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Jon Miller is planning on incorporating hashtags into his broadcasts this season
Miller is embracing his connection to younger baseball fans and is planning on bringing his newfound vernacular from mobile phones to your television screens in 2017.
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Brian Murphy’s postcard from Scottsdale: What celebrity does Nick Hundley look like?
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — That’s right, another Jock Blog from the sun-splashed climes of spring training, where the Giants open Cactus League play Friday against the Cincinnati Reds.
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Breaking down the Giants’ bench options for 2017
Other than the competition in left field, the San Francisco Giants’ starting lineup is set for next season. The bench is a different story entirely, however, with the club bringing in a comical number of non-roster invitees and players on minor-league deals to training camp to fight for four or five spots.
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Bochy on Giants’ baserunning last year: ‘We were awful’
One of the first announcements the Giants made at the conclusion of the 2016 season was the firing of first and third base coaches Roberto Kelly and Bill Hayes.
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Giants pitcher Tyler Beede freestyle raps for KNBR
Tyler Beede joined KNBR’s Minor League Podcast from Scottsdale as he gets set to take a crack at the fifth spot in the Giants’ starting rotation. But, the boys couldn’t let him go before asking the 23-year-old also known as Young Beedah to spit a few rhymes for them.
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Arroyo off to hot start, eyeing jump to majors in 2017
Arroyo saw his batting average drop from .304 during his days in Triple-A two seasons ago to .274 in Richmond last season, but those sort of growing pains are expected when going from single-A ball to Double-A. Arroyo spoke to the Minor League Podcast’s Cody Pasby for the show’s very first episode, labeling himself ‘ready-to-go’…
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Bruce Bochy reveals Giants’ spring training rotation
Giants manager Bruce Bochy announced the order of his starting pitchers for the first week of spring training action to reporters on Wednesday.
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Buster Olney: Hall of Fame should make unprecedented move and induct Kruk and Kuip together
ESPN’s Buster Olney believes the time has come to induct the pair into Cooperstown, arguing in his weekly roundup that the Baseball Hall of Fame should scrap its rules about accepting only one broadcaster per year.
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Kuiper: Poor rankings of Giants’ minor-league system ‘usually a bunch of crap’
Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper isn’t buying Baseball America’s most recent list of Top 100 Prospects, that features just one player in the Giants’ farm system, pitcher Tyler Beede, ranked 89th.
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Giants reliever Will Smith has MRI, shut down with elbow inflammation
Slated to take over the role as the Giants’ primary left-handed setup man in 2017, Will Smith suffered a setback on Wednesday.
