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Position players
BEST PURE HITTER: C Aramis Garcia (2) nearly won the Conference USA modern triple crown in the spring, finishing second in on-base percentage after winning the batting and slugging titles. He has a balanced, strong, mature plate approach. 1B Skyler Ewing (6) has similar strength in a simple swing he repeats and controls the strike zone well. »
BEST POWER HITTER: The Giants drafted the last two winners of the Cape Cod League's home run derby in Ewing (2013) and OF Dylan Davis (6, 2012), who gets Josh Willingham comparisons for his strength, bat speed and righthanded power. »
FASTEST RUNNER: OF Seth Harrison (7) has posted 6.5-second times in the 60 in the past and is a plus runner. »
BEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER: The Giants didn't draft a premium defender, but Garcia has the arm strength and physicality to be solid-average behind the plate.
Pitchers
BEST FASTBALL: RHP Tyler Beede (1) can pitch with a premium fastball at his best, sitting 92-94 mph and reaching 97. Physical RHP Sam Coonrod (5) also has hit 97 in relief. »
BEST SECONDARY PITCH: Beede's changeup has evolved into his best secondary pitch, earning plus grades. His power 80-mph curve has been plus in the past but regressed this spring. Coonrod features a hard, inconsistent slider that flashes plus.
Odds and Ends
BEST PRO DEBUT: Ewing hit .291/.417/.473 with eight homers for short-season Salem-Keizer, leading the Northwest League in home runs per at-bat ratio (1 HR/22.75 ABs). OF Austin Slater(8) hit for a similar line (.347/.417/.449) in half the playing time with Salem-Keizer. RHP Greg Brody (11) struck out 27 of the 61 Rookie-level Arizona League batters he faced. »
BEST ATHLETE: A former infielder, Slater (8) has speed and strength to stick on an outfield corner, while Harrison has strength and enough speed to stick in center. »
MOST INTRIGUING BACKGROUND: Beede, who helped Vanderbilt win the College World Series in June, was a two-time first-rounder; he was the Blue Jays' unsigned 2011 first-rounder. Unsigned C Benito Santiago (38) is the son of the ex-big leaguer of the same name. RHPs Logan Webb (4, football quarterback) and 6-foot-8 Stetson Woods (9, basketball forward) were better known locally in Northern California for their exploits in other sports. »
CLOSEST TO THE MAJORS: If he throws strikes, Beede will move to San Francisco quickly. »
BEST LATE-ROUND PICK: The Giants took 3B/OF Hunter Cole (26) as a summer follow and signed him after seeing him rake (.353/.406/.565) in the Cape Cod League this summer. He's likely a better fit in the outfield than in the dirt. »
THE ONE WHO GOT AWAY: The Giants went 0-for-2 against North Carolina, as RHP Benton Moss (15) returned for his senior year while hard-throwing LHP Hunter Williams (32), a two-way player at the college level, enrolled as a freshman.
| QUICK TAKE |
| The Giants took a while to sign their players and inked just 23, but they got a balanced class with a strong group of college bats in a year that was thin on such players. |
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