It\u2019s hard to believe it, but the San Francisco Giants are already more than halfway through their Cactus League schedule. They\u2019ve played 15 games, with 14 remaining. They\u2019ve also played an exhibition against Team USA, while the future has four more exhibitions: a Spring Breakout prospect game with the Cincinnati Reds, one game against their own AAA affiliate, and two games against Sultanes of the Mexican League.<\/p>\n
And then it\u2019s on to the good stuff!<\/p>\n
Critically, the Giants have played enough games that we can start to get a feel for how each player\u2019s spring is going, though Carson Whisenhunt on Saturday offered a very strong reminder that a spring can flip \u2014 for better or for worse \u2014 in a moment\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n
With that said, which player has, to this point, stood out to you the most, both positively and negatively?<\/p>\n
While I think that Victor Bericoto\u2019s spring has been the most surprising, I\u2019m instead picking Bryce Eldridge as my spring standout to this point. There have been endless discussions over the last month as to Eldridge\u2019s roster status \u2014 does he have to hit his way onto the roster, or does he have to hit his way off of it? But I\u2019m just going to parrot something that Alex Pavlovic said on Thursday\u2019s Giants Talk podcast: I don\u2019t see how you can watch the at-bat he had against Paul Skenes and conclude that he shouldn\u2019t be on the Opening Day roster.<\/p>\n
Eldridge\u2019s at-bats have been competitive, poised, and most impressively, loud. And his defense has even been very impressive. There will no doubt be bumps and bruises \u2014 he\u2019s still striking out quite a lot \u2014 but that\u2019s going to occur at the Major League level whether he\u2019s called up on March 25 or on July 25. Ultimately, Eldridge has looked like he is without a doubt one of the team\u2019s best bats, and that\u2019s a happy sight in my eyes.<\/p>\n
As for the biggest disappointment, the easy choice is certainly Hayden Birdsong. There\u2019s unfortunately not too much to say there.<\/p>\n
Who have been your biggest Spring Training standouts and disappointments so far?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hard to believe it, but the San Francisco Giants are already more than halfway through their Cactus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,35990,85],"class_list":["post-528964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-roster","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528964","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=528964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}