This is me.

I have been covering major league baseball for 14 years in various capacities. Currently, I’m the editor of the Giants and A’s official magazines.

This blog is totally independent of that, though. This blog is just a storehouse for my personal observations and other tidbits related to the Giants, the A’s and baseball in general.

Since I’ve started working for the team magazines, though, I’ve decided to keep many of my opinions on those teams to myself, for obvious reasons.

As for my background, I’ve been covering major league baseball since 1997. I spent 11 years covering the Giants and A’s for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, long enough to win a few awards for stuff like this and become a Hall of Fame voter.  Then I spent two years as a national baseball writer for AOL FanHouse.

In two years at FanHouse, we grew from nothing to being a major player in the sports media market. We covered everything. At the World Series, we had as many as six people writing and two more providing video content. Apparently, that was too much, though. The folks at AOL couldn’t figure out a way to generate enough revenue to cover what they were paying all of us. In January 2011, FanHouse was sold to the Sporting News, which wanted the name but not the employees. That left me and about 100 of my FanHouse colleagues out in the cold. FanHouse ceased operation on Feb. 28, 2011. (Let the record show that the final MLB story ever produced by FanHouse was my feature on the new-look Brewers. Bit of trivia there.)

Now, I’m working for the magazines, so you can read my work there. The magazines aren’t online. You gotta pay for ‘em, but it’s well worth it.

You can also find me occasionally in MLB Insiders Club Magazine or on Comcast Sports Net Bay Area.

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If you’ve got any questions or anything you’d like to see on this blog, drop me an email at jfletcher@pacbell.net.