Contest #2: Sons of Johnnie LeMaster "BOO" Men's Shirt (Medium)

Here's our second contest for a "BOO" shirt in men's medium.

Trivia question (this is a two-parter) What did Johnnie LeMaster do in his last Major League at-bat, and against which pitcher?

Remember the rules:

1. All answers must be made below in the "comments" sections. Replies made on Twitter will not count.
2. Leave your Twitter account name in your reply so we can contact you if you win.
3. Do not complain. We don't like complainers of any kind.
4. All decisions are final, if there is a tie we will make up some rule to determine the winner.

Contest #1 ... Sons of Johnnie LeMaster Ladies "LeMaster" Tee

Drum roll please ... our first contest for the Sons of Johnnie LeMaster retro gear giveaway extravaganza. The prize is a ladies Sons of Johnnie LeMaster shirt in a size large.

First the ground rules ...

1. All answers must be made below in the "comments" sections. Replies made on Twitter will not count.
2. Leave your Twitter account name in your reply so we can contact you if you win.
3. Do not complain. We don't like complainers of any kind.
4. All decisions are final, if there is a tie we will make up some rule to determine the winner.

So, here's our first contest ... this one is a trivia contest: BRIAN MURPHY OF KNBR COACHED HIS SON'S LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM THIS PAST YEAR, WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM?

Contest! Sons of Johnnie LeMaster Gear!

Okay, so we went to our "warehouse" and located a few Sons of Johnnie LeMaster gear left over from previous years. The quantity amount for each item is LIMITED, and sizes listed are the only ones that we have. Therefore, DON'T ASK IF WE HAVE AN ITEM IN ANOTHER SIZE! Individuals that ask will be permanently banned from obtaining an item in the future.

Our contest will kick off tomorrow, and we'll have one item up for grabs each day. Good Luck!

2012 "BOO" sweatshirt in size XL (only one available)

2012 "BOO" shirt in size medium (only two available)

 

2010 "Giants Baseball ... Torture" in slim fit size x-large (only one available)

2011 "LeMaster" ladies tee (available only in large)

2012 "BOO" ladies tee in slim fit (available in small, large, x-large)

Time to Bring Back the SF Giants Black Jerseys!

We were going through some photos from the 2002 season, and noticed several in which the Giants wore their alternate black home jerseys on Friday home games. In 2003 or 2004, the Giants discontinued the black jerseys and went back to wearing their French vanilla cream jerseys, then in 2010 they introduced the orange alternate jerseys to coincide with the Orange Friday promotion.

We're not sure how most of you feel about the orange jerseys, but we actually prefer the black jerseys and the matching black "SF" hats. What to do you think? Time to bring back the black jerseys?

Barry Bonds in his home black alternate jersey.

 

The back of the black home jersey

The black alternate caps

2013 Willie Mac Award Contenders

This might a moot topic for an already dismal season, but the annual Willie Mac Award will again be awarded at season's end. The award is presented to the player that exudes the spirit and leadership that Stretch provided during his career more so than any statistical data.  The award started in 1980 with Jack Clark being the first recipient, and last year's winner was Buster Posey. Since 1980, only three players have won the award twice, Mike Krukow (1985-86), J.T. Snow (1997, 2004), Bengie Molina (2007-08). This year, it appears the award has four legit candidates in the running. Our guess is that Hunter Pence, Sergio Romo, Buster Posey, and Madison Bumgarner are in the fore front. Ultimately, our gut instinct says that Pence will get the nod - he'll have the benefit of sparking the club during the postseason last year, and he's been steady this year as well.

Willie McCovey

Career Highs and Lows

The 2013 season is slowly marching towards the stretch end, so we thought it would be a good time to see how some of the regulars will stack up against their previous seasons. As you can imagine, most are having career lows, that's to be expected for a club that has underperformed. However, a few have the ability to set some new career highs.

THE LOWS:
Hunter Pence: on pace to have his worst offensive (HR, RBI) season his rookie season from 2008. His line then was 17 HR, 69 RBI, .322 BA

Pablo Sandoval: on pace to have his worst offensive season in his Major League career. His previous low was in 2010, where he batted .268 with 13 HR, 63 RBI.

Marco Scutaro: on pace on having his worst offensive season in his careers. His previous low was in 2006 where he produced 5 HR, 41 RBI.

Matt Cain: Currently stuck with 7 wins, Cain's last season with single digit wins was in 2008. On pace on having the highest ERA in his career, and has not posted a complete game thus far - that will also be a first.

Tim Lincecum: With only 6 wins thus far, the last time he finished in single-digit victories was in 2007, his rookie year. On pace on setting the 2nd highest ERA in his career.

Barry Zito: Currently inline to set the second highest ERA in his career, and on pace for posting single-digit victories for the third time in his San Francisco career.


THE HIGHS:
Buster Posey: on pace to have his second best season as a Major Leaguer. Only his MVP 2012 season was better.

Brandon Belt: has already set single season career-high for HR, and on pace to set a RBI record as well.

Brandon Crawford: on pace on having his best offensive season in his third year. Has already set a career high with 7 HR, and on pace on matching/breaking his previous career high of 45 RBI. Batting average is also a career high at .275.

Madison Bumgarner: on pace on having his 2nd best season as a Big Leaguer, will most likely set a career best low ERA for a season, and most strikeouts in a season.

Where's Bill Neukom?

After the 2008 season, the SF Giants made their first significant leadership in the front office since the original core group purchased the club from Bob Lurie. They named one of their minority owners, William "Bill" Neukom as the club's managing general partner, taking over for Peter Magowan. Magowan was the driving force in saving the club from moving to Tampa and organizing an ownership group to purchase it and to build AT&T Park in the Mission Bay district.

In Neukom's inaugural season at the helm, the Giants captured their first World Championship in San Francisco. In his first season, Neukom instituted "The Giants' Way" handbook to set the footprint on how the organization would conduct themselves going forward, however, that was lost on the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is the group of Giants owners that have a stake in the club. It's been well known that they prefer to limit the purse strings of the general managing partner and the general manager (Brian Sabean). When Neukom increased the payroll after the 2010 World Series win, the Executive Committee was unhappy that the windfall of revenue was being diverted to player payroll and essentially shoved Neukom out of his role and his share of ownership with the club. They soon named Larry Baer to take over as the managing general partner since they knew they could have more control with Baer than Neukom.

Since his departure from the club, Neukom has been working diligently with his foundation, World Justice Project, and has served as a Lecturer at Stanford Law School. He was previously a partner with AmLaw 100 law firm, K&L Gates, but he is no longer listed in the attorney directory. When fans reflect on the recent World Championship wins with the club, they should look first at Bill Neukom and the footprint he established to bring success to the club.

William "Bill" Neukom

SF Giants Managing General Partner (2008-2011)

William "Bill" Neukom Autographed Baseball

Dave Dravecky's Comeback Game Anniversary - August 10th, 1989

Today marks 24th anniversary of Dave Dravecky's comeback game from cancer surgery. We will remember the day fondly since we were there on a sunny Thursday afternoon. The Giants played the Cincinnati Reds who were managed by Pete Rose. Rose was eventually ejected from the game and it would be the last time he would be at Candlestick Park after being banned from Major League Baseball.

What we remember of that the game was the quiet anticipation of seeing Dravecky pitch again, it was a good size crowd (34,810) for a weekday day game, and we ended up getting our ticket the day before - just $10 for a lower box seat! The Giants ended up winning the game (4-3) and Dravecky was the winning pitcher. He pitched eight innings, giving up three runs on just four hits, and had five strikeouts. Matt Williams had a two-run home run, and compiled 3 RBI on the day, while Terry Kennedy plated the other run. Steve Bedrosian was credited with the save.

Unfortunately, in his very next start in Montreal, Dravecky snapped his pitching arm while making a pitch, and that ended his career. Dravecky spent the bulk of his career with the San Diego Padres, but he will always will be remembered as a San Francisco Giant for the way he fought and worked his way back to the Bigs, and the manner in which he conducted himself after his career.

Dave Dravecky

Our Game Ticket and Photos from August 10th, 1989

Tim Lincecum Pictorial: Past and Present

Watching Tim Lincecum throw a one-hitter yesterday versus Milwaukee took us back. It took us back when Timmy was the envy of every ball club in the Bigs, took us back when he would just baffle Major League hitters all day long. Timmy has certainly had his ups during his career with the Giants, but in the last few years, it seems like some of the fear he once had on batters was gone, along with some of his stuff. Hey, that happens, no one stays the same forever, you have to evolve and reinvent yourself every now and then. Perhaps this year is the year that Timmy has done exactly that, reinvent himself. At the end, he's our guy ...  he was drafted by the Giants out of the University of Washington, and flew through the minor leagues to join the club mid-season in 2007. Here's hoping that Timmy wears a Giants uniform for some more years.

University of Washington (2004-2006): Career 2.82 ERA, 30-13 record, 491 K's

Cape Cod League - Harwich Mariners (2005): 0.69 ERA, 2-2 record, 7 saves, 68 K's

Salem-Keizer (2006): 2 games, 0.00 ERA, 10 K's

San Jose Giants (2006): 1.95 ERA, 2-0 record, 48 K's

Fresno Grizzlies (2007): 0.29 ERA, 4-0 record, 46 K's

Giants 2007: 4.00 ERA, 7-5 record, 150 K's

Giants 2008: 2.62 ERA, 18-5 record, 265 K's, ALL-STAR, NL CY YOUNG

Giants 2009: 2.48 ERA, 15-7 record, 261 K's, ALL-STAR, NL CY YOUNG

Timmy with His Cy Youngs (trophies and French Bulldog)

Giants 2010: 3.43 ERA, 16-10 record, 231 K's, ALL-STAR

Giants 2011: 2.74 ERA, 13-14 record, 220 K's, ALL-STAR

Giants 2012: 5.18 ERA, 10-15 record, 190 K's

Giants 2013: 4.18 ERA, 6-11 record, 150 K's (as of 8/9/13)

Can Bruce Bochy Make it to the Baseball Hall of Fame?

There are currently 19 former Big League managers in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Recently, during the Giants visit to the White House, Larry Baer introduced Bruce Bochy as a future Hall of Fame manager. That had us thinking, does he have the credentials to receive the call from Cooperstown?

Here are some of the stats from the current Hall of Famers for the managers category, we've broken it down by "early baseball" and "modern era."

Early Baseball:

• Ned Hanlon: 3 pennants, 2 league titles
• Connie Mack: 7 pennants, 5 World Championships, 3,776 wins
• Joe McCarthy: 9 pennants, 4 World Series Championships, 2,126 wins
• Miller Huggins: 6 pennants, 2 World Championships
• Al Lopez: 2 pennants
• John McGraw: 10 pennants, 2 World Championships
• Bill McKechnie: 4 pennants, 2 World Championships
• Frank Seles: 5 pennants
• Billy Southworth: 3 pennants, 2 World Championships

Modern Era:

• Walter Alston: 7 pennants, 2 World Series Championships, 2,040 wins
• Spary Anderson: 5 pennants, 3 World Series Championships, 2,194 wins
• Whitey Herzog: 3 pennants, 2 World Series Championships, 1,281 wins
• Tommy Lasorda: 4 pennants, 2 World Series Championships, 1,599 wins
• Casey Stengel: 10 pennants, 7 World Series Championships, 1,905 wins
• Earl Weaver: 4 pennants, 1 World Series Championship, 1,480 wins
• Dick Williams: 4 pennants, 2 World Series Championships, 1,571 wins

Based on Bochy's current numbers it appears he will indeed make it to the Hall of Fame if you compare it to the members currently enshrined. Winning additional pennants and World Series will only cement his future enshrinement. In addition, it appears we are on the verge to see a surge of other managers that will also make it to Cooperstown. Here's our list ...

• Bobby Cox: 4 pennants, 1 World Series Championship, 2,149 wins
• Dusty Baker: 1 pennant, 1,644 wins (as of 8/8/13) *still active
• Joe Torre: 6 pennants, 4 World Series Championships, 2,326 wins
• Tony LaRussa: 6 pennants, 3 World Series Championships, 2,728 wins
• Jim Leyland: 3 pennants, 1 World Championship, 1,743 wins (as of 8/8/13) *still active
• Terry Francona: 2 pennants, 2 World Championships, 1,091 wins (as of 8/8/13) *still active
• Tom Kelly: 2 pennants, 2 World Championships, 1,140 wins
• Cito Gaston: 2 pennants, 2 World Championships, 894 wins
• BRUCE BOCHY: 3 PENNANTS, 2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, 1,504 WINS (AS OF 8/8/13) *STILL ACTIVE

Bruce Bochy

Who Are the Nicest SF Giants You've Ever Met?

We asked a question a few weeks ago on Twitter and received a number of responses, but we felt we should expand on our initial inquiry. Who are the nicest Giants you've met in person while they were playing for San Francisco, either at the yard or elsewhere?

Here's our list, what is yours?

• Tom O'Malley - our 1st autograph ever!
• Jeff Brantley - asked him to sign one card, he noticed we had a stack of his cards, and then proceeded to sign all of them.
• Brett Butler - always made time for fans, broke our hearts when he signed with LA.
• Trevor Wilson - always signed for fans, and was very cordial and humble.
• Robby Thompson - same as Trevor, a guy that truly appreciated being a Major Leaguer.
• Kevin Mitchell - even after winning the MVP, Kevin was a cool cat and signed for fans, and was really good with little kids.
• John Burkett - John has a great sense of humor, we attended his first Major League start vs. the Dodgers, and had him sign the ticket a few months later. He signed the ticket, and then asked "why is it so wrinkled, how come it's not framed?" (w/ a smile).
• Ellis Burks - better known for his days with Boston, but Ellis was a class act, always signed with fans even when he was hitting well.
• Robb Nen - always signed for fans, and was always humble.
• Noah Lowry - just a class act, he was always nice to fans.
• Rich Aurilia - during the early 2000s, Rich was one of the most approachable players on the team, and was always cordial and accommodating when others were not.

Robby Thompson

Robby Thompson - Big Topps Card

Rich Aurilia - Big Topps Card

Who Will Play LF for the SF Giants in 2014?

Perhaps this will be the most asked question asked of the club as the current season winds down - who's playing LF for the Giants next year. At the moment, it's clear that the Blanco - Torres tandem is clearly not working and is not a viable solution for our LF woes. In the first week, Kieschnick looks like a viable possibility, but to tag him as our regular LF for 2014 might be asking for too much. Clearly, the club doesn't have anyone else in the minors to turn to.

At the moment, the club has over $84M committed to players for 2014, that includes the $7M buyout for Zito. Then add possible one year deal offers to Pence, Lincecum, and Lopez, and that number can clear over $120M quite easily. Will the club open up the war chest to go after any of the free agent outfielders that will hit the market. Most notably, Jacoby Ellsbury (earned $9M in 2013) or Shin-Soo Choo (earned $7.4M in 2013). Ellsbury and Choo will look both look for offers that will probably earn at least $15M a year - is the club willing to make that type of offer on a multi-year deal?

Shin-Soo Choo

Jacoby Ellsbury

Fantasy Baseball League Wish List

Like most of you, we're in a fantasy baseball league. Our league consists of 14 teams and the team owners have remained the same year-after-year. One area that we wish our league would allow is conducting trades like the Big Leagues. Instead of trading one player for another, allow individual teams to make alternate arrangements. For example, we'll trade you Hunter Pence for your John Doe plus 15% of your winnings if you place this season. Or we'll trade you Yasiel Puig for your first and third picks next season (we have a snake draft).

At the moment, hardly any trades are made in our league because quite frankly it's always one-sided. Give me your ace, and you can have my scrub bench player - trades just do not happen in our league. Does anyone else have this in place in their respective league? Can you bargain based on winnings or future considerations?

How Much Fan-Equity Does SF Giants Have?

How much time and patience does two World Championship give a club struggling? We've always said that we would kill for just one World Championship in our lifetime, but now we have two in a three-year span. Having said that, how much fan-equity and goodwill has the club established? How many years will fans give the club to regroup and field a pennant contending team? Some have said one, others have said five, when a few others have said 10-15 years. How much time are you willing to give?

2010 & 2012 Commissioner's Trophies

A Tough Lesson Was Learned for Younger SF Giants Fans Yesterday

Brian Wilson was drafted by the Giants in the 2003 amateur draft, and up until yesterday, spent his entire career with the Giants organization. He made his Big League debut in 2006, but became the closer for the club in 2008, and in his seven years with the club he amassed 171 saves - 3rd most in franchise history behind Robb Nen and Rod Beck. He was a home grown product that helped the club win it's first World Championship in San Francisco, and in that time he established cult hero status with the fans of San Francisco. However, all that changed yesterday when it was announced that he signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the wrath of fans was immense on social media.

Some fans were angry, hurt, disappointed, saddened, and others felt betrayal. In the end, the key lesson learned is don't get too attached to the players. Players are a commodity and will come and go ... the days of a players spending their entire career with one team is gone. Stay loyal to the club, and you won't be disappointed or angered when our next homegrown products signs elsewhere.

Buster Posey in a Red Sox uniform (Cape Cod League)

The Absence of the African-American Player on the SF Giants Roster

Earlier this year, Major League Baseball conducted their annual amateur first-year baseball draft. Desperate teams and eager ballplayers were joined to the hip as teams made their selections. In reality, it doesn’t change year-after-year ... can’t miss prospects and diamonds in the rough players are selected, and then introduced to the world one-by-one. As the Giants made their picks, something became transparent to us while scanning the 2013 Big League club roster. It’s a club that’s predominantly made up of Caucasian players, and a good showing of Latin players, and one Asian player from Japan.

Now, we all know that in the last few decades African-American kids have been drawn to other sports, most notably basketball and football, but why has the African-American ballplayer eluded the Giants club? Consider this, according to Major League Baseball, 8.5% of the players on opening day rosters were African American, up from 8.1% last year. That made us thinking ... how many African-American players are currently on the 25-man roster for the Giants? Zero. How many African-American coaches are on the Giants roster fulltime? Zero (Shawn Dunston is only part-time).  The last African-American player on the roster was Emmanuel Burriss in 2012, and before Burriss it was Darren Ford and Fred Lewis - all had short lived stints with the club. In 2012, as spring training camp was breaking it appeared that Marc Kroon would make the club as a reliever, but he didn’t and was relegated to Fresno. Even with some bullpen issues (Wilson going down in the first week) during the season he was never called up. Could all of this be the residual effect from having Barry Bonds for so many years? We’ll never know, but it is alarming.

In addition, after further inspection it seems the lack of African-American employees could also apply to key leadership positions within the club as well. Based on our due diligence, it doesn’t appear as if any African-American or any minority holds any key leadership positions with the club. Among the most high profile African-Americans in the franchise are Renel Moon Brooks (public address announcer) and Brandon Evans (Giants clubhouse attendant). Now we know that others will highlight that the club still employs Willie Mays and Willie McCovey, but let’s be honest, their roles are just ceremonial at this point - ambassadors for the club. Oh, let’s not forget about the Hispanic and Asian communities either.

Should all of this be concerning to the fan base? Perhaps ... that’s up to each individual to decide for their own. However, for a city that is diverse as San Francisco, and for a team that has had such a rich history of African-American ballplayers wearing the black & orange uniform ... perhaps the question should be raised.

African-Americans in the Giants farm system:

• Fresno: None
• Richmond: One (Travious Relaford)
• San Jose: One (Chris Lofton)
• Augusta: One (Shawn Payne)
• Salem-Keizer: One (Kentrell Hill)

African-Americans currently on a 25-man roster in the Majors*

San Francisco - zero

Boston - zero

Texas - zero

Seattle - zero

Arizona - zero

Baltimore - 1, Adam Jones

Minnesota - 1, Aaron Hicks

White Sox - 1, Donnie Veal

St. Louis - 1, Jon Jay

Cubs - 1, Edwin Jackson

Colorado - 1, Dexter Fowler

Toronto - 2, Darren Oliver, Rajai Davis

Cleveland - 2, Michael Bourn, Michael Brantley

Kansas City - 2, Lorenzo Cain, Jarrod Dyson

Oakland - 2, Coco Crisp, Chris Young

Angels - 2, Jerome Williams, Howie Kendrick

Atlanta - 2, Jason Heyward, Justin Upton

Miami - 2, Juan Pierre, Giancarlo Stanton

Pittsburgh - 2, Josh Harrison, Andrew McCutchen

Cincinnati - 2, Brandon Phillips, Derrick Robinson

Milwaukee - 2, Rickie Weeks, Khris Davis

Dodgers - 2, Jerry Hairston Jr., Carl Crawford

San Diego - 2, Tyson Ross, Will Venable

Tampa Bay - 3, David Price, James Loney, Desmond Jennings

Yankees - 3, CC Sabathia, Derek Jeter, Vernon Wells

Detroit - 3, Prince Fielder, Torii Hunter, Austin Jackson

Houston - 3, Wesley Wright, Chris Carter, Justin Maxwell

Washington - 3, Ian Desmond, Scott Hairston, Denard Span

Philadelphia - 3, Jimmy Rollins, John Mayberry Jr., Delmon Young

Mets - 3, LaTroy Hawkins, Marlon Byrd, Eric Young Jr.

*Data was compiled from current 25-man rosters as of July 29. Individuals currently on DL were not included.

Brandon Belt - Should the Front Office Give Up on the Baby Giraffe?

