Giants Ace Predicted to Accomplish Rare Franchise Feat

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Logan Webb pitches against the Dodgers on September 13, 2025.

In an MLB.com article released on Tuesday September 16, 2025 called “Predicting the 2025 Gold Glove Award Award”, baseball experts Jared Greenspan and Jason Foster predicted San Francisco Giants pitcher Logan Webb will win the National League Gold Glove award at his position.

“Webb’s six defensive runs saved are tied for the most among NL pitchers,” Greenspan and Foster wrote. “It makes sense, too, given some of his more traditional stats. He leads NL pitchers with 31 assists and has turned three double plays, the most of any MLB pitcher.”

This would be the first Gold Glove of Webb’s stellar 7 year career. Greenspan and Foster also pointed out that Webb would be only the second Giants pitcher ever to win a Gold Glove award.

The first was Rick Reuschel in 1987, who was 38 years old when he won the award with San Francisco. Reuschel was a two-time Gold Glove winner. He won his first fielding award in 1985 while he was with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Webb would also be the fourth consecutive different pitcher to win the National League Gold Glove.

Webb Also Predicted To Be Joined By Battery Mate Patrick Bailey

Greenspan and Foster are actually predicting that the Giants will bring home not one, but two Gold Glove awards.

The other one should be a no-brainer, given that by many statistical metrics, Giants catcher Patrick Bailey is the best defensive player in baseball.

“Bailey has been the best defender in baseball by Fielding Run Value, at plus-29, which would also be one of the greatest defensive seasons tracked by Statcast (since 2015),” Greenspan and Foster wrote. “That’s because he’s elite at just about everything. He’s the best at framing (100th percentile) and near the top in pop time and caught stealing above average (97th percentile in both), and is solid at blocking, too (78th percentile). Bailey is the king of Catcher Framing Runs, with 24 on the season — 10 more than anyone else.”

Bailey won his first career Gold Glove last season, so this would be the second consecutive Gold Glove Award win for him.

This is also likely the best opportunity that Bailey has to win a Gold Glove moving forward. The automated balls and strikes system could come to the MLB as soon as 2026, which would render Bailey’s best trait, his pitch framing, basically irrelevant.

Hopefully he can continue swinging a hot bat, especially in clutch situations, to make a strong case to keep his starting job moving forward.

Webb’s Cy Young Chances Take Massive Hit

Despite being one of the best pitchers in baseball for the last four seasons, Logan Webb doesn’t have many accolades to show for it, other than two NL All-Star appearances and helping the Giants to a National League West title in 2021.

2025 was looking like one of the best chances Webb has had yet to win the National League Cy Young award, given annually to the best pitcher in the NL.

He is averaging 9.8 strikeouts per nine innings and leads the National League with 206 strikeouts. This is all, of course, while making every start for the third season in a row and leading the National League in innings pitched.

But in his biggest start of the season, Webb faltered. And it started a Giants slide that may keep them out of the playoffs.

Facing the rival Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday September 13, 2025, and sitting tied with the New York Mets for the third and final National League Wild Card, Webb had his worst start of the season. In just 4 innings he surrendered 10 hits and 6 earned runs, blowing a 4-1 lead that the Giants offense gave him. The Giants lost the game 13-7, lost their best shot at regaining a playoff spot in months and have lost two more games since.

To make his case for the NL Cy Young now, Webb essentially needs an all-time redemption start against the Dodgers on Thursday September 18, 2025. He needs a complete game, 1-run allowed performance or better. A no-hitter would do the trick. Then he needs another all-time game against the St. Louis Cardinals. And the Giants need to make the playoffs.

It’s not impossible. In a season of crazy moments for the Giants, fans have learned to expect the unexpected.

Ethan Inman is a sports journalist covering the San Francisco 49ers, San Francisco Giants and Las Vegas Raiders for heavy.com. He also co-hosts a college football podcast for The Voice of College Football, and writes about the NBA and MLB. He has previously covered the USC Trojans, the NHL, college baseball, and the intersection of sports and popular culture for other publications. He is based in the greater Los Angeles area. More about Ethan Inman