The San Francisco Giants fell short of continuing their every-other-year World Series success in 2016. Will they have help coming from the farm in 2017?
An Introduction
Our minor league top 10 series is coordinated by Benjamin Chase, one of our contributors at Call to the Pen.
He has pored over thousands of minor league games over the course of the year via milb.tv along with speaking with a number of team and independent scouts. These lists are based out of those conversations.
Each system will have prospects from 10 to 1, and then finish with one newcomer to the system that is worth keeping an eye on that is not in the top 10 at this time.
Conversations are certainly encouraged in the comments section on each system as we go along!
While the Giants system is one of the bottom ones in baseball overall, there is plenty of hope in the influx of talent this season.
Giants System Review
The Giants and Brian Sabean have used their farm system exactly as a farm system should be used in the last 5-10 years. Select players are used to better the major league club while others are traded away to acquire pieces to help championship runs.
With three World Series championships since 2010 and no finish worse than third in their division since 2009, the Giants are doing something right.
That all said, their system is truly devoid of major pieces currently. The 2016 draft was a huge boon for the organization after trading away many of the top talents in the pursuit of their recent world championships and seeing a number of others fall off.
The Giants’ 2016 draft was focused heavily on college players, and they were highly praised for the players they picked as multiple of them were considered to be first two rounds picks that the team was able to snag much deeper into the draft.
While the Giants system is one of the bottom ones in baseball overall, there is plenty of hope in the influx of talent this season.
Let’s look at the top 10!
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