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PHILADELPHIA — set a pre-dawn wake-up call for Sunday morning. His girlfriend, Bridget Casey, had entered the Broad Street Run, a 10-mile straight shot that started at 7:30 a.m., cut through Center City, passed underneath the gaze of the William Penn statue atop City Hall, skirted Passyunk Square, continued past Citizens Bank Park and ended at Navy Yard on the banks of the Delaware River. Advertisement “I’m just happy she finished 10 miles,” Black said. “I can’t do that.” Black’s distance speci…
11 months ago
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PHILADELPHIA — The were obligated to do the responsible thing Saturday afternoon. Catcher departed in the second inning the previous night because of blurred vision after taking a foul tip off the mask. Bailey woke up with similar symptoms Saturday morning. Even if he were clear-eyed and alert, it probably wouldn’t have mattered. The scientific evidence is unambiguous about concussions, especially the exponential damage caused by repeated blows to the head in short succession. There is no grit…
11 months ago
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BOSTON — A legend returned to Fenway Park on Thursday morning. But Carl Yastrzemski did not wave to the crowd. He did not soak up applause. He didn’t even stay for the first pitch. He has not mingled or shaken hands for years. He was there to visit his grandson, outfielder , before the played the final game of their three-game interleague series here. At just past 11 a.m. the elder Yaz appeared as a blur in the visitors clubhouse, his snow-white hair and bowed back contrasting how fast he doubl…
11 months ago
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SAN FRANCISCO — Bob Melvin has managed 2,964 major-league games over 21 seasons. He’s made thousands upon thousands of pitching changes. He’d never signaled to the bullpen, walked out to the mound and been surprised to see a reliever he didn’t anticipate walking through the gate. Until last Monday in Miami. Advertisement Melvin wanted closer in the eighth inning for a four-out save. He got left-hander instead. And then Melvin got a whole lot of grace from plate umpire Laz Diaz, who took enough…
12 months ago
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SAN FRANCISCO — The squandered last season. He finished second in National League Cy Young Award balloting. He led the major leagues with 216 innings. He matched the New York Yankees’ for the most quality starts (24) and highest quality-start rate (73 percent). He generated 5.7 bWAR, which made him the third most valuable starting pitcher in the majors. It also made him the most valuable player on the Giants’ roster by a factor of two. Advertisement The Giants went 15-18 in his starts. Their…
about 1 year ago
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LOS ANGELES — had come up to the plate 40 times in his brief career, and had yet to hit a home run. He’d yet to sap a stadium of its breath, only to hear it explode as a ball zips well over a wall. His swing. The crack of his bat. That sound has been heard many, many times. His homers captivate a ballpark in a way that others simply cannot. Advertisement This homer-less drought was starting to become uncomfortably long for a slugger who homered once every 13.6 plate appearances in his MVP camp…
about 1 year ago
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LOS ANGELES — The finally have a date circled to introduce . The left-hander is scheduled to make his season debut Monday against the on the shores of McCovey Cove. It’s a softer landing than you might expect for the pitcher who won the National League Cy Young Award last season. The Giants would’ve loved to have Snell on the mound Wednesday at Dodger Stadium against an explosive lineup that he held to a .128 average in four starts last season for the . Technically, they will. But his mound ac…
about 1 year ago
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When the introduced their new manager last October, Bob Melvin with stories about his past connection to the organization, his sense of wonder whenever he walked into the early-afternoon emptiness of their waterfront ballpark, and the times when he’d sneak past security to slide down the Coke bottle for good luck. That is how the offseason began. This is how it ended Monday: with yet another thrilling free-agent addition, a stomach-dropping total payroll investment of almost $400 million in ne…
about 1 year ago
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Predicting the San Francisco Giants’ roster two weeks before Opening Day is like trying to fill out a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket. It’s virtually impossible to be 100 percent accurate. There will be upsets. There will be injuries. There will be unforeseen circumstances. Didn’t have Saint Peter’s or Valparaiso crashing the Sweet 16? Don’t feel bad. Nobody had and starting as the Giants’ Opening Day corner outfielders in 2019, either. Advertisement We’re a long time removed from that first f…
about 1 year ago
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Welcome to this spring training edition of the Giants Mailbagg. Thanks to everyone who submitted questions. As you might expect, the majority of them were about about the end of his tenure with the organization and , who will be paid just 16 percent of the $6.9 million he had been awarded in arbitration a month earlier. I tried to pick questions that were the most representative. Apologies if I didn’t get to yours. We’ll have plenty of future Mailbaggs so I guarantee you’ll have another chance…
about 1 year ago
