Oracle Outsider

Hello and welcome to my blog! My name is Brennan, and I was born into a family of San Francisco natives and raised during the dynasty years. Even though I don’t do it very often, I love writing about the Giants, and this is my main outlet for that. I hope you’ll stick around.

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A look back at the Giants’ first-round picks since Posey

With the fifth overall pick in the 2008 MLB June Amateur Draft, the San Francisco Giants selected a young man by the name of Gerald Dempsey “Buster” Posey III, a catcher out of Florida State University. I don’t have to tell you who he was. You already know. His selection was part of a very…

The 2021 Giants were an outlier of historic proportions

I think about the 2021 Giants all the time. I’m sure you do too. Whether it’s Mike Tauchman’s game-saving home run robberies, Mike Yastrzemski’s grand slam down three in the eighth, Kevin Gausman’s walk-off sac fly, Logan Webb’s Game 162 home run, or any of the other countless unforgettable memoires from that improbable season, as…

Observations from the first two Giants home games of the year

Over the weekend, I went to the home opener and the game after the home opener, my 77th and 78th* games at Pacific Bell/SBC/AT&T/Oracle Park. I think that’s enough games to be able to make wide-ranging claims about the state of the fanbase. The crowds are so back All three games in the first home…

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