Beneath is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the San Francisco Giants. Scouting experiences had been compiled with info offered by trade sources in addition to our personal observations. That is the fourth 12 months we’re delineating between two anticipated aid roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column beneath: MIRP for multi-inning aid pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning aid pitchers. The ETAs listed typically correspond to the 12 months a participant must be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Guide changes are made the place they appear applicable, however we use that as a rule of thumb.
A fast overview of what FV (Future Worth) means will be discovered right here. A a lot deeper overview will be discovered right here.
The entire ranked prospects beneath additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the location presents that includes sortable scouting info for each group. It has extra particulars (and up to date TrackMan knowledge from numerous sources) than this text and integrates each crew’s checklist so readers can evaluate prospects throughout farm techniques. It may be discovered right here.
Different Prospects of Notice
Grouped by sort and listed so as of choice inside every class.
Contact-Oriented Sleepers
Carlos Gutierrez, LF
Charlie Szykowny, 3B
Lisbel Diaz, RF
Gutierrez is a 19-year-old outfielder signed out of Mexico who struck out in merely 6.7% of his 2023 DSL at-bats. He’s just a little bit undersized and has to get stronger, however he’s lanky and sinewy and simply would possibly. Szykowny was San Francisco’s 2023 ninth rounder out of UIC. He’s a bodily, lefty-hitting SS/3B who continues to be on the complicated for prolonged spring coaching though he hit effectively final summer season at Papago. Diaz may have lived in both of the Honorable Point out hitter teams we’ve right here, as each his measurable energy and get in touch with from final 12 months’s DSL appears to be like fairly particular on a spreadsheet. In Scottsdale, he’s proven a form of mature body and an odd swing. It’s nonetheless early for these complex-level hitters, and it’s unsurprising that they’re gradual out of the gate given how few video games the Giants are taking part in in prolonged. Extra on that within the System Overview.
Energy-Pushed Profiles
Vaun Brown, LF
Jairo Pomares, RF
Dario Reynoso, SS/3B
Quinn McDaniel, 2B/OF
Guillermo Williamson, 1B
Brown had a breakout a few years in the past and posted a number of the most explosive quantity in all of the minors in 2022. Final 12 months, admittedly amid damage, he posted a sub-60% contact fee at a extra age-appropriate stage. If he had been extra comfy in heart area, there is perhaps extra room for this little contact. Pomares, a once-prominent Cuban signee, has related points and has additionally handled persistent damage. Reynoso had an enormous 2023 DSL and is a part of the 2024 prolonged spring group, however he’s had extra of a defense-first look thus far in Arizona and isn’t monitoring pitches particularly effectively. McDaniel was a 2023 Draft Mix standout who performs a mixture of positions and swings laborious, however he’s struck out fairly a bit on the lowest ranges. Williamson arguably had probably the most energy of any Giants complex-level hitter final 12 months, however he’s swinging and lacking at an untenable fee for a primary baseman.
Guys With Good Breaking Balls or Dev Sleepers
Carson Seymour, RHP
Eric Silva, RHP
Carson Ragsdale, RHP
Julio Rodriguez, RHP
Christian Avendano, RHP
Seymour, who got here from the Mets within the Darin Ruf 러프 commerce, is a hulking 6-foot-6, 260 kilos righty at the moment at Sacramento. Stuff-assessing metrics love Seymour’s slider, however it’s by no means carried out like a monster pitch and is as an alternative a part of a mean four-pitch depth starter combine. Silva was an undersized, athletic SoCal highschool draftee who regarded for a minute like a Sonny Grey starter equipment. He struggled to throw strikes final 12 months and has moved to the bullpen. Ragsdale has been 92-97 mph and peaked tougher at occasions, however he’s struggled to maintain that and has additionally transitioned to the bullpen amid some accidents. Rodriguez has a plus-plus curveball. Avendano was initially an outfielder within the Cardinals system however is making an attempt a Reverse David Peralta as a pitcher. The 20-year-old touched 97 final season.
