#Marco Luciano

I write this piece every year, but I never could have predicted what happened in 2021. Usually, "bold predictions" come up short because they're too bold. For instance, last year I picked Austin Slater to hit more homers than in his previous four seasons combined (he came close, missing by two!) and Duane Kuiper projected double-digit homers for…

Josh Norris hosted a chat to discuss the Giants system. You can read the transcript here. Josh Norris: Hello, Giants fans. It is chat time. Let us chat. Cal (San Francisco): Who is better defensively at shortstop -- Marco Luciano or Aeverson Arteaga? Any chance that the Giants might move Luciano over to second-base if Casey Schmitt will be…

My everlasting love, I am coming home, for the war is over. Both sides are claiming victory, but there is no ambiguity in this matter. We are victorious, my sweet Gerty! We have prevailed! Sing tale of our triumph upon the highest mountain top, because we have won, we have won, we have won, and I am coming home. The Belt Wars are over. The good…

Top Giants prospect Marco Luciano gets a lot of the publicity, and rightfully so, but there is another shortstop in San Francisco's minor league system worth keeping an eye on. Aeverson Arteaga doesn't come with the hype of Luciano -- or the signing bonus -- but the 19-year-old Venezuelan is climbing up the Giants' prospect rankings (currently No.…

Carlos Correa bet on himself last season when he signed what turned out to be a one-year deal with the Twins. He was right to want to test the free agent market again, because the Giants are now betting three times the Arizona Diamondbacks' entire 2022 payroll that Correa is the man it needs in the middle of its lineup for the next decade-plus. And…

Carlos Correa bet on himself last season when he signed what turned out to be a one-year deal with the Twins. He was right to want to test the free agent market again, because the Giants are now betting three times the Arizona Diamondbacks' entire 2022 payroll that Correa is the man it needs in the middle of its lineup for the next decade-plus. And…

After striking out on Aaron Judge, Brandon Nimmo, and Kodai Senga, the one word that will probably be used to describe this offseason for the San Francisco Giants come March is "failure." That is unless they make a couple of big moves as the offseason calendar flips from 2022 to 2023. Not just to improve their chances of competing for the third…

The 2022 MLB winter meetings will begin Sunday, and while the MLB talent changing teams in blockbuster trades can often steal the headlines, the prospects who go the other way in those deals often wind up being the bigger story. Workhorse right-hander Jeff Samardzija going from the Oakland Athletics to the Chicago White Sox during the 2014 winter…

On March 31, 2019, Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Elvis Luciano became the first player born in the 2000s to reach the big leagues. In the years since, a wave of talented young players who weren't even born when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire were chasing down Roger Maris during the 1998 season has descended on Major League Baseball. 2022 Rookie of…

Free agency is upon us. Or at least it's hovering above us, the circling vulture to our slowly dying, soon to be rotted carcass of a baseball season. Soon the San Francisco Giants will do things. Those things might be actual things, like signing baseball players. Or those things might be the absence of things, like not signing baseball…

The San Francisco Giants A-ball affiliates were all off on Monday, but their Rookie League and Dominican League teams were in action, and a lot of new prospects made their professional debuts. Let's jump into it. All listed positions are the positions played in that game. ACL Giants Orange beat the ACL Rockies 5-1 (8 innings) Box score'Tis the…