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The top Giants Draft pick from every season

@mi_guardado
February 8, 2024

The MLB Draft can be a bit of a crapshoot, as evidenced by the spotty history of the Giants’ top selections. Here’s the full list of San Francisco’s top overall selection in each year’s Draft, dating back to 1965. (In years with more than one first-round pick, only the top

24 amazing Willie Mays stats

@paul_casellaMLB
February 4, 2024

From his remarkable combination of speed and power at the plate to his iconic defense in center field, Willie Mays is undoubtedly one of the best all-around players in Major League history. He hit 660 home runs. He's a member of the 3,000-hit club. He won a batting title, four

The best baseball players born on Feb. 3

@oapostrophesd
February 3, 2024

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Feb. 3:

The best baseball players born on Jan. 12

@oapostrophesd
January 12, 2024

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Jan. 12.

Top 10 moments in McCovey's HOF career

@mattkellyMLB
January 10, 2024

A version of this story originally ran in January 2022.

The best baseball players born on Jan. 3

@oapostrophesd
January 3, 2024

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Jan. 3.

The best baseball players born on Dec. 26

@oapostrophesd
December 26, 2023

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Dec. 26:

Most home runs in a single postseason

October 28, 2023

Looking back at Marichal's Top 10 moments

October 14, 2023

MLB.com is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by highlighting stories that pay tribute to some of the most significant and talented players from Latin America in the game's history. ---

The best baseball players born on Oct. 9

October 9, 2023

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Oct. 9: 1) Joe Sewell (1898) Sewell, the first of two Hall of Famers on this list, found his

The best baseball players born on Oct. 7

October 7, 2023

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Oct. 7: 1) Mookie Betts (1992) One of the best all-around talents in the game, Betts was selected by

The best baseball players born on Oct. 1

October 1, 2023

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Oct. 1.

The best baseball players born on Sept. 29

September 29, 2023

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Sept. 29: 1) Ed Morris (1862) Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Morris grew up in California and was one of

10 moments that defined Cepeda's career

September 16, 2023

From Sept. 15-Oct. 15, MLB.com is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by highlighting stories that pay tribute to some of the most significant and talented players from Latin America in the game's history. ---

Marichal, Spahn and the greatest game ever pitched

@_dadler
June 27, 2023

On July 2, 1963, two baseball legends engaged in one of the greatest pitchers' duels in baseball history. Juan Marichal vs. Warren Spahn. Hall of Famer vs. Hall of Famer at Candlestick Park. By the time Marichal and Spahn met on the mound that Tuesday night, they'd already faced off

What was the ‘Shot Heard ‘Round The World’?

@elizmuratore
January 3, 2023

There are moments in baseball that transcend the sport. Babe Ruth’s called shot in the 1932 World Series was one of those. So was Hank Aaron’s 715th home run on April 8, 1974, in which he passed Ruth to become the new all-time home run king. However, perhaps no home

10 top moments from Gaylord Perry's career

December 1, 2022

Gaylord Perry became familiar with the notion that reaching the Major Leagues is difficult, but staying there is harder. The Hall of Fame right-hander, who died Thursday at age 84, spent 22 years in the big leagues. But Perry’s first two years with the Giants, 1962 and ’63, were interrupted

Joe Morgan's most memorable moments

Hall of Famer was no ordinary Joe
September 19, 2022

Good teams seemed to follow Joe Morgan around. Need proof? Not until Morgan arrived from the Houston Astros in a five-player trade before the 1972 season did Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine begin firing on all cylinders. Morgan proved integral to the Reds’ World Series triumphs in 1975 and ’76. The

Giants' all-time retired numbers

September 8, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO -- When Cooperstown calls, the Giants listen. The Giants officially retire a player's number when he reaches the Hall of Fame. They've made two exceptions, placing left fielder Barry Bonds' No. 25 off-limits in 2018 and retiring Will Clark's No. 22 in 2022. Of course, Bonds possesses enough

Willie Mays' most memorable moments

May 7, 2022

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

Evan Longoria's top 10 moments

@adamdberry
March 28, 2022

ST. PETERSBURG -- As the Rays’ best young player during the club’s rise from perennial cellar-dweller to American League East powerhouse, Evan Longoria quickly became one of the faces of baseball at the beginning of his career. He cemented that status by delivering one of the most memorable moments in

The top Giants not in the Hall of Fame

@mi_guardado
January 31, 2022

The Giants are well represented in Cooperstown. Sixty players, managers, executives and broadcasters with ties to the New York and San Francisco Giants are members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, including 25 inductees who spent the bulk of their careers with the organization. But the club has also

How ‘Bye Bye Baby’ became a Giant hit

@mi_guardado
January 7, 2022

If you’ve attended a game at Oracle Park or tuned in to a Giants television broadcast, chances are you’re familiar with the team’s unofficial anthem: “Bye Bye Baby.” The peppy song usually plays at the waterfront ballpark and on the Giants’ broadcasts at the end of each half-inning in which

Here are the 6 Giants to win ROY honors

@mi_guardado
December 17, 2021

The Giants have seen a fair share of rookie phenoms pass through the organization and make big splashes at the outset of their careers. Here’s a look back at the six Giants to win the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s National League Rookie of the Year Award, which was established

10 players you forgot were Giants

December 1, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO -- The collection of Giants alumni is as intriguing as it is iconic. For every superstar who established Hall of Fame credentials with San Francisco (Willie Mays, Willie McCovey and Juan Marichal, for example), there was a Cooperstown inductee who made a forgotten or relatively unheralded cameo appearance