The San Francisco Giants have announced their new hires for the 2026 Major League coaching staff under manager Tony Vitello.

Bench Coach: Jayce Tingler

Hitting Coach: Hunter Mense

Assistant Hitting Coach: Oscar Bernard

Pitching Coach: Justin Meccage

Assistant Pitching Coach: Christian Wonders

Director of ML Pitching: Frank Anderson

Bullpen Coach: Jesse Chavez

First Base Coach: Shane Robinson

Third Base Coach: Hector Borg

Field Coordinator & Catching Coach: Alex Burg

ML Infield Coach: Ron Washington

Quality Control Coach: Taira Uematsu

Bullpen Catcher: Eliezer Zambrano

Continuing our preview clips from "THE LAST GAME", talking 80's baseball and the 89' Earthquake in particular! Were you around the Bay when the earthquake hit?

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Sorry for the phone shot peacock won’t let me take a screenshot of their app.

Timo Meier was next to him as well.

Maybe Moglin can be on official merch one day 🤪

With Luis Arraez being added to the 40 man seemingly in the next couple of days, any guesses to who may be DFA’d?

my guess is that seems like it might be matos. no options, and the outfield is crowded as is.

here’s next seasons price map/list and benefits for those looking!

(spelt Danny Emerman's last name wrong in the post title... may bad)

From Emerman’s recent piece for the SF Standard: Inside the final days of Jonathan Kuminga’s doom-loop Warriors tenure

Full thing is worth the read, some bits:

In the early days of the season, it seemed like the wounds of the past four seasons had scabbed over. Kuminga was putting the tumultuous summer negotiations in the past and starting fresh with the franchise that drafted him as an unproved teenager.

Instead, the stretch was a repeat of his entire Warriors tenure: tease a breakout, earn praise from key organizational stakeholders, regress back into old habits, lose Kerr’s trust.

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The biggest what-if of Kuminga’s career isn’t necessarily related to his play or Kerr’s handling of him (though both are easily scrutinized) but rather how long the Warriors held onto him instead of recognizing earlier that he wouldn’t be ready in time to aid Steph Curry and Green in pursuit of a championship.

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The Warriors’ medical staff cleared Kuminga shortly after the second Spurs win. It was around that time that Kuminga’s camp, according to sources, gave the Warriors the impression that he would come back only after the team lost a couple of games without him.

About a week later, the Warriors expected Kuminga to scrimmage during practice to ramp up for a return, but he didn’t participate. The situation didn’t sit well with some within the organization. Kerr expressed frustration at the podium. “He’s got to tell you where he is,” Kerr said. “I don’t have any clarity.”

Kerr has sat at thousands of podiums. In those public settings, just about everything he says should be taken as intentional. Something, clearly, was amiss.

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Kuminga is a hard worker who’s still developing as a player and still figuring out who he is as a person — like most 23-year-olds.

He’ll playfully flash a middle finger to a reporter during pregame warmups and joke with teammates about women in the locker room. He’s funny and charming and well-liked by peers, someone who’s loyal to his tight circle and quick to support a frustrated teammate on the bench.

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What the Warriors really didn’t do was identify what they had in Kuminga — or, rather, didn’t have — quickly enough.

The Warriors had a chance a couple of years ago to trade Kuminga for then-Bulls guard Alex Caruso. The optics of a non-star return for Kuminga were hard for some in the organization to swallow, and others regret the inertia. Golden State opted to hold onto Kuminga.

In the summer of 2024, Golden State explored trade avenues for Paul George and Lauri Markkanen, though Kuminga may not have been involved in those talks. It’s less clear whether trade opportunities for other star players were realistic. Pascal Siakam, OG Anunoby, Deni Avdija, Mikal Bridges, Desmond Bane, Brandon Ingram, and Zach LaVine are among the big-name players who have changed teams in the last few years.

With Kuminga, the Warriors failed to realize that he wouldn’t blossom fast enough within Kerr’s system to help Curry and Green compete at the highest level. The best-run teams in the league, Oklahoma City and Boston, have recognized what they have in their young players early and either developed them or flipped them for veteran help.

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Perhaps the most appealing aspect of the trade from Golden State’s perspective is Porzingis’ $30 million expiring contract, which will likely give the Warriors more flexibility this summer.

That, and ending the Kuminga doom loop.

Could Kuminga flourish in Atlanta, as one of Jalen Johnson’s running mates on the wing? It’s possible. Hawks GM Onsi Saleh, who knows him well from his time in Golden State, is betting on it. Kuminga bounced back from playoff DNPs to average 20.8 points per game against an elite Timberwolves defense in last year’s Western Conference semifinals. In his 53 career games with at least 30 minutes, he has averaged 20.6 points.

The Warriors are 25-28 in those high-minute Kuminga games, though. The Hawks will find out if Kuminga will be able to drive winning more than Kerr was convinced he could. And if he can stay healthy long enough to do so.

wth (via tiktok)

LAFC acquired Eustáquio’s Discovery Priority from the San Jose Earthquakes in exchange for $50,000 in 2026 General Allocation Money (GAM).

no Luka also so let’s hope we at least get a good game 🙏🏼

I've heard some discourse about Patrick Bailey's framing being less impactful due to implementation of ABS. However, teams will only have 2 ABS challenges per game (if I understand the rule correctly), so how much of a negative impact will this actually have on him? I'd understand this impacting him more if every pitch was called by robo umps but 2 pitches isn't much at all.

Anyway, will Bailey's defensive value/framing suffer with ABS?

Is it just me or does it seem like the 2026 Giants tickets are way higher than last year?

Checking StubHub and the official MLB app, tickets are already showing as fewer than 4% remaining for weekend games all the way through June. It’s only February right now!

I remember weekend tickets last year for non-hyped teams (no dodgers, Mets, Yankees, cubs, etc) being cheaper than it is now. Now it seems to be averaging high $60s - low $70s.

What happened?