquiring center fielder Carlos Beltran from the Mets...
• 7/10 Raising Matt Cain: At the Break: In 2009, the Giants were 49-39 (.557) at the All-Star Break, but slumped a bit in the second half (39-35, .527) to finish in 3rd...
• 7/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt scuffling: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt struck out three times in a loss Saturday, July 7, against the Pittsburgh Pirates, and he...[+] is 4-for-35 (.114) since June 23.
• 7/7 AroundTheFoghorn: Giant Bats Go Silent In Loss To Pirates: We’ve all grown accustom to the moniker “Cain’d”, but it’s about time we give that an update, something...
• 7/7 Through The Fence Baseball: Scouting notes on Sunday’s MLB Futures Game parti****: With MLB’s Futures Game popping off at 5 p.m. ET Sunday, I thought it’d be useful to share scouting notes I have on the...
• 7/3 Bay Area Sports Guy: Sandy Alderson isn’t a fan of Giants fan’s ASG ballot stuffing: The internet is an awesome place. Had Sandy Alderson, GM of the NY Mets, said this in the regular media, there would probably...
• 7/2 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2012 Giants: Epic Addendums: There were other epic-worthy feats this season plus additional info on other ones:Epic:  Shame on me for forgetting, but Melky...
• 7/2 Raising Matt Cain: It's on like Donkey Kong: The Giants have played 80 games and find themselves one game up in the NL West with a 45-35 record. Their "Pythagorean" or "expected"...
• 7/1 AroundTheFoghorn: Giants Split Four Game Series With Reds Thanks To Jay Bruce Gaffe: The Giants were three outs away from locking the game up and earning a 2-2 series split, but as we all know – it’s...
• 7/1 AroundTheFoghorn: Giants Season Recap: Tipping Point: Don’t look now, but we’re just nine days away from the All Star break and the conclusion of the first half of the 2012 season....

• 6/29 Giants Nirvana: Madison Bumgarner Extends Giants’ Scoreless Streak to 36 Innings: It’s rather surprising, but coming into tonight, Madison Bumgarner had never thrown a complete game. 67 starts, most of...
• 6/28 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: Giants @ A’s Game 72: I hate long games. This game lasted four hours, fifteen minutes and featured 385 pitches thrown by a combined twelve pitchers....
• 6/28 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2012 Giants: Epic Season Unfolding: What a season this has been.  This sweep of the Dodgers with all the games being shutouts is just one of many unique occurrences for...
• 6/27 Lasorda's Lair: 21 Scoreless Innings:   Chad Billingsley (4-6, 4.15) vs. Tim Lincecum (2-8, 6.07) Lineup: I’m right there with you, Dodger fans. The Dodgers...
• 6/26 AroundTheFoghorn: Zito Shuts Down Dodgers; Bats Come Alive in 8-0 Shutout: That headline contains two very specific things that I rarely get to write. I have to admit, I wasn’t optimistic about last...
• 6/26 Lasorda's Lair: Offense Somewhere at Bottom of Bay as Giants Trounce Dodgers: Dodgers 0 5 0 Giants 8 13 0 WP- Zito (6-5) LP- Eovaldi (0-4) There’s nothing that disgusts me more than losing to the Giants....
• 6/25 The Baseball Page: MLB Power Rankings : Week 13:   By: Justin Millar Power Rankings Current Team Previous 1 Texas Rangers N/A The best team in baseball has won 8 of its last...
• 6/25 The Baseball Page: MLB Power Rankings Week 13:   By: Justin Millar Power Rankings Current Team Previous   1 Texas...
• 6/25 AroundTheFoghorn: Swagga Like Belt (Brandon, That Is): It took a potential career AAAA player (<3 u Brett Pill) being sent back to the minors and a 35 year old geriatric tripping...
• 6/25 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt comfortable: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt said he's the most comfortable at the plate than he's been so far in the big leagues right...[+] now after hitting safely in 11 straight games with four homers and 12 RBIs in that time. Belt said he isn't worried about mechanics and is just focused on seeing the ball.
• 6/25 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Dodgers-Giants series preview, a view from the other side: Editor's note: This post comes is aut**** by Russell Preston. Preston is a Giants' fan and runs Seedspitters, a Giants' blog...
• 6/23 AroundTheFoghorn: Giants’ Hold Off Athletics Late Rally, Cain Goes For Sweep Of Oakland Tomorrow: For five innings, the Oakland A’s Tyson Ross baffled the San Francisco Giants, hard as that is to believe. Coming into the...
• 6/23 Raising Matt Cain: Just another laugher: Early troubles. Comeback. Near-disaster. Triumph. I really didn't need the unbearable agony at the end. I was nice and relaxed...
• 6/23 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Hicks and Ross Up; Colon and Cowgill to the DL: Two somewhat unsurprising moves before today’s game against the Giants. The A’s needed to add starting pitcher Tyson...
• 6/23 AroundTheFoghorn: Giants Rally In Ninth, Open Bay Bridge Series Part Two With Victory: Coming off a rough series in Anaheim, the San Francisco Giants needed something to go their way tonight in Oakland. It certainly...
• 6/23 Raising Matt Cain: Stormy Tim: Start #15     ND  (2-8)     6 innings   3 hits   3 runs   4 walks...
• 6/22 Call to the Pen: Buying And Selling: Which Players And Teams Will Continue Or Buck Trends In The Second Half?: As is the case with every season in the history of baseball, there have been plenty of huge surprises as we near the halfway point...
• 6/19 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt on fireSan Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt is 10-for-22 with three homers in his last seven games....[+] San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt is 10-for-22 with three homers in his last seven games.
• 6/19 Bay City Ball: Intermittent lineup assessment: As of late, the Giants’ lineup looks suprisngly … competent? Here’s the current lineup sorted by adjusted on-base...
• 6/18 Giants Nirvana: Brandon Belt Has Arrived: Over the past six games, Brandon Belt has put together a modest little hitting streak, during which time he’s collected...
• 6/16 High Heat Stats: Friday game notes: @Cubs 3, Red Sox 0: The latest scoreless streak belongs to Ryan Dempster, 22 innings in his last 3 games, allowing 11 hits and...
• 6/13 Raising Matt Cain: Homer happy: The Houston Astros aren't doing very well (.426), and that's the kind of team you hope the Giants can thump on for the rest of...
• 6/11 Giants Nirvana: The Giants and Home Runs: Earlier today, Buster Olney tweeted this interesting tidbit: ELIAS: The Giants have gone 16 consecutive home games without a home...
• 6/7 Raising Matt Cain: Score early and often: It was a sloppy day on the field for the Giants with errors by Brandon Belt, Ryan Theriot, Angel Pagan, and Joaquin Arias....
• 6/6 Fire Brand of the American League: Potential Trade Partners for Kevin Youkilis: First BaseChip doubles back to Monday's column, and examines potential first base partners for a potential Kevin Youkilis trade....
• 6/3 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Plans to give Brandon Belt more playing timeSan Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said Sunday, June 3, that he plans to give 1B Brandon Belt more consistent at-bats....[+] San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said Sunday, June 3, that he plans to give 1B Brandon Belt more consistent at-bats.

• 5/31 District Sports Page: Fantasy Baseball: Scouting the Waiver Wire — Week 3: Sadly, it looks as though I was correct about Scott Baker’s innings pitched for this year. Let’s take a look at where injuries...
• 5/31 Raising Matt Cain: Familiar Tim: Start #11:   Loss (2-6)    7 innings  4 hits   1 earned run   5 walks   ...
• 5/29 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Lincecum or Gone?: Giants fans biggest worry this season is not what most of them have been worrying about.  The offense has actually been pretty...
• 5/28 Raising Matt Cain: Zito in command: Barry Zito rebounded from a wretched start last week in Milwaukee to shut down Arizona at home today. It was his sixth "quality...
• 5/28 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt continues struggling: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt is in a 6-for-41 slump. His 34 percent swing-and-miss rate would be among the worst in the...[+] league if he had enough at-bats to qualify.
• 5/27 Raising Matt Cain: M.C. squared: A little uncharacteristic for Matt Cain today, with high walks (three) and low strikeouts (four). He seemed to run out of gas...
• 5/25 Giants Nirvana: Brandon Belt and Strikeouts: Brandon Belt hasn’t started his season as most would have hoped, as he currently boasts a .227/.346/.330 line. He’s...
• 5/22 Giants Nirvana: Hector Sanchez Powers Giants Over Brewers in Extras: In the first inning of this game, Buster Posey unloaded a monster of a three-run homer into the left field bleachers. It was only...
• 5/19 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt drives in three runs Friday: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt went 1-for-2 with three RBIs, a walk and a run scored against the Oakland Athletics Friday,...[+] May 18.
• 5/19 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: A’s @ Giants Game 40: Jarrod Parker takes the mound to counter Barry Zito as the A’s and Giants open up the interleague schedule tonight at AT&T...
• 5/17 Giants Nirvana: Could Orlando Hudson Be the Second Base Solution?: Earlier today, the San Diego Padres finally began the process of unconditionally releasing second baseman Orlando Hudson. He’d...
• 5/16 obsessivegiantscompulsive: 2012 Giants: April PQS: This post has the Giants Pure Quality Start scores for the month of April 2012, PQS as defined in Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster...
• 5/14 Giants Nirvana: Thoughts On a .500 Team: When the Giants departed for Los Angeles, they were 14-14. After going 3-3 on this road trip, they’ve improved to…17-17....
• 5/13 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brett Pill bats cleanup Sunday: San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said 1B Brett Pill started against the Arizona Diamondbacks Sunday, May 13, instead of...[+] 1B/OF Brandon Belt, because the team needed a power threat in the cleanup spot with C Buster Posey (ankle) getting the day off.
• 5/12 Raising Matt Cain: Stopper Cain does it all: Sometimes a guy has to step up and deliver a performance that will lead the team to victory. The Snakes worked Matt Cain hard...
• 5/10 Raising Matt Cain: Pitching, defense, two-run homer: Every time Brett Pill gets up in a game I say "this guy has one job--hit the ball hard off a left-hander." It seems young Mr....
• 5/10 The Daily Catch: The Giants After 30 Games: This article is courtesy of our friends at McCovey Chronicles Written by: Grant Brisbee All I wanted from the offseason was an...
• 5/6 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 4/29/12 - 5/5/12: Here's a look back at the week that was on MLBTR... Yankees closer Mariano Rivera suffered a torn ACL and will likely...
• 5/5 Raising Matt Cain: At last, the sweet taste of victory: Watching the ballclub today I was reminded how young it is. Rookie Brandon Crawford did not start, nor did rookies Brandon Belt...
• 5/5 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt sits: As expected, San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt sat Saturday, May 5, against the Milwaukee Brewers with a left-handed starter...[+] on the mound. He entered for defensive purposes late in the game, but he did not get an at-bat.
• 5/4 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt likely to sit Saturday: San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy indicated that 1B Brandon Belt is likely to sit Saturday, May 5, against the Milwaukee...[+] Brewers when left-handed SP Randy Wolf is on the hill. 'It's a dilemma, really,' Bochy said. 'We've been putting him out there, but it's a tough call.'
• 5/4 Giants Nirvana: Marlins Sweep the Giants: On the day it was announced that Pablo Sandoval would miss the next six weeks with a broken hamate bone in his left hand, the...
• 5/3 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt won't be sent down: San Francisco Giants general manager Brian Sabean said 1B Brandon Belt won't be sent down to the minors. Belt and 1B Brett Pill...[+] will continue platooning at first base for now.
• 5/3 Baseball Musings: Will He Be Able to Eat Bamboo?: Pablo Sandoval left the Wednesday night Giants game early: Bruce Bochy isn’t the type to incite panic. You all might have noticed...
• 5/3 MLBTradeRumors: Sabean: Belt Staying Put: At times it's not clear where Brandon Belt fits on the Giants' roster. The 24-year-old gets regular plate appearances, but he...

