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Called Shots →San Francisco uses at least thirteen different starting pitchers in the 2026 regular season.
Robbie Ray finishes the 2026 season with an ERA above 4.00.
Neither Willy Adames nor Matt Chapman is traded by the August 3, 2026 deadline.
From August 1 through the end of the 2026 regular season, Tyler Mahle posts a lower ERA than Robbie Ray.
Luis Arraez is traded to the Tampa Bay Rays by the August 3, 2026 deadline.
Robbie Ray is traded to the Chicago Cubs by the August 3, 2026 deadline.
Tyler Mahle is traded to the Houston Astros by the August 3, 2026 deadline.
The Giants trade at least four players off their 40-man roster between August 2, 2026 and the deadline.
Heliot Ramos is not traded by the August 3, 2026 deadline.
Sam Hentges is traded by the August 3, 2026 deadline.
None of Willy Adames, Matt Chapman or Rafael Devers is traded by the August 3, 2026 deadline.
Adrian Houser does not start another game for San Francisco in the 2026 regular season, and finishes the year with 14 games started.
Written about him
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.
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.
The Giants Spent A 40-Man Spot On Ten Innings
The deadline took Tyler Mahle and Robbie Ray and left two rotation spots behind. San Francisco is filling one of them with a 27-year-old career reliever it spent three weeks converting into a starter. The ten innings are excellent and they are ten innings, and the roster spot they cost is worth more this winter than it has been in any previous August of this rebuild.
San Francisco Sold Everything It Was Allowed To Sell
The Giants moved Mahle, Arraez, Ray, Ramos and Erik Miller and got eight players back, one of whom matters. What they did not move is the story: Adames and Chapman each hold a full no-trade clause, which means the salary relief everyone was pricing was never actually on the market. Plus an honest accounting of six deadline calls filed here on Sunday, two of which were right.
The Giants Trade Arraez To Tampa Bay, And Five Other Calls I Will Answer For Monday Night
Six named predictions about what San Francisco does before Monday's deadline, each with a team, a return and a stated confidence. Arraez to the Rays, Ray to the Cubs, Mahle to Houston, and one call on a player nobody has written a sentence about all month. Every one of them filed to the ledger before the fact rather than after it.
Fourteen Trades Into July, One Top-100 Name Has Moved, And Not For A Rental
Fourteen completed July trades, one top-100 name, and it moved for a controllable infielder rather than a rental. Against that market, a buyer takes on two and a half times as much salary for Robbie Ray as for Tyler Mahle, whose component numbers are nine hundredths of a run apart.
Luis Arraez Is Worth What He Looks Like. Robbie Ray Is Worth 1.3 Runs Less.
One of the Giants' two rentals is having a season the components support. The other has the rotation's best ERA and its second-worst FIP. Pricing them the same way is the mistake available between now and August 3.
