Thursday, February 22, 2018

DrB's 2018 Giants Top 50 Prospects: #1 Heliot Ramos

Heliot Ramos, OF.  DOB:  9/71999.  B-R, T-R.  6'2", 185 lbs.  Drafted 2017 Round 1, #19 Overall.

R:  .348/.404/.645, 11 2B, 6 3B, 6 HR, 10 SB, 6.6 BB%, 31.8 K%, 151 PA.

I remember the instant I knew the Giants had to draft Heliot Ramos if he was available at #19 of the 2017 draft.  I was reading through a mock draft and saw his name as the Dodgers pick.  I let out an audible "No!"  "The Giants cannot let the Dodgers draft Heliot Ramos!"  Well, if Ramos is the guy they can't let the Dodgers have, there is only one way to guarantee it won't happen:  Draft him before he gets to the Dodgers!  Boom!  Guess who the Giants grabbed at #19.  

Heliot Ramos might be the most athletic, toolsy first round pick the Giants have ever made.  Run, Catch, Throw, Hit, Hit for Power.  Check, Check, Check, Check, Check!  He's got a great shot to be what Gustavo Cabrera could have been.  He's got the same athleticism and muscular strength along with the other tools.  To top it off, he got off to a blazing hot start to his pro career marred only by a high K rate and a concussion from an HBP that ended his season a bit early.

Of course, my irrational exuberance might come crashing down when he struggles in Augusta, but hey, Augusta as a new ballpark and maybe it's not quite as unfriendly to hitters as Olmstead Park.  For now, I am as excited about Heliot Ramos as I have been about any Giants prospect I can remember, and I go all the way back to Will Clark and Matt Williams.

10 comments:

  1. Blach starts today (Bum Sunday), Cutch in right, Pence in left, Because in center.
    This is what's RIGHT in the world!
    At last, it's Spring in February!
    12:05, KNBR

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  2. Ah, expectations and Will Clark in the same post... My expectations of Clark were so high that I considered him a disappointment for his first three years... And he was really, really, really, really good... Fans can bee weird that way...

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  3. Another (dreaded) expectation:
    A Yankee-Dodger World Series!
    An absolutely, positively, most certainly morally contemptible unmitigated disaster!
    Boycott!

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    1. I rarely watch playoffs unless it's my team. But I watched Astros/Dodgers so I could root against the Dodgers. If this scenario happened, I'd still root against the Dodgers, but it'd be a pyrrhic victory if they lost.

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  4. Those xbh numbers still blow my mind. It would be great if he does well enough to get a late season look in sj.

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  5. It's a good sign as to how talented Ramos is when he's already been reportedly mentioned in trade talks at his age. If true I'm glad that the Giants turned down a Ramos for Billy Hamilton trade.

    LG

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    1. Keep your fingers crossed until August 1

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    2. If Ramos is really great, I trust that the Giants will not trade him away. Sabean has a great record of keeping the good players and not trading them away. So far, Liriano and Duvall, over 20 years, not too shabby. He has not Ethier or CarGo fiasco trades on his resume, and lots of great trades on the plus side of the ledger.

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    3. I'd be careful about appealing to authority on that one, ogc. Sabean's track record on trades has been very good, mostly because TINSTAAP Ramos could be great and also traded if it was for the right player, like say Giancarlo Stanton. Or Sabes and Evans could just look at how far away Ramos is and decide the present takes priority and the farm system has time to recover.

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    4. Oh, and did you forget Joe Nathan?

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