Good morning, baseball fans!
Since the season ended, the McCovey Chronicles staff have been doing player reviews that go over each member of the San Francisco Giants’ 2025 season. Today, I’m going to continue
our community reviews where we ask you all to weigh in on how you feel like each player did this year and what your favorite highlights were.
Today, we’re going to take a look at Robbie Ray. Steven wrote a fantastic review earlier this offseason, which I would encourage everyone to revisit. These fine folks do the hard-hitting analysis, so as usual I’m going with the vibes.
Much like the 2025 San Francisco Giants, the vibes were great! (Until they weren’t.) Ray came into the 2025 season raring to go after having previous seasons shortened due to injury. He finished the 2025 season with 2.8 bWAR, with a 3.65 ERA, 3.93 FIP, with 186 strikeouts to (a league-leading) 73 walks in 182.1 innings pitched over 32 starts.
Much like the team, he started off the season strong, with the team winning his first nine consecutive starts. Ray even earned himself an All Star appearance. But things went downhill after the break, particularly in the last month or so where he was averaging roughly 4.6 runs allowed.
That said, he was coming off of two shortened seasons. So I’m hopeful that we won’t see the same thing this season.
With all of that said, I’m giving Ray an A- for 2025. Because I’m grading on a curve, and he was absolutely one of the bright spots of the season.
How did you feel about Robbie Ray’s 2025 season? And what were your favorite highlights?
