The 2025 Giants have a strange phenomenon going on with two members of the rotation.
Good morning, baseball fans!
Since today is an off-day for the San Francisco Giants, I thought we would talk about an extremely bizarre phenomenon plaguing the team at the moment.
I am well aware that pitcher wins aren’t really indicative of much, and matter more for incentive bonuses, arbitration, etc. That said, there is something really funky going on in the Giants rotation at the moment.
First of all, the team has not lost a single game that Robbie Ray has started. He has only gotten credited for the win in five of those, but it’s still interesting that the team is undefeated in his eight starts this year.
On the flip side, Justin Verlander has not gotten credited with a single win this year. Verlander has made eight starts, and while the team has won three of those games, they did so late in the game. Of those three wins, two were in extra innings, including Tuesday’s ridiculous nine-run 11th inning. At the same time, though, he’s only gotten credited with the losses twice.
So is Verlander just getting really unlucky? I don’t think so. He’s got a 4.50 ERA and a 4.42 FIP, which doesn’t indicate that to me that he’s getting the short end of the stick on defense, anyway. And it’s not necessarily a lack of run support either. Of his eight starts this year, there have only been three in which the Giants have scored three or fewer runs.
I’m not entirely sure what to make of this, but it is a strange thing to have happening on the same team.