{"id":145560,"date":"2025-09-15T18:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145560\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:29:07","slug":"source-giants-calling-up-top-prospect-bryce-eldridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145560\/","title":{"rendered":"Source – Giants calling up top prospect Bryce Eldridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alden GonzalezSep 15, 2025, 07:21 PM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Giants<\/a>, suddenly back in the playoff race with two weeks remaining in the regular season, are calling up top prospect Bryce Eldrige<\/a>, a source confirmed to ESPN on Monday.<\/p>\n

Eldridge, a 20-year-old first baseman who was No. 29 in the latest prospect rankings<\/a> by ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel, will seemingly take on the role vacated by fellow left-handed hitter Dominic Smith<\/a>, who went on the injured list<\/a> with a hamstring strain over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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The 16th overall pick out of high school in 2023, Eldridge surged in Double-A at the start of the season and was slashing .249\/.322\/.514 with 18 homers, 88 strikeouts and 28 walks for the Giants’ Triple-A affiliate. His strikeout rate remained high of late, but his production improved over these last 17 games, during which he boasted a .294 batting average with 10 extra-base hits.<\/p>\n

The Giants had been using Rafael Devers<\/a> at both first base and designated hitter, with Smith and the right-handed-hitting Wilmer Flores<\/a> essentially platooning at the other spot. Eldridge will seemingly take on Smith’s role for the stretch run, while hoping to push the Giants toward an unlikely playoff spot.<\/p>\n

After acquiring Devers in the middle of June, the Giants went 13-22 heading into the trade deadline at the end of July, prompting the front office to deal veteran players. As of Aug. 22, the Giants were seven games below .500 and 7 1\/2 games out of the final wild-card spot, but they have since won 14 of 20 games and currently trail the slumping New York Mets<\/a> by only 1 1\/2 games with 13 remaining.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Chronicle first reported Eldridge’s callup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alden GonzalezSep 15, 2025, 07:21 PM CloseESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-145560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}