San Francisco Giants: Revisiting Some Past Top Ten Prospects
With Spring Training underway as Major League Baseball gears up for another season, let’s look back at some of the San Francisco Giants’ Top Ten prospects.
The San Francisco Giants have started another even-year campaign. Spring Training means some young players looking to make an impact. Let’s take a look back at some youngsters who turned out to be pivotal pieces of World Series-winning teams, and some who didn’t.
With Spring Training is in full swing, there is still much to be decided. Baseball’s exhibition season is largely for the veterans to get some warm-up playing time and for the youngsters to get as much playing time with major leaguers as possible before they join their teammates in the minors for the majority of the year.
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Obviously, if a youngster really impresses, he may be kept on as a bench player to start the season. Other times, they are brought up early in the year. This has been the case for many of the current stars on San Francisco’s roster.
Catcher Buster Posey was at Spring Training in 2010 before starting the year with the AAA Fresno Grizzlies. It wasn’t a long stay as he was called up in May due to his spectacular statistics in the minors. The same thing happened with Brandon Crawford as well — and with many other current veterans.
The Giants are in a good situation as they look to the future. They have some impressive young pieces on display this year, and there are plenty more names waiting in the wings to take over in time.
However, the nature of prospects is extremely volatile, and not every one works out as the team hopes. For every Buster Posey, there have been dozens of prospects who flamed out early on, or just simply never live up to their massive hype — often through little or no fault of their own.
In the next few pages, we’ll be taking a look back at some of Baseball America’s offseason organizational rankings from the past, and going over some hits and misses that were encapsulated within each.
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