SAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants came into the 2025 season with a farm system that was ranked 28th in the Majors by MLB Pipeline, but their standing has risen dramatically in recent months. First baseman Bryce Eldridge (No. 1) remains the undisputed headliner of the group, but the Giants’ collection of young talent has quickly expanded thanks to the 2025 MLB Draft, the haul of prospects the club netted at the Trade Deadline and several breakout performances at the lower levels of the Minors. That improved depth was clearly reflected on Monday, when MLB Pipeline unveiled its updated list of San Francisco’s Top 30 prospects. The midseason re-rank helped vault the Giants to No. 18 in the latest overall farm rankings, which was the biggest jump of any organization this year. Eldridge and two Deadline acquisitions -- right-hander Blade Tidwell (No. 14) and catcher Jesus Rodriguez (No. 16) -- could earn their first callups from Triple-A Sacramento this year, though San Francisco has another wave of talent building at Single-A San Jose, which features a stacked roster that includes 2025 first-round Draft pick Gavin Kilen (No. 3), shortstop Jhonny Level (No. 4), outfielder Dakota Jordan (No. 6) and a trio of exciting arms in Argenis Cayama (No. 10), Keyner Martinez (No. 11) and Luis De La Torre (No. 26). Here’s a look at the Giants’ top prospects: 1. Bryce Eldridge, 1B (MLB No. 13) 2. Josuar Gonzalez, SS 3. Gavin Kilen, 2B/SS 4. Jhonny Level, SS 5. Bo Davidson, OF Complete Top 30 list » |
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Biggest jump/fall Here are the players whose ranks changed the most from the preseason list: Jump: Argenis Cayama, RHP (Preseason: NR | Midseason: No. 10) -- Signed for $147,500 out of his native Venezuela in 2024, Cayama emerged as one of the most exciting young arms in the Arizona Complex League this year, logging a 2.25 ERA with 55 strikeouts over 48 innings in 12 starts. The 18-year-old was promoted to San Jose last month, though he’s stumbled a bit in his first two appearances at the new level, yielding five runs over 3 2/3 innings. Fall: Aeverson Arteaga, SS (Preseason: No. 16 | Midseason: NR) -- Arteaga’s athleticism and defensive prowess earned him a $1 million signing bonus from the Giants in 2019, but the 22-year-old Venezuelan hasn’t hit enough to continue to progress through the upper levels of the Minors. He has spent the entire 2025 campaign at Double-A Richmond, where he’s hitting .189 with a .517 OPS and five home runs over 105 games. New to the list Here are the players added to the Top 30 from outside the organization: No. 3, Gavin Kilen, 2B/SS (2025 first-round Draft pick) No. 8, Drew Gilbert, OF (Acquired from the Mets in exchange for Tyler Rogers) No. 14, Blade Tidwell, RHP (Acquired from the Mets in exchange for Rogers) No. 16, Jesus Rodriguez, C/3B (Acquired from the Yankees in exchange for Camilo Doval) No. 23, Trevor Cohen, OF (2025 third-round Draft pick) No. 27, Carlos De La Rosa, LHP (Acquired from the Yankees in exchange for Doval) No. 28, Yunior Marte, RHP (Acquired from the Royals in exchange for Mike Yastrzemski) No. 30, Lorenzo Meola, SS (2025 fourth-round Draft pick) |
Best tools Hit: 60 -- Gavin Kilen Power: 70 -- Bryce Eldridge Run: 60 -- Dakota Jordan (Maui Ahuna, Bo Davidson, Josuar Gonzalez, Jhonny Level) Arm: 60 -- Maui Ahuna (Eldridge, Drew Gilbert, Level) Defense: 60 -- Maui Ahuna (Meola) Fastball: 65 -- Gerelmi Maldonado Curveball: 60 -- Trent Harris Slider: 60 -- Carson Seymour (Maldonado, Keyner Martinez, Blade Tidwell) Changeup: 70 -- Carson Whisenhunt Control: 55 -- Yunior Marte |
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Ten years ago, a fan known simply as “Dan from Warwick” called into Mike Francesa’s show on WFAN in New York to pose a rather innocuous question: Do the San Francisco Giants and the New York Giants ever get together when they find themselves in the same city? The football team, after all, is named after the baseball club, which was founded in New York in 1883 before relocating to the West Coast in 1958. “That might be the weirdest question I’ve gotten in a long time,” a bemused Francesa said. “Yeah, as a matter of fact they have the Giant picnic, they hold it over in Totowa, I think it is. And then they have the Giant relay race and the Giant raffle, and then they all get together for the Giant breakfast the next morning and then they go their separate ways.” Francesa’s sarcastic response ended up inspiring a fun spoof that came to life last month, when the longtime sports talk radio host teamed up with former New York Giants Eli Manning and Shaun O’Hara and current San Francisco Giants Logan Webb and Matt Chapman to film a promotion for Season 5 of “The Eli Manning Show.” The 35-second skit shows Francesa walking in on the quartet of athletes having brunch in a conference room as part of the “Giants-Giants annual meetup.” “They really do get together,” Francesa says, shaking his head as he exits the room in disbelief. |
The idea for the parody came from the New York Giants’ marketing department, which had been searching for a way to collaborate with the San Francisco Giants for several years. Their schedules finally aligned on July 31, when the Giants happened to have an off-day in New York prior to their series against the Mets. Manning, O’Hara and Francesa each came to the Giants’ team hotel in midtown Manhattan for the filming, which took around two hours to complete. Webb said he jumped at the chance to participate, especially since he’s a big NFL fan who played quarterback for his high school football team. “We had a blast,” Webb said. “We got to sit at a dinner table with Eli Manning and Shaun O’Hara for two hours. Those guys are funny. You always see other athletes in other sports, and you think they’re different than we are, but I think we’re all very similar. We like to rag on each other and make jokes. It was a blast. Two great guys. We kind of talked about playing golf at some point with them, so maybe it is an annual thing, and we start meeting up together.” Webb’s only gripe was that the Giants’ social media team didn’t put together a stronger highlight reel from his football days to show Manning, who delivered an amusing assessment of the two-time All-Star’s quarterbacking skills. “Those were the worst highlights that they could have possibly found,” Webb said. “There are so many better highlights than that. They put those ones out there. But I grew up watching [the Manning brothers] and loving them, so it was really cool to be able to do that.” |
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