{"id":335000,"date":"2026-05-27T21:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335000\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:59:08","slug":"are-the-san-francisco-giants-this-seasons-most-disappointing-mlb-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335000\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the San Francisco Giants this season’s most disappointing MLB team?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the latest episode of \u201cBaseball Bar-B-Cast,\u201d Jomboy Media\u2019s Jolly Olive joined Jordan Shusterman, and one of the topics of conversation was MLB\u2019s most disappointing teams so far this season. The hosts dove into this subject by drafting their picks for most disappointing, with Olive selecting the San Francisco Giants<\/a> \u2014 not the New York Mets<\/a> \u2014 with the No. 1 pick.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis team, unlike the Mets, can\u2019t pivot and chalk this up as a transition year,\u201d Olive said. \u201cThis team is locked. This is the team. \u2026 There is no way out for this team. There is only maybe two players on this team that could be sold at the deadline, even if they want to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As Olive laid out, the Giants captured a lot of headlines in the offseason \u2014 by moving Jung Hoo Lee<\/a> out of center, signing Luis Arr\u00e1ez<\/a> to play second base and hiring manager Tony Vitello from the college ranks \u2014 but all of that has not worked.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has blown up in a catastrophic way, to the point where even the Giants cannot hang their hat on the fact that they are around the middle,\u201d he said. Unlike the past four years, in which the Giants played .500 baseball, they\u2019re 11 games under .500 at 22-33 with June approaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re not getting pitching, even from the guys they\u2019ve counted on in prior years. They\u2019re not hitting at all. They\u2019re not playing great defense, either. They don\u2019t really seem to do anything well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Much of these same criticisms could be leveled at the Mets, but as Olive pointed out, the Mets at least have the out of many players on short-term contracts, and that\u2019s not the case in San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the Giants, it\u2019s [Rafael] Devers for a long time. … It\u2019s [Willy] Adames for five more years. It\u2019s [Matt] Chapman for four more years,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the team, and I don\u2019t know what they do to fix this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shusterman then noted that Arr\u00e1ez is, in fact, on a one-year deal, but he is one of the only things going right for the Giants, both offensively and defensively. \u201cHe\u2019s probably the one you\u2019re going to trade, which is kind of sad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI also believed in Luis Arr\u00e1ez,\u201d Shusterman continued. \u201c\u2026 Did I think he was going to be a plus-10 OAA? No. Did I think he could play second base if he worked with Ron Washington and was healthy? Yeah, I did. And I also thought he could hit and could be helpful, but in this lineup, it\u2019s like, who cares?\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps the biggest disappointment for Shusterman is the letdown of the first year of the Tony V. era in San Francisco. Hired from the University of Tennessee in October, Vitello represented a bold swing and an unprecedented move by the Giants.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted the Tony Vitello experiment to happen with an organization that would give him a chance to succeed,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026 This doesn\u2019t even feel like a fair representation of Tony Vitello in any sense because this roster and, frankly, a lot of the organization is not in a great place.\u201d<\/p>\n

To hear more of Olive\u2019s and Shusterman\u2019s thoughts on this season\u2019s most disappointing teams and other MLB topics, listen to \u201cBaseball Bar-B-Cast\u201d wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the latest episode of \u201cBaseball Bar-B-Cast,\u201d Jomboy Media\u2019s Jolly Olive joined Jordan Shusterman, and one of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[138455,13495,72189,73483,3674,101,4820,103,102,104,106,105,10892],"class_list":["post-335000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-disappointing-teams","tag-jordan-shusterman","tag-jung-hoo-lee","tag-luis-arraez","tag-new-york-mets","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-tony-vitello"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}