• 4/28 Baseball Musings: Belt’s Belt Fries Friars: It looked like Melky Cabrera‘s lead-off double would go for naught in the bottom of the seventh, but a two out single Nate...
• 4/27 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2012 Giants: Season So Far (10-9): I'm noticing a mostly downcast dauber on the part of Giants fans and media.  Of course, that is probably strongly influenced...
• 4/26 Phillies Nation: Evaluating the Success of the 1B Platoon: It’s early in the season. In fact, it’s really early, 19 games early. But one of the most surprising, and interesting, developments...
• 4/25 Baseball Musings: Huff Disabled: Aubrey Huff goes on the disabled list due to anxiety attack. Yes, Huff has gone on to have a successful Major League career, but...
• 4/25 Giants Nirvana: Giants Place Aubrey Huff on 15-Day DL, Call Up Joaquin Arias: According to Hank Schulman, Aubrey Huff has been placed on the 15-day DL with anxiety disorder, for which he is currently getting...
• 4/23 Crashburn Alley: No Reason to Worry About Halladay: Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports has noticed some changes in Roy Halladay: Halladay is using his trademark two-seam fastball 10 percent...
• 4/21 Giants Nirvana: Giants 4, Mets 5: That One Stung: Ryan Vogelsong pitched an excellent game today. Through the first six innings, that was the story. Some things happened later...
• 4/21 Baseball Musings: Comedy of Errors: The Mets beat the Giants 5-4, winning in the bottom of the ninth as twice San Francisco failed to turn double plays. With men...
• 4/20 MLBTradeRumors: NL West Notes: Dodgers, Guzman, Giants, Hamels: Happy birthday to Dodgers manager Don Mattingly (51) and Giants prospect Brandon Belt (24).  Here's the latest from the NL West... Bud...
• 4/20 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2012 Giants: Thoughts on the Season So Far: I thought I would just randomly go through various thoughts on the season so far, no particular order.Made of ClayWhat a nice...
• 4/19 Giants Nirvana: Matt Cain Dominates Again in Giants’ 1-0 Victory: This was one of those special games in which both pitchers were in total control for the entire night. Through the first nine...
• 4/19 Giants Nirvana: Oh, That Offense: Kevin Correia, who’s been the quintessential replacement level pitcher over the last two seasons, held the Giants to one...
• 4/19 Giants Nirvana: Barry Zito Solid, Giants Improve to .500: When Barry Zito loaded the bases in the first inning, then subsequently allowed a two-run single to Neil Walker, it was looking...
• 4/19 Giants Nirvana: The Giants Are Now 0-3: Well, that was a tough loss. Just like the first two games. After three innings, the Giants had a 6-0 lead. Around the middle...
• 4/19 Baseball Musings: The Belt that Changed the Thinking on Brandon: Eno Sarris uses Brandon Belt‘s 11th inning single Wednesday night to unravel all the arguments against Belt playing regularly....
• 4/19 Baseball Musings: Old School Duel: Matt Cain pitched two-hit ball for nine innings, Cliff Lee threw a shutout through 10 innings, but the Giants beat the Phillies...
• 4/16 Through The Fence Baseball: Giants’ curious handling of Brandon Belt: When the San Francisco Giants rode their incredible pitching staff to a championship in 2010, the run was buoyed by some unexpected...
• 4/15 Three Rivers Burgh Blog: Pirates Game 9 Recap - Pirates 4, Giants 1: The Pirates broke a five game skid today and beat the Giants 4-1. It was actually some sort of site to see. The Pirates offense...
• 4/15 Giants Nirvana: Oh, That Offense: Kevin Correia, who’s been the quintessential replacement level pitcher over the last two seasons, held the Giants to one...
• 4/15 Giants Nirvana: Barry Zito Solid, Giants Improve to .500: When Barry Zito loaded the bases in the first inning, then subsequently allowed a two-run single to Neil Walker, it was looking...
• 4/13 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt remains on bench: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt is on the bench again Friday, April 13, but manager Bruce Bochy plans to give Belt more playing...[+] time eventually. 'It's not all about Brandon,' Bochy said. 'We're going to try to mix everybody in there. Brandon's going to be part of this. I'll get him in there as much as I can.'
• 4/9 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt has day off: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt had the day off Monday, April 9, and he wasn't sitting based on his poor performance over...[+] the last few days. Belt went 1-for-10 with five strikeouts and didn't hit a ball out of the infield after his third at-bat. 'When a hitter tells me he's pressing, it's time to give him a day to relax a little bit,' manager Bruce Bochy said. 'It's natural for young players early in the season. They want to get off to a good start. They lose sight that there are a lot of games in the season and the first week is not going to determine what your season is going to be like.'
• 4/8 Giants Nirvana: The Giants Are Now 0-3: Well, that was a tough loss. Just like the first two games. After three innings, the Giants had a 6-0 lead. Around the middle...
• 4/5 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2012 Giants: Opening Day 25-man Roster: Ultimately, the fans' fury and worry was for naught, as the Giants went with youth over vets.  Bochy announced the roster...
• 4/5 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: A’s @ Giants ST Game 22: A’s and Giants tangle for the Bay Bridge Series at AT&T Park, hopefully soon-to-be Peninsular Series? 101 Series? Who...
• 4/4 Giants Nirvana: Brandon Belt is Free (and Other Satisfying Roster Moves): The Giants announced their Opening Day roster today and, lo and behold, Brandon Belt has made it. That’s not entirely surprising,...
• 4/4 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: A’s @ Giants Bay Bridge Series Game 1: A’s and Giants tangle for the Bay Bridge Series, hopefully soon-to-be Peninsular Series? 101 Series? Who knows. The Giants...
• 4/4 Giants Nirvana: Predicting the Opening Day Roster: It’s been a long offseason, but the 2012 regular season is finally about to begin. The Giants will play their opener on...

• 3/30 Full Spectrum Baseball: Finding Keepers:San Francisco GiantsThe Giants won their first World Series in a long time in 2010....
• 3/30 Release Points: Prospect Watch: Heath Hembree: While Giants General Manager Brian Sabean takes his fair share of criticism – and deservedly so – about the lack of value...
• 3/30 Pitchers Hit Eighth: UCB Predictions – NL West: If you are going to prognosticate and likely do a poor job of it, you might as well start by shaking up your Magic 8 Ball and...
• 3/30 Crashburn Alley: Talking Belt and Brown with Wendy Thurm: There is an odd parallel between two prospects one wouldn’t have thought would be paired together: Brandon Belt of the San...
• 3/24 Full Spectrum Baseball: The Roster Report – March 24, 2012In this week's Roster Report, we're focusing on two late-spring changes to two contending teams on the West Coast....
• 3/24 Through The Fence Baseball: San Francisco Giants: Best- and worst-case scenarios: Do you smell that? It’s a combination of hot dogs, fresh-cut grass, and over-priced beer. It’s a faint odor now, but it gets...
• 3/23 FanSided: Beyond Busch: NL Central and MLB Notes - Spring Training Continues: This week Beyond Busch will switch to bullet style for each team. Notes on each Major League team are supplied after the bre......
• 3/22 22gigantes.com: Giants 5, Indians 3: Brett Pill cranked a three-run homer and Eric Surkamp won his third Cactus League game as the San Francisco Giants defeated the...
• 3/21 Baseball Musings: Take a Pill or Tighten your Belt?: Giants Win notes the team may take Brett Pill north instead of Brandon Belt. His take on the situation: I think this particular...
• 3/20 Raising Matt Cain: Ready, Freddy?: It seems likely that Freddy Sanchez will start the season on the DL. Does that mean an opening for Emmanuel Burriss? The former...
• 3/19 22gigantes.com: Padres 5, Giants 1: Yasmani Grandal roped an RBI double and scored on a line drive single by Matt Clark and the San Diego Padres scored five runs...
• 3/18 22gigantes.com: Predicting the Giants’ 25-man roster…again: Opening Day is just 18 days away (April 6). Based on spring training battles, injuries, and straight-up performance, I have revised...
• 3/18 22gigantes.com: Giants 3, Dodgers 3: Giants manager Bruce Bochy might need a little luck of the Irish soon. In the next two-and-a-half weeks, he’ll have to decide...
• 3/17 22gigantes.com: Let’s play two! Giants will split squad against A’s and Dodgers: Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Get your green on…as in grassy infields, outfields, and lush lawn seats! (And if you happen...
• 3/16 22gigantes.com: Giants 7, Mariners 5: The Killer B’s were out in force tonight at Peoria Sports Complex. Gregor Blanco scored the game’s first run, Brandon...
• 3/15 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason In Review: San Francisco Giants: The Giants traded for a pair of starting outfielders and spent their free agent money on left-handed relievers. Major League...
• 3/14 22gigantes.com: Cain, Giants take on Tribe today: Giants starter Matt Cain (1-0, 0.00) faces Derek Lowe (0-1, 5.40) as San Francisco hosts the Cleveland Indians in a Cactus League...
• 3/13 22gigantes.com: Red-hot Giants host Cubs today: Left-hander Madison Bumgarner will make his third Cactus League start today as the red-hot San Francisco Giants host the Chicago...
• 3/10 Full Spectrum Baseball: The Roster Report – March 10, 2012Don't miss this Roster Report, where we break down the Giants middle infield and Mariners center field options....
• 3/10 22gigantes.com: Giants ink Posey, 18 others to one-year contracts: The San Francisco Giants’ front office was very busy Friday, signing 19 of their youngest players to one-year contracts,...
• 3/10 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt continues to hit well: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt had a double and home run in Cactus League play Friday, March 9, against the Cincinnati Reds...[+] to push his spring average to .389.
• 3/9 22gigantes.com: Giants 6, Reds 3: Is there anyone hotter than Melky Cabrera right now? The Melk Man did it again today, blasting a two-run homer off Sam LeCure...
• 3/9 22gigantes.com: Posey, Freddy return to lineup today against Reds: What a long, strange trip it’s been. Two hundred and eighty-nine days to be exact. That’s the last time manager Bruce...
• 3/6 Giants Nirvana: Fortified Melk: There are a few ways to ponder Melky Cabrera. There’s Cabrera in the context of how he was acquired: i.e. the Giants traded...
• 3/6 The Baseball Page: San Francisco Giants: 3 Up and 3 Down: 2011 was a bust for the San Francisco Giants. Coming off their improbable World Series victory in 2010, hopes were high for a...
• 3/6 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: How to Panic Well in a Snake Draft: SCENE: You, shoulders relaxed, with your computer on your lap and your feet propped up on the table. You’re confident. You...
• 3/6 22gigantes.com: Brewers 7, Giants 3: San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain looked sharp in his Cactus League debut, but it was the Milwaukee Brewers who came away...
• 3/6 22gigantes.com: Giants 1, Brewers 1: The San Francisco Giants and Milwaukee Brewers played to a 1-1 tie Sunday at Maryvale Stadium in Phoenix. [box score] Brewers...
• 3/6 22gigantes.com: Want Angel Villalona to live with you? Become a host family for the San Jose Giants!: One of my all-time favorite baseball movies is 2008′s “Sugar,” a film about a 19-year-old Dominican baseball...
• 3/6 22gigantes.com: Diamondbacks 9, Giants 6: The San Francisco Giants kicked off the 2012 Cactus League season Saturday the same way they ended the 2011 regular season —...
• 3/6 Through The Fence Baseball: Team-wins over/under analysis: NL West: The Arizona Diamondbacks are the defending division champs, but I think it’s coming back to the Giants comfortably. The...
• 3/6 Giants Nirvana: Brandon Belt Should Be The Giants’ Everyday LF: So last night ESPN’s Keith Law sent out this tweet, which didn’t paint a positive picture among the Giants fans I...
• 3/1 22gigantes.com: Spring training recap—Day 13: Yes, I’ll take some peanuts and Cracker Jack. Oh, and throw in a cup of that lemonade like Grandma made. Pitches were thrown,...

• 2/29 22gigantes.com: Spring training recap—Day 11: Barry Zito is such a tease. Some days he looks like the Cy Young award winner the Giants thought they were getting in 2007. Other...
• 2/28 Baseball Musings: Changes, San Francisco Giants: The Giants will find out if Melky Cabera's 2011 season was a fluke or a new level of production. Photo: Jeff Moffett/Icon...
• 2/27 SOX & Dawgs: Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2012 MLB Preview: Day 1 – NL West: Welcome to the Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2012 MLB preview.  Over the next week you will get a team by team look at its key players,...
• 2/26 SOX & Dawgs: Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2012 MLB Preview: Day 1 – NL West: Welcome to the Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2012 MLB preview.  Over the next week you will get a team by team look at its key players,...
• 2/24 22gigantes.com: Spring training recap—Day 7: With everybody in camp, the San Francisco Giants conducted their first full-team workout today at Scottsdale Stadium. Most of...
• 2/21 Through The Fence Baseball: Top 20 NL Rookie of the Year candidates: To be eligible for the Rookie of the Year award, a player must  have less than 130 at-bats or 50 innings pitched and less than...
• 2/18 22gigantes.com: Spring Training recap—Day 1: Baseball is back! Catchers and pitchers reported to Scottsdale Stadium this morning as the San Francisco Giants kicked off another...
• 2/17 22gigantes.com: 13 Giant questions entering spring training: The San Francisco Giants are about to embark on their 55th season of play since moving west from New York in 1958. As hope for...
• 2/17 Baseball Reality Tour: MLB's 24 Under 24: Some of you may have parti**** in a Major League Soccer promotion called 24 under 24. As the name implies, MLS is highlighting...
• 2/13 Fragile Freddy's: Players to Watch - National League: We did the American League Players to Watch earlier today.  Today I will look at the National League Players to Watch. ...
• 2/7 The Daily Catch: Spring Reporting Dates Just 10 Days Away: This article is courtesy of our friends at The Giants Baseball Blog Written by: Trevor Cole Here we are folks, the NFL is officially...
• 2/7 Giants Nirvana: Interview: Brandon BeltBrandon Belt discusses his wrist fracture, his major-league readiness, and his inconsistencies at the plate....
• 2/6 Giants Nirvana: Interview: Bruce Bochy: If you listened to the blogger interview session with Bruce Bochy and Brian Sabean, you’ll notice that most of the questions...
• 2/6 FantasySportsKings.com: NL West Preview – Sleepers and Prospects: In 2011, the Arizona Diamondbacks won their first division title since 2007. In December they traded for starting pitcher Trevor......
• 2/4 AroundTheFoghorn: Tim Lincecum vs. Matt Cain: Credit: Chris Humphreys-US PRESSWIRE If you could only pick one, who would you rather keep on the team: Tim Lincecum or Matt Cain?...
• 2/3 22gigantes.com: 2012 Media Day highlights: The San Francisco Giants opened their clubhouse doors to the media today to allow an inside look at your 2012 Gigantes and I’ve...
• 2/3 Giants Nirvana: Media Day Mini-Recap: Well, I’m sitting here in the press box along with the other bloggers and Hank Schulman, Andrew Baggarly, Chris Haft, et...

