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Murph gives the 2025 prognoses for the Bay Area’s ailing Big Three
Final Jock Blog of 2024 and I’ve got bad news for you, Bay Area: No championships this year, kids. (With apologies to Stanford women’s sailing, of course. The canvas can do miracles. Just you wait and see.) The 49ers huffed and puffed and couldn’t blow the Super Bowl house down in February in Las Vegas.…
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Oct 1, 2024; San Francisco, CA, USA; San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey addresses the media during an introductory press conference at Oracle Park. Mandatory Credit: Robert Edwards-Imagn ImagesJock Blog: Early returns on Buster Posey the executive
The Buster Posey Executive Era is finally putting some miles on its odometer — a general manager hire, a trip to his first-ever GM meetings, a 45-minute closed-door chat with Scott Boras, some signature quotes — and now we can start to take stock a little bit. The verdict: Not bad, Buster. What are you,…
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Oct 1, 2024; San Francisco, CA, USA; San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey addresses the media during an introductory press conference at Oracle Park. Mandatory Credit: Robert Edwards-Imagn Images
Dodgers championship raises already high stakes for Buster Posey and the Giants
The catastrophic inevitable has finally happened for Giants fans. As the sun rises on the morning of Halloween, the Dodgers are World Series Champions. Real world series champions. There’s no angle, no quick retort, nothing Giants fans can say about a shortened season with empty stadiums. This one’s legit. On Friday morning, there will be…
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All right, Buster. Watcha got?
Photo: Robert Edwards All right, Buster. Whatcha got? Now that the visceral part of satisfying dissatisfied Giants fans is over— Buster Posey! Running the Giants! Really! Buster Posey! — there remains the matter of just exactly what the new president of baseball operations is, you know, *actually going to do.* I mean, don’t get me…
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Posey presents nostalgic vision of success on first day at helm
As the morning sun rose and cascaded its golden rays over a nearly entirely vacant Oracle Park on Tuesday morning, it brought with it a new era of Giants baseball. The first sunlight of October doesn’t bring playoff baseball like millions of Giants fans hoped it would at the beginning of a once promising 2024…
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Aug 10, 2024; San Francisco, California, USA; Former San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey acknowledges the crowd before a ceremony celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Giants’ 2014 World Series championship at Oracle Park. Mandatory Credit: Robert Edwards-USA TODAY SportsGiants make seismic change at the top
Just a day after another Giants’ season unceremoniously ended with a bland loss to bury a third straight bland campaign, the team made waves on Monday morning, as the Giants announced that Farhan Zaidi had been relieved of his duties of President of Baseball Operations. Not just that, but franchise legend Buster Posey was simultaneously…
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Photo: Robert EdwardsPlay the kids: Crowded IL offers homegrown youth to seize opportunity
Prospects filling veteran injury holes with production, flare
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Isaiah J. DowningInjury update: Jung Hoo Lee’s MRI reveals structural damage to left shoulder
Lee will seek a second opinion expeditiously, but the diagnosis of structural damage likely indicates the need for a surgery that could be season ending.
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Robert EdwardsInjury report: Jung Hoo Lee placed on 10-day IL with dislocated shoulder
A day after Giants center-fielder Jung Hoo Lee left Sunday’s game in the top of the first after crashing into the center-field wall, the Giants provided more clarity on the rookie’s injury status.
