Welcome back to Spring Watch, the San Francisco Giants edition. No, this isn’t your grandad’s Springwatch on BBC Two. We’re not out here watching birds and flowers. Springtime for baseball fans has us carefully examining the intricate shaping of our
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Russell, Darius, Ben and Gav continue the Bat Flips & Nerds review of the offseason but this time for the National League teams. Each team is given a grade based on the traditional 80-20 baseball grading scale. Listen to “Episode
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Spring is (almost) in the air! Warmer weather and brighter days are just around the corner, and with that comes baseball. Wonderful, glorious baseball. Ahead of the Giants’ equipment trucks pulling into their Scottsdale facility in sunny Arizona, our attention
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Welcome back to our look at the Giants offseason to remember, a recap of the players the club have secured for 2023 (and beyond). Let’s get the obvious out of the way: of course it was disappointing, nigh excruciatingly painful,
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For a while there, the Giants’ offseason was looking downright awful. When the club missed out on Aaron Judge in agonising fashion, that was a low point. Then the Carlos Correa saga began; another twist of the knife for Giants
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In the late hours of Tuesday 13 December 2022, news broke on the West Coast that the San Francisco Giants had made their long awaited splash in the free-agent market. Carlos Correa is now a Giant. Cue fireworks and confetti.
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The San Francisco Giants entered 2022 with high expectations. Nobody said they were guaranteed to win 107 games again but there was a certain level of competitiveness expected. After the lofty heights of 2021, surely the Giants would be back
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Wilmer Flores is one of my favourite Giants. If you took a poll among Giants fans strolling through the gates of Oracle Park, I bet you they’d say something similar. Flores is undoubtedly a fan favourite these days, and over
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With around 35 regular season games remaining, let’s look at the playoff situation. As you will recall, the 2022 postseason is a new 12-team format comprising the six division winners and the three wild-card teams for each league. Wild Card
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When Buster Posey announced his retirement in November 2021, the stage was set for his successor to usher in a new era of Giants baseball. The man who would follow Posey was always going to tread a difficult path. How
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