• 1/18 Through The Fence Baseball: Giants 2012 lineup hopefully better with healthy key players: In 2011, the San Francisco Giants had the second-fewest runs scored and the third-worst batting average in the league. A year...
• 1/9 The Daily Catch: Giants Inactivity A Cause For Concern: This article is courtesy of our friends at The Giants Baseball Blog Written by: Trevor Cole I know Ronny Cedeno isn’t going...
• 1/6 Giants Nirvana: Angel Pagan Optimism: It’s been a month or so since the Giants acquired Angel Pagan. At the time, I wasn’t excited or anything…I guess...
• 1/4 22gigantes.com: Aubrey Huff on 2011 season: “My head was in the toilet”: In an interview today with San Francisco Chronicle writer Henry Schulman, Giants first baseman Aubrey Huff admitted that his...
• 1/3 Raising Matt Cain: Twelve for 2012: Matt Cain: Matt Cain got it all started in 2002 when he was the team's number one pick (25th overall). Zack Greinke, Cole Hamels, Nick...
• 1/2 Raising Matt Cain: Twelve for 2012: Pablo Sandoval: Pablo Sandoval signed a contract with the Giants when he was a mere lad of sixteen. You can do that when you are a foreigner...

• 12/28 MLBTradeRumors: Checking In On Baseball’s Lowest Scoring Offenses: The Giants won the 2010 World Series with an unspectacular offense and won 86 games in 2011 with one of the lowest scoring offenses...
• 12/26 Raising Matt Cain: Twelve for 2012: The Brandons: OK, I'm cheating. There will be thirteen Giants on my 2012 radar. It's a devil's dozen--perfect for Christmas. Besides I'm a 13...
• 12/24 Giants Nirvana: Devil’s Advocate: The Cardinals signed Carlos Beltran today to a two-year $25MM deal. It’s an extremely reasonable contract, and one that...
• 12/16 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Winter ball making Brandon Belt's confidence stronger: San Francisco Giants OF Brandon Belt is hitting well for Leones del Escogido in winter ball, batting .300 (30-for-100) with a...[+] .395 on-base percentage and .470 slugging percentage. He has drawn 16 walks to just 19 strikeouts, and 11 of his 30 hits went for extra bases. This is reminding people of Belt's performance when he first came up to the parent club. 'I had gotten away from that comfortable feeling I'd had,' Belt said. 'I hit the ball very well. I hit the ball hard and consistently. I felt like I did really well, and I got back to that point where I wanted to be.'
• 12/15 22gigantes.com: Giants brass talk to fans about payroll, the 2012 season, and Juan Marichal’s magic touch: Giants manager Bruce Bochy, pitching coach Dave Righetti, CEO Larry Baer and general manager Brian Sabean all sat down tonight...
• 12/15 Through The Fence Baseball: Giants’ Madison Bumgarner pacing for prominence in 2012: Prior to Opening Day each year, MLB experts are typically asked to predict who they believe will win each of the league’s major...
• 12/8 WahoosOnFirst: Are Indians in on Ike Davis?: On Tuesday, Indians GM Chris Antonetti told a group of reporters that he was working on a deal “that would be very surprising...
• 12/7 WahoosOnFirst: Are Indians in on Brandon Belt?: Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News reported Tuesday night that the San Francisco Giants were “far down the road”...
• 12/7 WahoosOnFirst: Winter Meetings Indians Rumors: Recapping Day Two: The Winter Meetings are still underway in Dallas, and after an exciting first day of Indians rumors Monday, we got an even more...
• 12/6 Giants Nirvana: Angel Pagan Trade Reaction: Well, **** there Angel Pagan, 30 years old, and not exactly coming off a good season. In 532 plate appearances, he hit .262/.322/.372...
• 12/5 22gigantes.com: Winter meetings update: Nakajima, Ludwick, Schierholtz, Crawford, Huff, Posey, Ross, Hairston, Freddy, B-Weez and more…: Day One of baseball’s annual Winter Meetings — where GMs sit around smoking cigars while toying with rumor-hungry...

• 11/30 Giants Nirvana: 2012 Giants ZiPS Projections: Well, they’re here. Highlights: Brandon Belt has the third-highest projected OPS+, behind Carlos Beltran and Pablo Sandoval....
• 11/29 22gigantes.com: Hot stove update: Operation Panda 3.0, Buster plays golf, no free agent “big splashes” this winter, and more…: Key members of the Giants’ front office held a press conference with reporters today to announce the contract extensions...
• 11/29 Giants Nirvana: On the Sabean Extension: It’s relatively easy to objectively evaluate players. That’s not the case with managers or GMs, however — though...
• 11/29 22gigantes.com: Sabean, Bochy extended through 2013: Sabean and Bochy lovers rejoice. Haters keep on hating. The San Francisco Giants announced today that they have signed general...
• 11/29 Giants Nirvana: On the Bochy Extension: So the Giants have extended Bruce Bochy and Brian Sabean. The extensions will keep them in San Francisco through 2013, with team...
• 11/26 Giants Nirvana: 2011 Season in Review: The Infielders: I already reviewed Pablo Sandoval‘s season, but here’s a look at the rest of the infielders; most of them didn’t...
• 11/26 Giants Nirvana: 2012 Bill James Projections: It’s the offseason. That means hot stove rumors. That means prospect rankings. And that means projections. Bill James’...
• 11/25 AroundTheFoghorn: Reds Willing To Trade Yonder Alonso, Giants Wish They Could Play: News broke yesterday evening via MLB Trade Rumors that the Cincinnati Reds, so desperate for pitching, have now become open to...
• 11/24 MLBTradeRumors: Revisiting The MLBTR Writing Staff's Preseason Picks: This Thanksgiving, it's time to eat some humble pie.  Last March, nine members of the MLB Trade Rumors writing staff unveiled...
• 11/22 Fragile Freddy's: Freddy's Two-a-Days: San Francisco Giants: 86-76, 2nd place, 8 GBFragile Freddy’s “Two A Days” series continues today with the San Francisco Giants.  Each day...
• 11/20 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: MSTI’s 2011 in Review: Relievers, Part 4: Kenley Jansen (K+) 2.85 ERA, 1.74 FIP, 16.10 K/9, 4.36 BB/9 Let’s start with the obvious: that 16.10 K/9 isn’t a typo....
• 11/14 Giants Nirvana: Jon Heyman: Giants eyeing shortstops, first basemen, outfielders: According to Jon Heyman, there’s no belief that San Francisco will pursue Jose Reyes or Jimmy Rollins. They are, however,...
• 11/10 Through The Fence Baseball: What the San Francisco Giants must do to reclaim their throne: The end of October marked the end to one of the most improbable World Series championship teams in recent memory. I am referring...
• 11/5 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: Prospect Ranking Season Begins…: San Francisco Giants 2012 Top 15 Prospects San Francisco Giants 2012 Top 15 Prospects by the Bullpen Banter staff. 2011 Beyond...
• 11/4 22gigantes.com: Should the Giants really trade Tim Lincecum?: Trade rumors in November swirl just as much as the autumn leaves in the backyard this time of year, so it’s no surprise...
• 11/4 obsessivegiantscompulsive: On Your Mark: 2011 Free Agent Season: With the World Series over, after a inspiring Cards win, showing you should never give up (or an agonizing Rangers loss, coming...
• 11/1 Raising Matt Cain: On What the Giants Need for 2012: What seems to make sense to me, rather than flying off the handle about what the Giants may or may not do, is to first look at...

• 10/31 Yankees Fans Unite: Hot Stove Targetting: Matt Cain: The San Francisco Giants were able to win the 2010 World Series largely because of their tremendous starting pitching. They had...
• 10/30 Raising Matt Cain: If it's not too dear . . .: So the Giants threw money at Jeremy Affeldt and Javier Lopez. Like that worries you? The Giants may be the worst team in the...
• 10/30 22gigantes.com: Arizona Fall League update (part 2): My “on-the-scene reporter” (faithful New York Mets fan and Grubby Glove blogger Michael Jawitz) was kind enough to...
• 10/26 Giants Nirvana: Cody Ross wants to return to the Giants in 2012: Via Hank Schulman, Cody Ross wants to sign with the Giants this offseason. Schulman has exchanged emails with Ross, and Ross has...
• 10/26 Giants Nirvana: Offseason News and Notes: Taiwan All-Stars, Winter Leagues, Awards: Some brief notes… Pablo Sandoval and a slew of other players will head to Taiwan for a five-game All-Star series (November...
• 10/20 Giants Nirvana: 2011 Season in Review: Aubrey Huff: Expectations for Aubrey Huff entering this season were reasonably low. He would be in his mid-30s, and a healthy dose of regression...
• 10/5 22gigantes.com: Belt heading to Dominican Republic to work on his swing: Giants first baseman (and converted outfielder) Brandon Belt is headed to the Dominican Republic to work on his swing in winter...
• 10/4 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: Brandon Belt, Aubrey Huff, Prospects: Giants Brandon Belt and Summer School – McCovey Chronicles On Brandon Belt playing winter ball. Shopping list (and predictions)...
• 10/1 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2011 Giants: Postmortem Press Conference: Giants Management likes to hold their first post-season press conference on the day after the last day of the season.  Last...

