The San Francisco Giants announced most of their coaching staff for the 2024 season this past Friday night, and Bryan and Doug examine the highs and lows of everyone's resumes. They also discuss Michael Conforto's decision to opt-in to $18 million for 2024 (a bummer? a shrug?) and the player awards season. All that before the (30:50) mark where the…

Bryan and Doug return to evaluate the San Francisco Giants' first big move of their offseason: hiring Bob Melvin away from the San Diego Padres. It's a move that crosses a lot of t's and dots a lot of i's but leaves very little to the imagination. Are there any actual surprises in store for the team or are they following a script written by season …

The Giants fell face-first while running down the stretch and the President of Baseball Operations' end of season press conference did little to assuage any fears that next year would be different. Bryan and Doug delve into the obvious but also deeper meanings of some of the highlights from Farhan Zaidi's conference and toy with the premise that we…

The San Francisco Giants fired their manager in an attempt to course correct, but it's a maneuver that might create more questions than it answers. Bryan and Doug look at Farhan Zaidi's lame duck status, the termination itself, and how nothing can meaningfully change restrictions put in place by ownership. After a terrible 79-83 season, the team en…

Bryan and Doug try to pull out some positives from the collapsing structure that was the 2023 San Francisco Giants season. The problem is the list of negatives is much longer and fan and player grievances are warranted. Neither host thinks the front office needs to be excused, but that doesn't make them immune from criticism over this next season. …

The Giants are very close to simply playing out the string and that puts Bryan and Doug in a cranky mood. On top of the team's disappointing 76-76 record, Alex Cobb's season and Brandon Crawford's Giants career appear to be over. Bryan also asks Doug some pointed questions about the shape of the offseason. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me…

The San Francisco Giants managed to have a successful homestand, but it still didn't answer every open question we have about these 2023 Giants in what's now the final 3 weeks of the regular season. Do they have what it takes to get in as the last Wild Card? Guess we'll find out. What we do know is that Ross Stripling WILL return in 2024, to the su…

There are just 22 games left in the season and it's getting harder and harder to see what's so great about the San Francisco Giants. That won't stop us from ranking the trustworthiness of their bullpen, once the team's greatest strength. Bryan and Doug also take some time to examine some comments Farhan Zaidi made while the team was in Chicago. Is …

The Giants went up against the best teams in the league in August and looked overmatched; but, it didn't kill their postseason odds and now they have a chance to bulk up over the final month of the season thanks to some salary dumps by the Los Angeles Angels. Even if the Giants don't take advantage of some modest upgrades, they've shown with Kyle H…

The San Francisco Giants called up their #1 overall prospect, the #20 prospect in all of Baseball, LHP Kyle Harrison. What caught Bryan and Doug's eye and why should Giants fans be excited to have him now that he's up? Meanwhile, they ponder the team's view of Heliot Ramos, the utility of Paul DeJong, and swap things they found interesting and conc…

Bryan and Doug reunite after a week off to look at the dreadful state of the lineup, the team's chances over the final month and a half of the season, and state what they've found interesting and concerning about the team since their last episode together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

The San Francisco Giants surveyed the trade market and opted to stand (mostly) pat in hopes of an offensive resurgence, despite most evidence suggesting one was not forthcoming. Now, the pitching has to be perfect in order to win. Is there a chance that the dog days of August could help a moribund group of hitters even for a time or will the team b…

Getting swept by the A's sure does have Bryan and Doug feeling some kind of way about the San Francisco Giants and it prompts them to examine every part of the team. There's also discussion about the team's new jersey sponsor (19:44) and a new Interesting/Concerning segment (33:09) before a quick preview of the Angels series that begins tonight. If…

The MLB trade deadline has come and gone and the Giants came away from it with OF AJ Pollock and INF Mark Mathias. Hardly a haul for a fanbase expecting a postseason run, but the team's strength all season long has been their bullpen, and after another strong month, Bryan and Doug don't see a reason why that should stop, especially considering all …

This episode was recorded when Bryan might've been experiencing a bit of heat exhaustion so apologies for any disjointed speaking on his part. First thing's first. There's a discussion of Run Value for pitch arsenals and within it there's a factual error that there wasn't time to correct before publishing: positive run values are good for pitchers …

The Giants made themselves feel better about a six-game losing streak by calling up their top hitting prospect, Marco Luciano, who is easily one of the most buzzed about Giants prospects in the last 40 years; but, will the 21-year old solve all the team's problems? Bryan and Doug explore that issue as well as the factors that might've contributed t…

The San Francisco Giants have to be buyers at the August 1st trade deadline, right? They've got two big problems: the lineup and the rotation, but they might only have prospect capital to address one of them. Bryan and Doug toss out some names who might be worth a high acquisition cost in what's a sellers market while also throwing out the names of…

