- Position
- LF
- Number
- #52
- Age
- 27
- Pieces here
- 6
On the record
Called Shots →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.
Written about him
The Giants cannot lose 100 games. Their floor is one game better than 1985.
San Francisco is 63-89 with ten games to play, so the worst record it can finish with is 63-99 and a second hundred-loss season is off the table. The league's year-by-year record for this franchise runs 144 seasons and contains exactly one hundred-loss year: 1985, at 62-100. The distance between that team and this year's floor is one game. Four seasons in the 144 have a worse winning percentage than a 63-99 finish, three of them played in New York. Across the 69 seasons the Giants have played in San Francisco, the best available outcome, winning all ten, is 73-89 and the eleventh-worst season in that span; losing seven of the ten produces 66-96, which is the 1984 club's record exactly. Tuesday's nine starters were Cox, Eldridge, Gilbert, Lee, Basabe, Hill, Cavanaugh, McCray and Koss. Turner Hill drove in three on a single, a groundout and the first home run of his major league life. Seven of the ten runs scored without a home run. Rafael Devers had core-muscle surgery in Philadelphia the same day. One take filed.
The Last Giants Team To Hand Out This Many Debuts Kept Exactly Half Of Them
San Francisco has given fourteen players their major league debut in 2026, the most in any season since 2008 and the second-most in the twenty-two seasons from 2005 on, counted off the league's own full-season roster and debut dates. Buster Posey told the San Francisco Chronicle that the point of the last month is getting a look at players the club would not otherwise see. The 2008 club, which finished 72-90, handed out sixteen debuts and eight of those men played for San Francisco again the following year. Across ten previous debut classes the share who came back ranges from 44 percent to 100 percent, and neither the size of a class nor the age of the men in it separates the high years from the low ones. Two of this year's fourteen are already gone: Wilkin Ramos and Eddys Leonard, whose entire San Francisco career ran seven days from debut to designation. Turner Hill, 27, has taken more plate appearances than anyone else in the class since August 22. One take filed.
