The first spring training under president of baseball operations Buster Posey will look an awful lot like the years when he was franchise catcher Buster Posey. The Giants on Monday announced their list of guest instructors for camp, which starts next week at Scottsdale Stadium, and it's filled with players who teamed with Posey to win titles a decade ago. Most notably, the Giants have invited a few former players who have not had much of an affiliation with the organization since retiring. The championship-era players who will visit Scottsdale at some point are Jeremy Affeldt, Santiago Casilla, Javier Lopez, Joe Panik, Hunter Pence, Yusmeiro Petit, Marco Scutaro and Ryan Vogelsong.

The first spring training under president of baseball operations Buster Posey will look an awful lot like the years when he was franchise catcher Buster Posey. The Giants on Monday announced their list of guest instructors for camp, which starts next week at Scottsdale Stadium, and it's filled with players who teamed with Posey to win titles a decade ago. Most notably, the Giants have invited a few former players who have not had much of an affiliation with the organization since retiring. The championship-era players who will visit Scottsdale at some point are Jeremy Affeldt, Santiago Casilla, Javier Lopez, Joe Panik, Hunter Pence, Yusmeiro Petit, Marco Scutaro and Ryan Vogelsong.

The first spring training under president of baseball operations Buster Posey will look an awful lot like the years when he was franchise catcher Buster Posey. The Giants on Monday announced their list of guest instructors for camp, which starts next week at Scottsdale Stadium, and it's filled with players who teamed with Posey to win titles a decade ago. Most notably, the Giants have invited a few former players who have not had much of an affiliation with the organization since retiring. The championship-era players who will visit Scottsdale at some point are Jeremy Affeldt, Santiago Casilla, Javier Lopez, Joe Panik, Hunter Pence, Yusmeiro Petit, Marco Scutaro and Ryan Vogelsong.

The first spring training under president of baseball operations Buster Posey will look an awful lot like the years when he was franchise catcher Buster Posey. The Giants on Monday announced their list of guest instructors for camp, which starts next week at Scottsdale Stadium, and it's filled with players who teamed with Posey to win titles a decade ago. Most notably, the Giants have invited a few former players who have not had much of an affiliation with the organization since retiring. The championship-era players who will visit Scottsdale at some point are Jeremy Affeldt, Santiago Casilla, Javier Lopez, Joe Panik, Hunter Pence, Yusmeiro Petit, Marco Scutaro and Ryan Vogelsong.

The first spring training under president of baseball operations Buster Posey will look an awful lot like the years when he was franchise catcher Buster Posey. The Giants on Monday announced their list of guest instructors for camp, which starts next week at Scottsdale Stadium, and it's filled with players who teamed with Posey to win titles a decade ago. Most notably, the Giants have invited a few former players who have not had much of an affiliation with the organization since retiring. The championship-era players who will visit Scottsdale at some point are Jeremy Affeldt, Santiago Casilla, Javier Lopez, Joe Panik, Hunter Pence, Yusmeiro Petit, Marco Scutaro and Ryan Vogelsong.

The first spring training under president of baseball operations Buster Posey will look an awful lot like the years when he was franchise catcher Buster Posey. The Giants on Monday announced their list of guest instructors for camp, which starts next week at Scottsdale Stadium, and it's filled with players who teamed with Posey to win titles a decade ago. Most notably, the Giants have invited a few former players who have not had much of an affiliation with the organization since retiring. The championship-era players who will visit Scottsdale at some point are Jeremy Affeldt, Santiago Casilla, Javier Lopez, Joe Panik, Hunter Pence, Yusmeiro Petit, Marco Scutaro and Ryan Vogelsong.

Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks shocked the world with a blockbuster trade involving Luka Doncic and Anthony Davis. It will go down as one of the biggest (and most questionable) trades in sports history, and many are wondering what the equivalent would be for the San Francisco Giants in MLB. In what could be considered as the most notable trade in franchise history, the Giants received Jeff Kent and three other players from the Cleveland Guardians in 1996, but that does not come close to the trade that took place over the weekend in the NBA, or even some more notable trades in MLB.

A few familiar faces will be guest instructors for the San Francisco Giants at spring training.

The San Francisco Giants have had a solid offseason to this point and unquestionably are in a better position today than they were at the conclusion of the 2024 campaign. After some big time changes to the roster including a new slugging shortstop and the addition of a veteran starting pitcher who is one of the best of his generation, Buster Posey has stated fairly openly that he feels comfortable with where the team is at, essentially telling fans not to expect any more huge moves. As for free agency, there aren't many significant needle movers left out there, but there is a player who was widely seen as a potential retirement though now is expected to attempt to find another job in 2025. This past week, MLB insider Jon Heyman dropped a nugget within a report about the New York Mets interest in San Diego Padres ace Dylan Cease that another Mets star, designated hitter J.D. Martinez, is planning to play this season after considering retirement a year ago following a long free agency period.

