There R Giants 2024 Top 50: #11-15

The winners of the allllmost but not quite top 10 players are....

So far in the Top 50:

• Just Missed List

• #50-46 (Lisbel Diaz, Hayden Wynja, Alix Hernandez, Carson Ragsdale, Ben Madison)

• #45-41 (Jose Cruz, Tyler Myrick, Eric Silva, Nick Zwack, Josh Bostick)

• #40-36 (William Kempner, R.J. Dabovich, Scott Bandura, Cole Foster, Nick Avila)

• #35-31 (Jairo Pomares, Manuel Mercedes, Ryan Murphy, Erik Miller, Spencer Miles)

• #26-30 (Kai-Wei Teng, Cole Waites, Randy Rodriguez, Maui Ahuna, Liam Simon)

• #21-25 (Gerelmi Maldonado, Carson Seymour, Adrian Sugastey, Onil Perez, Diego Velasquez)

• #16-20 (Heliot Ramos, Trevor McDonald, Landen Roupp, Victor Bericoto, Wade Meckler)

We’re down to our final group selection of this year’s Top 50 — well, mostly — and, continuing our theme from Wednesday, we’re going to start seeing more and more players who could impact the Giants’ near-term future. As many as half of the remaining players we’ll meet have a pretty realistic chance of joining the order of Major League Players before this year concludes — and that’s just the really good chances. Start getting into “Stranger Things” scenarios and we could widen that scope significantly. After all, a year ago at this time Luis Matos, Marco Luciano, and Patrick Bailey were no closer to the majors than Aeverson Arteaga, Grant McCray, or #19 prospect Trevor McDonald are today.

From here on out, we have a fascinating mix of “could help out immediately” with “next wave forming.” Is this the first trickling of a steady flow down the pipeline? That is the fundamental question rising up before us that could define 2024 on the Giants’ farm. Pretty exciting! The times they are a-changing….hopefully!

So buckle up folks, because we are rounding third and heading for home in this year’s Top 50!