• 9/30 22gigantes.com: Giants won’t go after Pujols or Fielder: According to the team’s top brass, the San Francisco Giants are unlikely to pursue Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder...
• 9/28 22gigantes.com: Surkamp thumped again as Giants lose 2011 season finale: Rookie left-hander Eric Surkamp got tagged for four runs on eight hits and two walks and couldn’t get out of the fifth inning...
• 9/28 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants finish season 86-76: Rockies 6, Giants 3. It’s been a disappointing season. It’s had its ups and downs, but moreso the latter — thanks...
• 9/28 Raising Matt Cain: MadNumbers: Madison Bumgarner Stat--NL rankERA 3.21--11thWHIP 1.21--19thIP 204-2/3--17thQS 23--T7thAGS 56--10thK/9 8.29--12thK/BB 4.15--6thFanGraphs...
• 9/28 22gigantes.com: Young guns take down Rockies: It was Kids Night at AT&T Park Tuesday. Youngsters Brandon Belt (age 23) and Brandon Crawford (age 24) had monster games at...
• 9/28 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Madison Bumgarner.: Giants 7, Rockies 0. Madison Bumgarner went seven scoreless innings tonight, striking out nine, while walking none. That brings...
• 9/28 Giants Nirvana: Extending Brian Sabean and Bruce Bochy: Brian Sabean told me tonight that he and CEO Larry Baer have talked generally about long-term commitments for Sabean and Bruce...
• 9/28 Bay City Ball: Last game of the year wishlist: Today the Giants will face the Colorado Rockies for the last game of the 2011 regular season. Here is a brief list of things I’d...
• 9/26 22gigantes.com: 2011: The Year of the Injury: If 2010 was the Year of the Pitcher, then this year most certainly has to be the Year of the Injury — 24 to be exact....
• 9/25 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: Eliminated-from-Playoff-Contention Edition: Sunday afternoon links… Giants/NL West Tim Lincecum’s Contract Thoughts Are What A GM Should Want To Hear –...
• 9/24 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: DBacks Clinch NL West: Diamondbacks 3, Giants 1. Well, there goes the NL West. Orlando Cabrera accounted for the Giants’ lone run with a solo shot...
• 9/21 Through The Fence Baseball: Grindin’ With The Champs: San Francisco Giants end game: The Giants finally re-found the magic in September with an eight-game win streak. They’ve surged to within five games of...
• 9/21 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Clayton Kershaw does Clayton Kershaw things: Dodgers 2, Giants 1. Same old story. This time, Kershaw kept the Giants to one run over 7.1 innings — his lone mistake a...
• 9/21 Bay City Ball: An obstacle down south: The most interesting thing about last night’s game was Kenley Jansen. I mean, it certainly wasn’t that the Giants...
• 9/19 22gigantes.com: Win streak now at 8 games as Giants inch closer to playoffs: Did somebody forget to plug in the humidor? Behind six home runs off Colorado pitchers, the San Francisco Giants won their eighth...
• 9/19 Through The Fence Baseball: Grindin’ With The Champs: San Francisco Giants end game: The Giants finally re-found the magic in September with an eight-game win streak. They’ve surged to within five games of...
• 9/19 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Eight Wins: This was a tweet from Andrew Baggarly about a month and a half ago… The Giants look freaking unbeatable … when they...
• 9/19 B-R Blog: Plays and Notes from Games of Sunday, 9/18/11: Tampa 8, Boston 5: I'm exhausted just from following this series online. Matt Joyce had his first 3-RBI game since April, and...
• 9/18 Raising Matt Cain: Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!: That was the day for Giants hitters. SIX homers! They smacked the ball all over the place. They had a season-high eight-run inning...
• 9/17 22gigantes.com: Giants win sixth straight, miracle comeback in the works?: Stranger things have happened. All you have to do is look back to a year ago, when the San Diego Padres’ late-season, 10-game...
• 9/17 22gigantes.com: Brown, Surkamp named to Baseball America’s 2011 Minor League All-Star teams: Baseball America, the industry authority on all things minor league, has released its 2011 Minor League All-Star team and two...
• 9/17 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Six in a row: Giants 9, Rockies 1. Generally speaking, I don’t care about pitcher win-loss records. If you asked me off-hand what the...
• 9/16 Raising Matt Cain: Cyclo-Panda: It's always a fun night when Pablo Sandoval puts on a show. He's the antithesis of Carlos Beltran, who is one cool cat and never...
• 9/16 22gigantes.com: Pablo hits for the cycle as Giants win fifth straight: Pablo Sandoval smacked a triple in the sixth inning to complete the 25th cycle in Giants history and the San Francisco offense...
• 9/16 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Pablo Sandoval hits for the cycle: Giants 8, Rockies 5. The story tonight was Pablo Sandoval, who became the first Giant to hit for the cycle since Fred Lewis. Via...
• 9/14 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Carlos Beltran hits home run #300: Giants 3, Padres 1.  Things didn’t get off to the smoothest of starts — as the Padres scored in the first on the...
• 9/14 Giants Nirvana: Previewing the 2012 Free Agent Oufield Market: Aaron Rowand‘s gone for good, and the Giants will lose several outfielders — Carlos Beltran, Cody Ross, Pat Burrell...
• 9/14 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Mark DeRosa walk-off(!): Giants 3, Padres 2. A little belated here, but I’ll be brief… Matt Cain — wow, what a season he’s had....
• 9/11 Bay City Ball: Breaking Bad: Brandon Belt and curveballs, sliders, and more: You can imagine my surprise last night when I turned on the game and lo and behold, Brandon Belt was in the starting lineup. Belt,...
• 9/11 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Dana Eveland shuts the Giants down: Dana Eveland is by all means an awful pitcher. Aside from a solid 2008 season, he’s pretty much been a AAAA guy over the...
• 9/8 Giants Nirvana: Off-Day Rundown: There are two main issues with the Giants right now: 1) They need to be starting Brandon Belt. This is something that I’ve...
• 9/7 Raising Matt Cain: 200 starts, 68 wins: My tank is empty. Matt Cain pitched well and lost. It's such a tired story--I can't do it any more. I have nothing to say except...
• 9/7 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Cain pitches well, loses: Padres 3, Giants 1. Matt Cain reached two milestones tonight (h/t @SFGiantsFans): his 200th career start, and his fifth consecutive...
• 9/7 MLBTradeRumors: Where The Market For Pujols & Fielder Stands: With three weeks to go in the regular season, it’s clear that Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder will be the most tempting free...
• 9/7 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Brett Pill homers in first career at-bat, Giants win 6-4: In his second start, Eric Surkamp didn’t look particularly impressive. In total, he induced just four whiffs (and two strikeouts),...
• 9/6 Padres Trail: Game Reflections - #141 vs Giants: Another game, another 10+ strikeout day for a Giant pitcher.  This game was closer, and not as close, as the 7-2 final would...
• 9/5 Raising Matt Cain: Career-high Ks for MadBum!: If the Giants aren't going to finish in first place then I want second place, goddammit. No late season death spirals that drop...
• 9/5 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: free Brandon Belt: Breakfast links… What should the Giants do now? Play the kids, discuss Huff, take it easy on Lincecum, Cain and Bumgarner...
• 9/4 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Diamondbacks 7, Giants 2: Yesterday, there was no pressure. No sense of urgency. Everyone had given up on the Giants, and somehow, they responded by winning...

• 8/30 Giants Nirvana: I give up: As I write this, the Giants are but four games back in the NL West, but it’s soon to be five — the Diamondbacks are...
• 8/29 The Crazy Crabbers: The GRIT Leaderboard: The helpful guys at Royals Authority have inspired me, they have come up with an ingenious stat that they have...
• 8/28 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants 2, Astros 1: Eric Surkamp‘s debut, for the most part, went pretty well. He didn’t even touch 90 MPH, mostly sitting in the mid-to-high...
• 8/25 22gigantes.com: Gary Brown named SJ’s Offensive Player of the Year: According to the San Jose Giants Facebook page, 2010 first round draft pick Gary Brown has been named the team’s 2011 Offensive...
• 8/25 Giants Nirvana: Giants president Larry Baer on KNBR: Heath Bell, Brian Wilson, Brandon Belt: Giants president Larry Baer made a brief appearance on KNBR today, discussing Heath Bell, injuries, and the Giants’ fifth-starter...
• 8/25 Dropped Strike Three: Vance Worley Won't Win ROY, But Should He?: While baseball pundits may be calling this year "The Year of the Rookie," it seems to me like all of those rookies are in the...
• 8/25 22gigantes.com: Game recap: SF 2, SD 1: Carlos Beltran blasted his first home run as a Giant and Tim Lincecum helped his own cause with an RBI single as the San Francisco...
• 8/25 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants 2, Padres 1: After a shaky first inning (three consecutive walks to load the bases), Tim Lincecum settled down to pitch a fantastic game —...
• 8/24 22gigantes.com: Today’s lineups: SD (60-70) at SF (68-61): Game Two of this short, two-game series begins tonight at 7:15 p.m. It’s a tale of two Tim’s — Tim Lincecum (11-10,...
• 8/24 22gigantes.com: Game recap: SD 7, SF 5: After making a dramatic comeback against a very tough Mat Latos (6 IP, 3 H, 4 BB, 1 ER, 2 K) to erase a 4-0 deficit Tuesday night,...
• 8/23 22gigantes.com: Game recap: SF 6, HOU 4 (11): Brandon Belt had his coming out party (again) and Pablo Sandoval smashed a two-run homer in the 11th inning to help the Giants...
• 8/23 22gigantes.com: Today’s lineups: SF (67-59) at HOU (41-84): I rarely use the term “must win,” but today is one of those times. With one loss to the lowly Astros already in the...
• 8/23 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2011 Giants are 68-60: Longest Home Series: As Giants (and Giants fans) lick their wounds as they limped home, the Giants actually did OK on this tough road trip where, seemingly,...
• 8/22 Through The Fence Baseball: Grindin’ with the Champs: Giants hanging in there by the grace of the baseball gods: The injury-decimated San Francisco Giants have staggered through August, going 7-13 (16-20 since the All-Star break) and falling...
• 8/22 MLBTradeRumors: Why Your Team Won't Sign Prince Fielder: Scott Boras isn't likely to send client Prince Fielder to play for the St. Paul Saints next year; obviously he'll wind up with...
• 8/22 B-R Blog: Sunday summary: Games of 8/21: -- Protecting a 4-3 lead, Antonio **** fanned the first two men in the 9th, but Ian Desmond laced a 1-2 pitch 414 feet to LF....
• 8/21 Raising Matt Cain: That's a relief!: Another exceptional effort by the Giants bullpen led to a much-needed victory in Houston. I said yesterday's game was the nadir...
• 8/21 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants 6, Astros 4: In his first career major-league start, Dan Runzler did disappoint, lasting just 1.2 innings as he dealt with the same issues...
• 8/20 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Astros 6, Giants 0: It’s funny — every time I think the Giants have fielded their worst lineup of the season, they manage to go and outdo...
• 8/19 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Braves 1, Giants 0: I missed the first seven or so innings of this game, and frankly, I’m glad I did. Of all the pathetic lineups the Giants...
• 8/17 Giants Nirvana: Giants News and Notes: Jonathan Sanchez could make his start on Sunday: Earlier today, it was looking like Waldis Joaquin would be called up to replace Jonathan Sanchez (with Sanchez headed to the DL),...
• 8/15 Through The Fence Baseball: Grindin’ With The Champs: Giants making some changes: The San Francisco Giants took two of three in Philadelphia and will host the NL East leaders four times this weekend, giving fans...
• 8/15 COSFBA: Line of the Day: Brandon Belt: August 14th, 2011: Brandon Belt homered twice and drove in two runs to help lead the San Francisco Giants to a 5-2 win over the Florida Marlins....
• 8/15 Bay City Ball: The Confusing Case of Brandon Belt: Brandon Belt took the first flight out of Fresno on Saturday, heading to Miami and to the big club for the fourth time in 2011....
• 8/14 Raising Matt Cain: The Second Coming: Brandon Belt "served notice" today with two impressive home runs in consecutive at-bats. A very long one to center off Chris...
• 8/14 22gigantes.com: Belt jacks two HR in Giants' 5-2 win over Marlins: Belted! BB goes deep twice. (Photo by Marc Serota/Getty Images) Who needs Carlos Beltran when you've got Brandon Belt? The...
• 8/14 Baseball Musings: Known for Their Solos: The Giants beat the Marlins 5-2 Sunday afternoon, ending their streak of 21 consecutive solo home runs, a major league record....
• 8/14 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants 3, Marlins 0: An absolutely dominant outing from Tim Lincecum: seven scoreless innings with ten strikeouts. His fastball velocity has faded...
• 8/13 22gigantes.com: Brandon Belt recalled for 100th time; Torres to DL: Belt: Have bat, will travel. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn, Getty) The San Francisco Giants have called up Brandon Belt from Triple-A...
• 8/13 Giants Nirvana: Giants recall Brandon Belt from Triple-A, place Andres Torres on 15-day DL: Nothing’s certain, but Henry Schulman is reporting that Belt is flying to Miami and will probably be activated. First baseman/outfielder...
• 8/11 Giants Nirvana: Revisiting the Giants’ Offseason: If you look back at MLB Trade Rumors’ offseason in review for the San Francisco Giants, you’ll recall that they had...
• 8/11 Giants Nirvana: Bruce Bochy on KNBR: Jonathan Sanchez, Carlos Beltran, Pat Burrell: Bruce Bochy appeared on KNBR earlier today with Murph and Mac, discussing — among other things — Jonathan Sanchez,...
• 8/10 Through The Fence Baseball: The Heat Index: First Baseman Rankings: My sincerest apologies for not writing an article last week. Life happened and I wasn’t able to write. This week’s...
• 8/10 Giants Nirvana: The Giants by Power Factor: Over at Beyond the Box Score, Lewie Pollis re-introduces power factor (you can check out the original write-up here), a stat designed...
• 8/10 B-R Blog: Players with exactly 2 HR and 7 RBI this season: Through yesterday's games: Rk HR RBI PA ▾ Year Age Tm G AB R H 2B 3B BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS Pos 1 Austin Kearns 2 7 174 2011...
• 8/9 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Pirates 5, Giants 0: Well, that was just awful. Right when I thought the Giants could stop the bleeding — entering a home series against a team...
• 8/8 The Crazy Crabbers: A Tale of Deadline Acquisitions: The Giants made some movies before the trade deadline and with a little over a week it is time to make some hugely premature...
• 8/5 Bay City Ball: Limited DeRosa plays a lot of positions: This is old news at this point, but let me get this all straight. So the Giants 1) have one of the worst offenses in all of Major...
• 8/5 The Crazy Crabbers: Can We Expect Aubrey Huff to Rebound?: Here is a question that must be on the minds of many Giants fans in light of Brandon Belt being optioned to Fresno and...
• 8/5 Call to the Pen: Mark DeRosa Activated; Giants Option Brandon Belt: The Giants activated utility player Mark DeRosa from the 60 day disabled list today.  To make room for DeRosa on their roster,...
• 8/5 Raising Matt Cain: Gee, that was fun: The Giants scored eight runs on Wednesday but were soon cured of any notion of a resurgent offense by having to face Cliff Lee...
• 8/5 22gigantes.com: Lee, Phillies silence Giants 3-0: Pence hits his 1st HR as a Philly. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson) I would say something like, "I guess Cliff Lee got the...
• 8/4 22gigantes.com: DeRosa activated; Belt sent down again: DeRosa's back...but for how long? Rookie first baseman Brandon Belt's yo-yo odyssey made another revolution Thursday when...
• 8/4 22gigantes.com: The Franchise: A Season With The San Francisco Giants (Season 1, Episode 3): In Episode 3 of "The Franchise: A Season With The San Francisco Giants," Cody Ross plays a prank on Aubrey Huff after he finds...
• 8/4 Giants Nirvana: Mark DeRosa Reinstated from DL, Brandon Belt Optioned: Mark DeRosa has been reinstated from the disabled list, according to Jaymee Sire. In order to make room for him on the 25-man...
• 8/3 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Reds 7, Giants 2: Got sidetracked by that brilliant blockbuster trade the Giants pulled, but here’s a brief recap. This game was pretty forgettable....
• 8/2 obsessivegiantscompulsive: 2011 Giants: July PQS: This post has the Giants Pure Quality Start scores for the month of July 2011, PQS as defined in Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster...

