The Giants’ subsequent selections reinforced the idea the front office develops a plan and sticks to it as there were several intriguing high school prospects available at picks 49, 67 and 68. With dramatic 3-HR ninth inning, Giants earn comeback win over Brewers With six college players and one local high school product set to join the organization, the Giants are adding a strong crop of talent to a farm system that entered the week with four of the game’s top 100 prospects in Joey Bart, Marco Luciano, Heliot Ramos and Hunter Bishop.
The Giants will have more opportunities to add to this year’s draft class next week when a post-draft signing period opens for amateur players, but the front office will be evaluated largely on the way the seven players the team selected perform over the next several years. With college and high school seasons cut short due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Giants’ front office had fewer opportunities to scout players in person and more time to talk about draft philosophy and carefully craft a strategy for this week’s event. It will take years before the baseball industry and Giants fans can properly judge how the organization fared this week, but there was plenty to learn from how president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi and amateur scouting director Michael Holmes approached the 2020 MLB Draft.
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