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players scored what they considered a long-sought victory when the last Collective Bargaining Agreement was ratified prior to the 2022 season. For the first time, one-year contracts for arbitration-eligible players — encompassing most players with greater than 2 1/2 and fewer than six years of service time — would be fully guaranteed. But there was a loophole. And it didn’t take long for a team to exploit it. The were that team. Third baseman J.D. Davis was the ensnared party. In a dramatic rev…
about 1 year ago
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — One day after agent Scott Boras declared in spring training camps beset by rotation injuries, the San Francisco Giants’ potential reservoir of innings got a little shallower. Right-hander was diagnosed with a right elbow sprain that he hopes will respond to rest and treatment, but almost certainly will rule him out for the Opening Day roster. Right-hander , who was penciled into the rotation entering the spring, underwent successful vascular surgery to repair an aneurysm in…
about 1 year ago
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — was headed for the exits at a Chris Stapleton concert Friday night when his phone rang. He pressed it to his ear so he could make out ’s voice over the din. “Dude, we just got Chapman,” Webb told him. The . So had the months-long stalemate with agent Scott Boras. The had reached an agreement with free-agent third baseman Matt Chapman on a three-year, $54 million contract that will include a pair of opt-outs. Along with shortstop , who signed a non-roster deal Monday, the Gi…
about 1 year ago
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The insist they do not have an incumbent in a shortstop competition that includes non-roster invitee and former Gold Glove winner along with youngsters , and . But it might have taken one day for Ahmed to emerge as the leader in the clubhouse. Ahmed couldn’t have scripted a better Giants exhibition debut Friday. He played a smooth shortstop and hit a three-run home run as the Giants won 11-5 over the for their first exhibition victory of the spring. Unlike ’s situation in…
about 1 year ago
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — It was far too quiet in the spring clubhouse Thursday morning. So used his phone to scan for Bluetooth devices. He correctly guessed which one connected to the clubhouse sound system. And he cranked up a playlist. Different uniform. Same Crawford. It took three days after arriving in Jupiter, Fla., for Crawford to resume his accustomed duties as clubhouse DJ. It’ll take a lot longer for many folks to adjust to the jarring sight of Crawford wearing Cardinals red from headban…
about 1 year ago
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Right-hander couldn’t understand why his right hand began to feel cold and numb after he’d throw his side sessions this spring. So the sent him back to the Bay Area to be examined. Team doctors pinpointed the cause: an aneurysm in his upper right arm. The Giants announced the diagnosis on Thursday and said that Beck will consult with a vascular specialist at Stanford Medical Center before arriving at a course of treatment. But given past instances of arm aneurysms in baseba…
about 1 year ago
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — accomplished quite a bit in the span of one exhibition inning on Tuesday. First hit. First run. First time impacting the game with his speed. First time losing his helmet on the basepaths. First descent into a dugout filled to the brim with major-league teammates eager to give him a high five. And because the nearly batted around in a five-run first inning at Scottsdale Stadium, there was the first scramble with Korean interpreter Justin Han to translate the scouting report…
about 1 year ago
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The are making an early statement this spring. By standing silently at attention. All 68 players in major-league camp. Plus all the coaches. The trainers and batboys, too. The entire Giants contingent is crowding the field for the national anthem, their orange hats forming a dotted line like construction cones stretching well past the end of the dugout and halfway to the next mile marker. The relievers and bullpen catchers do not remain hidden behind chain link, either. They…
about 1 year ago
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The are bringing a former All-Star third baseman to their spring camp, but it’s not the name you might’ve expected. Unless you totally anticipated a 37-year-old Pablo Sandoval, who barnstormed through Dubai and Mexico since appearing in his last big-league game in 2021, putting on a Giants uniform again for what would be a third stint in a playing capacity. A source confirmed what NBC Sports Bay Area reported Saturday afternoon: Sandoval, the Kung Fu Panda and three-time Wor…
about 1 year ago
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — hopes to contribute to several winning streaks for the this season. But first, the right-handed hitting third baseman is thrilled that he ended one. Davis beat the Giants in a salary arbitration hearing on Thursday. A three-person panel listened to arguments before choosing his $6.9 million filing figure instead of the team’s $6.55 million offer. The narrow gap between the two figures amounted to a rounding error for the Giants, who have committed roughly $140 million to pl…
about 1 year ago
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The did not sit on their hands this winter. They signed center fielder for $113 million. Among free-agent hitters, only received more. They signed radar-gun breaker for $44 million. Only seven pitchers have inked bigger deals. They also remain engaged on a number of holdouts in the Scott Boras stable of clients — and might end up signing more than one of them. But it’s a franchise-defining star for whom their fans are clamoring. And once again, the Giants’ heady pursuits of the brightest fre…
about 1 year ago
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