• 7/31 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Reds 7, Giants 2: Got sidetracked by that brilliant blockbuster trade the Giants pulled, but here's a brief recap. This game was pretty forgettable. I'll...
• 7/31 Baseball Daily Digest: Blog Eat Blog: Changing Pastures: The last weeks of July are marked by packed bags and plane tickets, as a multitude of ballplayers experience a sudden change...
• 7/30 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: Justin Fitzgerald, Sergio Romo, Ramon Hernandez: Letters to Brian Sabean and Bruce Bochy « Bay City Ball | Giants Baseball with a Side of STATS! Free Brandon Belt. Q&A...
• 7/30 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Reds 4, Giants 3: I'll be brief, because I never really enjoy writing about 13-inning losses... Entering tonight, Dontrelle Willis had made...
• 7/29 Through The Fence Baseball: Trading places: As some of you may have noticed, I didn’t have a new column earlier this week, and I have to admit that the outpouring of concern...
• 7/28 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants 4, Phillies 1: Carlos Beltran didn't look great in his Giants debut, as he went 0 for 4 with a couple of strikeouts and a groundout to first,...
• 7/28 Bay City Ball: Letters to Brian Sabean and Bruce Bochy: In the exquisite film The Shawshank Redemption, “Andy” Dufresne (Tim Robbins) wrote a letter per day to the State, requesting...
• 7/28 Giants Nirvana: Giants News and Notes: Bill Hall Designated for Assignment, Emmanuel Burriss Optioned: I figured I'd catch up on the news and notes from today, as Carlos Beltran gets set to make his San Francisco Giants debut... In...
• 7/28 22gigantes.com: Bill Hall DFA'd (this time we're serious): Hall batted .158 in 16 games with the Giants. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty) Have a seat, Pat Burrell. You're not going anywhere,...
• 7/28 The Crazy Crabbers: The Brandon Belt vs. Aubrey Huff Statistical Cage Match: Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. The Crazy Crabbers proudly present our main event! The Brandon Belt vs. Aubrey...
• 7/27 22gigantes.com: Burrell released: Burrell was batting .233 for the Giants this season. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) Pat The Bat is gone. To make room...
• 7/27 Giants Nirvana: Pat Burrell Released, Brandon Belt Optioned?: According to CSN Bay Area, the Giants are expected to release Pat Burrell and option Brandon Belt back to Triple-A (again). Burrell's...
• 7/27 MLBTradeRumors: Giants Expected To Release Pat Burrell: The Giants are expected to release Pat Burrell to create roster space for Carlos Beltran, according to CSNBayArea.com. San Francisco...
• 7/27 22gigantes.com: What does Beltran trade mean for Schierholtz, Ross and Torres?: Giants' gain (Beltran) might be Crawford's pain. (Photo Al Bello/Getty Images) Before I get too far into this, let's remember...
• 7/27 22gigantes.com: GIANTS LAND BELTRAN!: Renel: "Please welcome...Car-loooos Beltran!" (Photo Joe Robbins/Getty) After weeks, days, and then hours of speculation,...
• 7/27 The Crazy Crabbers: Carlos Beltran Trade Analysis: The Giants are making a big push, maybe not quite all in but they are doubling down on winning this season. They went out...
• 7/27 Baseball Musings: Cornering the Market on Belts: It appears the Giants added to their Belt collection, with Carlos Beltran about to join Brandon Belt in San Francisco. The Mets...
• 7/27 NY Baseball Digest: Shades of Guidry, Keeping Beltran, Chi Sox Fire Sale, Revenge on Bruce: Many thought CC Sabathia was headed to a perfect game last night. Thoughts of David Cone‘s perfecto in 1999 had to come...
• 7/26 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Phillies 7, Giants 2: By all means, an awful start from Barry Zito. Three home runs, six runs allowed, and against a left-handed heavy lineup. The...
• 7/26 Giants Nirvana: Rooting for Huff to struggle: The following is a guest post from Rory Paap, who writes at Bay City Ball (ESPN SweetSpot). You can follow him on Twitter (@paapfly). Andy...
• 7/26 Dropped Strike Three: Phils End 20 in 20 With a Fizzle: I said 2+ weeks ago that a 12-8 run over the 20 games in 20 days stretch would be considered a success. I'm here today to say...
• 7/26 22gigantes.com: Trade talks heat up: Beltran, Cuddyer, Upton and Rasmus all on Giants' radar: Could Upton be in the Giuants' plans? (Photo by Nick Laham/getty Images) With the MLB non-waiver trade deadline fast-approaching...
• 7/26 The Crazy Crabbers: Aubrey Huff Isn't Coming Back: With every glimmer of a resurgence of offense from Giants first baseman Aubrey Huff the fans clamor that...
• 7/26 Crashburn Alley: Giants Series Preview with Chris Quick: The Phillies welcome the defending champion San Francisco Giants for a three-game series in the City of Brotherly Love. Looking...
• 7/25 Giants Nirvana: Giants Rumors: Brian Sabean's Untouchables, Beltran, Cuddyer: Some Giants notes from the past couple days as the trade deadline approaches... -- Jayson Stark's latest has speculation on...
• 7/25 NY Baseball Digest: Winning a Pennant is More Important than Winning the Value Game: I love hearing reports about how teams “refuse” to give up a certain prospects for Carlos Beltran. Reporters, blogs,...
• 7/25 NY Baseball Digest: Wright’s Stance, Alfonso Soriano, Matsui Reunion, SF in Lead for Beltran: David Wright returned from the disable list to hit a homer and drive in six runs this weekend in Florida. Chuck Johnson, who does...
• 7/25 MLBTradeRumors: Stark On Bell, Beltran, Rays, Giants: The latest from ESPN's Jayson Stark... The Rangers and Phillies are the favorites for Padres closer Heath Bell, with the...
• 7/24 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants 4, Brewers 2: I must say, I was not thrilled that Aubrey Huff was in the starting lineup over Brandon Belt. I understand that he's hit better...
• 7/24 NY Baseball Digest: Gary Brown Video, Hall of Fame Game, Forgotten Yankee, Yanks Should Wait Till August: Reports are swirling that Carlos Beltran is headed to San Francisco. The main piece in the deal could be San Jose outfielder Gary...
• 7/23 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Brewers 4, Giants 2: Pablo Sandoval could have made that play Matt Cain could have gotten out of it But the hitting still sucks No Brandon...
• 7/23 MLBTradeRumors: Carlos Beltran Rumors: Saturday: Carlos Beltran went 1-for-4 with a walk and a strikeout in the Mets' win over the Marlins last night, and every game he plays...
• 7/22 NY Baseball Digest: Mets Best Move Might Be for Minor: The Carlos Beltran sweepstakes seems to take different turns throughout the day. Earlier in the week you heard Boston and Philadelphia...
• 7/22 The Crazy Crabbers: The Giants Run Producers: We all know that Brian Sabean has a fascination with guys that are run producers so I thought that with the great chase...
• 7/21 Giants Nirvana: Giants News and Notes: Buster Posey, Kyle Crick, Brandon Belt: A few notes and such on the San Francisco Giants, as they get set to face off against the Milwaukee Brewers tomorrow: Buster...
• 7/21 Giants Nirvana: Giants GM Brian Sabean on Brandon Belt, Aubrey Huff, and the trade market: Giants GM Brian Sabean just made an appearance on KNBR. Didn't specifically discuss trade options (no mention of Carlos Beltran),...
• 7/21 NY Baseball Digest: Boston Is Perfect Trade Partner for Mets and Beltran: We are entering the final days (maybe hours?) of Carlos Beltran‘s Mets career. Would it surprise anyone if he were traded...
• 7/20 Call to the Pen: Miguel Tejada to DL; Giants Recall Brandon Belt: The Giants have placed Miguel Tejada on the disabled list with a lower abdominal strain, and in a corresponding roster move recalled...
• 7/20 Raising Matt Cain: Serving notice: The Giants scored five runs at home. That's amazing. They did it when Madison Bumgarner was pitching. That's incredible. It took...
• 7/20 22gigantes.com: Belt's 3-RBI night leads Giants past Dodgers: Belt watches his HR sail over the wall. (Jed Jacobsohn/Getty) Aubrey Huff just may be a prophet. Or Wally Pipp. Prior...
• 7/20 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants 5, Dodgers 3: A lot has gone wrong with the Giants this season -- injury-wise, at least. This was the Opening Day lineup: Batting...
• 7/20 Baseball Musings: Belt Back to Belt: Brandon Belt returned to the Giants lineup Tuesday night, belting a double and a home run as San Francisco beat LA 5-3. Belt hit...
• 7/19 22gigantes.com: Giants recall Belt: Belt was tearing it up in Fresno (.324, 7 HR, 29 RBI). On a day that the San Francisco Giants were very busy tinkering with...
• 7/19 The Golden Sombrero: Prospect Buzz: Matt Moore, Mike Trout, Jason Kipnis and Top 50 Prospect Lists: In the wake of the MLB Futures Game, John Sickels dedicated one of his ‘Prospect Profile’ installments...
• 7/19 Bay City Ball: Giants acquire league-average hitting middle infielder: The Giants grabbed slappy slapper Jeff Keppinger from the Houston Astros for minor league right-handed pitchers Henry Sosa and...
• 7/19 MLBTradeRumors: Sabean Talks Offense, Trade Market, Prospects: After the Giants acquired Jeff Keppinger, GM Brian Sabean explained that his work isn't done. The 56-41 Giants are lucky to...
• 7/19 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants 5, Dodgers 0: Ryan Vogelsong is just ...well, good. It's pretty simple, really. The fastball: Gotta give credit to Stewart on...
• 7/19 The Crazy Crabbers: Brandon Belt's Strikeout Problem: San Francisco, Brandon Belt has a problem. Last night Belt picked up a golden sombrero going 0-4 with 4 strikeouts...
• 7/18 NY Baseball Digest: Mets Asking for a Top Prospect for Beltran: Yesterday, NYBD contributor Joe Demayo joined me to kick off the weekly podcast. Joe has been a valuable resource in giving the...
• 7/17 22gigantes.com: Are the Giants getting any closer with Carlos Beltran?: That can be answered very quickly: No. Feel free to move on to the next post. Or..... Go ahead and read on for more insight...
• 7/15 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants 6, Padres 2: A typical Giants-Padres game, in that through nine innings, they scored a combined two runs. The Giants went on to score five...
• 7/14 NY Baseball Digest: Karma, Quote of the Year, The Franchise, Belt for Beltran, Pitching Dominance: Good to see Christian Lopez getting a break as the Miller Brewing Company has offered to pay any potential taxes incurred from...
• 7/13 22gigantes.com: Giants 2011 mid-season report card: It's the All-Star break and time for my mid-season report card for the San Francisco Giants. Last year at this time, I gave...
• 7/12 Raising Matt Cain: Break Time!: The lovingly improbable San Francisco Giants (52-40) stretched their first place lead to three games by smacking down the Mets...
• 7/12 obsessivegiantscompulsive: 2011 Giants at Traditional Midway Point: The All-Star game usually is the marking point of the mid-way point of the season, though typically it is way past the exact half-way...
• 7/12 Giants Nirvana: A Look at Nate's Batting Stance: I started compiling the content for this post well before Nate's two HR game tonight, I swear. Known for being a somewhat of...
• 7/12 Baseball Moves: The Watchlist: Atlanta Braves leading the way?: Contributed by Larry Yocum Welcome back for another edition of The Watchlist, your weekly dose of news spotlighting rookies and...

