Good morning, baseball fans!
Since the season ended, the McCovey Chronicles staff have been doing player reviews that go over each member of the San Francisco Giants’ 2025 season. Today, I’m going to continue our community reviews where we ask you all to weigh in on how you feel like each player did this year and what your favorite highlights were.
Today, we’re going to take a look at Matt Chapman. Steven wrote a fantastic review earlier this offseason, which I would encourage everyone to revisit. These fine folks do the hard-hitting analysis, so as usual I’m going with the vibes.
Unfortunately, the vibes were not great. Steven made a really interesting comparison of the Giants before Chapman’s hand injury in June vs. after he returned in July. While I’m not necessarily saying Chapman’s injury was the cause of the Giants’ decline, I’m not not saying it either.
Either way, it was a damn shame that he got hurt how and when he did. As Steven notes, Chapman rode the success of his 2024 season straight into a contract extension and early repeated success in the 2025 season as well before losing a month to a hand injury caused by attempting to steal while the pitcher was attempting to pick him off.
While the injury may have shortened his season, I wouldn’t say it defined it. Chapman still hit 21 home runs and knocked in 61 RBI, in addition to being nominated for a Silver Slugger award.
So I’m going to go ahead and give Chapman’s 2025 season a solid B.
How did you feel about Matt Chapman’s 2025 season? And what were your favorite highlights?