2025 stats: 135 G, 452 PA, .222 / .277 / .325, 6 HR, 55 RBI, 73 OPS+ (70 wRC+), .265 wOBA, 1.1 bWAR, 31 FRV (best in baseball)
Looking back at the 2025 San Francisco Giants season, the apex may have come in a July 8 game against the Philadelphia Phillies. Trailing by two runs in the bottom of the 9th, Patrick Bailey drilled a ball off the wall in right-center field that bounced away from the Phillies outfielders and resulted in an improbable walk-off three-run homer — only the third time in major league baseball history that a catcher had done that.
After that epic win, the Giants dropped the next game 13-0. They went 1-3 into the All-Star break, 2-10 out of the break, and sold off players at the trade deadline. Bailey actually hit better in the second half of the season, once he rested