SF Giants players get hardly any love from MLB The Show ratings

It is a new year which means a new edition of the eminently popular MLB The Show franchise is here. The video game has been coming out every year since 2006 and MLB The Show 26 released its ratings of players which did not give a ton of love to the SF Giants.

There are only two Giants players represented in the top-100 players in the game. Ace Logan Webb came in at the 61-70 range with an overall rating of 83 and Rafael Devers came in at the 81-90 range with an overall rating of 81.

The Giants didn't get a ton of love last year either so it does not come as too much of a surprise.

SF Giants players don't get much love from MLB The Show ratings

For reference, the Los Angeles Dodgers had six players in the top 30 so in case anyone needed a reminder of the ever-widening talent gap between the Giants and Dodgers the video game provided one.

The game has been around for a long time and younger players like Kyle Harrison have even used it to help develop new pitches. Former Giants PA announcer Renel Brooks-Moon was even featured in last year's edition of the game.

It may just be a video game and doesn't mean all that much in reality, but it speaks to the fact that the Giants do lag behind the teams ahead of them when it comes to star talent. Right now the Giants are projected to win 82 games according to FanGraphs which feels about right.

They've been a .500 team on paper for the last number of years and have played like it every season since 2022.

The Giants made modest additions to raise the team's floor in the offseason, but they did not exactly do a ton to raise its ceiling. Harrison Bader, Adrian Houser, Tyler Mahle, and Luis Arraez are fine players, but they probably aren't going to take the Giants from an 81-win team to a 95-win team.

It seems the Giants are really betting that new manager Tony Vitello can infuse some energy into the franchise to get things turned around. Maybe that culture change can really get things going in the right direction.

We have seen recent hires like Stephen Vogt come in without a lot of experience and take a roster to the next level so maybe Vitello can do the same and make the MLB The Show ratings look silly in the process.