DrB's 2020 Giants Top 50 Prospects: #33 Blake Rivera

Blake Rivera RHP.  DOB:  1/9/1998.  6'4", 225 lbs.

Low A:  4-6, 3.95, 73 IP, 10.73 K/9, 4.81 BB/9, GB/FB= 2.50.

Blake Rivera is a big-bodied RHP with a low-mid 90's FB and a curveball that can be a strikeout pitch, but he has challenges commanding.  The groundball and K rates speak to impressive stuff.  The stuff may play up even more as a reliever, but the Giants seem to be developing him as a SP for now.  His size should give him the stamina to hold his stuff deep into games.  His season was interrupted by injury after July 1 although he did appear in a few innings late in the season.  We should see him in San Jose this spring where at age 22 he will be the same age as 4 yr college draftees in their first full season.