{"id":279669,"date":"2026-04-22T03:46:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279669\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:46:35","slug":"fanatics-inventory-issues-punish-many-sf-giants-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279669\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanatics’ inventory issues punish many SF Giants fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been more than a month since the San Francisco Giants<\/a> unveiled a new, black jersey. But unless you can physically go to the team\u2019s dugout store at Oracle Park, fans have been foiled in their chance to buy a new jersey by a familiar culprit: Fanatics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like with pretty much every major American sports league<\/a>, Fanatics is the leading merchandise partner for Major League Baseball, thanks to a 10-year deal<\/a> to be the manufacturer and distributor. That means Fanatics runs the official online shop for the league and all of its teams, including the Giants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But that exclusivity also makes it the sole target for fans with a litany of errors and issues. Among the top of the list across many sports is the company\u2019s consistent lack of supply to meet the demand<\/a> of fans. And that sure has proved true this spring when it comes to Giants jerseys.<\/p>\n

The Giants officially unveiled their \u201cGigantes\u201d black jerseys on March 18, one week before they opened the MLB season against the New York Yankees on Netflix. The team made the jersey with the\u00a0intent to celebrate<\/a> the franchise\u2019s \u201crich Latino heritage\u201d and centered Giants players<\/a> from Latin America in its promotional materials \u2014 namely Rafael Devers and Willy Adames, both from the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n

But once the jerseys were available to fans, the online team store offered only two players in the jersey: Devers and Jung Hoo Lee, the Korean outfielder for the team. (There was also a blank Gigantes jersey.)<\/p>\n

Within two days of the unveiling, nearly every single\u00a0Devers option and blank option were out of stock online, and the online store ran out of those options completely shortly thereafter. A month later, the number of jerseys available<\/a> for the new uniform is down to just a few options for Lee in adult sizes \u2014 men\u2019s small and men\u2019s 4XL in the \u201cstadium jersey<\/a>\u201d for $199.99 and women\u2019s small in the \u201creplica jersey<\/a>\u201d for $149.99 \u2014 and two youth jerseys: Lee\u2019s and a blank one.<\/p>\n

The lack of options has left fans in a lurch \u2014 and it\u2019s not just tied to the Gigantes jersey, either. SFGATE went to MLBShop.com<\/a> and analyzed how many jersey options \u2014 which include adult sizes, youth sizes, throwback jerseys of ex-players or retired stars, and \u201cfashion\u201d uniforms that will never be worn on the field \u2014 were available for all 30 MLB teams on the Fanatics-run website. As of Tuesday afternoon, the Giants\u2019 74 options rank 21st out of the 30 MLB teams, with some teams having dozens more options, and the Yankees coming in with more than triple the number of options as the Giants, leading the way with 224.<\/p>\n

SFGATE reached out to the Giants last month, on March 20, to ask about the lack of inventory and followed up this week. The team did not respond to either request for comment. An inquiry sent to Fanatics through its media request portal also went unanswered as of publication.<\/p>\n

Still, it stood out that the Giants\u2019 initial social media push about the jerseys acknowledged the issue at hand. On both Instagram<\/a> and X, the team told fans<\/a> who were interested in buying the jersey to come to the team\u2019s dugout store at Oracle Park. Once there, many more player options were available \u2014 Adames, Heliot Ramos, the longest-tenured Giants in Logan Webb and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But for any Giants fans not able to make it to the downtown San Francisco ballpark? Or anyone crushing hard over Daniel Susac\u2019s torrid start and wanting to rep the rookie catcher, like one fan on Reddit\u00a0said they were seeking? It seems like Fanatics has left those fans out to dry \u2014 or sent them on an overseas hunt to find any alternatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n