The San Francisco Giants held their annual fanfest in Sacramento over the weekend. Buster Posey, the new president of baseball operations, gave a message that all Giants fans will be excited to hear. "Why are we doing this if it's not about winning a championship?" he said as part of his statement. San Francisco has been a relatively lackluster team after dominating the early 2010's by winning three World Series rings.

Entering the upcoming season, not many people are expecting the San Francisco Giants to compete for a division title. The Los Angeles Dodgers just won the World Series and spent like they missed the playoffs, adding even more star players to their already loaded roster. The San Diego Padres have had a quiet winter and seem to be wanting to reduce payroll, but they still have a top-heavy team in place. Meanwhile, the Giants are coming off an 80-82 campaign and lost one of the best pitchers in the league to their NL West rival.

Buster Posey made an unannounced appearance Saturday afternoon on the third stop of the Giants' FanFest tour, but the catcher-turned-chief baseball officer wasn't the highest-profile guest to visit the home of their Triple-A affiliate this week. Taking cover from an unrelenting drizzle under a large outdoor tent in Sutter Health Park's right field pavilion, the surprise question-and-answer session was as much a celebrity encounter for the fans on hand as it was a peek behind the curtain of a new front office. Three days earlier, the commissioner of Major League Baseball donned a construction jacket over a suit and tie and surveyed the same plot of land with a more intimate audience. A small group of A's and Sacramento officials hosted Rob Manfred at the ballpark Wednesday, with the commissioner commending the “great job” they have done “making changes necessary to host major-league games,” in a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The San Francisco Giants have more than a few questions that will need to be answered when Spring Training gets underway in a few weeks. Who is going to step up alongside new star shortstop Willy Adames, who agreed to a record-setting seven-year, $182 million deal with the franchise in free agency? There is a lack of impact players in the lineup, as third baseman Matt Chapman is the only other one who would qualify currently. Second baseman Tyler Fitzgerald and outfielder Heliot Ramos have the chance after strong 2024 campaigns.

When San Francisco Giants outfielder Grant McCray stepped up to the plate on Aug. 14, 2024, his hands were shaking. It made sense — the Lakewood Ranch High graduate was making his Major League debut, called up from AAA-level Sacramento earlier that morning to start in center field against the Atlanta Braves. McCray had played in big league stadiums before, a high school showcase at Tropicana Field, an instructional league game at Chase Field, the Arizona Diamondbacks' stadium, but nothing to this extent. “The lights just hit differently when there's 40,000 people in the stands and you can feel the stadium shaking,” said McCray.

When Buster Posey accepted the president of baseball operations job with the San Francisco Giants, he knew there would be a lot of work that had to get done with the roster. There is a sizable gap that exists between them and the other contenders in the National League West. The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series in October and widened the distance between them and the Giants with their insanely busy offseason. The San Diego Padres finished 13 games ahead but had some losses this winter.

The San Francisco Giants made a surprising move when they shipped Taylor Rogers out of town. Getting back just minor leaguer Braxton Roxby as the return was interesting, but when it was revealed the Giants would also be covering $6 million of Rogers' salary, that's when this deal really became head scratching. San Francisco has said all the right things this winter about their goal of competing for a division title in light of the Los Angeles Dodgers spending an absurd amount money again, but this move flies in the face of that notion. Grant Brisbee of The Athletic shed some light on why the Giants ultimately shipped Rogers out of town, and the revelation was pretty shocking.

The San Francisco Giants had hoped they would land Corbin Burnes in free agency, a move that would have fortified their starting rotation with one of baseball's best starters. On the young side, there is Jordan Hicks, Kyle Harrison, Hayden Birdsong, Tristan Beck, Landen Roupp and Keaton Winn.

The San Francisco Giants have an impressive young slugger in first baseman Bryce Eldridge, who is the franchise's No. 1 prospect and its only Top 100 prospect per Baseball America. When Baseball America released its latest Top 30 for the organization, six of the top 10 players were batters. Eldridge is the talk of the organization after he finished with a slash line of .291/.374/.516/.890 with 23 home runs and 92 RBI last season.

Taylor Rogers isn't on the Giants anymore, but perhaps his memory will live on at Oracle Park thanks to a unique postgame tradition he started. After the veteran reliever was traded to the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday in exchange for right-handed pitching prospect Braxton Roxby, Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow joined KNBR two days later to reflect on the deal -- and give a little look into San Francisco's clubhouse during Rogers' tenure. "It was such a cool thing to have the [Rogers] twins in the clubhouse," Krukow told the "Murph & Markus" on Friday.

Taylor Rogers isn't on the Giants anymore, but perhaps his memory will live on at Oracle Park thanks to a unique postgame tradition he started. After the veteran reliever was traded to the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday in exchange for right-handed pitching prospect Braxton Roxby, Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow joined KNBR two days later to reflect on the deal -- and give a little look into San Francisco's clubhouse during Rogers' tenure. "It was such a cool thing to have the [Rogers] twins in the clubhouse," Krukow told the "Murph & Markus" on Friday.