SF Giants fans really only have one thing left to cheer for this season

In what has largely been a disappointing season for the 2025 SF Giants, there is not much left to cheer for. The team has a long shot chance to make the playoffs, but the real thing fans should be cheering for is for Willy Adames to hit 30 home runs.

San Francisco's shortstop has been on a power surge at the plate recently. He has seven home runs in his last 15 games and now has 25 homers on the year with a month left in the season. It is more than reasonable to hope he can get five more homers to break the team's 30-homer drought.

SF Giants shortstop Willy Adames can break home run drought

Not since Barry Bonds hit 45 homers back in 2004 has a Giants player hit 30 home runs in a season. It is a remarkable drought that demonstrates how power has largely abandoned the Giants since Bonds roamed left field.

Many have come close with first baseman Brandon Belt coming the closest of anyone by hitting 29 homers back in the 2021 season. Still, the Giants have been overdue to have someone hit 30 home runs.

It has been some time since Giants fans had a home run chase. Sure, Adames chasing 30 homers feels a bit paltry to those who were alive to see Bonds reach 73 homers in 2001 or see him hit number 756 to become the Home Run King.

Yet, at this point we have to take what we can get. Beggars can't be choosers.

Coming into the season, it was reasonable to expect that at least one Giants player would break the 30-homer drought. In 2024, Matt Chapman hit 27 homers and Heliot Ramos hit 22 in just 121 games. Rafael Devers could have 30 homers this year but it does not really count since he spent the first few months of the season with Boston. The addition of Adames added another candidate into the mix, but some projections before the season snubbed Adames' power potential.

Adames hit 32 home runs last year with Milwaukee and hit 31 for the brewers back in 2022 so he has been a consistent power threat for some time. It was fair to wonder how well his power, especially his power to the opposite field, would translate to Oracle Park but it seems he has adjusted throughout his first season with the Giants.

Even if Adames comes up short of reaching 30, it is just nice to see him be the player that he was advertised to be when the team signed him. He struggled so mightily in the first half that it was only natural to be a bit nervous about the remaining seven years on his contract.

Yet, both offensively and defensively he has really come into his own with the Giants and it looks like he is very comfortable in his new home which bodes well for 2026 and beyond.

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