• 6/29 Bay City Ball: Ryan Vogelsong, Run Differential and the Giants’ season: If you were going to talk about the 2011 Giants at length, you would almost certainly cover, in heaps, both Ryan Vogelsong and...
• 6/24 22gigantes.com: Series preview: CLE (40-33) at SF (41-34): The Cleveland Indians return to the scene of the crime -- San Francisco, California -- for the first time in six years, when they...
• 6/21 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Fan(tasy) vs. Realist(ic): I see a lot of moaning about the offense, and the fan in me get it, I would love to have a great offense too.  Why waste...
• 6/21 22gigantes.com: Series preview: MIN (31-39) at SF (39-33): Well, at least I got the sweep part right. In my last series preview, I predicted that the San Francisco Giants would win all...
• 6/21 22gigantes.com: Fontenot suffers setback (and other Giants injury news): San Francisco Giants infielder Mike Fontenot, on the 15-day disabled list with a groin injury, was supposed to be back by now....
• 6/20 22gigantes.com: Series preview: SF (39-30) at OAK (30-40): The Oakland A's -- the only team the San Francisco Giants haven't lost to this year -- will host the defending World Series champions...
• 6/20 Bay City Ball: No Offense, (but you suck): If you go to FanGraphs and sort the Giants by weighted on-base average (wOBA), you’re sure to laugh (or cry). 1. Cody...
• 6/17 22gigantes.com: Series preview: SF (39-30) at OAK (30-40): The Oakland A's -- the only team the San Francisco Giants haven't lost to this year -- will host the defending World Series champions...
• 6/14 Through The Fence Baseball: Grindin’ With The Champs: Fighting for first: The Giants, just finishing a twenty-game stretch without a day off, head to Arizona for a showdown with the surprising Diamondbacks....
• 6/14 Giants Nirvana: The Team to Beat: Over at the ESPN SweetSpot Blog, David Schoenfield writes that the San Francisco Giants are still the team to beat in the National...
• 6/14 MLBTradeRumors: Contenders In Need Of First Base Help: As many as six contenders might aim to improve at first base as we approach the trade deadline: the Rays, Angels, Braves, Pirates,...
• 6/14 22gigantes.com: Series preview: SF (37-29) at ARI (37-30): It's not a surprise the reigning World Series champion San Francisco Giants are atop the NL West. That the Arizona Diamondbacks...
• 6/9 22gigantes.com: Series preview: CIN (32-31) at SF (35-27): The struggling Cincinnati Reds are eagerly trying to string some wins together. The San Francisco Giants have other plans in mind. Looking...
• 6/8 The Friarhood: RIZZOMANIA Just in Time for a NLROY Run: RIZZOMANIA seems to have hit San Diego this week and for good reason.  Padres prospect Anthony Rizzo, rumored to make his...
• 6/6 22gigantes.com: Series preview: WAS (26-33) at SF (33-26): BREAKING NEWS: AT&T Park will be the site of a soccer match this week. OK, well no it won't, but it might feel like it...
• 6/4 22gigantes.com: Giants place Belt on DL: Maybe the Giants' x-ray machine is broken, too. San Francisco Giants rookie Brandon Belt is headed to the disabled list after...
• 6/4 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Rockies 2, Giants 1: Not only did the Giants waste a great outing by Madison Bumgarner... ...but they wasted a bad outing from Jhoulys Chacin....
• 6/3 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Sabean on KNBR Regarding Posey Incident: Hate Reveals Underlying Position: Wow, there is something about Sabean on KNBR that just brings out the worse in him.  From his almost opening statement of...
• 6/3 COSFBA: Line of the Day: June 2nd, 2011: 1B/OF Aubrey Huff of the San Francisco Giants hit three home runs and matched a career-high with six RBI in the Giants 12-7 victory...
• 6/3 22gigantes.com: Series preview: COL (26-29) at SF (31-25): The San Francisco Giants are glad Aubrey Huff snapped out of his slump in emphatic fashion. That may also be a source of comfort...
• 6/3 22gigantes.com: Huff's 3 homers lead Giants past Cardinals: Aubrey Huff must really love his wife. Huff told Baubi he would hit a home run for her birthday Thursday -- and then went...
• 6/2 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt's wrist swelling subsides: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt (wrist) has a sore wrist, but his swelling has subsided. He might be available off the bench...[+] later in games.
• 6/2 22gigantes.com: Schierholtz's "lights out" performance sparks dramatic win over Cardinals: Not even a stadium lights malfunction could stop the San Francisco Giants from winning a bizarre, see-saw battle between the defending...
• 6/1 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Chris Carpenter: Too few outs for too many pitches: Chris Carpenter once again pitched well enough to win, yet received a no-decision. See, it’s not that Carpenter hasn’t...

• 5/31 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Cardinals 4, Giants 3: Brandon Crawford is still good. Ryan Vogelsong is also still good. Really good. On the other hand, Miguel Tejada still sucks. Brandon...
• 5/31 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | X-rays negative for Brandon Belt: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt (wrist) was hit by a pitch on the left wrist Tuesday, May 31, and forced to leave the game...[+] against the St. Louis Cardinals. X-rays were negative.
• 5/31 22gigantes.com: Belt injures wrist in loss to Cardinals: The injuries continue to mount for the San Francisco Giants. Add rookie Brandon Belt's name to the ever-growing list of players...
• 5/31 22gigantes.com: Win not in the Cards for Giants: Jon Jay and Albert Pujols hit back-to-back doubles and two batters later Allen Craig doubled as the St. Louis Cardinals scored...
• 5/31 Giants Nirvana: Aubrey Huff: Four Factors: Coming off a season in which he hit .290/.385/.506 (141 wRC+), Aubrey Huff has been a disappointment thus far. Well, that's an...
• 5/31 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt startingSan Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt is starting at first base Tuesday, May 31, with 1B Aubrey Huff on the bench....[+] San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt is starting at first base Tuesday, May 31, with 1B Aubrey Huff on the bench.
• 5/31 MLBTradeRumors: Keith Law's Updated Top 25 Prospects: ESPN's Keith Law has updated his top 25 prospect list, four months after publishing his top 100.  You'll need Insider to view...
• 5/30 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants 7, Cardinals 3: Great start from Madison Bumgarner against the best offense in the NL. He needed just 101 pitches to get through seven innings,...
• 5/29 C70 At The Bat: Talking Giants With Snow Woulda Had It: Part of the great benefits of being involved with the Baseball Bloggers Alliance is the opportunity to talk to fans of the opposing...
• 5/29 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Brewers 6, Giants 0: Some awful things about this awful game: The starting lineup. It consisted of three guys who I didn't expect to see playing...
• 5/29 Raising Matt Cain: Don't look now . . .: . . . but the Arizona Diamondbacks are in first place. Matt Cain has given up NINE runs in his last 12 innings of work. Today...
• 5/29 Giants Nirvana: Brandon Belt on the Bench: Lately, I've been dissatisfied with Bruce Bochy's management. This was probably the tipping point: Although Bochy said first...
• 5/28 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt to spend majority of time on bench: San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said Saturday, May 28, that 1B Brandon Belt will see some starts at first base and left...[+] field, but Belt will mostly come off the bench.
• 5/28 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt and Brandon Crawford to play Sunday: San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said 1B Brandon Belt and SS Brandon Crawford will be in the starting lineup Sunday, May...[+] 29, against the Milwaukee Brewers.
• 5/28 Roto Think Tank: Gearing Up: N.L. Week 9 May 30-June 5: News and Notes. The San Francisco Giants: Buster Posey, Mike Fontenot, Darren Ford, Brandon Crawford, Brandon Belt, Chris...
• 5/27 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt to play off bench: San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said OF Brandon Belt will see occasional starts at first base and in the outfield, but...[+] he will mostly be used off of the bench.
• 5/27 22gigantes.com: Giants DFA Rohlinger, Sosa: Rohlinger's career with Giants may be over. The San Francisco Giants announced that they have designated Ryan Rohlinger...
• 5/27 The Crazy Crabbers: What Brandon Belt and Brandon Crawford can give to the Giants: Kevin O'Brien who is a contributor here and runs the excellent Giants farm blog Optioned to Fresno gives us a great idea...
• 5/26 22gigantes.com: Punchless, Posey-less Giants fall to Marlins 1-0: The Giants did a lot of stumblin', fumblin', and bumblin' Thursday. Hours after learning star catcher Buster Posey could...
• 5/26 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Giants: MLB's Rule Maker: I am just overwhelmed by Buster Posey's probable season ending injury (fractured fibula and other assorted ligament damage that...
• 5/26 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Marlins 1, Giants 0: At the beginning of the season, I argued that the Giants were undoubtedly a playoff team. The pitching staff was great, and that...
• 5/26 Giants Nirvana: What to Expect from the Call-Ups: Brandon Belt Well, you're well aware of Belt, obviously. Since being sent down to AAA, he's posted a .337/.470/.525 slash...
• 5/26 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt expected to play outfieldSan Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said he expects to play OF Brandon Belt mostly in the outfield....[+] San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said he expects to play OF Brandon Belt mostly in the outfield.
• 5/26 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt could be used in outfield: San Francisco Giants OF Brandon Belt was mostly being used in left field with Triple-A Fresno, and he can play either of the corner...[+] outfield spots. He can also be used at first base. Belt was not in the starting lineup Thursday, May 26.
• 5/26 Baseball Press: Clinical Notes - Buster Posey's Brutal Leg Injury: Buster Posey will miss the rest of 2011. (Icon SMI)The 2011 season has already seen several serious injuries to superstar players,...
• 5/26 22gigantes.com: Today's Giants lineup: the post-Posey era begins: The post-Posey era begins today as the San Francisco Giants try to salvage the final game of their three-game series with the...
• 5/26 MLBTradeRumors: Giants Designate Rohlinger, Sosa For Assignment: The Giants announced that they have designated Ryan Rohlinger and Henry Sosa for assignment to create 40-man roster space for...
• 5/26 22gigantes.com: Now is not the time to freak out: San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey is out for the season. Need I say anything more? As a matter of fact, I do need...
• 5/26 22gigantes.com: Posey's 2011 season lost: If Scott Cousins were a truck, San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey would know first-hand what it feels like to wake up...
• 5/26 COSFBA: Fantasy Baseball News and Notes from May 25th, 2011: Here are some fantasy baseball-relevant tidbits and notes I picked up from box scores and recaps from games played on May 25th,...
• 5/26 Baseball Musings: No Leg to Stand On: Via Rob Neyer, Buster Posey’s leg is in bad shape: Unofficial update: #sfgiants Chris Stewart and Brandon Belt called up....
• 5/26 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Two to DL, two come up: San Francisco Giants C Buster Posey (leg) and OF Darren Ford (ankle) were placed on the 15-day disabled list. The San Francisco...[+] Giants recalled C Chris Stewart and 1B/OF Brandon Belt from the minors.
• 5/26 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt longshot to be recalled: San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said Wednesday, May 25, that 1B Brandon Belt might be a 'longhost' to be recalled from...[+] Triple-A Fresno if OF Darren Ford (ankle) lands on the 15-day disabled list.
• 5/25 MLBTradeRumors: On-Base Problems And Possible Solutions: As a group, MLB players tend to reach base approximately one third of the time, but this year has been different. It has been...
• 5/25 The Crazy Crabbers: Cost Benefit Analysis of a Jose Reyes Trade: With the struggles of Miguel Tejada this season, many Giants fans are looking for an alternative at shortstop. I have to say...
• 5/24 Baseball Moves: Waiver Mavens – How am I Doing? (Batting Edition): Let’s take a look at how I’m doing with Waiver Mavens. To judge my abilities I examined my offense first. I grabbed...
• 5/24 The Crazy Crabbers: Checking in on Brandon Belt: It's been a little over a month since Brandon Belt was sent to Fresno to work on his confidence, so I thought that a check-in...
• 5/19 It's About the Money (Stupid): More is Less: The Temptation of Jose Reyes: Jose Reyes is sexy. Reyes is smooth in every sense of the word.  Sweet swing.  Slick fielding.  Breathtaking speed....
• 5/19 Bay City Ball: Blocking Brandon Belt: In the offseason, I argued hard that the best move the Giants could make with Aubrey Huff would be to simply let him go. They’d...
• 5/19 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants 8, Dodgers 5: That was one of the least enjoyable games in recent memory. Mark DeRosa's left wrist strain -- Baggs described it pretty...
• 5/18 Yankees Daily: Keeping Up With the Top 25 Prospects: I am shamelessly stealing this idea off of Keith Law’s Top Prospect Update by making this list but I absolutely loved...
• 5/18 Roto Think Tank: Minor League Survey - National League Central Division: Back on May 2, 2011, I took a look at some players to watch in the National League West minor league affiliates (Anthony Rizzo,...
• 5/18 The Crazy Crabbers: 3rd Base Options for the Giants: The rumor de jour is that Aubrey Huff may be needing a new glove as the Giants are looking to find a way to fix what has deteriorated quickly into...
• 5/17 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Rockies 5, Giants 3: On the bright side, that was only the fourth time in Jonathan Sanchez's career that he's gone 7+ IP without allowing a walk. ...
• 5/17 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | No plans to promote Brandon Belt: San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said the club has no plans to recall 1B Brandon Belt from Triple-A Fresno. Belt is batting...[+] .384 with a 1.087 OPS.
• 5/17 22gigantes.com: Lincecum rocked in 7-4 loss to Colorado: Tim Lincecum's 22.1 scoreless-inning streak was brought to an abrupt end Monday night in Denver as the Colorado Rockies blasted...
• 5/14 Giants Nirvana: Giants Fan Misconceptions: I've been hearing some pretty ridiculous things from other San Francisco Giants fans lately. Today, I dispel some of these myths... 1....
• 5/14 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants 3, Diamondbacks 2: As Julian mentioned earlier, Blogger was down for a bit, so here's yesterday's game recap Pitching duel. One-run game. Exhilarating...
• 5/13 Obstructed View: Series preview: World Champions (21-16) at Chicago Cubs (16-20): Team Overview Team stats (and NL ranks) wOBA: .297 (15th)UZR: -8.1 (12th)DRS: -6 (6th)SP FIP: 3.22 (3rd)SP xFIP: 3.47 (4th)RP...
• 5/11 22gigantes.com: VIDEO: Belt speaks out about his big league struggles: After batting nearly .300 as a rookie in spring training, and impressing both San Francisco Giants veterans and coaches alike,...
• 5/7 Giants Nirvana: Down in the Minors: 5/7/11: A look at what's going on in the San Francisco Giants' farm system... Position players... Age Tm Lev ▴...
• 5/7 MLB Fantasy Recon: Top 25 Prospect Update from MLB Dirt: Temper your expectationsEric Hosmer was the big name this week with the call up.  The 21 year old destroyed AAA pitching...
• 5/6 Through The Fence Baseball: Fantasy Royalty: KC crowns new first baseman: News out of Kansas City is that highly touted Eric Hosmer has been promoted to The Show. Hosmer is one of a half dozen prospects...
• 5/6 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Wheeler, Doumit, Relegation: The legendary Cy Young threw a perfect game against the Philadelphia Athletics on this date in 1904.  The perfecto was one of...
• 5/5 Raising Matt Cain: Home at last, home at last, thank god almighty we are home at last.: My dad used to say stuff like "work is the curse of the drinking class." Naturally I though it was stupid when I was a kid, but...
• 5/5 NY Baseball Digest: Reyes Decision Could Make or Break Alderson Regime: The decision to trade Jose Reyes might be one of the most important the Mets franchise has faced since negotiating with Darryl...
• 5/4 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants 2, Mets 0: Notes -- Hat trick for Aaron Rowand, whose inevitable decline (after a BABIP-fueled hot April) has begun. His wRC+ is currently...
• 5/4 NY Baseball Digest: Unimpressive Champs On Display at Citi Field: The San Francisco Giants invaded Citi Field last night and I couldn’t be more unimpressed. It made me wonder how this group...
• 5/4 22gigantes.com: Belt might return to SF: Belt is tearing it up at AAA Fresno. San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said Tuesday that he and GM Brian Sabean have...
• 5/4 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Giants 7, Mets 6: This game did not get off to a good start, as the Ryan Vogelsong gave up a three-run homer to Carlos Beltran in the first inning,...
• 5/4 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt might return to majors: San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy and general Brian Sabean have had discussions about promoting 1B Brandon Belt from Triple-A...[+] Fresno, as he has been red hot since his early season demotion. 'We're very excited about Belt going down and swinging the bat the way he is,' Bochy said. 'The man looks determined to get back up here.'
• 5/4 22gigantes.com: Giants' offense comes alive in 7-6 win over Mets: "I might actually get some sleep tonight." That's what came out of Aubrey Huff's mouth when asked how he felt after hitting a...
• 5/3 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Phillies, Mariners, Twins, Belt: Six years ago today, Robinson Cano made his MLB debut. Since then, all he's done is hit .309/.346/.493, make two All-Star teams,...
• 5/3 22gigantes.com: Trade rumors swirl around Reyes, Giants: Reyes would fill a couple of needs for the Giants. I've been visiting about a dozen or so New York Mets blogs in anti****...
• 5/3 22gigantes.com: Should the Giants go after Felipe Lopez?: Lopez might be a good fit in San Francisco. The last time the San Francisco Giants plucked a Tampa Bay Rays player off the...
• 5/3 MLBTradeRumors: The Giants And Jose Reyes: After being shut out by Tom Gorzelanny last night, the Giants rank second to last in the NL with 3.54 runs scored per game. ...
• 5/3 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt on fire: San Francisco Giants OF Brandon Belt went 4-for-5 at Triple-A Fresno Monday, May 2, and is hitting .519 with two homers and three...[+] stolen bases in 29 at-bats.
• 5/2 Raising Matt Cain: Feeble Giants grind to a halt: Madison Bumgarner threw his best game of the young season but made the fatal mistake of giving up runs and the Giants went down...
• 5/2 Roto Think Tank: Minor League Survey - National League West Version: Up and coming players from the minor leagues can be the key to success in both start-over and keeper leagues.  Whether as...
• 5/1 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Nationals 5, Giants 2: Notes... Darren Ford didn't have a single plate appearance, yet managed to post a win probability added of -14.1%. That caught-stealing...
• 5/1 Giants Nirvana: Down in the Minors: 4/30/11: A look at what's going on in the San Francisco Giants' farm system... Note, these stats don't include games from 4/30. Position...

