The Giants Roster and Depth Chart After the Deadline, Position by Position

Who's left, who's playing every day, and which positions are being held together by whoever was available. Updated as the roster moves.

A depth chart on a selling team is a moving target. This one gets updated as the roster changes, and after this deadline it changed a lot.

Rotation. Logan Webb at the top, and then a genuine question. Robbie Ray is gone to San Diego and Tyler Mahle is gone to Atlanta, which removed two of the four arms that actually took the ball on schedule. Landen Roupp and Carson Whisenhunt have had the innings handed to them, with mixed and instructive results. Whisenhunt in particular has looked like a real thing on his good nights.

Bullpen. The unit that has decided this season, mostly badly. Erik Miller has been the closest thing to reliable, Caleb Kilian went to Philadelphia in the Arraez deal, and the rest has been a rotating cast of arms asked to protect leads they weren't equipped to protect. This is the single clearest offseason priority.

Infield. Bryce Eldridge at first is the future and increasingly the present. Casey Schmitt has played his way into an everyday job wherever they can find him one. Rafael Devers has been the most productive bat on the roster. Marcelo Mayer arrived from Boston as the return that actually mattered. Willy Adames anchors the middle.

Outfield. Thinner than it was. Heliot Ramos went to the Yankees, which took the most established bat out of the group and handed real playing time to Grant McCray and whoever else has earned a look. This is where a rebuilding team is supposed to find out things, and it's finding out things.

Catcher. Patrick Bailey and the depth behind him, on a roster where the position hasn't been the problem.

Where the depth ran out. Two places, and they're the same two every year. Starting pitching behind Webb, where the drop-off is immediate. And late-inning relief, where the drop-off is fatal. Everything else on this roster can survive an injury. Those two can't.

What to watch as this updates. Which of the young arms holds a rotation spot into 2027, whether Eldridge's role grows to match the hype, and whether Vitello settles on a lineup for longer than a week at a time.

The Devers question nobody is asking. He has been the most productive bat on this roster all season and it has gone almost entirely undiscussed, because a losing team makes individual excellence invisible. That's worth naming here, because it's also the argument for keeping him: a rebuild needs somebody in the middle of the order who's already good while the young players arrive.

How the young arms actually looked. Whisenhunt has had nights that genuinely looked like a major-league starter and nights that looked like a prospect, which is exactly what a rebuilding team should be finding out in August. Roupp has been given the same runway. Neither has settled it. The point of a lost season is that those innings are free, the wins were never coming, so the information is the return.

What the depth chart doesn't show. The Sacramento pipeline is now carrying more weight than it has in years, because four veterans left in a week and somebody has to play. Watch which names come up and stay up. That's the single most informative thing about the last two months of a season like this one.

The state-of-the-rebuild read is in our rebuild page, the games are in the season hub, and everything else is on the Giants hub.

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