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Al Arabiya
4 days ago
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- Al Arabiya
Giants Exercise Contract Option on Manager Bob Melvin for the 2026 Season
The San Francisco Giants showed their confidence in manager Bob Melvin on Tuesday, exercising his contract option for the 2026 season. San Francisco was 45–40 and in third place in the NL West heading into the second game of a four-game set at Arizona on Tuesday night. The 63-year-old Melvin left the San Diego Padres to return home to the Bay Area and manage the Giants last year for the job he always dreamed of doing as a former catcher with the organization. This is his 22nd year as a major league manager. 'Having the chance to work alongside Bob every day, we're really fortunate to have such an experienced leader and one of the most well-respected managers in baseball,' Giants President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey said in a statement. 'His leadership, preparation and connection with our players have been invaluable, and we believe he's the right person to continue guiding this team forward.' Melvin, a three-time Manager of the Year who has won the award in both leagues, has a career regular-season record of 1,642–1,547 with eight postseason appearances while guiding Arizona, Seattle, Oakland, San Diego and now the Giants. The club went 80–82 in his first season last year. 'I'm grateful for the opportunity to continue leading this group,' Melvin said. 'I believe in what we're building here, and I appreciate the confidence that the Giants ownership group, Greg, Buster, Larry (Baer), Zack (Minasian) and the rest of the Giants organization have shown in me and our staff. We have a lot of unfinished business this year, and I'm looking forward to the work ahead.' Melvin is a native of nearby Palo Alto, California. He attended the University of California–Berkeley and played for his hometown Giants from 1986–88. He replaced Gabe Kapler, who was fired with three days remaining in the 2023 season. The Giants haven't made the playoffs nor had a winning record since finishing with a franchise-record 107 victories to edge the 106-win Dodgers for the NL West title in 2021. In other Giants news, the team placed infielder Christian Koss on the 10-day injured list with a left hamstring strain and recalled outfielder Luis Matos from Triple-A Sacramento.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
NFL Insider Says Giants' Daboll Should Be 'Furious At Being Set Up To Fail'
NFL Insider Says Giants' Daboll Should Be 'Furious At Being Set Up To Fail' originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Brian Daboll proved he could turn a bad team into a winner in his first season as head coach of the New York Giants. Advertisement After taking over for a Giants team that won just four games in 2021, Daboll orchestrated a five-win turnaround that resulted in the organization winning its first playoff game in over a decade. Since then, though, the Giants front office has hoped Daboll would repeatedly be able to produce miracles like the 2022 season ... but without much assistance. Fairly naturally, the head coach has been unable to do so. Daboll has seen his total wins decrease each year he's been head coach in New York. Last season was the pits as the team won three games behind a revolving door at quarterback and struggles along the offensive line. Advertisement It's easy for Giant fans to blame Daboll for the team's struggles. After all, he's the face of the organization as head coach. But our NFL insider Mike Fisher argues, "New York's biggest problem has never been its coach. Its biggest issues stem from an overreaching ownership group and a general manager who has had significantly more misses than hits over his short tenure. John Mara has owned the Giants since 2005. Early in his career, he stayed out of football affairs while Tom Coughlin coached the team to two Super Bowl titles. Since those championship victories, though, New York has been one of the worst teams in football. "A big reason for that is Mara's insistence on making his opinions felt regarding football decisions.'' Advertisement What is Fish's evidence of this? Mara reportedly did what he could to get the Giants front office to giving former sixth-overall pick Daniel Jones a long-term contract. That was a key turning point for Daboll's team as Jones' struggles sunk the team over the last two years. Daboll, we will argue, was able to win with Jones at quarterback during that first season, but he was not his signal-caller of choice. He was forced to make it work with a deficient player that set the team back. Then there is general manager Joe Schoen. From Fish: "Since arriving with the head coach in 2022, Schoen has made 31 draft picks, multiple trades, and free-agent signings to keep the Giants in hoped-for title contention. To say those decisions have failed the team would be an understatement.'' Advertisement Indeed, from the struggles in the first round with Evan Neal and Deonte Banks or the failed trades of players like Darren Waller, the Giants' front office has given Daboll's coaching staff far too little in new tools to work with. Cap it all off with the decision to let Saquon Barkley walk down the highway to the Philadelphia Eagles as a Super Bowl ... and the people above Daboll have, Fish says "let down the coach to the extent that if he gets fired, he has the right to be privately furious about it because unintentionally, of course, he's been set up by his bosses' inadequacies to fail.'' Daboll has undoubtedly made mistakes along the way - maybe he should've been the offensive guru to fix Daniel Jones, and had he done so, New York wouldn't be in this mess - but he has shown he can coach a mediocre team to play at a high level. But taking "mediocre'' to the playoffs doesn't happen perennially. Advertisement And being mediocre perennially is the fault of the people upstairs. Related: Giants' Superstar Defender is in 'His Own World' Related: ESPN's Schefter Compares Chance of Giants Starting Jaxson Dart to Josh Allen Backstory This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 28, 2025, where it first appeared.