Bryan and Doug play Interesting/Concerning after discussing Camilo Doval's impact on the roster. Is he the best closer in team history? Meanwhile, who could the Giants get at the trade deadline that'd help the team, because what do they need most urgently? They also share their concerns about J.D. Davis and preview the rest of the road trip. If you…

If you've paid any attention to the news cycle, then you've heard the notion that the San Francisco Giants could be or should be in the mix for Shohei Ohtani, should they make him available ahead of the August 1st trade deadline; but, does any such deal make sense for the Giants? What about the Angels? Bryan and Doug get into some particulars in a …

The trade deadline looms and it's time to figure out what kind of team the Giants are -- but before that can happen, Bryan and Doug point out some highlights and lowlights from the first half. Bryan calls out one of the Giants' key hitters and his need to do better, Doug explains to Bryan why it's a sellers' market instead of a buyers' market, and …

The Giants might not have any secret sauce when it comes to their recent success with player development, but they do have a guru in Roger Munter who has devoted most of his time to studying, interviewing, and exploring all facets of the farm system and what he's determined is that the team has put together a sound process involving good people. Fo…

Bryan recaps the first day of the 2023 MLB Draft which saw the San Francisco Giants -- that's right, the GIANTS -- get **three** players projected to go in the first round. Have they earned the respect and admiration of their peers in player development circles or simply taken advantage of a deep draft? Only the next couple of days of drafting will…

This week's Interesting/Concerning brings up something that's **really** interesting and **very** concerning. Meanwhile, did Barry Bonds unlock Blake Sabol's power swing? Can the team survive this new run of injuries? Can they handle a terrible Rockies team? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

The San Francisco Giants ended June with the best bullpen in the NL and so it's getting difficult to make these trust power rankings (10:31) have any measure of controversy, but this month Bryan really goes for it. He and Doug also discuss Camilo Doval getting a well deserved spot on the 2023 NL All-Star roster but also mention a few other deservin…

After a series loss in Toronto against old chum Brandon Belt, the San Francisco Giants head to New York to face the struggling Mets, a team that might be sellers at this year's trade deadline. Will the Giants be buyers? And, if so, what kind of player will be at the top of their shopping list? Kyle Harrison and Carson Whisenhunt are two starting pi…

The Giants went into their weekend series against the Diamondbacks perhaps viewed as the underdog in the matchup, but after taking two out of three from the NL West division leader, it's clear there's not nearly as much separation between the two teams as previously thought. Part of that had to do with the lineup stepping it up and another part of …

The San Francisco Giants swept through St. Louis and Los Angeles and took three of four at home against the San Diego Padres. Bryan and Doug take a look at what's been working and what will keep on working. They're doing well, looking great, and while they do have some concerns (mainly, the starting rotation), there's plenty of positives to take in…

Is Luis Matos the next Ronald Acuna Jr.? Probably not, but the Los Angeles Dodgers sure did treat the San Francisco Giants' rookie like it on their way to getting swept this weekend in their home stadium. That's right: the Giants are good. Better than a .500 team, and in sort of an all hands on deck situation, their run of success is thanks to ever…

Luis Matos and Keaton Winn join Casey Schmitt and Patrick Bailey as part of the Giants' youth movement and the team is already starting to see dividends. Have the Giants achieved their final form? Meanwhile, Bryan and Doug take a look at some real life heartache as they briefly discuss what's going on with the A's before jumping into a preview of t…

The San Francisco Giants went 4-2 this week thanks in part to solid pitching, but the bigger news was the preponderance of great news coming from the bats in Double-A and Triple-A. Has the organization really put it all together in player development? Dare we hope to dream? Of course, the biggest news happened right as we ended our recording: Brand…

The San Francisco Giants have seen their bullpen flip the switch from BAD to GOOD and Bryan and Doug capture it all in the legally-binding, absolutely definitive ranking of how to trust every arm. Thing is, the turnaround was so stark that ranking low on the list shouldn't qualify as some sort of an insult. Ryan Walker, Tristan Beck, even Sean Mana…

Welcome to our first mailbag episode of the 2023 season! Please note: this episode was recorded before the news Sunday evening that Roger Craig had passed away. Bryan and Doug will discuss Craig's legacy on Thursday as the Chroncast shifts to a twice a week format. This week, we're grateful for our listener questions, which dwell on the Giants' rec…

A successful week doesn't bring much to critique, and the San Francisco Giants have managed to weather the losses of Joc Pederson, Austin Slater, and now Thairo Estrada with aplomb, thanks to Casey Schmitt, Michael Conforto, and now even Mitch Haniger. There's also the matter of young catcher Patrick Bailey, whose skill with the glove could be the …

How much of the Schmitt and Bailey callups is the result of panic and how much have they been the result of nimble risk assessment paired with data from the first quarter of an MLB featuring new rules? Bryan and Doug try to reverse engineer the San Francisco Giants' decision-making that has led some recent moves that have netted the team some badly…

