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Called Shots →San Francisco uses at least thirteen different starting pitchers in the 2026 regular season.
Matt Wilkinson pitches in at least one of San Francisco's three games at Boston, August 21 to 23, 2026.
San Francisco recalls a pitcher as its 27th man for the August 29 doubleheader and that pitcher is credited with the start in one of the two games.
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.
Every contract San Francisco selects between September 1 and the end of the 2026 regular season belongs to a player who is Rule 5 eligible this winter.
Nine or fewer of the fourteen players who made their major league debut for San Francisco in 2026 appear in a major league game for San Francisco in 2027.
San Francisco records three or more relief appearances of four or more innings across its final fourteen regular-season games, September 12 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.
Yunior Marte's 40-Man Spot Was Already Spoken For In November
San Francisco selected Yunior Marte's contract on August 29 and started him in the second game of a doubleheader against Arizona, under three months before the November deadline at which the club had to protect him or lose him in December. Marte signed with Kansas City on June 2, 2022 at age 18, which under the published rule gives his club five seasons, and 2026 is the fifth. San Francisco acquired him from the Royals for Mike Yastrzemski at last year's deadline. Buster Posey described the promotion criterion in public on August 23, six days earlier. Matt Wilkinson was the same case ten days earlier. The counter-argument is five pitchers newly hurt in August, which explains the vacancy and not who filled it. Two takes filed.
Both Of The Arms San Francisco Added Saturday Last Pitched On August 23
San Francisco made three pitching moves on Saturday morning before a split doubleheader against Arizona: Matt Wilkinson recalled from Sacramento, the contract of left-hander Seth Lonsway selected from Sacramento, and Spencer Bivens optioned to Sacramento. Wilkinson and Lonsway both last pitched on August 23, which is the thing they have in common and the reason both are on the roster. Lonsway is 27, was signed by the Giants in July 2021, and has never appeared in a major league game; at Triple-A this season he has a 6.00 earned run average with 45 strikeouts against 49 walks in 72 innings. Arizona named Merrill Kelly and Mitch Bratt for the two games. San Francisco named nobody for either until late morning, when it posted Wilkinson, who had been recalled about four hours earlier, for the opener. Of the 34 starting pitcher slots on today's major league schedule, three were blank at mid-morning and two of them were San Francisco's. The active roster reads 27 men and 14 pitchers; the 40-man reads 39.
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's Active Roster Does Not List A Shortstop
San Francisco placed Willy Adames (left elbow sprain on the transaction log; MLB.com reported an MRI showing a moderate strain of the non-throwing elbow, and the two wordings are recorded here as published rather than blended) and Victor Bericoto (right knee bone bruise) on the 10-day injured list on August 24 and JT Brubaker (bruised ribs) on the 15-day, all three hurt in Sunday's 5-4 loss at Boston. Bryce Eldridge went on the bereavement list and Matt Wilkinson was optioned. The Giants recalled five men from Triple-A Sacramento the same day: Nate Furman, Grant McCray, Anthony Molina, Ryan Walker and Shay Whitcomb. Adames had started 121 games at shortstop and played 1,046.1 innings there; MLB's active-roster page now lists no shortstop among the 26. Christian Koss, a third baseman with 71 innings at short this year and two innings pitched, played the position Monday while Whitcomb made his Giants debut at third. San Francisco won 5-0 behind six pitchers after losing starter Carson Whisenhunt in the third inning to left elbow pain. Whisenhunt was scheduled for an MRI on Tuesday morning and no result has been published. The Giants have used 58 players this season, tied with the Angels and the Athletics for fifth-most in the majors against a league median of 52, and seven of them made their San Francisco debut in August.
The Giants Called Up Tugboat Wilkinson To Start And Used Him For Seven Batters
Matt Wilkinson made his major league debut on Wednesday against the organization that drafted him in 2023 and traded him in May, and San Francisco used him as an opener: two scoreless innings, seven batters, twenty-five pitches, then Adrian Houser for the next five. It is the second time in 126 regular-season games that a Giants starter has been pulled after two innings or fewer by design, and Houser has thrown the bulk innings behind both, and won both. Vitello said the two innings were partly to get Wilkinson on a major league mound and partly to set him up for innings in Boston.
