Author Archives: Brennan Dumesnil-Vickers

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 veryContinue reading “A look back at the Giants’ first-round picks since Posey”

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, asContinue reading “The 2021 Giants were an outlier of historic proportions”

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 homeContinue reading “Observations from the first two Giants home games of the year”

Why were the Giants so good in 2021?

Ah, the 2021 Giants. One of the biggest baseball outliers in recent memory. Tied for the 14th-most wins in MLB history with teams like the 2019 Astros, 1932 Yankees, and 1931 A’s. All three of those teams surrounded their 107-win campaigns with consistent winning in seasons before and after, but not the Giants. From 2017Continue reading “Why were the Giants so good in 2021?”

My favorite unknown home run call

If you know me, chances are you probably know that my dream job is to be a professional baseball play-by-play broadcaster. What you might not know is that that’s been my dream job ever since I became a baseball fan. I’ve always subconsciously paid very close attention to what the broadcasters are saying: their wordContinue reading “My favorite unknown home run call”

Farhan Knows Him From LA: A Recent History of Former Dodgers on the Giants

From 2015 to 2018, Farhan Zaidi was the Los Angeles Dodgers’ general manager under President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman. Soon after the end of the 2018 season, the San Francisco Giants hired Zaidi as their new President of Baseball Operations. It feels like the Giants have signed a lot of former Dodgers during Zaidi’sContinue reading “Farhan Knows Him From LA: A Recent History of Former Dodgers on the Giants”

Pablo Sandoval’s 2021 Season

In 2021, Pablo Emilio Sandoval was entering the sixteenth MLB season of his rollercoaster of a career. To very much oversimplify it, he was drafted out of Venezuela by the San Francisco Giants, with whom he made his debut in 2008. He was a fan favorite on three World Series teams there, but left rightContinue reading “Pablo Sandoval’s 2021 Season”

Giants 2022 trade deadline thoughts

Over the past few weeks, “buy” and “sell” may have been the most commonly tweeted words among Giants fans. As the trade deadline got closer, the Giants got worse, as they lost their first 7 games after the All-Star Break. At the deadline, which was at 3 pm Pacific on August 2, the Giants wereContinue reading “Giants 2022 trade deadline thoughts”

On Native American mascots and the Chop

I’d like to preface this by saying that I am biologically 100% European. However, I have two moms, and my non-bio mom is of Cherokee descent. Our lineage has been traced back to Cherokee Nation members before Arkansas became a state. My great-grandparents were born, raised, married, and started a family in rural, northern Arkansas,Continue reading “On Native American mascots and the Chop”