Former manager Bob Melvin reveals he has ‘no regrets’ over his Giants tenure originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

In his first public comments since his firing last Monday, former Giants manager Bob Melvin said he has “no regrets” over his tenure with the club.

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Speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle’s Shayna Rubin, Melvin said he relished the chance to manage in the Bay Area for a second time, despite the disappointing results.

“It didn’t end the way I wanted it to, but I have no regrets and I wouldn’t do it any differently,” Melvin told Rubin. “I got to manage the [Oakland] A’s and Giants in one lifetime. Being from where I was, an enormous Bay Area sports fan, this is more than I could even imagine.”

The Giants hired Melvin, who was born in Palo Alto and grew up in Menlo Park, in October of 2023. His two-year run as manager ended with a 161-163 record and no MLB playoff appearances.

For Melvin, the 2025 MLB season was especially difficult to navigate. After a strong start, San Francisco traded for Boston Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers on June 15 but began piling up losses shortly after. The low point came when the Giants dropped 15 of 16 games at Oracle Park in August, and the team finished 81-81.

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“The organization, players, fans, were so excited about how [the Devers trade] could take us to the next level, and I was in agreement,” Melvin told Rubin. “Then for us to start losing in the fashion we did, and losing at home, was particularly hard — maybe the hardest stretch I’ve ever gone through managing.”

Melvin also responded to president of baseball operations Buster Posey’s statement in the wake of the firing, which called the Giants’ finish “disappointing and frustrating,” by pointing out the team’s lack of bullpen options after a series of trade-deadline deals.

“It sounds as if the last months were the most indictable, but I don’t necessarily agree with that. Because the last two months started with a sell-off,” Melvin told Rubin, referencing traded relief pitchers Camilo Doval and Tyler Rogers. “When you lose your pitching — the bullpen was the strongest variable of the team…you aren’t the pitching and defense team, we needed to slug. And we did for a while the last two months. When that slowed down, the pitching and defense couldn’t support it.”

It all resulted in the Giants’ fourth straight season without a postseason berth, a streak the team is hoping will end with its next managerial hire.

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