- Position
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- Number
- #46
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On the record
Called Shots →San Francisco uses at least thirteen different starting pitchers in the 2026 regular season.
Blade Tidwell's walk rate as a Giant will regress toward his minor league rate rather than hold: he finishes the 2026 season at 3.0 walks per nine innings or worse in the major leagues.
Tidwell does not complete seven innings in any major league game for San Francisco this season.
In at least one of San Francisco's four games from August 28 through August 31, the pitcher credited with the start is credited with fewer than three innings pitched.
San Francisco finishes the 2026 regular season with fewer bases on balls than any other club in Major League Baseball. Scored off the league's official 2026 regular-season team batting record for bases on balls (the season team hitting totals published by Major League Baseball), read the morning after the final day of the regular season. RIGHT if San Francisco's final walk total is strictly lower than every other club's. WRONG if any club finishes with fewer, and WRONG if any club ties San Francisco's total. Intentional walks count, exactly as they do in the official team total. Hit by pitch does not count. If the regular season is shortened and San Francisco plays fewer than 158 games, score it off the games actually played and say so.
Cesar Perdomo and Yunior Marte each start at least one of San Francisco's final six regular-season games, September 21 through September 27, 2026.
Written about him
Seven of the thirteen men who started for the Giants cannot pitch this week
Thirteen pitchers started a game for San Francisco in 2026. Seven of them are unavailable for the final homestand: Tyler Mahle was traded to Atlanta on August 2 and Robbie Ray to San Diego on August 3, while Trevor McDonald, JT Brubaker, Carson Whisenhunt, Adrian Houser and Logan Webb are all on the injured list. Those seven made 105 of the club's 156 starts, or 67.3 percent. Measured the same way on the same morning, with all thirty clubs carrying 28-man active rosters, that is the highest figure in the major leagues; the league median is 27.2 percent and Toronto is second at 50.0. The six starters still standing are Landen Roupp (29 starts), Blade Tidwell (8), Matt Wilkinson (5), Anthony Molina (4), Cesar Perdomo (3) and Yunior Marte (2), for six games in seven days. Wilkinson threw five scoreless innings at Dodger Stadium on Sunday with a career-high six strikeouts in a 3-1 loss. Tidwell starts against Minnesota tonight. One take filed.
A Rainout In Atlanta In June Left The Giants Needing Two Starters On Saturday
San Francisco's schedule from Friday to Monday asks for four starting pitchers. Blade Tidwell is the only one named. Saturday is a split doubleheader at Oracle Park, moved off Sunday on June 23 to clear a travel day for the makeup of a June 18 rainout in Atlanta, which is now Monday. Ten men have started a game for the Giants in 2026; Robbie Ray and Tyler Mahle were traded, Trevor McDonald and Carson Whisenhunt are on the 60-day injured list, Adrian Houser went on the 15-day list Wednesday, JT Brubaker is on the 15-day list, and Matt Wilkinson was optioned to Sacramento on August 24. That leaves Logan Webb, Landen Roupp and Blade Tidwell, and all three are already spoken for. The club is carrying thirteen pitchers, which is the most the rules allow before September 1, when the active roster goes to 28 and the pitcher limit to 14. The doubleheader lets it add a 27th man for one day, and that exception is the only way Wilkinson pitches in the majors before September 8. Two takes filed, on the 27th man and on the length of the four starts.
San Francisco Traded A Reliever For A Starter And Then Used Him In Relief
Tidwell has walked four men in seventeen innings as a Giant, a rate of 2.1 per nine. He walked 35 in 72 innings at Sacramento this season, 37 in 97 Triple-A innings last season, and ten in fifteen with the Mets. Every other sample on his record says he walks people, and San Francisco is buying about five innings tonight.
