Giants Dismiss Bob Melvin After 2 Seasons

After two disappointing seasons by the Bay, the San Francisco Giants have relieved Bob Melvin of his managerial duties despite a year remaining on his contract.

Melvin joined the Giants amid a difficult relationship with San Diego Padres GM A.J. Preller despite guiding the team to the post-season in 2022. The Padres lured Melvin away from the Oakland A's where he spent 11 seasons guiding the team to 6 playoff appearances but with little to show for it. Melvin began his big-league managerial career with the Seattle Mariners in 2003 before moving on to the Arizona Diamondbacks where he led the team to a NL West title in 2007.

The Giants finished 81-81 in 2025. The team would get off to a strong start. When they acquired Rafael Devers from the Boston Red Sox in mid-June, I thought the team was headed for the stratosphere.

That didn't quite happen. The Giants would struggle. By late August, the team was 61-68. But the Giants would win 10 out of 11 games and were 4 games back of the third NL Wild Card spot. Twenty-four days ago, the Giants had a better chance at playing October baseball than the Cincinnati Reds who were 6 games off the pace having lost 8 of their last 10 games. But then the Giants dropped 12 of their next 17 games. Had the Giants not been playing the Colorado Rockies on the final weekend of the season they probably wouldn't have reached .500. 

It will be interesting to see if Buster Posey decides to give Bruce Bochy a call now that the Texas Rangers plan to kick him upstairs. As much as Posey respects Bochy, I think he wants his own guy in there and I don't think Bochy would blame him.

Unless some other team takes a flier on him, this might be the first time Bob Melvin isn't managing a big-league team since 2010 when he was a scout for the New York Mets. Melvin is currently 20th on MLB's all-time managerial win list with 1678 wins. Yet he has never reached a World Series. The only MLB managers with more wins and no World Series titles (let alone appearances) are Buck Showalter (1727 wins) and the late Gene Mauch (1902 wins).

Melvin might not get a managerial post in the off-season. But if some struggling team needs to make a change during the 2026 seasons and needs an experienced hand, there's a good chance Bob Melvin will be at the top of their list.