1966 San Francisco Giants season explained

San Francisco Giants
Season:	1966
League:	National League
Ballpark:	Candlestick Park
City:	San Francisco, California
Owners:	Horace Stoneham
General Managers:	Chub Feeney
Managers:	Herman Franks
Television:	KTVU (Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, Bill Thompson)
Radio:	KSFO (Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, Bill Thompson)

The 1966 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 84th year in Major League Baseball, their ninth year in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their seventh at Candlestick Park. The Giants finished second in the National League with a record of 93 wins and 68 losses, a game-and-a-half behind their arch-rivals, the NL champion Los Angeles Dodgers.

Offseason

October 15, 1965: Warren Spahn was released by the Giants.^[1]
December 2, 1965: Randy Hundley and Bill Hands traded to the Chicago Cubs for Lindy McDaniel and Don Landrum.^[2]

Regular season

Opening Day lineup

Notable transactions

May 8, 1966: Orlando Cepeda was traded by the Giants to the St. Louis Cardinals for Ray Sadecki.^[4]
June 10, 1966: Bob Shaw was purchased from the Giants by the New York Mets.^[5]

Game log and schedule

Legend
	Giants win
	Giants loss
	Postponement
Bold	Giants team member

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Roster

1966 San Francisco Giants
Roster
Pitchers	CatchersInfielders	Outfielders	ManagerCoaches

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	142	471	113	.240	27	67
1B	150	502	148	.295	36	96
2B	149	459	106	.231	3	37
SS	133	541	141	.261	9	40
3B	156	578	165	.285	33	93
LF	94	240	52	.217	4	16
CF	152	552	159	.288	37	103
RF	115	348	81	.233	7	33

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
110	370	96	.259	1	20
111	305	76	.249	9	30
89	190	45	.237	2	19
72	102	19	.186	1	7
43	91	16	.176	0	3
42	89	19	.213	2	9
19	49	14	.286	3	15
37	43	7	.163	0	2
10	33	8	.242	0	2
15	32	7	.219	0	0
11	29	9	.310	1	1
42	25	3	.120	1	1
18	23	7	.304	0	1
13	23	1	.043	0	0
11	16	1	.063	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
37	307.1	25	6	2.23	222
36	255.2	21	8	2.99	201
36	224.1	11	10	2.89	143
26	105.0	3	7	5.40	62

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
32	129.2	4	5	4.16	55
37	81.0	4	6	3.67	48
13	31.2	1	4	6.25	21

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
51	7	11	16	2.96	57
64	10	5	6	2.66	93
38	6	3	1	3.96	51
35	1	1	1	2.45	15
4	0	2	0	7.36	3
1	0	0	0	7.71	2
1	0	0	0	0.00	0

Awards and honors

All-Star Game

Farm system

References

1966 San Francisco Giants at Baseball Reference
1966 San Francisco Giants at Baseball Almanac

Notes and References

https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/spahnwa01.shtml Warren Spahn
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/trades.php?p=hundlra01 Randy Hundley Trades and Transactions at Baseball Almanac
Web site: 1966 San Francisco Giants Roster by Baseball Almanac.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/cepedor01.shtml Orlando Cepeda
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19660611&id=7WhGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L-kMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3866,2110619&hl=en Mets buy Bob Shaw from Giants
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007