{"id":395163,"date":"2026-07-12T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395163\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:00:12","slug":"giants-select-rhp-carlos-martinez-with-4th-round-pick-in-2026-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395163\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants select RHP Carlos Martinez with 4th-round pick in 2026 MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The San Francisco Giants made it four pitchers in five picks on Saturday, when they used their fourth-round pick (No. 118 overall) on right-handed pitcher Carlos Martinez, a 21-year old from Hofstra. After using the No. 29 and 55 picks on high school pitchers, the Giants are likely to go underslot with Martinez to help facilitate their earlier signings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">That said, this appears to be a cheeky move where the Giants will go underslot not for a lesser talent, but just a riskier one. Martinez \u2014 who was the No. 212 prospect on ESPN\u2019s big board \u2014 lost the 2025 season due to Tommy John surgery, though he returned this year and pitched well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Martinez, who is 6\u20192 and 210 pounds, has a hard slider that serves as his best pitch. In 13 starts with Hofstra this year, he posted a 3.30 ERA and a 3.88 FIP, with 96 strikeouts in 76.1 innings, and 27 walks. Like most pitchers in this range of the draft, he\u2019ll likely be developed as a starter, but his most likely path to the Majors will be through the bullpen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco Giants made it four pitchers in five picks on Saturday, when they used their fourth-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,158788,104648,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-395163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants-mlb-draft","tag-san-francisco-giants-prospects","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}