Michael Conforto and the Giants hope he can return to his 2019 form.
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Happy new year! Correa signs with Minnesota after all of the drama, Giants have twins, Conforto to patrol the outfield, pen bolsterd with Luke Jackson, Belt to Toronto, Longo to Arizona, LaStella released, Murph retires, 8 players avoid arbitration, Giants sign 23 international prospects, is this team actually better? FanFest is Feb 4.
Somewhere in Oracle Park sits an unused Correa jersey.
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Consider this a group therapy session, Giants fans. Eric and Chad try and make sense of how and why the Giants essentially walked away from the deal with Carlos Correa in the 11th hour. Just three hours prior to the press conference that would have introduced Correa and his #1 jersey, the Giants contacted his agent, Scott Boras, and told him they needed more time to go over an “issue” they discovered with Correa’s physical. Boras gave them 5 hours. The Giants never called him back. So, he hammered out a deal with Mets owner Steve Cohen and behold, Carlos Correa is now a Met. We talk through this and speculate why? Also, why have the Giants not offered any explanation. Aside from a short statement, they’ve been on radio silence. This is a PR nightmare for the team, the largest botched free agency debacle in MLB history, and an event that will have major ramifications for this franchise for years to come. No biggie, really.
Joc Pederson hit 3 home runs with 8 RBI in the Giants thrilling 13-12 walk-off victory against th New York Mets. He hit another homerun in his first at bat in the next game for 4 homers in 7 at bats. (photo USATSI)
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The Giants are having a rough week and a rough month, but the last two games have given us a respite from the storm. Will Joctober’s 3 homerun performance be the Tauchman-like catalyst they need? We discuss this and more in episode 253.
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San Francisco Giants’ Joc Pederson hit two bombs in Washington, and four for the week. Photo by Luis M. Alvarez/AP
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In episode 249, we talk about the Giants’ 8-3 road trip…despite losing 3 of 4 in NY! We give our players of the week, roast Angel Hernandez, and a traditional segment, “why the Giants will win it all.”
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Madison Bumgarner signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks in December. The Giants lost their ace and may face him up to 5 times each the next 5 seasons.
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Happy New Year! Oh, and the 49ers are in the Super Bowl!!
We last recorded in November, and WOW, what a difference a holiday season can make. MadBum signed with Arizona, the cheating scandal saw three managers and a GM get fired, Farhan Zaidi is acquiring young talent faster than his hairline is receding. Eric and I talk about the off-season moves, the Hall of Fame vote, the mostly brand-new coaching staff, including the first MLB full-time female coach, Vegas doesn’t like the Giants, and much more in this episode of TortureCast!
Mike Yastremski joyfully runs towards home plate after hitting a game-winning opposite-field homerun in the 12th to give the Giants a 3-2 victory over the NY Mets on Sunday. Photo by Jason O. Watson/Getty Images
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This team continues to surprise everyone, including GM Farhan Zaidi. The men in black and orange have won 15 of 18 and find themselves only 2.5 games out of the wildcard and are now tied for second in the NL West at 50-50…they’re at .500! Every win in July has increased their chances of making the playoffs and decreased the chance that Zaidi will trade anyone. The next 7 games will probably dictate what he does.
Chad and Eric talk about the Giants’ historic July, three extra inning walk-off wins versus the Mets, why Tim Flannery thinks the Giants should trade Bumgarner, who’s hot (basically everyone), the minor league report, the flurry of transactions this week, and the crucial next 7 days before the July 31 trade deadline.
Chad will be covering Monday’s game versus the Cubs, so be sure to tune into twitter @torturecast!
Madison Bumgarner barks at Max Muncy shortly after Muncy deposited a 92 MPH fastball into McCovey Cove. Bum didn’t like the brief admiring pause that Muncy gave at the plate, but honestly, we didn’t think there was much to be upset about. Photo by CBS Sports.
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The Giants just can’t seem to push through in any particular week, and last week was no exception. Although they did win the first game of each series against the Mets and Dodgers, they proceeded to lose the next two games and each series. They also mustered a horrendous 2 for 24 with runners in scoring position against the Dodgers, glaringly one time unable to score with the bases loaded and no outs and again with runners on the corners with no outs in their 1-0 loss on Sunday. Speaking of Sunday, anyone see that Muncy splash hit and the subsequent reaction by MadBum? Yeah, Eric and Chad have thoughts on that.
We also review the draft, this week in Giants history, and who’s hot and who’s not. We’ll be back in two weeks for episode 170.
Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry – San Francisco Giants | Photo: MLB.com
The Giants left for San Francisco in 1958. Because of their move, along with the Dodgers jump to LA, New York was awarded an expansion franchise in 1962. Thus, the Mets were born. Fun fact about the Mets, their uniform colors being orange and blue is a nod to the Giants and Dodgers who left town. That’s what I’ve always known and apparently it’s true.
There were still Giants fans left in the city of New York. My father was one of them, and he’s the reason I want to write about a Sunday doubleheader at Shea Stadium in 1964. He was there, and this is one of the stories I grew up listening to that made me a Giants fan today. Who knows if the account I was given was totally true, but who cares? It’s Giants lore, and I ate it up. Let’s dig in to the day. Continue reading →
Willie, Chad and Eric soak in the post-wild card game glory of another legendary performance by Madison Bumgarner and another unlikely postseason hero as Conor Gillaspie hits a 3-run homer in the 9th to defeat the Mets 3-0 and move on to face the best team in the majors, the Chicago Cubs.
The Giants have now won 11 consecutive postseason series, tying the Yankees, and Bum has 23 scoreless innings in elimination games in the postseason, and lowers his road postseason ERA to a microscopic 0.50, easily the best in the history of baseball.
We revel in the stats, the momentum and talk about how the pressure now is really on the Cubs.
Somehow, some way, the Giants figured out how to win five of their last six games, including a sweep of the Dodgers at AT&T Park to stave off the also-surging Cardinals by one game.
Their reward? At least one postseason game. But, what a game this will be with postseason hero Madison Bumgarner dueling Thor himself, Noah Syndergard at Citi Field on Wednesday night.
The whole crew (Chad, Eric, Willie and Ben) talk about this magical one game of barf-baggedness. Will the Giants keep their undefeated postseason streak under Bochy alive? (They’ve won all 10 under him). Or, will an unfortunate error, or mistake by Bum produce a heart-breaker for us Giants’ fans?
All I know is that I’m going to have an industrial-sized barf bucket nearby.
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