It's Moving Day!
SF Giants Minor Lines, June 2, 2026
Photo Credit: Mick Anders | Richmond Flying Squirrels
Mondays are moving day in the minor leagues nowadays, and the Giants just staged an epic one that had bodies in motion all over the country — countries, actually, since a couple started their journeys from Canada.
We’d had the teasers yesterday — the Jhonny Level and Matt Wilkinson drops. But, my word it was so much more than that! In all, nine different players changed teams as of yesterday, and another head to the IL for a bit. Here’s the full rundown:
LHP Matt Wilkinson and LHP Joe Whitman to Sacramento
RHP Yunior Marte, LHP Charlie McDaniel, RHP Ryan Vanderhei, INF/OF Jean Carlos Sio, and C Onil Perez to Richmond (also, Adrián Sugastey placed on IL)
SS Jhonny Level to Eugene, along with return of Lisbel Diaz
That’s a heapin’ helpin’ of transactions! And we got to see some of these newbies take to their new fields immediately. Now, as exciting as it is to see players promoted, and get new opportunities, I do feel like I should insert a note of caution here and say that this hasn’t felt like the slow, deliberative development process that Randy Winn and Buster Posey talked so much about last year. The 23-year-old Wilkinson has thrown 43 innings in Double-A; Marte 43 in High-A. Drew Cavanaugh moved through Double-A in just 36 total games; Scott Bandura made it to 82. Jonah Cox went from an uneven performance in High-A to the majors in 44 games — almost exactly the same trip we saw Luis Matos take (and he touched grass in Triple-A first), albeit obviously at a much younger age.
Level is, like Bryce Eldridge, the sort of extreme talent who sets his own time table, and I’m certainly very excited to see him take this next step (the 19-year-old could well be leading off for Richmond in a playoff series by September). But I was critical of the previous regime for moving players a little rapidly, and what I sometimes considered haphazardly. So, it’s only fair to question if this new group is already, in just year two, starting to deviate from stated core principals — and wonder if they’re being a tad reactive to what’s happening above in doing so. It definitely bears watching and considering over time. I don’t mean to take a fun, happy moment and turn it into bummer sermonizing, but, especially at this level, you want to see good processes in place — and consistent, coherent processes are usually good ones.
With that said, we have a lot of level debuts to get to today. And a lot of fun stories.
HITTER of the NIGHT: Dario Reynoso (SJ), 3 for 4, 2 HR, 2 R, 3 RBI
PITCHER of the NIGHT: Keyner Martinez (SJ), 4.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 9 K
It’s a night of firsts!
