The Giants fielded two DSL teams neither of which made the postseason although the Black team had strong W-L record. What as exciting about this DSL season was the large number of players signed in 2024 who performed like true prospects and likely well enough to earn a promotion to the ACL next season. The young performers were mostly from the positional side while most of the top pitching performers were older prospects. Let's break it down(we will limit the lists to first year players with at least 100 PA's):
BA:
.363 Santiago Camacho C.
.300 Oliver Tejada OF
.290 Evan Estevez(16 yo) OF
.279 Anthony Marquez IF
.275 Jhonny Level SS
HR:
10 Jhonny Level
5 Oliver Tejada
2 Santiago Camacho
2 Evan Estevez
Triples:
3 Oliver Tejada
2 Juan Colorado
2 Evan Estevez
2 Anthony Marquez
Doubles:
12 Albert Jimenez
11 Santiago Camacho
11 Jhonny Level
11 Oliver Tejada
SB:
18 Jhonny Level
13 Oliver Tejada
10 Anthony Marquez
6 Evan Estevez.
Also worth mentioning is Jesus Alexander C/1B who broke out in his second DSL season at age 18 with a .381 BA. We should see his name in the ACL boxscores next season. Also Yohendry Sanchez was a bonus baby catcher who only got 45 PA and hit for just .241 but with as many walks as K's.
On the pitching side the top performers were older prospects which may not be a big a factor for pitchers but still tends to devalue their performance at this level:
Ricardo Estrada LHP(22): 5-0, 1.22, 44.1 IP, 14 BB, 53 K.
Marlon Franco RHP(21): 3-1, 1.65, 49.0 IP, 5 BB, 46 K.
Brayan Narvaez RHP(19): 3-0, 3.92, 43.2 IP, 10 BB, 45 K.
Best first year performer was Argenis Cayama RHP, 6/1", 180 lbs: 0-1, 2.59, 24.1 IP, 9 BB, 29 K.
Top prospect is Jhonny Level by a pretty big margin. We should see his name in the ACL boxscores next season and will eagerly look for them.
This is entered in the wrong time and place but 27-yo Nick Morreale, mentioned by Doc about a hundred times, is one of those guys who got caught by the pandemic and then received a slow walk through the system after the year off in 2020.
ReplyDeleteRule 5 eligible, can the Giants protect him?
Some pitching poor team could plug him in, or he could be taken in the minor league draft (true?).
Nick Morreale is definitely a sleeper in the system and a potentially valuable bullpen arm. I don't think there is enough room on the 40-man roster to protect him from the major league phase of the rule 5 draft but he probably can be easily protected from the minor league phase. I could see a drafting team taking a no-risk flyer on him in the major league phase. If not, he's someone we could see in the Giants bullpen sometime in 2025.
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