As the San Francisco Giants continue to battle in the National League Wild Card standings, the front office will likely be seeking some improvements in the next

It was a full circle moment for Matt Gage. The Broadalbin-Perth and Siena graduate got his first-career Major League Baseball start with the San Francisco Giants who drafted him more than a decade ago.

It's for the best that I don't remember any of my preseason predictions. What I do remember are the educated guesses and half-baked hunches.

With the trade deadline just days away, the San Francisco Giants figure to be a potential team that will be looking to make some upgrades.

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The Giants enter Sunday’s matchup against the New York Mets at 54–51, sitting 2.5 games behind the final Wild Card spot. In June, they added ex-Red Sox superstar Rafael Devers, but it has yet to pay dividends. Devers himself is hitting just .244 with four home runs and 15 RBIs since arriving in San Francisco.

It wasn't just legendary MLB players getting immortalized on Sunday, as the latest class of Hall of Famers were introduced at Cooperstown. Sunday also marked a special occasion for the mascots of the sporting world.