San Francisco Giants

Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the San Francisco Giantsfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room San Francisco Giants has passed down, steadiest first. The 1B room is their most stable — 20 holders across 143 years, a new one every 7.2 on average.

1. 1B20 holders · 19 handoffs · 1883–2025 · one every 7.2y
   Roger Connor1883–1894→Jack Doyle1892–1902→Dan McGann1902–1907→Fred Merkle1907–1916→George Kelly1915–1926→Bill Terry1923–1936→Sam Leslie1929–1938→Phil Weintraub1933–1945→Babe Young1936–1947→Johnny Mize1942–1949→Whitey Lockman1945–1958→Orlando Cepeda1958–1966→Willie McCovey1959–1980→Dave Kingman1971–1974→Mike Ivie1978–1981→Will Clark1986–1993→J.T. Snow1997–2008→Brandon Belt2011–2022→Wilmer Flores2020–2025→LaMonte Wade Jr.2021–2025
2. 2B27 holders · 26 handoffs · 1884–2024 · one every 5.2y
   Danny Richardson1884–1891→Kid Gleason1896–1900→Billy Gilbert1903–1906→Larry Doyle1907–1920→Buck Herzog1908–1917→Frankie Frisch1919–1926→Fresco Thompson1926–1934→Rogers Hornsby1927→Hughie Critz1930–1935→Burgess Whitehead1936–1941→Mickey Witek1940–1947→George Hausmann1944–1949→Bill Rigney1946–1953→Davey Williams1949–1955→Bobby Hofman1949–1957→Eddie Stanky1950–1951→Joey Amalfitano1954–1963→Chuck Hiller1961–1965→Tito Fuentes1965–1974→Ron Hunt1968–1970→Derrel Thomas1975–1977→Joe Morgan1981–1982→Robby Thompson1986–1996→Jeff Kent1997–2002→Ray Durham2003–2008→Joe Panik2014–2019→Thairo Estrada2021–2024
3. SS29 holders · 28 handoffs · 1883–2026 · one every 5y
   John Ward1883–1894→George Davis1893–1903→Bill Dahlen1904–1907→Al Bridwell1908–1911→Art Fletcher1909–1920→Dave Bancroft1920–1930→Travis Jackson1922–1936→Dick Bartell1935–1946→Billy Jurges1939–1945→Buddy Kerr1943–1949→Alvin Dark1950–1956→Daryl Spencer1952–1959→Eddie Bressoud1956–1961→Jose Pagan1959–1965→Harvey Kuenn1961–1965→Hal Lanier1964–1971→Chris Speier1971–1989→Johnnie LeMaster1975–1985→Jose Uribe1985–1992→Ernest Riles1988–1990→Royce Clayton1991–1995→Rich Aurilia1995–2009→Shawon Dunston1996–2002→Jose Vizcaino1997–2006→Ramon Martinez1998–2002→Omar Vizquel2005–2008→Juan Uribe2009–2010→Brandon Crawford2011–2023→Willy Adames2025–2026
4. 3B27 holders · 26 handoffs · 1896–2026 · one every 4.9y
   Bill Joyce1896–1898→Sammy Strang1901–1908→Art Devlin1904–1911→Tillie Shafer1909–1913→Heinie Groh1912–1926→Heinie Zimmerman1916–1919→Freddie Lindstrom1924–1932→Johnny Vergez1931–1934→Nap Reyes1943–1950→Jack Lohrke1947–1951→Hank Thompson1949–1956→Jim Davenport1958–1970→Jim Ray Hart1963–1973→Al Gallagher1970–1973→Darrell Evans1976–1983→Bill Madlock1977–1979→Chris Brown1984–1987→Matt Williams1987–1996→Charlie Hayes1988–1999→Bill Mueller1996–2002→Pedro Feliz2000–2007→Edgardo Alfonzo2003–2005→Kevin Frandsen2006–2015→Conor Gillaspie2008–2017→Pablo Sandoval2008–2020→Evan Longoria2018–2022→Matt Chapman2024–2026
5. C30 holders · 29 handoffs · 1883–2021 · one every 4.6y
   Buck Ewing1883–1892→Jack Warner1896–1904→Mike Grady1898–1900→Frank Bowerman1900–1907→Roger Bresnahan1902–1908→Chief Meyers1909–1915→Hank Gowdy1910–1925→Grover Hartley1911–1926→Earl Smith1919–1923→Frank Snyder1919–1926→Bob O'Farrell1928–1932→Shanty Hogan1928–1932→Harry Danning1933–1942→Gus Mancuso1933–1944→Ernie Lombardi1943–1947→Walker Cooper1946–1949→Wes Westrum1947–1957→Bob Schmidt1958–1961→Ed Bailey1961–1965→Tom Haller1961–1967→Jack Hiatt1965–1969→Dick Dietz1966–1971→Dave Rader1971–1976→Marc Hill1975–1980→Milt May1980–1983→Bob Brenly1981–1989→Kirt Manwaring1987–1996→Benito Santiago2001–2003→Bengie Molina2007–2010→Buster Posey2009–2021
6. OF49 holders · 48 handoffs · 1885–2025 · one every 2.9y
   Jim O'Rourke1885–1904→George Gore1887–1892→Mike Tiernan1887–1899→Willie Keeler1892–1910→George Van Haltren1894–1903→Cy Seymour1896–1910→George Browne1902–1907→Sam Mertes1903–1906→Mike Donlin1904–1914→Fred Snodgrass1908–1915→Red Murray1909–1917→George Burns1911–1921→Dave Robertson1912–1922→Benny Kauff1916–1920→Edd Roush1916–1929→Ross Youngs1917–1926→Irish Meusel1921–1926→Mel Ott1926–1947→Lefty O'Doul1928–1934→Jo-Jo Moore1930–1941→Hank Leiber1933–1942→Johnny Rucker1940–1946→Sid Gordon1941–1955→Willard Marshall1942–1949→Bobby Thomson1946–1957→Don Mueller1948–1957→Monte Irvin1949–1955→Willie Mays1951–1972→Felipe Alou1958–1963→Leon Wagner1958–1969→Ken Henderson1965–1972→Bobby Bonds1968–1974→Garry Maddox1972–1975→Gary Matthews Sr.1972–1976→Gary Thomasson1972–1977→Jack Clark1975–1984→Larry Herndon1976–1981→Chili Davis1981–1987→Jeffrey Leonard1981–1988→Candy Maldonado1986–1989→Kevin Mitchell1987–1991→Brett Butler1988–1990→Barry Bonds1993–2007→Marvin Benard1995–2003→Randy Winn2005–2009→Ángel Pagán2012–2016→Grégor Blanco2012–2018→Hunter Pence2012–2020→Mike Yastrzemski2019–2025

+2 more rooms with a shorter average hold.

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1883–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.