2025 San Francisco Giants Season Thread

Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:
Korean announcers are the best.

By popular demand, another ELECTRIC Korean call of Jung Hoo Lee's go-ahead three run bomb! pic.twitter.com/qqOdoB8Jpf

— KNBR (@KNBR) April 13, 2025

That's awesome! The excitement, and from both announcers. Got me fired up just watching the replay.

Originally posted by LottDMontanaO:

Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:
Korean announcers are the best.

By popular demand, another ELECTRIC Korean call of Jung Hoo Lee's go-ahead three run bomb! pic.twitter.com/qqOdoB8Jpf

— KNBR (@KNBR) April 13, 2025

That's awesome! The excitement, and from both announcers. Got me fired up just watching the replay.

I've watched a couple of the KBO games(online) that Lee was playing in and the fan chants were awesome.

Side note: Not KBO but I've been to a couple of Softbank Hawks games in Fukuoka, Japan and the atmosphere is just so much better than here in the US.

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
Because our farm system is a joke. Pretty simple.

True, but in this case, they had abundance of pitchers. If they were planning on using Hicks as a starter again and with Birdsong in the picture, they could have made Harrison available and added Matos. With Tucker they would have had nice, young outfield of Ramos, Lee and Tucker and didn't need Matos or Luciano. With left side of the infield set, Flores/Encarnacion mostly manning DH for now, and eventually hopping Eldridge takes over 1st base, that would have been nice looking team.

I was just looking at the Giants upcoming game with Phillies and the first two guys I noticed playing for the Phillies are Schwarber and Castellanos (who I really wanted for the Giants to sign few years back) and who were readily available in FA. Those two, added to Harper were one of the primary reasons the Phillies are the powerhouse they are today. If only the Giants Corp conglomerate bustards wanted to spend more money instead of stuffing their pockets every year.

Originally posted by tl57:

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
Because our farm system is a joke. Pretty simple.

True, but in this case, they had abundance of pitchers. If they were planning on using Hicks as a starter again and with Birdsong in the picture, they could have made Harrison available and added Matos. With Tucker they would have had nice, young outfield of Ramos, Lee and Tucker and didn't need Matos or Luciano. With left side of the infield set, Flores/Encarnacion mostly manning DH for now, and eventually hopping Eldridge takes over 1st base, that would have been nice looking team.

It may seem like we had an abundance of pitchers, but we truly dont when you compare to other systems. When you look at the trade the Cubs made, they traded:

-Isaac Paredes, a 26 year old who was an All Star in 2024
-Hayden Wesneski, a 27 year old who has had more success in limited MLB time than Kyle Harrison has had (not as highly ranked as a prospect though)
-Cam Smith, who was ranked as a top 75 prospect at the time of the trade

We couldnt/wouldnt have come close to offering that much for Tucker. If Buster called the Astros and made an offer of Harrison and Matos for Tucker, the conversation would have ended almost immediately. Now, considering I would be willing to bet that Harrison wasnt even on the table, it would have made our potential offer even more laughable.

The Giants just started a stretch of 17 straight games without a day off. That could really tax their bullpen.

didn't get to catch any of the games over the weekend.. but i see JHL made a name for himself

Fitz! This team isn't scared to come back

Holy moly

Adames! Lets go!

Then Adames hits his first homer!

Thanks blue!

Tyler Fitzgerald awakens from his long slumber

Originally posted by tl57:
I was just looking at the Giants upcoming game with Phillies and the first two guys I noticed playing for the Phillies are Schwarber and Castellanos (who I really wanted for the Giants to sign few years back) and who were readily available in FA. Those two, added to Harper were one of the primary reasons the Phillies are the powerhouse they are today. If only the Giants Corp conglomerate bustards wanted to spend more money instead of stuffing their pockets every year.

Castellanos didnt want to play in oracle, most hitters dont.

Originally posted by tl57:
I was just looking at the Giants upcoming game with Phillies and the first two guys I noticed playing for the Phillies are Schwarber and Castellanos (who I really wanted for the Giants to sign few years back) and who were readily available in FA. Those two, added to Harper were one of the primary reasons the Phillies are the powerhouse they are today. If only the Giants Corp conglomerate bustards wanted to spend more money instead of stuffing their pockets every year.

You're not getting those type of power hitters choosing SF over PHI especially the ball parks. For one this team has to show they can win and 2 they have to pay more for those guys, I feel Buster can close but ownership has to really open their pocket books like they did for Adames.