The San Francisco Giants fired manager Bob Melvin after two seasons, the team announced Monday. Melvin led the Giants to a 161-163 record over his short tenure.

Veteran manager Bob Melvin led the San Francisco Giants to an 81-81 record in 2025. File Photo by Aaron Josefczyk/UPI UPI

Sept. 29 (UPI) -- The San Francisco Giants fired manager Bob Melvin after two seasons, the team announced Monday. Melvin led the Giants to a 161-163 record over his short tenure.

"I have a tremendous amount of respect for Bob Melvin," Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey said in a news release. "I watched him before I was in the league. I competed against him for years and always enjoyed competing with him.

"Unfortunately, the way that we played throughout the course of the year, this is where we ended up. The hope is, going forward, we can get a new voice in the room that can lead these guys to get us back to where we want to go."

Melvin, a three-time Manager of the Year, joined the Giants in 2024. They went 80-82 to finish fourth in the National League West in his first season.

The 2025 Giants were as many as a dozen games over .500 -- with a 41-29 record on June 13 that had them tied for first place in their division-- but then were 4-11 for the remainder of the month. They went 9-15 in July to fall to 54-55. The Giants dropped to seven games under .500 in August, but won 11 of 12 games into early September to regain a winning record.

They went 13-12 over the final month of the season.

Melvin, 63, has a 1,678-1,588 overall record in 22 seasons as an MLB manager, which included stops with the San Diego Padres, Oakland Athletics, Arizona Diamondbacks and Seattle Mariners. He led the 2022 Padres to the National League Championships Series.