John Shea
Baseball Writer at The San Francisco Standard
Baseball writer at the @sfstandard — [email protected]. Biographer of Willie Mays ("24,” a New York Times bestseller) and Rickey Henderson ("Off Base").
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sfstandard.com | John Shea
Want the latest Bay Area sports news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to receive regular email newsletters, including “The Dime.”By acquiring superstar Rafael Devers in a stunning trade with the Red Sox, Buster Posey pulled off the transaction heard ‘round the baseball world and put the entire industry on notice that the Giants are going for it in 2025.
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sfstandard.com | John Shea
Want the latest Bay Area sports news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to receive regular email newsletters, including “The Dime.”Buster Posey likes to check boxes. Before he hired his top lieutenants, before he solidified his Opening Day roster, before he shook up his roster two weeks ago, he made sure to check boxes to confirm everyone was the right fit.
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sfstandard.com | John Shea
Want the latest Bay Area sports news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to receive regular email newsletters, including “The Dime.” Giants fans have waited a long time for this. Once they took a glimpse at the 2025 schedule, the oddity was glaring. The first games against the Dodgers weren’t until mid-June. At Dodger Stadium, no less. The season’s third month. Eleventh week. Finally, the Giants’ 70th game will be their first facing Dodger blue.
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sfstandard.com | John Shea
Want the latest Bay Area sports news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to receive regular email blasts, plus “The Dime,” our twice-weekly sports newsletter. Willie McCovey was so private, so modest, and so humble that he didn’t find it necessary to seek attention. Unless he suited up on a baseball field, where he embraced the attention as the most feared hitter of his era, he was fine out of the spotlight.
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sfstandard.com | John Shea
Want the latest Bay Area sports news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to receive regular email blasts, plus “The Dime,” our twice-weekly sports newsletter. When Dominic Smith opted out of his minor-league deal with the Yankees, he didn’t necessarily think the Giants would be his next employers. “To be honest, there were a few other teams,” Smith said. “When the Giants called, obviously, it made the most sense.”For a few reasons.
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The Giants make a statement against the Dodgers and reheat baseball’s oldest rivalry, from our @DannyEmerman https://t.co/GeM4MgksOj
Mostly a Giants slant to this month’s Standard’s Sports Quiz https://t.co/rSeheGDV7Y
Interesting comments from Giants GM Zack Minasian on eve of first Giant-Dodger series of 2025 - the effects of the roster shakeup, LaMonte Wade Jr. trade talks with his brother and why Tommy Lasorda (“Uncle Tom”) was such an influential person in his life: https://t.co/qNZfSXbsot
