junior season<\/a> with a .352\/.436\/.535 slash line with six home runs over 36 games before a hamstring injury ended his season.<\/p>\n\u201cWe drafted him because of his ability and what we believe in him,\u201d said senior director of amateur scouting Michael Holmes. \u201cJust a really unique talent. Super strong, athletic, super high exit velocities off the bat. We think there\u2019s some things we can do with the swing to help him elevate the baseball a little bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnytime you get a guy named Bonds, you\u2019re crazy if you don\u2019t get excited,\u201d said manager Tony Vitello.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou get an athlete in the middle of the diamond, center field, hits the ball hard, it\u2019s a real good starter kid. He\u2019s a Giant because of Peyton Bonds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bonds, who turns 21 next week, played alongside Trevor Cohen, who was San Francisco\u2019s third-round selection in last year\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe met with Peyton at the combine, so I had a chance to sit down and talk with him for a pretty good stint there, spend some time with him. We joked about Cohen being a Giant and what that would be like for him. I think he was pretty excited about it,\u201d Holmes said.<\/p>\n
Bonds was the only position player that the Giants drafted on the draft\u2019s first day, the other four being Flora, left-hander Carson Bolemon (Competitive Balance Round A, 29th overall) and right-handers Kaden Waechter (second round, 55th overall) and Carlos Martinez (fourth round, 118th overall).<\/p>\n
Vitello said following Saturday\u2019s 4-2 win that he tried recruiting Bolemon to Tennessee, but the left-hander instead opted for Wake Forest. Bolemon, the back-to-back South Carolina Gatorade Player of the Year, was considered to be one of the best high school pitchers in this year\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery athletic. Swung the bat in high school, was a really good hitter. Elite makeup. Two distinct types of breaking balls that he can land both for strikes,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cWe think it\u2019s a really polished high school pitching kind of product, but we think there are some things that we can help him with that he\u2019ll be able to continue to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Bonds name is plenty familiar in San Francisco. Bobby Bonds was a three-time All-Star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1334,101,4820,103,102,104,106,105,127],"class_list":["post-395325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395325","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=395325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}