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Called Shots →San Francisco uses at least thirteen different starting pitchers in the 2026 regular season.
Shay Whitcomb is still on San Francisco's 40-man roster on Opening Day 2027.
Carson Whisenhunt undergoes surgery on his left elbow on or before September 30, 2026.
Logan Webb is credited with 30 or more starts in the 2027 major league regular season.
Trevor McDonald does not pitch in a major league regular-season game in 2027.
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Posey starts the winter with the bullpen, and the rotation lost more
At the season-end news conference on September 29, Buster Posey took the blame for the bullpen and said the club's offseason work starts there, with the rotation right behind it. The 2026 record explains why the bullpen is first in line: 16-29 in one-run games, and a relief corps whose strikeout-minus-walk rate beat only two clubs. The 2027 supply says the rotation has the bigger hole. Of 162 starts, 39 went to Robbie Ray and Tyler Mahle, both traded at the deadline, and 31 went to Trevor McDonald, Blade Tidwell and Carson Whisenhunt, whose elbows put their returns at late 2027 or 2028. The lineup the club intends to keep drew 449 walks, the fewest in the majors, and owes $451 million from 2027 on to Rafael Devers, Willy Adames and Matt Chapman. The same week, MLB Pipeline named San Francisco its Farm System of the Year. No take filed.
Tidwell is the fourth young Giants starter sent for elbow surgery since March
The Giants placed Blade Tidwell on the 15-day injured list on September 22 and recalled Braxton Roxby from Sacramento. Tidwell left his start against Minnesota on September 21 in the fourth inning with right elbow discomfort; an MRI showed what the club's injury page calls a moderate to high-grade UCL sprain, and team orthopedist Dr. Kenneth Akizuki recommended surgery. The page lists his expected return as 2028. He is the fourth starter on the club to reach that ligament in 2026, after Hayden Birdsong (Tommy John surgery March 25), Trevor McDonald (August 5) and Carson Whisenhunt (September 16). All four are 25 and were born within 314 days of each other. The club's own expected-return column reads 2027 for Birdsong, late 2027 or 2028 for McDonald, and 2028 for Whisenhunt and Tidwell. The same day, Landen Roupp was shut down healthy at a career-high 155 innings. Two takes filed.
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.
The blister cost Logan Webb two starts and nothing else
San Francisco placed Logan Webb on the 15-day injured list on September 18 with a right middle finger blister and shut him down for the season, ending a year in which he made 27 starts and threw 160 2/3 innings at a 4.31 earned run average. It is his second injured list stint of 2026; he did not start for 20 San Francisco games in May with right knee bursitis. The 160 2/3 innings end a run of three straight seasons above 200, and two more starts at this year's rate would have left him near 172. His innings per start has fallen in each of the three seasons since 2023: 6.55, 6.20, 6.09, 5.95. Over his last five starts he allowed 23 earned runs in 21 2/3 innings. Landen Roupp has already made more starts than Webb this season, the first time anyone on the club has since 2021, and needs six innings across his remaining turns to pass him in innings as well. Hayden Birdsong, Trevor McDonald and Carson Whisenhunt are all on the club's injured list rehabbing from Tommy John surgery. 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.
Carson Whisenhunt's Only Scoreless Start This Season Was The One He Did Not Finish
San Francisco placed Carson Whisenhunt on the 15-day injured list on Tuesday and recalled Spencer Bivens from Triple-A Sacramento. Whisenhunt made eight starts this season, 34.2 innings at a 6.49 earned run average, and Monday's was the only one in which nobody scored on him. He is the third San Francisco starting pitcher this year to lose an elbow: Hayden Birdsong went on the 60-day injured list in March with Tommy John surgery already named in the transaction, Trevor McDonald had his on August 5, and Whisenhunt has been told to have his. Adrian Houser then left Tuesday's game after 26 pitches with what Tony Vitello called tightness in his flexor, and has an MRI Wednesday morning with no result published. Whisenhunt's major league record is 13 starts, 58 innings, 33 walks and 42 strikeouts.
Ten Pitchers Have Started A Game For The Giants This Season, And Three Of Them Cannot Start Another
San Francisco has played 127 games and used ten starting pitchers, tied for the sixth-fewest in the majors against a league median of thirteen. Three of those ten are unavailable: Tyler Mahle was traded to Atlanta on August 2, Robbie Ray to San Diego on August 3, and Trevor McDonald has been on the injured list since July 21 with a strained right elbow. Between them they made 53 of the 127 starts and threw 287.2 of the club's 677 starting innings. Seven pitchers covered the first 111 games; seven have covered the sixteen since the deadline, three of them names that had never started a major league game for the Giants. Boston has named Jake Bennett for Sunday and San Francisco has named nobody.
San Francisco Claimed A Third Baseman Thursday. The Roster Spot Came From An Elbow.
San Francisco claimed Shay Whitcomb off waivers from Houston on Thursday and optioned him to Triple-A Sacramento, opening the roster spot by transferring Trevor McDonald to the 60-day injured list. Nothing about McDonald's elbow changed Thursday. It was rebuilt on August 5. The transfer was a piece of paperwork the club had been able to file for eight days and filed the moment it wanted something.
The Giants Cannot Trade A Meniscus
Casey Schmitt tore the meniscus in his left knee, Trevor McDonald is having his elbow rebuilt, and Harrison Bader's foot got worse. A seller converts what it is willing to lose. None of this was ever for sale.