On Monday evening, Blake Snell's free agency is over and the San Francisco Giants have reportedly emerged victorious in the sweepstakes.According to ESPN's Jeff Passan's post on X (formerly Twitter), Snell and the San Francisco Giants are in agreement on a two-year, $62 million contract that includes an opt-out after the first year.Jon Heyman of the New York Post broke the new first but Passan added that Snell's deal with the San Francisco Giants ends a free agency that stretched to nine days...
The San Francisco Giants subreddit, a 14-year-old forum with nearly 117,000 members, has decided to stick more closely to sports. Tiring of the forum’s steady stream of anti-San Francisco posts, moderators of r/SFGiants decided earlier this month to take a heavier hand in removing criticism of the city. Sam, a Phoenix-based moderator, told SFGATE on Tuesday that the move is an attempt to cut out low-effort posts and keep the forum away from “rinsed and repeated” discussions about homelessness...
MLB: San Francisco Giants starter Jordan Hicks finishes exhibition season on exceptional note
On Monday night, Blake Snell and the San Francisco Giants agreed to a two-year contract worth $62 million that includes an opt-out after the first season.The deal was confirmed by Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle who wrote, "The contract includes a $17 million signing bonus payable in January 2026 and will pay him $15 million in 2024, sources told the Chronicle."Slusser also added that Snell is expected to undergo a physical with the team on Tuesday and a news conference is likely to...
MLB: Released by San Francisco Giants, J.D. Davis agrees to $2.5 million, one-year contract with Oakland Athletics
The experience at Oracle Park for San Francisco Giants games is going to be quite different this season, with a new lighting system, new sound system and a new voice of the ballpark. But while fans throughout the stadium will experience those changes — whether they are happy about them or not — there are a few tweaks for this year that will only be seen and felt by the team’s richest supporters. The Giants have added seat cushions to every seat in the stadium’s Field Club section, the section of...
Pablo Sandoval’s final game for the San Francisco Giants might be Tuesday at Oracle Park, but he doesn’t want his career to end
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For the past four seasons of San Francisco Giants baseball, one of the six statues around Oracle Park has been missing.
For the past four seasons of San Francisco Giants baseball, one of the six statues around Oracle Park has been missing. But now, just before the 2024 season begins, the statue of Willie McCovey has returned to its namesake’s waterfront. Earlier this week, the Giants reinstalled the statue on the opposite side of McCovey Cove from Oracle Park, where it has been since it was first unveiled in 2003. But the statue is not in the exact same location it was before; it’s been moved a couple hundred...
OF Ismael Munguia was recognized by his teammates as the most deserving player in his first major-league camp.
While fans of the San Francisco Giants have delighted in the team’s late signing of Blake Snell, others around the sport are feeling some schadenfreude towards Snell’s agent, the infamous Scott Boras. Snell is the third of Boras’ four major free agents this offseason to sign a deal significantly below their expected amounts. The fourth, Jordan Montgomery, still remains unsigned. It led some agents to dunk all over Boras in anonymous quotes, like one in a story The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal...