Brian Sabean might not admit it, but when your team is eleven games under .500 and you suddenly announce that it's time for the kids to play, that's what they call in the business as rebuilding. And when it happens in June, a third of the way into the season, that's called "say goodnight, Gracie." Gone is reliever Jim Brower and Al Levine. Rumored to be going is Edgardo (for Kaz Matsui and Kaz Ishii?!). Over is the J.T.-era as J.T. announced that Felipe wants to start Lance Neikro. Also probably gone is Marquis Grissom, once more DL bound and being replaced by the still hot Jason Ellison. And say hello to your new friends, Jesse Foppert, Todd Linden and Jack Taschner. more ›

How bad are things for the Giants? Well, the best thing that happened to them over the past week was they got rained out. Why was it a good thing? Because it meant that Sunday was a double header and since it's so hard to win both games of a double header, it increased the odds that the Giants might actually win. Yep, it's been that bad of a week for Your San Francisco Giants. Since we last posted, the Giants won one game. Just one. For those keeping score at home, the Giants put together an eight game losing streak (their longest since 2000) before finally winning the first game of Sunday's double header against the Mets. They then went out and promptly got shellacked in the night game. more ›

baseball-related mathematiasis, SFist comes to you this fine Monday afternoon from sunny Denver bearing a first-hand report of yesterday's Giants/Rockies finale at Coors Field, along with a look back at the Giants' performance in past week and a peek ahead at the week to come. more ›

The Giants, who just love their history, are getting ready to sign manager Felipe Alou's son Moises to a two year deal worth something like thirteen or fourteen million bucks, making him their right fielder. He's thirty-nine. Hmm. Felipe and his brothers Matty and Jesus played for the Giants in the sixties, so, from that perspective, this is a warm and fuzzy sort of thing, and Moises hit the crap out of the ball for the Cubs last year, but the whole thing starts to sound pretty crazy when you realize that, with thirty-eight year old Marquis Grissom in center and forty year old Barry Bonds in left, the Giants now have an insanely old outfield. And the rest of the team -- including recently signed short stop Omar Vizquel, 39, and catcher Mike Matheny, 34 -- is pretty old, too. You get kinda nervous about what the disabled list is going to look like next year (not to mention in 2006), and it looks like the Giants' MVP is going to be trainer Stan Conte. And is it too late to get all these guys on steroids? At least that'd help them heal faster when they get hurt. more ›