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- Number
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On the record
Called Shots →Yunior Marte is credited with at least four more starts for San Francisco between August 30 and the end of the 2026 regular season.
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.
Anthony Molina is credited with at least two more starts for the San Francisco Giants in the 2026 regular season after September 11, finishing the year with five or more starts for the club.
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.
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.
Adrian Houser's Forearm Took A Job With It, And San Francisco Has Been Filling It With Starting Pitchers
San Diego beat San Francisco 7-5 at Oracle Park on Friday night. Anthony Molina gave up nine hits and seven earned runs in three innings; Yunior Marte, who made his major league debut as a starting pitcher two weeks ago and whose last relief appearance before this month came at High-A Eugene in April, threw the next five innings and allowed nothing. It was the tenth time in 148 games a Giants reliever has thrown more innings than that day's Giants starter. Adrian Houser was the reliever in six of the first seven. He has been on the injured list since August 26 with a right forearm strain and was moved to the 60-day list on September 1. Rafael Devers hit his 36th home run, a grand slam off Robbie Ray in the fifth, and San Francisco scored nothing after it. Two takes 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.
San Francisco Used The Same Roster Spot For Two Major League Debuts On Saturday
San Francisco handed out two major league debuts on Saturday, eight hours apart, and used one active-roster spot to do it. Seth Lonsway, 27, threw two innings of relief in a 7-1 loss in the first game and was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento between games so the club could add Yunior Marte, a 23-year-old right-hander promoted directly from Double-A Richmond. Marte started the second game and gave up one run in four and two-thirds innings of a 7-2 win. He had thrown 291 professional innings before Saturday and none of them at Triple-A. The 40-man spot came from Casey Schmitt, moved from the 10-day to the 60-day injured list with a left knee meniscus tear he has carried since July 28. Marte is the eleventh man to start a game for the Giants in 2026 and the fourteenth to debut for them, a figure MLB.com's Maria Guardado reports is second in the majors behind the White Sox. Six of the fourteen came between April 1 and June 26, none in July, and eight in August. Two takes filed.
