PHILADELPHIA -- Tara Black has a picture on her wall of her two sons, Mason and Dixon, walking into Citizens Bank Park with their Phillies jerseys on when they were kids. She never could have imagined that one of them would end up entering the Majors at the very same

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Willie Mays thrived partly by turning imagination into reality. “I would go home at night and create what I was going to do the next day,” Mays told MLB.com in a 2008 interview. “It sounds kind of childish. But if I feel that we’re going to have a good crowd

PHILADELPHIA -- Logan Webb couldn’t catch a break. The Giants right-hander thought he recorded the final out of the fourth inning when he got J.T. Realmuto to hit a slow roller up the middle, but the Phillies catcher managed to beat it out for an infield single, which was confirmed

The way that our history keepers and record books mythologize the greatest sports stars and icons of our lifetime often produces a double-edged sword. We develop obsessions with the beginnings and ends of their journeys, hyper-fixating on the environments and upbringings that made them special over the subsequent results of

PHILADELPHIA -- The Giants were already down a catcher after placing Patrick Bailey on the seven-day concussion list prior to Saturday night’s game at Citizens Bank Park. Hours later, they lost another one. The club saw its catching depth further thinned after Tom Murphy suffered a left knee injury in

This story was excerpted from Maria Guardado’s Giants Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. PHILADELPHIA -- It’s that time of year. For the fourth consecutive season, the Giants are bringing back Mustache May, with outfielders Mike Yastrzemski and

PHILADELPHIA -- The Giants lost one of their cornerstone players on Friday night, when catcher Patrick Bailey was forced to depart a 4-3 series-opening defeat to the Phillies after taking a foul ball off his face mask. Bailey started behind the plate, but was shaken up after taking a direct

BOSTON -- When the baseball gods are present at Fenway Park, that’s usually good news for the home team, but a pregame visitor to the Giants’ clubhouse on Thursday morning handed the visiting club some much needed mojo as they pulled off a 3-1 victory and avoided a sweep. Prior

BOSTON -- There’s only so much room that frustration can build before reaching a breaking point. Jorge Soler put that metaphor to the test on Wednesday night at Fenway Park. After hitting a Statcast-projected 110.7 mph rocket directly into the glove of Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers in the

You know it’s really Draft season when the first mock draft is out. Between now and July 14, when the 2024 Draft begins, Jim Callis and I will be providing prognostications of the first round on a fairly regular basis with the hope that our final mocks the night before

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Pitchers are meant to be ahead of hitters. Sluggers need at-bats to get into the rhythm of the season, and that takes time. Or at least that’s how the popular belief goes. But some Minor League hitters are proving they don’t need time at all to come flying out of

BOSTON -- Logan Webb’s April ended nearly the same way it began. Unfortunately for him and the Giants, the right-hander’s starts to bookend the month marked two of his worst in 2024. In Tuesday night’s series opener at Fenway Park, Webb couldn't make it out of the fourth inning for

Whenever a Draft list is updated for the first time since December, there are bound to be a lot of changes up and down the rankings. This year's new Draft Top 150 takes that to an extreme, speaking to the volatility and uncertainty of the class outside of the top

April is in the books, but there’s still plenty of baseball left to be played this season, and you can follow all the action on MLB.TV for a new reduced price. MLB.TV’s All Teams Yearly package, which enables you to stream every out-of-market game, live or on demand, on your

SAN FRANCISCO -- Mike Yastrzemski couldn’t have scripted a better Fenway Park debut when the Giants last visited Boston in 2019. He caught the first pitch from his Hall of Fame grandfather, Carl, and went on to homer into the center-field bleachers, marking the first time a Yastrzemski had gone

The role of the reliever continues to evolve in baseball, but there’s still something to be said about closers. They’re the ones who get the entrance music and the light show just for coming out of the bullpen in the biggest of spots. (Think of what Edwin Díaz has done

SAN FRANCISCO -- Jordan Hicks didn’t record any strikeouts in his last start against the D-backs, but he more than made up for it when he returned to the mound to face the Pirates on Saturday night. Hicks racked up a career-high nine strikeouts over six-plus innings of one-run ball,

There's a longtime scout who likes to say, "The Draft is hard." The 2014 Draft was very hard. It's just one of three Drafts where the No. 1 overall pick finished his career without reaching the Majors, and the only one where neither of the top two selections made it.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Joey Bart didn’t know if he could really be surprised by this point. He had seen things online, and the writing appeared to be on the wall that he was not going to be a Giant much longer. He also had a funny feeling about Pittsburgh. They

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants knew Patrick Bailey would help them win plenty of games with this Gold Glove-caliber defense behind the plate. But lately, the second-year backstop has been showing that he can have just as big of an impact with his bat. Bailey cranked a three-run home run