{"id":204177,"date":"2025-07-26T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/204177\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T13:29:10","slug":"who-starts-for-the-san-francisco-giants-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/204177\/","title":{"rendered":"Who starts for the San Francisco Giants on Monday?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, the San Francisco Giants<\/a> optioned Hayden Birdsong, who was due to start this coming Sunday. That led me to ask an important question<\/a>: who will start on Sunday? <\/p>\n

We have an answer. It\u2019s a good old fashioned bullpen game, folks. I know how much you love those! <\/p>\n

But while the bullpen game answers the question in letter, it doesn\u2019t answer it in spirit. Because really, all the Giants did is change the first few laters of the date at the end of the question. And now we have to ask ourselves the same question, but updated: who will start on Monday? <\/p>\n

The Giants announced on Friday that Landen Roupp was heading to the 15-Day Injured List<\/a> with elbow inflammation, and I announced that you have permission to panic. As a result, the team is down to three starters, and while I don\u2019t think a bullpen game on Sunday was the initial plan, it became a necessary one when they realized they had no actual way to add two starters to this team.<\/p>\n

But it seems highly unlikely that they\u2019ll opt for a bullpen game two nights in a row, especially since neither Roupp\u2019s injury nor Birdsong\u2019s optioning is a short-term thing. It\u2019s not like they just need to get through Sunday and Monday and then can return to normalcy. They\u2019ve got to fill 40% of the rotation for a few starts at the very least. <\/p>\n

I had been leaning towards Kai-Wei Teng getting the nod to start, even though he\u2019s not on the 40-man roster. He\u2019s been AAA Sacramento\u2019s best pitcher for the last few months, and he does the one thing the Giants openly pine for: throw strikes. It seemed to be trending in that direction when Teng was pulled from his scheduled start on Tuesday; reading the tea leaves, it seemed as though he was preparing to start in San Francisco over the weekend.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t appear to have been the plan, though, because Teng pitched in relief for Sacramento on Friday night, and threw 42 pitches \u2014 presumably a bit too many to masquerade as a standard bullpen session between starts.<\/p>\n

So who, then? Carson Seymour has been impressing lately, but he\u2019s thrown nine innings total since June 19, so probably isn\u2019t stretched out. He feels more likely to just take down a good chunk of innings on Sunday. <\/p>\n

A trade? Give Carson Whisenhunt a go, even though he\u2019s struggling? Opt for Mason Black, who hasn\u2019t had a good year but was fantastic on Wednesday for Sacramento? <\/p>\n

We\u2019ll soon find out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, the San Francisco Giants optioned Hayden Birdsong, who was due to start this coming Sunday. That…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,2025,250,1076,181,162,2024,4,3247,967,844,378,66,12360,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,6668,173,3403],"class_list":{"0":"post-204177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chronicles","10":"tag-for","11":"tag-francisco","12":"tag-front-page","13":"tag-giants","14":"tag-mccovey","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-monday","17":"tag-on","18":"tag-san","19":"tag-san-francisco","20":"tag-san-francisco-giants","21":"tag-san-francisco-giants-roster","22":"tag-sanfrancisco","23":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","24":"tag-sf","25":"tag-sf-giants","26":"tag-sfgiants","27":"tag-starts","28":"tag-the","29":"tag-who"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114919778898672594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}