The Giants have run out of ways to disguise how bad this season has become.
What once looked like a flawed but survivable stretch has turned into something uglier, louder and impossible to ignore. The club is no longer just losing; it’s unraveling in public, and the latest evidence came over the weekend when San Francisco dropped both the series and the season series to the Colorado Rockies.
The Rockies.
That’s how far this has fallen. The Giants are now sitting through the final 38 games with nothing left to chase in the standings and no realistic path to even turn the last weeks into a proper tank, thanks to MLB draft rules. So the games that remain are about something else entirely: sorting through young players, figuring out who can matter in 2027 and beyond, and trying to salvage a little clarity from the wreckage.
So far, there hasn’t been much to salvage.
Manager Tony Vitello didn’t sugarcoat it after Sunday’s matinee loss, calling the Giants’ play “junior-college” level. That’s a brutal line from someone who was coaching just one level above that a year ago, and it matched the mood around a team that keeps finding new ways to look disorganized.
The mistakes are piling up in all the usual places. The pitching has been ugly.
The offense has gone flat. The baserunning and defense have been a mess.
And for a club carrying a nine-figure payroll, the execution has looked minor league.
That’s where the pressure should start to build. On a normal big-market team, this kind of collapse would put everyone under the microscope.
The manager would be asked about the repeated breakdowns in fundamentals. The front office would have to answer for an offseason that produced almost nothing, aside from one name that now stands out for the wrong reason: the gap between what the manager wanted and what the brass actually gave him, with Harrison Bader and Drew Gilbert serving as the clearest example.
But this organization does not behave like a normal one.
Buster Posey and Vitello are staying. They’re getting the long runway, the expensive apprenticeship, the kind of job security most teams don’t offer when a season goes this sideways. Somebody else may take the fall somewhere down the line, but that won’t erase the larger problem.
The Giants have spent too much time pretending they can outrun the consequences of bad roster construction and bad play. Even now, the club’s reluctance to clean house keeps hanging over everything. Bobby Evans is still around and still on the payroll eight years after he was dismissed as general manager, which says plenty about how this place handles accountability.
So the organization keeps moving forward, or at least pretending to. More promotions from Sacramento and Richmond are coming, and those callups will be sold as part of the future.
The farm system will be hyped as the bright side, maybe the last sellable story left. And sure, there may be something real there.
The trade deadline restock could eventually mean something.
But it happened because the Giants couldn’t win now, so they traded today for the hope of tomorrow.
That’s the reality. The deadline wasn’t some grand design. It was surrender dressed up as strategy.
Maybe the young group eventually changes everything. Maybe those prospects do lead to something better. But for now, the point of all this still has to be winning games, and San Francisco has done far too little of that.
Right now, tomorrow feels a long way off.
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