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Parks Harber, who the San Francisco Giants acquired for Camilo Doval, has been named the team’s player to watch in spring training. <\/p>\n
After a slow start to the second half of the 2025 season, the San Francisco Giants<\/a> traded closer Camilo Doval to the New York Yankees<\/a>. As the Giants<\/a> get ready for the 2026 season, one of the players acquired in that trade has been named as a player to watch in spring training.<\/p>\n Alden Gonzalez of ESPN named utility player Parks Harber, who was one of four prospects acquired for Doval by the Giants, as San Francisco\u2019s player to watch.<\/p>\n \u201cYou won\u2019t see this name pop up on many prospect lists, but some within the Giants really pushed to acquire Harber from the Yankees in last summer\u2019s Camilo Doval trade, then watched him slash .333\/.454\/.644 in High-A for what remained of that season,\u201d Gonzalez said<\/a>.<\/p>\n Parks Harber Dominated at All Stops in 2025<\/p>\n All told, Harber logged 108 plate appearances and 87 at-bats for the Eugene Emeralds, San Francisco\u2019s High-A team, in 2025. And while that might look like a small sample size, it didn\u2019t come out of nowhere.<\/p>\n Harber hit well in two Minor League stops in the New York organization as well. He slashed .326\/.395\/.489 for the Hudson Valley Renegades, New York\u2019s High-A team and .304\/.422\/.551 for the Tampa Tarpons, the Yankees\u2019 Single-A team.<\/p>\n That, coupled with his performance with Eugene, gave Harber a .323\/.420\/.550 Minor League slash line in 2025. If we combine that with the .383\/.513\/.683 slash line Harber posted in the 2025 Arizona Fall League, that\u2019s a .333\/.437\/.573 line throughout 2025. And while 351 at-bats over 86 games isn\u2019t a huge sample size, it\u2019s not small enough to be dismissed \u2014 particularly since it\u2019s not new.<\/p>\n During the Fall League, MLB<\/a>.com\u2019s Jonathan Mayo discussed Harber\u2019s performance. He noted that, while Harber was not drafted in 2024 before signing with the Yankees, it wasn\u2019t due to a lack of production in college.<\/p>\n \u201cHe spent three years at Georgia, smashing 18 homers with a .917 OPS in his junior season,\u201d Mayo wrote of Harber<\/a>. \u201cAfter not being drafted in 2023, he transferred to North Carolina for his senior year, which led to even better numbers across the board: .343\/.425\/.648 with 20 home runs.\u201d<\/p>\n Harber has a Good Swing for Oracle Park<\/p>\n One question that must be asked of any hitter entering the San Francisco organization is, \u201cWhat will Oracle Park do to his offense?\u201d It\u2019s a notoriously tough place to hit home runs.<\/p>\n Fortunately, Harber is not strictly a home run hitter. He hit 13 home runs in 79 Minor League games in 2025 and three in 17 AFL games after the Minor League season. Those totals, while solid, don\u2019t show a hitter who needs longballs to be effective.<\/p>\n Per Fangraphs<\/a>, Harber had a 31.3% line drive rate on batted balls at his three Minor League stops in 2025. That opens up the door for something we haven\u2019t seen a lot of since Oracle Park opened in 2000, a hitter who actually benefits from its spacious dimensions.<\/p>\n Line drive hitters work very well in stadiums with big outfields and spacious gaps, which Oracle Park has in spades. Line drives into those big gaps are where singles become doubles and doubles become triples.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not to say that Harber will never hit a ball off the wall or into an outfielder\u2019s glove that would have been a home run in 29 of 30 parks. But on balance, the dimensions of Oracle Park should work more to Harber\u2019s advantage than his detriment. That\u2019s not something we can say about a lot of hitters.<\/p>\n Harber has work to do before he gets to the Major League level. Spring training will be the first sign of how well he\u2019s progressed. But if he does progress through the system, there\u2019s every reason to believe he\u2019ll be in San Francisco sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMichael Dixon<\/a> Michael Dixon has over 15 years of experience in journalism, both online and in print. While originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he presently lives in the greater Indianapolis area. He’s also previously lived and worked in Arizona.
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