The following from one of Baseball Prospectus' correspondents and yet Marco is also listed as the Giants #1 prospect in aother article.
That may speak poorly of the Giants current shallow pool of prospects. Giants fans have been through this before but, for the love of Wendell Fairley, does not even a blind squirell occasionally find himself a nut?
Maybe the Giants scouting and player development minions are less sskilled at their primary jobs than the proverbial blind squirell is at his.
from Baseball Prospectus.com:
Luciano is the personification of prospect fatigue, having been a fixture on prospect lists longer than I’ve been employed by BP. A lot of Luciano’s past rankings were when the public side was way, way behind on identifying traits that translate to big league production. Had we had things such as zone contact rates and SEAGER scores when Luciano was climbing the minor league ranks, there’s a chance Luciano is even further down this year’s ranking, if on it at all.
Luciano isn’t dissimilar to Ronny Mauricio, who notably isn’t on this list. He has plus-plus bat speed that’s looked a lot more like just plus at times of late, and he struggles to pick up any spin out of the pitcher’s hand. He’s in the dead zone where he chases too much and doesn’t make enough contact in the zone to justify said chases issues. The bat speed and Luciano’s surprising ability to stick at the 6 are literally the only things keeping his current ranking afloat. But the ship has sunk and Luciano’s strapped into the lifevest, hoping he can make it to shore before his stock sinks to the ocean floor. —Smith Brickner