Format = Player Position | Age on 1-4-2026 | Highest level played | Estimated time of arrival
1. 1B Bryce Eldridge | 21 | MLB | 2025
Here’s something Gray recently said in his 2026 Fantasy Outlook for Bryce Eldridge:
“I go out with a sturdy branch – like this guy’s arms – and tell him he’s on his way home Pete Alonso by 2028. His average exit velocity in Triple-A as a 20-year-old was 95.7 MPH. On 20! Sorry to keep repeating his age, but if a 25 year old does this, it doesn’t matter. A 20 year old? It’s ridiculous. He was actually the guy with the highest average exit velocity as a 20-year-old. ‘As a twenty-year-old’ you repeat seventy-five times. Eldridge is unreal. 90% EV? 108.6 mph! Maximum EV? 114.6! Walk%? 16.3! Severely affected%? 64.5! If these numbers mean nothing to you, take my word for it. They’re crazy. Kyle Schwarber led the majors in Hard Hit%, it was 59.6! Ohtani was 58.4%. Look again Bryce Eldridge‘s — 64.5%!”
These numbers look ridiculous no matter how you slice them, but when you consider that Eldridge was a two-way prospect out of high school and that he’s 6-foot-4 and still getting used to his meta-human frame, the mind boggles at the possibilities. I wish he was in almost every other ballpark, but the Giants have a good lineup that should provide protection and opportunity for the young slugger who just turned 21 in October. 20th.
2. SS Josuar González | 18 | DSL | 2030
A switch-hitter at 6’0″, 167 pounds, Gonzalez signed for $2,997,500 in the J-15 class of 2025 after demonstrating plus-bat speed from both sides of the plate on the amateur circuit and drawing comparisons to Francisco Lindor and Jose Reyes. Let’s hope it’s more the former than the latter, at least behaviorally speaking. In 52 DSL games, Gonzalez has put up quite a bit cut .288/.404/.455 with four home runs, 33 stolen bases, 37 walks and 36 strikeouts In other words, everything is green at first.
3. 2B Gavin Kilen | 22 | A | 2028
This team has so many left-handed players that they figured they might as well get another one with the 13th overall pick in the 2025 draft. At 6-foot-4 and 187 pounds, Kilen isn’t the most nervous athlete on the planet, but other than his freshman year at Louisville, he’s always getting hit. After hitting .265 with zero home runs as a freshman, he hit nine home runs and hit .330 as a sophomore. He transferred to Tennessee before his junior season and slashed .357/.457/.671 with 14 home runs. 30 walks and only 27 strikeouts in 53 games. He only played ten Low-A games after being drafted, so I’m throwing that example out so we can start 2026 fresh.
4. FROM Bo Davidson | 22 | AA | 2028
Davidson went undrafted after his sophomore season at Caldwell Community College, but later signed with the Giants as a free agent. One of the best scouting and development wins this organization has had at the minor league level in recent memory, he thoroughly dominated the Low-A level in 2024 with nine home runs, seven triples and a slash line of .328/.438/.608 in his debut season. Davidson is a 6-foot-4, 205-pound left-handed hitter. He has plenty of tools across the board and came back for more in 2025, slashing .281/.376/.468 with 18 home runs and 19 stolen bases in 114 games at two levels.
5. FROM Drew Gilbert | 25 | MLB | 2025
Came over from New York in the Tyler Rogers trade along with Blade Tidwell and Jose Butto, which gave me a crazy thought when putting together this list. Did this team give up less for Rafael Devers than it did for Tyler Rogers?
Here is Devers’ return: LHP Kyle Harrison, OF James Tibbs III, Jordan Hicks and RHP Jose Bello. Tibbs III has already been sent to his next destination in exchange for an expiring Dustin May contract, so going forward the return is a year of Hicks for $12.5 million, along with whatever they get from Harrison and 20-year-old Jose Bello. I know Devers is going to cost a lot of money for a limited defenseman, but it’s a weird streak that will only get weirder as time goes on.
OK, back to Gilbert, the 6-foot-1, 195-pound lefty is a player who brought a lot of energy to the San Francisco clubhouse. He didn’t really hit well, 66 wRC+, but it’s easy to imagine him breaking into 2026 with the big club in a reserve role since he can play all three outfield spots. In 93 minor league games, he slashed .262/.369/.466 with 14 home runs and six stolen bases while maintaining excellent hitting: a 12.3 percent walk rate against a 16.2 percent strikeout rate.
6. FROM Dakota Jordan | 21 | A | 2028
Jordan was a great athlete who signed with Mississippi State to play both baseball and football. He focused instead on the diamond, hitting 20 home runs in 63 games as a sophomore, slashing .354/.459/.671 in the SEC and then signing for nearly $2 million, well above the closing price for a fourth-round pick. The Giants didn’t have a second or third, so they had some money to spend and used it to acquire Jordan out of his junior season at Mississippi State. The investment quickly paid off, with Jordan slashing to .311/.377/.497 with 14 home runs and 27 stolen bases in 88 Low-A games.
7. RHP Trevor McDonald | 25 | MLB | 2024
McDonald relied heavily on his 80-mph curveball during his 15-inning stint with San Francisco this season, throwing it 51.4 percent of the time and posting a .125 batting average and .250 slugging percentage with the pitch. He sank at a 38.7 percent clip and allowed only singles in 82 offerings. The formula that produced a 1.80 ERA and 1.00 WHIP. At 6-foot-4 and 201 pounds, with a low arm slot and good lateral movement, he evokes comparisons to Logan Webb if you squint.
8. RHP Blade Tidwell | 24 | MLB | 2025
If you’re not going to pitch for the Mets, who have one of the best parks and development staffs in the game, the Giants offer a nice fallback option. Not that Tidwell had a choice, he came over for Tyler Rogers and went on to post an 0.78 WHIP with 24 strikeouts in 18 innings across four starts with Triple-A Sacramento. Tidwell may feel a little less pressure to score in San Francisco, and the huge right field gives him some room for error, so all he really has to do is keep his five-pitch arsenal around the strike zone. Interesting sleeper for this season.
9. SS Jhonny Level | 19 | A | 2029
Level signed for $997,500 on January 16, 2024 and quickly made an impact, slashing .275/.393/.517 with 10 home runs and 18 stolen bases in 48 DSL games. A switch-hitter at 5’10” and 154 lbs, Level is a gifted defender with quick but fluid actions at the six and an easy plus throwing arm. He is much bigger today at 154 pounds, but has a good weight. In 89 games in the complex and Low-A league, he slashed .269/.360/.436 with 12 home runs, 21 stolen bases and 70 strikeouts (17.2%) versus 50 walks (12.3%).
10. C Jesus Rodriguez | 23 | AAA | 2026
As part of the Yankees return for RHP Camilo Doval, Rodriguez has always made a lot of contact and produced nice slants by spraying the ball all over the field. He hit just seven home runs in 124 games, but also struck out just 78 times (13.8%) versus 66 walks (11.7%). He also swiped 21 bases because he is slightly faster than the average catcher, which the Yankees used to move Rodriguez all over the field. The Giants reportedly view him more as a full-time catcher and will give him time to develop there. The bar remains quite low for catchers in our game, so Rodriguez provides decent use of a roster spot in deep leagues.
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