• 4/29 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Worried vs. Watchful: Bumgarner: I watch a Twitter feed of the term Giants and one of the conversations I saw yesterday was someone amazed by Bumgarner hitting...
• 4/28 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt playing outfieldSan Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt is playing the outfield on a daily basis for Class AAA....[+] San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt is playing the outfield on a daily basis for Class AAA.
• 4/28 22gigantes.com: The sweet 'song of victory: Ryan Vogelsong (1-0), starting his first game since 2004 while with the Pirates, tossed 5.2 effective innings and Aaron Rowand...
• 4/28 SocraticGadfly: Will 'Sign Pujols' movement work?: As Yahoo's Jeff Passan reports, a small group of St. Louis Cardinal fans has come up with a creative way to try to keep Albert...
• 4/28 MLBTradeRumors: NL West Notes: Stewart, McCourt, Belt: The latest from the NL West, where the Rockies have built a 4.5 game lead over the Dodgers, the defending World Champions, the...
• 4/28 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: 4/27/11: News links... As you probably know by now, Mark DeRosa has been placed on the DL with inflammation in his left wrist. Emmanuel...
• 4/27 22gigantes.com: Belt misses game with sinus infection: According to the Fresno Bee, San Francisco Giants top prospect Brandon Belt had a sinus infection and was scratched from Tuesday...
• 4/27 MLB Fantasy Recon: Rookie Updates from The Fix - Beachy, Harper, Ka'aihue: Mike Minor who?John Marino over at The Fantasy Fix offers up a run down of how some of the highly touted rookies this year are...
• 4/26 22gigantes.com: Sandoval, Posey headline 2011 All-Star ballot: Major League Baseball's 2011 All-Star ballots have been released and eight San Francisco Giants players are on the list for...
• 4/26 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2011 Giants are 10-11: Boarding the Pirates Ship: Whoa, that series couldn't have gone much worse.  Our pitching just didn't have it, but neither did the offense.  However,...
• 4/24 22gigantes.com: Belt homers in first AAA game since demotion: Now THAT'S the Brandon Belt we know and love! Brandon Belt had one thing on his mind when he arrived at Chukchansi...
• 4/24 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 4/17/11 - 4/23/11: It's time to take a look back at the week that was.. The story of the week, of course, was Major League Baseball's decision...
• 4/23 Giants Nirvana: Tim Hudson Dominates, Giants Lose: Tim Lincecum walked the first two batters of the game. Not a clean outing from him overall -- 6.1 IP, 6 K, 6 BB, 5 R...FIP at...
• 4/22 Baseball Moves: Sleeping Beauty: Mark Trumbo: Last week my Sleeping Beauty was Jonathan Herrera. I suggested that you should check him out based on his SB, R, and AVG assets....
• 4/22 Mastersball.com: Belt, Bedard, and Nathan: I was watching the Giants game the other night, not having seen the daily transactions, and noticed Cody Ross in the Giants starting...
• 4/21 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason In Review: San Francisco Giants: The World Champion Giants conclude our Offseason In Review series. Major League Signings Aubrey Huff, 1B/RF: two years,...
• 4/21 Raising Matt Cain: Four in a row: Guillermo Mota pitched a career-high 4-1/3 innings tonight, facing 14 batters. He gave up three hits, a run, no walks, and struck...
• 4/21 Giants Nirvana: Aubrey Huff Worries: Aubrey Huff has gotten off to a truly awful start. For perspective, here are the three worst players in 2011 by fWAR: ...
• 4/21 Baseball Moves: The Watchlist: Rookie closers are all the rage: The Watchlist will be an article that comes out every Thursday afternoon and it will focus on rookies, minor leaguers, and post-hype...
• 4/21 Baseball Press: Under the Radar - AL/NL Only Leagues: Cody Ross is healthy and should be fantasy rosters. (Getty)Each week, Baseball Press will be providing some "under the radar"...
• 4/20 22gigantes.com: Rockies tag Cain in win over Giants: Jorge de la Rosa overcame a shaky start to pitch seven sharp innings and Ty Wigginton tied a career high with four RBIs, helping...
• 4/20 Giants Nirvana: Matt Cain Gets Rocked, Giants Lose 10-2: Eh, that wasn't a fun one... Matt Cain looked pretty bad out there -- 6 R in 4.2 IP. The pitch that Ty Wiggington hit...
• 4/20 The Crazy Crabbers: The End of the Brandon Belt Experiment: Brandon Belt is going back to Fresno. The Giants apparently feel that he is "over-matched" and needs more "seasoning."The...
• 4/20 MLBTradeRumors: Giants Option Brandon Belt: Giants first baseman Brandon Belt has been optioned to the Triple-A Fresno, tweets CSNBayArea.com's Mychael Urban.  The move...
• 4/20 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt sent down: The San Francisco Giants optioned 1B Brandon Belt to Class AAA Wednesday, April 20, according to Jim Bowden of FOX Sports Radio....[+]
• 4/20 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt confident he’ll improve: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt knows what he needs to work on to become a good major league hitter, according to Andrew...[+] Baggarly of The Mercury News. 'Just looking at the video, it seems so minor what I have to do,' said Belt. 'I’m dropping the barrel just a bit and I’m fouling off balls. It seems like it’s something that can be so easily fixed. That’s what makes it frustrating. With some more at-bats, I’m confident I can get this fixed really soon.'
• 4/20 22gigantes.com: Ross activated from DL; Belt sent down: The Boss is back! The San Francisco Giants are slowly getting all their championship puzzle pieces back. The club activated...
• 4/20 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt likely headed to AAA: Updating a previous report, San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt will likely be sent down Wednesday, April 20, after the team...[+] activated OF Cody Ross (calf), speculates Andrew Baggarly of The Mercury News. The team is starting OF Mark DeRosa at first base, while Ross and OFs Pat Burrell and Aaron Rowand are playing the outfield.
• 4/20 22gigantes.com: Sandoval, Huff homers lead Giants past Rockies, 6-3: Pablo Sandoval and Aubrey Huff homered Tuesday in the San Francisco Giants' 6-3 road win over division-rival Colorado. Sandoval...
• 4/20 Giants Nirvana: Pablo Sandoval Homers as Giants Beat Rockies 6-3: Game recap, in bullet-point form.... Pat Burrell is beginning to gradually stray away from his three-true-outcomes Rob Deer-ness....
• 4/19 MLBTradeRumors: Update On The Timing Of Top Prospects' Debuts: Teams like saving money and extending their control over top young players. Why wouldn't they? Having impact players on affordable...
• 4/19 Bay City Ball: Belt, defense and other stuff: Most of my blog posts are more like features or columns… or something. Humans are creatures of habit. This post will not be...
• 4/19 MLB Fantasy Recon: Daily Notes from Monday with The FB Hot Stove: Mr. Lowrie should have your attentionJed Lowrie probably got your attention last night, while none of the Sox are hitting Lowrie...
• 4/19 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt out of lineup again: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt is not in the lineup for the second straight day Tuesday, April 19, with 1B Aubrey Huff at...[+] first and OF Nate Schierholtz receiving another start in right field, according to The Mercury News' Andrew Baggarly. SS Miguel Tejada is taking the day off with 2B Mike Fontenot starting at short.
• 4/19 22gigantes.com: Giants blast Rockies 8-1: Tim Lincecum took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and Pat Burrell hit a three-run homer [watch video] as the visiting San...
• 4/18 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt might be sent down: San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said Monday, April 18, that 1B Brandon Belt might be sent to the minors Tuesday, April...[+] 19, in a corresponding roster move if OF Cody Ross (calf) is activated from the 15-day disabled list, reports Andrew Baggarly, of The Mercury News.
• 4/18 Giants Nirvana: Brandon Belt and the Minors: Is Brandon Belt major-league ready? That's the question we've all been pondering for quite some time now... And his performance...
• 4/18 22gigantes.com: Series preview: SF (8-7) at COL (12-3): The San Francisco Giants take on the red-hot Colorado Rockies in an important three-game series that begins on Monday -- the first...
• 4/17 22gigantes.com: Sanchez leads Giants past D-backs: I love when I'm wrong. I predicted two wins in this three-game series. For the Arizona Diamondbacks. Instead, the defending...
• 4/16 Roto Think Tank: Tout Wars and the Road(s) Not Traveled: Almost immediately after the Tout Wars N.L.-only auction, I wrote up my auction recap. I found myself in the same position...
• 4/16 Roto Think Tank: Saturday Strategies: Since I like to wake up early on Saturday, and since I have been a little limited in activities this past week due to my car accident,...
• 4/16 22gigantes.com: Giants Trample Snakes 5-2: Pablo Sandoval smashed a three-run homer in the first inning and Matt Cain was his studly self as the San Francisco Giants trampled...
• 4/15 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt still at first: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt is starting at first base Friday, April 15, with 1B Aubrey Huff still in right field, according...[+] to the team's official Twitter page. OF Aaron Rowand is receiving a start in center field.
• 4/15 22gigantes.com: Belt moving to outfield?: San Francisco Giants rookie first baseman Brandon Belt could be in for a bit of a change this weekend. Because of shoddy defense...
• 4/14 Baseball Moves: The Watchlist: Rookies around the league: The Watchlist will be an article that comes out every Thursday afternoon and it will focus on rookies, minor leaguers, and post-hype...
• 4/14 MLB Fantasy Recon: Waiver Wire Fliers - Position Options - MDS Edition: Could be 20 HRs if he ever gets the ABsWhile you need to keep the faith with Carl Crawford, you don't need to hold on to Mike...
• 4/13 Giants Nirvana: Wednesday Links - 4/13/11: I can't believe anybody would actually say this about Bryan Stow. Terribly offensive and insensitive. Bruce Bochy's bullpen...
