San Francisco Giants: Breaking down the new prospects acquired at the deadline

The San Francisco Giants made a number of trades at this year’s deadline. Here is a breakdown of each of the prospects the team acquired.

The San Francisco Giants didn’t have the firesale that many people a month ago expected them to have at the deadline. However, that doesn’t mean that they didn’t trade away some of their top talent.

With an abundance of bullpen depth at their disposal, the Giants felt comfortable dealing away some of their relievers. The likes of Mark Melancon, Sam Dyson, and Drew Pomeranz were sent packing at the deadline as well as fringe Triple-A/MLB pitcher Ray Black.

In return, the Giants netted a collection of minor-leaguers ranging from top-20 prospects to low-level prospects that the team took a flyer on. In total, San Francisco traded for six prospects at the deadline.

This, of course, is not counting veterans Scooter Gennett and Dan Winkler who each have spent a sizable amount of time in the big leagues already.

Let’s briefly take a look and break down each of the newly acquired prospects.

Mauricio Dubon, 2B/SS

Mauricio Dubon was acquired from the Milwaukee Brewers in the Pomeranz/Black deal and is the highest-rated prospect that the Giants traded for. Somehow the package of those two miscast veterans netted this return.

Baseball is weird sometimes.

Dubon has very good speed and has steadily improved as a hitter during his time in the minors. His current stat line playing down in Triple-A reads .297/.333/.475 with 16 home runs and 47 RBI.

With above-average fielding, good speed, and improved hitting, Dubon could either be the replacement for Joe Panik at second base or even the long-term replacement for Brandon Crawford at shortstop.

Either way, the Giants currently No. 8 ranked prospect should find his way to the majors sooner rather than later.

Tristan Beck, RHP

Somehow, the Giants not only managed to coerce the Atlanta Braves into taking on all of reliever Mark Melancon’s remaining salary, but also landed a pretty intriguing prospect in the process.

That prospect is local Stanford product Tristan Beck.

Beck excelled while with the Cardinal battling through injuries but his first full season in the minors this year hasn’t exactly gone to plan. The 23-year-old holds a combined 5.32 ERA pitching between the rookie league and High-A getting off to a horrid start.

While at Stanford, Beck had a pretty dominant fastball that touched the upper-90’s but he hasn’t been able to reach that point in the minors just yet. The Giants will be hoping that Beck could put his injury troubles behind him and return to his collegiate form.