Gabe Kapler might need years to match the popularity of his predecessors with the San Francisco Giants. Farhan Zaidi believes he will get there eventually. Kapler has been hired as San Francisco's manager a month after being fired from the same job by the Philadelphia Phillies. ...
Madison Bumgarner receives qualifying offer from Giants, could stay in San Francisco
Madison Bumgarner has received a $17.8 million qualifying offer from the San Francisco Giants, a move that likely will decrease demand for him in the free-agent market. San Francisco's decision Monday means a team signing Bumgarner would lose at least one pick in next year's ...
Longtime player, broadcast Ron Fairly, a two-time All-Star, dies at 81
Ron Fairly, a two-time All-Star during his 21-year playing career and a longtime broadcaster for three teams with a folksy style of calling games, has died. He was 81. The Seattle Mariners announced his death on Wednesday. Fairly spent 50 years in baseball as a ...
Gerrit Cole reaches 300 strikeouts for season as Astros clinch playoff berth
Gerrit Cole wanted to get his milestone strikeout at home, and he accomplished the feat in an important win for the Houston Astros. Cole struck out 10 batters, including his 300th of the season, in eight strong innings, Yuli Gurriel and Jose Altuve homered and ...
Former Kintetsu Buffaloes slugger Ralph Bryant holds kids clinic
Ralph Bryant is 58 years old and hasn't played top-level baseball since his final season with the Kintetsu Buffaloes in 1995. But on Thursday morning, he was wearing a baseball glove and needed to call on his old reflexes again to keep up with an ...
Kenta Maeda threw five-plus scoreless innings in a no-decision as the Los Angeles Dodgers squandered a two-run lead, allowing the San Francisco Giants to edge them 3-2 in Monday night's series opener. Maeda scattered seven hits, walked two and struck out three, and was relieved ...
The latest team to join the Bryce Harper sweepstakes is the San Francisco Giants, according to a multiple reports on Wednesday. Highly sought free agent outfielder reportedly met with Giants executives this week, putting San Francisco in the mix with the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White ...
Oracle pays more than $200 million to rename Giants' ballpark
Oracle Corp. has bought the naming rights to the San Francisco Giants' stadium for more than $200 million, according to people familiar with the matter — a second deal to boost its brand image by sponsoring a hometown sports facility in the San Francisco ...
Fighters' Kensuke Tanaka announces plan to retire after next season
Former major leaguer Kensuke Tanaka said Tuesday he will retire at the end of his 20th and final season with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters next year. "(Next year) is my last year. I'll give it everything I've got until the final ball to be ...
Versatile broadcaster Hank Greenwald, longtime voice of San Francisco Giants, dies at 83
Longtime San Francisco Giants broadcaster Hank Greenwald has died at 83. The Giants say he died Monday after battling heart and kidney complications. Greenwald spent 16 seasons as the team's play-by-play broadcaster. He called Giants games on radio from 1979-86 before leaving for a two-year stint ...
