Giants' $150M Man to Have Season-Ending Surgery

Things just continue to go from bad to worse for the San Francisco Giants. After selling off some of their assets at the trade deadline, they've now learned that Gold Glove third baseman Matt Chapman is likely to have season-ending surgery next week. He's been out almost six weeks due to a strained abdominal muscle, and was then diagnosed with a sports hernia. 

Matt Chapman is flying to Philadelphia to see a specialist on Sunday and expects to have season-ending surgery on Tuesday. He has a hernia, had been playing through it most of the season.

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) August 7, 2026

Chapman is heading to Philadelphia this weekend to see a hernia specialist and is expected to have season-ending surgery on Tuesday. He's been playing through the hernia issue for most of the 2026 campaign. 

Perhaps that helps explain his offensive numbers, which have dropped off considerably. His OPS is under .700 for the first time in his career, while his slugging percentage is below .400 for the first time, as well (.368). He has just seven home runs, far below the usual 27 or so that he puts up per season (he was down to 21 last year). He went two months, from April 1 to June 1, without hitting a home run. 

The former Toronto Blue Jays and Oakland athletic has 210 career home runs across 10 seasons, with a .782 OPS, and a 117 OPS+.

Chapman, 33 is a five-time Gold Glove-winner at third, and is in the second season of a six-year, $151 million extension signed in September of 2024. 

The Giants tried to get off of that money by trading him before the deadline, but considering his injury (and the massive contract), there were unsurprisngly no takers.