Apparently, outfielder Heliot Ramos hasn’t liked the behavior of San Francisco Giants fans in recent weeks, especially towards manager Bob Melvin.
In an article by Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle, Ramos fired back at critics of Melvin and the Giants, specifically those who want to see Melvin more active in the dugout.
“Outside people don’t know anything,” Ramos told the Chronicle. “That’s the type of person he is. That doesn’t mean that he’s not a great manager. When we were winning, everybody was on our side, now it’s like all the fans are against us and all that. I don’t get it. We’re here and we know what’s going on, we know what we’re feeling, we know what we’re working for, but fans are going to be fans, we can’t do nothing about it.”
Ramos has faced mostly outrage from media members and fans alike for those comments.
“It might not be the best idea for a player to rip into the dedicated fans who show up every game to see him be one of the worst outfielders in baseball,” Gabe Fernandez of SFGate wrote.
“Heliot Ramos is a moron,” a fan wrote on X in response to the article featuring Ramos’s quote.
Why Fans Are Frustrated With Ramos
As more fans read Ramos’s comments, most of them are going to react with even more negativity.
They have plenty of reasons to be frustrated. They are entitled to their opinion about Melvin amidst a downward spiraling and disappointing season.
Plus, their support hasn’t really waned in terms of showing up to Oracle Park. 38,876 fans showed up to their most recent home game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday August 17, 2025.
A day that just so happened to be Heliot Ramos bobblehead day. 20,000 of those fans proudly went home with a Ramos figurine.
Plus, Ramos has been something of a disappointment for the Giants on the field this season. Fans had high hopes for him after he was an All-Star in 2024, and he’s been disappointing in 2025.
He’s played in more games than last season already and has less hits, doubles, triples, home runs and RBI, and has a worse batting average.
His outfield defense has come into focus as being particularly poor, including several errors on plays that 99% of other MLB outfielders make.
Fans are entitled to their opinions about Ramos as well. Fans’ negativity about Melvin and Ramos isn’t necessarily a sign that they don’t care about, or won’t support, the Giants. It just means that they have a more pessimistic view of the 2025 team, and dramatic view of what it will take to be better in 2026.
In Defense of Ramos
From Ramos’s perspective, however, his disappointment with fans makes sense.
The Giants have been booed several times at home this season, and the vast majority of attention given to Ramos online has been negative. Those two things are enough to affect any player who cares about what the fans think of him.
That attitude from the fanbase is mostly because the season was so promising. The Giants were playoff contenders right up until the MLB Trade Deadline in late July. They could have stayed in the race even if they were mediocre. But instead, they’ve been one of the worst teams in the league for two months and historically bad at home.
But it’s also because of the new culture created by the social media age of the internet. Players and fans alike have so much access to unceasing negativity by the loud minority. And in an era of instant gratification, fans are much less patient.
So even though thousands of fans love and support Ramos, he has been one of the team’s best players, and the Giants are far from the worst team in baseball, he probably deals mostly with hate comments and not supportive ones.
So to him, a young player in his first full season as a Giants starter, it may feel like the fanbase is against him, even though they aren’t.
What won’t help Heliot change his mind about the fanbase is sending more negativity his way. So consider showing him support rather than criticism, if you appreciate him.
Giants fans, what do you think of Heliot Ramos’s recent comments? Was he right to defend Bob Melvin?
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