Extra Injured Pitching
Ethan Small, LHP
R.J. Dabovich, RHP
Gerelmi Maldonado, RHP
Small was as soon as a forty five FV prospect when he regarded like a starter with a secure driving fastball and plus changeup. Accidents and command regression have brought on him to alter orgs and shift to aid. He’s at the moment out with an indirect pressure. Dabovich continues to be throwing laborious when wholesome (recurrently as much as 97) and has a giant breaking ball, however he hasn’t thrown strikes at an affordable fee for a few years now and is at the moment out with an elbow pressure. Maldonado was one of many hard-throwing younger complicated guys of two summers in the past; he’s at the moment out rehabbing from Tommy John.
Scrappy Backside of the Roster Guys
Jonah Cox, CF
Brett Auerbach, 3B/C
Ismael Munguia, OF
Any of those guys may feasibly be a scrappy bench participant. Cox, who came to visit from Oakland for Ross Stripling, was an excellent faculty participant at Oral Roberts who went on a tear towards the top of final season. Auerbach has stopped hitting for the facility he confirmed early in his professional profession and barely catches anymore. For a minute, it regarded like he may play a Robert Fick sort of position. Munguia is a spark plug little outfielder who performs his ass off and makes numerous contact.
System Overview
This method has 20,000 leagues of depth however is mild up high. A few of the high prospects from current checklist cycles have graduated (Patrick Bailey), together with some who’ve struggled to seek out their footing within the huge leagues (Luis Matos). A lot of the depth right here comes through middle-of-the-roster pitching. They’re pitchers you might want to have round to outlive an entire huge league season, the kinds of arms you hate to must go exterior the org to amass while you’ve suffered a rash of accidents. Whereas few of those guys seem like influence arms proper now, the sheer variety of attention-grabbing arrow-up hurlers right here offers the Giants many alternatives to develop the subsequent Keaton Winn, who actually popped popping out of his TJ rehab.
Quite a lot of the pitchers listed below are of the decrease launch peak selection, lots of whom characterize an excessive instance of this. Some low launch peak guys get there by advantage of their decrease physique and massive stride down the mound; others simply have a low arm slot. A lot of the Giants prospects fall into the latter camp. Not all of them have panned out (the Wills Bednar and Kempner, the latter sitting 90 in prolonged spring coaching, aren’t on right here), and the sheer variety of accidents to pitchers on this org is staggering. So many are harm in the mean time that the Big have needed to cancel lots of their prolonged spring video games attributable to an absence of wholesome pitching, partly as a result of pitchers have wanted to domino up the minors to interchange all of the injured guys you see on this checklist. The Advanced League season is across the nook, and with out the flexibility to roll innings, this situation is just prone to worsen.
How is Jung Hoo Lee doing? We stopped together with international execs who’re exempt from bonus swimming pools on our prospect lists this 12 months, so he isn’t right here though he’s technically a rookie. Lee has stabilized heart area on protection and has been one of many harder gamers to make swing and miss throughout baseball thus far. How is he dealing with velocity? To date, he’s hitting .156 towards the 94-plus mph fastballs he’s seen this 12 months. Nonetheless, should you watch the Giants, you’ll see him shifting the bat everywhere in the zone and spoiling robust pitches. It’s solely been a few month and, like numerous gamers adjusting to huge league stuff, over time he ought to begin squaring these pitches up quite than simply spoiling them. He appears to be like like a build-around participant and carries himself like a good-natured huge leaguer.
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We’d additionally prefer to take the chance to introduce Travis Ice, who will probably be becoming a member of FanGraphs as a prospect contributor. Travis was a junior faculty and Division II second baseman. After faculty, he served as an assistant coach at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M Faculty (a junior faculty in Miami, OK), then labored as an MLB video scout at Baseball Data Options earlier than being employed as an Angels minor league video coordinator. He was a member of the Angels professional scouting division from 2014-2020 and has spent the previous few years doing freelance scouting work for space scouts within the midwest, whereas additionally sustaining his personal weblog targeted on participant analysis. Travis is a giant believer in mixing trendy knowledge and expertise with “conventional” scouting. His time as a FanGraphs neighborhood member predates his scouting profession, and he’s extraordinarily excited to have the chance to contribute to all issues prospect associated on the web site shifting ahead.