San Francisco Giants Top 10 Prospects For 2026 Fantasy Baseball

Format = Position Player | Age on 4/1/2026 | Highest Level Played | Estimated Time of Arrival 

1. 1B Bryce Eldridge | 21 | MLB | 2025

Here’s something Grey said the other day in his 2026 Fantasy Outlook for Bryce Eldridge: 

“I’m going to go out on a sturdy limb — like this dude’s arms — and say he’s out-homering Pete Alonso by 2028. His average exit velocity in Triple-A as a 20-year-old was 95.7 MPH. At 20! Sorry to keep repeating his age, but if a 25-year-old is doing this, it’s whatever. A 20-year-old? It’s ludicrous. He was basically the top average exit velocity guy as a 20-year-old. “As a 20-year-old” repeat seventy-five times. Eldridge is unreal. 90th% EV? 108.6 MPH! Max EV? 114.6! Barrel%? 16.3! Hard Hit%? 64.5! If these numbers mean nothing to you, take my word for it. They’re nuts. Kyle Schwarber led the majors in Hard Hit%, it was 59.6! Ohtani was 58.4%. Look again at Bryce Eldridge’s — 64.5%!”

These numbers look ludicrous no matter how you slice them, but when you throw in the fact that Eldridge was a two-way prospect out of high school and that he’s 6’7” 240 pounds and still getting accustomed to his meta-human frame, the mind boggles at the possibilities. I wish he were in just about any other ballpark, but the Giants have a good lineup that should provide protection and opportunities for the young slugger who just turned 21 on October 20th. 

2. SS Josuar Gonzalez | 18 | DSL | 2030

A switch-hitter listed at 6’0” 167 pounds, Gonzalez signed for $2,997,500 in the 2025 J-15 class after demonstrating plus bat speed from both sides of the plate on the amateur circuit and drawing comparisons to Francisco Lindor and Jose Reyes. Let’s hope it’s more the former than the latter, at least behaviorally speaking. In 52 DSL games, Gonzalez slashed .288/.404/.455 with four home runs, 33 stolen bases, 37 walks and 36 strikeouts. In other words, every light is bright green in the early going. 

3. 2B Gavin Kilen | 22 | A | 2028

This team has so many left-handed hitting prospects, they figured they might as well snag another with the 13th overall pick in the 2025 draft. At 5’11” 187 pounds, Kilen isn’t the twitchiest athlete on the planet, but aside from his freshman year at Louisville, he’s always hit. After batting .265 with zero home runs as a freshman, he hit nine homers and batted .330 as a sophomore. He transferred to Tennessee before his junior season and slashed .357/.457/.671 with 14 home runs, 30 walks and just 27 strikeouts in 53 games. He played just ten Low-A games after getting drafted, so I’ll toss that sample out so we can start fresh for 2026. 

4. OF Bo Davidson | 22 | AA | 2028

Davidson went undrafted after his sophomore season at Caldwell Community College but later signed with the Giants as a free agent. He’s one of the best scouting and development wins this organization has had on the minor league level in the recent past, thoroughly dominating the Low-A level in 2024 with nine home runs, seven triples, and a slash line of .328/.438/.608 in his debut season. A left-handed hitter at 6’1” 205 pounds, Davidson has plus tools across the board and came roaring back for more in 2025, slashing .281/.376/.468 with 18 home runs and 19 stolen bases in 114 games across two levels. 

5. OF Drew Gilbert | 25 | MLB | 2025

Came over from New York along with Blade Tidwell and Jose Butto in the Tyler Rogers trade, which led me toward kind of a crazy thought in preparing this list. Did this team give up less for Rafael Devers than it got for Tyler Rogers? 

Here’s the Devers return: LHP Kyle Harrison, OF James Tibbs III, Jordan Hicks and RHP Jose Bello. Tibbs III has already been sent along to his next destination in return for an expiring Dustin May contract, so moving forward, the return is one year of Hicks at $12.5 million along with whatever they get from Harrison and the 20-year-old Jose Bello. I know Devers is going to cost a lot of money for a limited defender, but it’s a weird sequence that only gets weirder as time ticks along. 

Okay back to Gilbert, the 5’9” 195 pound lefty is a sparkplug player who brought a lot of energy to San Francisco’s clubhouse down the stretch. He didn’t actually hit well, 66 wRC+, but it’s easy to imagine him breaking 2026 with the big club in a reserve role because he can play all three outfield spots. In 93 minor league games, he slashed .262/.369/.466 with 14 home runs and six stolen bases, maintaining great plate skills: 12.3 percent walk rate against a 16.2 percent strikeout rate. 

6. OF Dakota Jordan | 21 | A | 2028

A great athlete who signed with Mississippi State to play both baseball and football, Jordan focused instead on the diamond and blasted 20 home runs in 63 games as a sophomore, slashing .354/.459/.671 in the SEC then signed for almost two million bucks, way over slot for a fourth-round pick. The Giants didn’t have a second or third, so they had some money to spend and used it to buy Jordan out of his junior season at Mississippi State. The investment has paid off early, with Jordan slashing .311/.377/.497 with 14 home runs and 27 stolen bases in 88 Low-A games. 

7. RHP Trevor McDonald | 25 | MLB | 2024 

McDonald relied heavily on his 86 mph curveball during his 15-inning stint with San Francisco this season, throwing it 51.4 percent of the time and inducing a .125 batting average and .250 slugging percentage with the pitch. He threw a sinker at a 38.7 percent clip and allowed only singles in 82 offerings. The formula that produced a 1.80 ERA and 1.00 WHIP. At 6’2” 201 pounds with a low arm slot and good side-to-side movement, he evokes comparisons to Logan Webb if you squint. 

8. RHP Blade Tidwell | 24 | MLB | 2025

If you’re not going to pitch for the Mets, who have one of the best parks and development staffs in the game, the Giants offer a nice fallback option. Not that Tidwell had a choice, coming over in the haul for Tyler Rogers and then recording a 0.78 WHIP with 24 strikeouts in 18 innings across four starts with Triple-A Sacramento. Tidwell might feel a little less pressure to throw strikes in San Francisco, and the huge right field gives him some room for error, so all he really has to do is keep his five-pitch arsenal around the strike zone. Interesting sleeper for this season. 

9. SS Jhonny Level | 19 | A | 2029

Level signed for $997,500 on Jan 16, 2024 and quickly impressed, slashing .275/.393/.517 with 10 home runs and 18 stolen bases in 48 DSL games. A switch-hitter listed at 5’10” 154 lbs, Level is a gifted defender with quick-but-fluid actions at the six and an easy plus throwing arm. He’s much bigger than 154 pounds today, but it’s good weight. In 89 games across the complex and Low-A league, he slashed .269/.360/.436 with 12 home runs, 21 stolen bases and 70 strikeouts (17.2%) against 50 walks (12.3%). 

10. C Jesus Rodriguez | 23 | AAA | 2026 

Part of the return from the Yankees for RHP Camilo Doval, Rodriguez has always made a lot of contact and produced good-looking slash lines by spraying the ball all over the field. He hit just seven home runs in 124 games but also struck out just 78 times (13.8%) against 66 walks (11.7%). Also swiped 21 bases because he’s a little quicker than your average catcher, which the Yankees used to move Rodriguez all around the field. The Giants reportedly see him more as a full-time catcher and will give him time to develop there. The bar remains pretty low for catchers in our game, so Rodriguez makes for a decent use of a roster spot in deep leagues. 

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