Last week, Bryan and Doug ranked the relatively weak talent of the San Francisco Giants bullpen and this week they tackle the relatively weak 2-5 showing from the entire team this past week. Sure, the big headline grabber was the debut of their #4 prospect (per MLB Pipeline), Casey Schmitt, who did great -- very exciting, can't wait to see him play…

Last year's Bullpen Trust Power Rankings saga saw us putting a lot of unintentional hexes on Giants relievers almost as soon as we published the list. Will the team's bad luck hold or will our rankings actually be how the team sees things with the eight guys currently in their pen? Beyond trusting relievers, there's some pretty exciting talk about …

We sure did see a lot of dingers this past week, from Blake Sabol's walk-off blast to whatever the heck that was in Mexico City between the Giants and Padres, but despite all that excitement, the cold reality of an 11-16 start begins to set in: will the Giants be able to turn things around? For the first time in a long time, they might actually hav…

**IMPORTANT: Listen to the top of the episode for more details about the GoFundMe for Andrew Bader's student: https://gofund.me/79fd52d2 ** The Giants ended a 1-7 stretch with their first two-game winning streak of the season by splitting a four-game series with the red hot Mets. Now they'll look to build off this success over the next six games, f…

The Giants did not have a good week and to talk about it we've brought in the estimable Wendy Thurm who writes about MLB on her Substack, Hanging Sliders. Does the concerning play portend a rough season or given that we're just 14 games into the season, is there not plenty of time to turn things around? They also preview the week ahead, discuss the…

This week, Bryan and Doug find a lot of positives in their 4-5 start on both the pitching and hitting sides of the ball. Was it all really just a bad week of Ross Stripling that has left a sour taste in the mouths of some Giants fans? They also take a look at a couple of pitch clock-induced violations that have a very simple explanation but which s…

The Giants leave New York with a pair of shutout losses under their belt but Bryan and Doug find a few shreds of positives to take from the season-opening series loss against the Yankees. Obviously, they might've fared better had Aaron Judge been in their lineup as opposed to the other team'sm but it wasn't meant to be! On the other hand, maybe Cas…

With Opening Day later this week, hosts from Fans First Sports Network’s NL West teams gather together to gas up their own division, talk some trash about each other’s favorite teams, but also preview and assess the goings on with the Dodgers, Padres, Giants, Rockies, and Diamondbacks. Come get to know hosts from the Dodgers podcast (Three Inning S…

A quick tour of the NL West compels Bryan and Doug to state their fears about each team before diving into a segment on predictions about the 2023 Giants: who will be the best hitter? Best pitcher? Which reliever will suddenly turn rotten? Will the Giants trade Marco Luciano? Will Mitch Haniger and Michael Conforto combine to play in 200 games? Fin…

Ah yes, Baseball. The noble 162-game quest that spans spring, summer, and fall. One team stands above the fray if for no other reason than its name: the Giants. Bryan Murphy and Doug Bruzzone are just two humble observers of the San Francisco Giants, moving through the Baseball landscape, sometimes terrifying their opponents, sometimes scaring thei…

There was quite a lot of news on the first day of Spring Training for the 2023 Giants, starting with some injury concerns but then followed up by some surprise position player news. That's right, in this podcast finale, Bryan & Doug go through the news and talk about what they're excited to see in the new season before delving into your mail questi…

What didn't happen for the Giants this past offseason got the headlines, but the team still managed to make some moves that were a part of their master plan. Do they add up to a much better team than last season? Do the new players recreate the lost players in the aggregate? Do these moves and the way everything shook out help or hinder the team ne…

Like Carlos Rodon and Kevin Gausman before him, the San Francisco Giants allowed Carlos Correa to walk. The publicly stated reason was over a difference of opinion on his medical report. The publicly public fallout doesn’t have such a simple reason. Why did the Giants let the situation get so chaotic? The Giants maybe don’t owe anybody — the fans, …

With all due respect to Mitch Haniger, the Giants just added the most impactful player of the offseason in Carlos Correa, and all it cost them was $350 million spread out over 13 years. It's almost a bargain in the modern baseball market. Bryan and Doug go full fanatic in their conversation about all the plusses of the deal and how much he impacts …

Who knows how the Giants offseason will wind up, but all Bryan and Doug can talk about is where it is now. Six weeks or so ago, so much hope. Now, no hope and no Aaron Judge. Or Brandon Nimmo. Or Kodai Senga. Who's to blame (Bryan and Doug have a firm answer). And does it really matter whose fault it is (yes and no)? Judge's denial isn't the first …

The return of Doug’s Bullpen Trust Power Rankings coincided with an historic yet confounding season that saw the Giants’ bullpen pitch a franchise-record 650 innings, besting their previous record of 623.2 innings pitched, which they hit last year. Before that, you’d have to go all the way back to the pre-pandemic days to find any other season in w…