Mention Brandon Belt to any Giants fan, and you'll quickly find his most loyal supporters or staunch opponents. Of his supporters, many will quickly advocate patience and his immense upside, and of course his stellar glove work at first base. Then you'll find fans that have grown impatient with his lack of production from a position that has historically been one of the best producing offensive positions in baseball. Now add to the mix that the Giants are spiraling out of relevance in 2013, and the glaring numbers that Belt has produced is even more noticeable.

In 2012, in his first full season as a Major Leaguer, Belt had an unimpressive offensive year. His Major League offensive rankings for a first baseman only verifies that.

113 hits, ranked #22
47 runs, ranked T#27
7 home runs, ranked #38
56 RBI, ranked #25
54 walks, ranked #15
106 strikeouts, ranked #14

Fast forward to 2013 (as of July 26th) and the numbers do not fair any better.

81 hits, ranked #18
42 runs, ranked #19
10 home runs, ranked #23
39 RBI, ranked #23
33 walks, ranked #17
80 strikeouts, ranked #13
.260 average, ranked #15
.335 OBP, ranked #14
.434 SLG, ranked #19
.769 OPS, ranked #16

While it appears that Belt will break some personal records from the previous year,  the point of frustration for most fans is that he's still well below where a first baseman should be from an offensive stand point. The fear that most fans have is that he will eventually be mentioned in the same sentence as Damon Minor, JR Phillips, Travis Ishikawa, John Bowker, Lance Niekro, et al. All former Giants prospects that never made it as a regular first baseman for the club because of the same offensive attributes that Belt currently has. In fact, most opponents of Belt would argue that the club has not had a legitimate home grown first baseman since Will Clark - he broke in with the club in 1986, that's a long time ago. What makes this even more frustrating is that two of the most well known players to ever play  first base for the Giants have tried endlessly to help Belt's swing mechanics and approach - Will Clark and JT Snow. Earlier this year, when Snow was interviewed on KNBR, he even seemed frustrated on the lack of Belt's progression as a hitter, and his reluctance to change his approach.

So now the question is, when should the Giants sever this experiment as Belt being our regular first baseman? Is it time to look elsewhere?

Brandon Belt

Gary Brown - Is the Future Now?

Gary Brown, the Giants first round draft pick from 2010 is now in his fourth season of professional baseball. Later this year, Brown will turn 25 years old, and this summer might be his most pivotal time in his career. Forecasted as a possible regular center fielder for the Giants, Brown has languished in Fresno. After a blistering start in 2011 for Class-A San Jose, Brown was moved up to Richmond in 2012 where he started off slowly, but finished strongly to quickly earn a promotion to AAA-Fresno in 2013. However, his start in Fresno is nearly identical to his start Richmond. Only this time around he's hasn't rebounded as strongly as he did last year.

What makes Brown so compelling is that other Big Leaguers that were drafted from the same class have already made an immediate impact in the Majors. Most notably Bryce Harper, Mike Harvey, Manny Machado, and Chris Sale.

At a certain point, you can no longer can be tagged as a prospect, and Brown is quickly coming to that moment. This might be his make or break summer, perhaps later this year we might see him as a September call up, and he'll have to take full advantage of that opportunity if he wishes to avoid the "4A" player moniker.

Gary Brown

AT&T Park: A Multi-Purpose Stadium

In just a few days, AT&T Park will host another non-baseball related event during the season. On what has become annual tradition, the club has hosted various sporting and music related events at the ballpark in mid-season. What makes all of this puzzling is how the club continues to compromise what is perhaps the best baseball field in the Bigs during the season. Granted, the Giants are currently in a major funk, but still, is the club that desperate for funds that it would compromise the playing field for the defending World Champs?

2013: Juventus v. Everton soccer friendly
2012: Roger Waters concert
2011: Cal Football
2010: Paul McCartney concert
2009: Kenny Chesney concert
2008: Kenny Chesney concert

AT&T Park

SF Giants Under Contract for 2014

Players signed thru 2014 are noted below and their corresponding salary in parenthesis.


Matt Cain ($20.83M)
Angel Pagan ($10.25M)
Marco Scutaro ($6.66M)
Jeremy Affeldt ($6M)
Pablo Sandoval ($8.25M)
Santiago Casilla ($4.5M)
Buster Posey ($11.27M)
Sergio Romo ($5.5M)
Madison Bumgarner ($3.9M)

Club Options on Ryan Vogelsong and Barry Zito.