• 4/13 The Crazy Crabbers: Taking Lemons and Making Lemonade: Optimizing the Giants Lineup: With the Giants hurt by injuries to Andres Torres and Cody Ross, the biggest question has to do with the lineup.In the grand...
• 4/13 The Crazy Crabbers: Small Sample Size Fun: Brandon Belt Edition: In this installment of Small Sample Size Fun, I take a look at Brandon Belt. He is struggling in his short stint in the majors...
• 4/13 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt could move to RF: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt has been taking fly balls in right field in what looks like an upcoming position switch with...[+] OF Aubrey Huff, the San Francisco Chronicle's Henry Schulman reports. The switch could take place as early as this weekend. Belt was an outfielder until he reached college, and manager Bruce Bochy said he's comfortable with Belt out there.
• 4/13 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt snaps skidSan Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt snapped an 0-for-11 drought with a hit Tuesday, April 12, The Associated Press reports....[+] San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt snapped an 0-for-11 drought with a hit Tuesday, April 12, The Associated Press reports.
• 4/13 22gigantes.com: Rowand stars in Giants' comeback win over Dodgers: Rowand to Haterz: "Kiss my ass." The last time Tim Lincecum pitched at AT&T Park was during Game 1 of the World Series...
• 4/13 Giants Nirvana: Aaron Rowands Collects Two Hits, Giants Win: You see that little red blip right there? Yeah, that's a key situation. In fact, it was the highest-leverage situation in...
• 4/12 22gigantes.com: Giants-Dodgers pre-game notes: 4/12/11: First pitch is at 7:15 p.m. tonight. The game can be seen on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area and heard on KNBR 680 AM. Tim Lincecum...
• 4/12 The Crazy Crabbers: Brandon Belt's Leash: The roster crunch that is coming when Cody Ross comes back is going to force some tough decisions about who stays with the...
• 4/12 Giants Nirvana: Monday Night Links - 4/11/11: Without further ado, I give you the new format for links posts on SP (it's much faster this way...) Jeff Fletcher had a chat...
• 4/11 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2011 Giants: Payback D-gers: Well, that's a lot better, Giants win series against Cards, coming close to sweeping, but I'm happy with a series win, the Giants...
• 4/11 Giants Nirvana: Brandon Belt -- Leadoff Hitter?: Just a quick note... From Baggs -- Bochy needs a leadoff hitter with Torres out. Miguel Tejada, today’s No.1 guy, isn’t...
• 4/11 MLB Fantasy Recon: Top Waiver Wire pickups from the Fix: Crisp can be productive when healthyThe Fantasy Fix takes a look at players owned in under 50% of Yahoo leagues that shouldn't...
• 4/11 The Crazy Crabbers: I Second this: Barry Zito didn't have it yesterday but he did somehow manage to avoid damage through 5 innings but then his walks bit...
• 4/11 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Series Preview: Dodgers at Giants April 11-13: Los Angeles Dodgers (5-4) at San Francisco Giants (4-5)April 11-13Games: 10-12Location: AT&T Park2011 record vs. Giants: 3-12010...
• 4/10 Giants Nirvana: Kyle Lohse(?) Shuts Giants Down, Vintage Barry Zito: Not a good outing from Barry Zito. Five walks, accompanied by one lone strikeout in 5.1 innings. Zito's better than this. (I...
• 4/10 MLB Fantasy Recon: Beware the Rookies, Notes from FBV: ROY & WHIP killer? OMG!You should read this article from Razzball, December 2008 before preceding into Brett Barton's notes...
• 4/8 Baseball Press: Under the Radar - Week 1 Mixed Leagues: J.P. Arencebia provides power from the catcher spot. (Getty)Each week, Baseball Press will be providing some "under the radar"...
• 4/8 Baseball Moves: Calm the *expletive* down Kemosabe: Ah, the glories of dominating at fantasy baseball. It’s a feeling like no other; part strategic genius, part foolish luck, and...
• 4/8 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2011 Giants: Playing Their Cards Right: Well, the fruits of their labours will cometh this weekend as the Giants celebrate their World Series Championship with their...
• 4/8 MLB Fantasy Recon: 10 Lists of 10 from TMR - Team Names: Davis traditional starts slowJust wanted to run through a couple of notes from Matthew Berry's "10 Lists of 10."  A few noteworthy...
• 4/7 The Crazy Crabbers: Interview with Giants Pre/Post Game Host Marty Lurie: There is an excellent fan post on McCovey Chronicles from user Goofus that did an interview with Giants pre and post game...
• 4/7 Bus League Baseball: Welcome To The Show: Major League Debuts From March 31 To April 6: The Rule 5 draft was held in early December, with fifteen teams selecting nineteen players in the major league phase, but the...
• 4/6 Giants Nirvana: Tim Lincecum Tosses a Gem, Giants Collect 13 Hits: Ah, that's what I've been waiting for. First of all, Tim Lincecum had a beautiful outing. For the 27th time in his career,...
• 4/6 Bus League Baseball: Now Pitching For The Seattle Mariners..: I don’t think I had ever actually seen Michael Pineda before last night, so I was a bit stunned when I saw highlights of...
• 4/6 Mastersball.com: Brandon Belt - Worth Every Penny: In my coverage of the Arizona Fall League, I highlighted San Francisco Giant first baseman Brandon Belt on several occasions...
• 4/6 Bus League Baseball: Cal League North Division Preview: **** Bus Leagues readers, I’m not sure how to do this introduction, but I’m Scott, and this is my first post here....
• 4/6 Bay City Ball: Losing to the Padres: So, a 3:35 PM start, huh? Well, that was fun… can’t wait for round two tomorrow! There’s nothing quite like the extra-special...
• 4/5 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt goes hitless again: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt was hitless in four at-bats Tuesday, April 5, dropping his season average to .118 (2-for-17)....[+]
• 4/5 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Outfield changes coming?: If San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt is not sent to the minors once OF Cody Ross (hamstring) returns, 1B Aubrey Huff could...[+] be moved the left field and OF Pat Burrell could see a diminished role, according to Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com. If Belt does get demoted, Huff will return to first base and Burrell will remain the regular left fielder.
• 4/5 Giants Nirvana: Miguel Tejada and the Leadoff Spot: Look, when it comes to lineups, I don't like to nit-pick. But there's something I would like to briefly touch on -- not just a...
• 4/5 The Crazy Crabbers: Who Should be in Right Field for the Giants?: I scratched the surface of this yesterday when discussing blaming the Giants opening series losses on Brandon...
• 4/5 Baseball Moves: All Disabled-List Team: This season, like most, has seen its fair share of injuries. I’d like to take a jump onto the bandwagon, following Adam’s...
• 4/5 Giants Nirvana: Brandon Belt, First-Year Players, and High Walk Rates: Perhaps it's a bit premature to be saying this -- after all, we're only four games into the season -- but Brandon Belt has a...
• 4/5 MLB Fantasy Recon: Waiver Wire Fliers - Filling the DL Gaps with The Buzz: Looks like trade bait to meA couple free agents for you to consider this Tuesday morning from Howard Bender over at Fantasy Baseball...
• 4/5 MLBTradeRumors: Giants Notes: Ross, Runzler, Rowand, Belt: The defending World Champions are off to a slow 1-3 start and will face the Padres tomorrow after a day off. Here's the latest...
• 4/4 The Crazy Crabbers: Blaming Brandon Belt?: That is a provocative headline to say the least and it is part of the story that Howard Bender of  SF Giants...
• 4/4 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Tough roster decision coming soon: The San Francisco Giants will face a tough roster decision when OF Cody Ross (calf) returns from the disabled list, according...[+] to MLB.com's Chris Haft. The team could send OF Nate Schierholtz or 1B Brandon Belt back to the minors. Belt is hitting .154 (2-for-13) to start the year. OFs Pat Burrell and Aaron Rowand are candidates to be traded or released.
• 4/4 Baseball Musings: Where’s the Defense?: Aubrey Huff was the culprit Sunday night for the Giants, but it was noted during the Sunday night telecast that poor defense seemed...
• 4/4 Giants Nirvana: Aubrey Huff Leads Dodgers to Victory: What a weekend. This series was defined by defense, and not in a good way. Countless times, the Giants made stupid mistakes...
• 4/4 Bay City Ball: Ugly game ends ugly weekend for Giants: The Giants gave the Dodgers a drubbing on Saturday afternoon, beating them 10-0 behind a what-we’ve-come-to-expect start...
• 4/4 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Matt Kemp & Aubrey Huff Lead Dodgers Over Giants: (Obligatory: Hiroki Kuroda threw his last pitch of the game without the lead. He still ends up with his name in the win column....
• 4/3 Baseball Moves: Waiver Mavens, Official Week 1 Edition: Well with the odd scheduling the MLB presented to us, I present the official first week’s Waiver Mavens… Enjoy! -MG...
• 4/3 Bus League Baseball: Now Batting For The San Francisco Giants…: Opening day for Major League Baseball was this past Thursday, which means we’re likely to have a bunch of “Now Batting/Pitching...
• 4/3 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Giants 10, Isotopes 0: On an afternoon where the Dodgers ran out a lineup that featured only three of their usual starters, Ted Lilly was going to have...
• 4/2 The Golden Sombrero: Sombrero Staff Prognostications: Mike’s 2011 Predictions: National League West Division 1.     Los Angeles Dodgers 2.     San Francisco Giants 3.     Colorado...
• 4/2 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Giants | Brandon Belt hits first home run Friday: San Francisco Giants 1B Brandon Belt homered and drove in three runs against the Los Angeles Dodgers Friday, April 1, according...[+] to The Associated Press. It was the first home run of his career.
• 4/1 Baseball Moves: Don’t be an April fool: Year after year fantasy baseball forums explode with people jumping the gun and wondering if they should drop or trade a perennial...