San Francisco – Delayed by a wrist injury to start the season, Bryce Eldridge has not lost time to compensate for lost time.
The Giants’ Top Prospect, 21, made his debut for the season for Double-A Richmond on Tuesday and succeeded in his first At-Bat. The stick cleaning, the first 6 -foot base 7 inch basic player led the second round using his left -handed swing to place a low broken ball and elsewhere on the right field wall.
“Very well, well, get it here now,” joked the manager Bob Melvin before the club of the big leagues wore the Brewers Milwaukee.
Eldridge’s circuit stroke occurred for a few moments before the manager sat in the canoe for his pre-match media session, and Melvin looked at him for the first time on a journalist’s phone. He looked up before the end of the highest point. “I don’t need to see where it landed,” he said.
The ball easily cleaned the wall and landed in the enclai of flying squirrels, but Melvin is already experiencing the prodigious power of the choice of draft of the club in 2022. Invited for spring training at the major league for the first time this year, Eldridge made a similar first impression, Homering in his second At-Bat.
Eldridge, however, was slowed down after that by an inflammation on the wrist, which made him stay in Arizona to extend spring training.
It was not given that Eldridge would start the season with Double-A after having progressed at four levels in 2024 and finished the year in Triple-A Sacramento. When the regular season was over, he was assigned to Arizona Fall League but was closed after 10 games.
Eldridge struck .291 / .374 / .516 with 23 circuits in 446 batters at all levels in 2024, but only reached Richmond during the last month of the season, playing all 116 games except 15 for San-A San Jose and High-A Eugene.
Regarding his arrival in San Francisco, Melvin said: “We are going to look at him carefully and hope he will take a good start, do his thing and see where it goes from there.” A few moments later, the manager watched the clip of Eldridge go deeply. Not a bad start.
“Let’s see how his second At-Bat is going,” said Melvin.
Considered the perspective n ° 11 In sport by Baseball America and n ° 22 by MLB.com, the arrival of Eldridge has been eagerly awaited since the ball jumped from its bat during its beginnings in the Recruit League after the Giants wrote it 16th in the general classification as a double -sided player.
The giants have obtained the slightest production of the majors of the majors of the first base so far this season, but Melvin has expressed his confidence that Lamonte Wade Jr. would give him. Their first basic players were the sixth most important of any team, led by Wade, who entered Tuesday by hitting .103 with a .473 OPS.
The place of designated striking is more adjusted, with Wilmer Flores among the leaders of the League in the circuits (7) and the points produced (24).
“I believe that Lamonte will pick it up, and we have obtained a good production of Flo,” said Melvin. “(Eldridge) will have to happen to happen here, and that’s something Buster (Posey, the president of baseball operations) said.”
The assignment for Eldridge is triple: get more seasoning in the upper levels of minor leagues, above all. Improving his defense to the first goal, where he only started playing in pros and is still considered a defender lower than the average. And reduced its stick withdrawals after wifming at a rate of 25% in 2024.
“I think he will surprise some people with his successful capacity; he has a really short swing,” said Randy Winn, director of development of giant players last month for the club’s best hope this year. “I just want him to continue to improve in all facets of the game. The mental side of it too.
“How do you manage failure? How do you strike in certain situations? How do you strike if someone is going around?
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