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PISCATAWAY, NEW JERSEY – APRIL 10, 2026: Peyton Bonds #25 of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights bats during the third inning against the UCLA Bruins at Bainton Field on April 10, 2026, in Piscataway, New Jersey. (Photo by Chris Bernacchi\/Diamond Images via <\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO – Another Bonds has made his way to the San Francisco Giants<\/a> after the team drafted Peyton Bonds on Saturday for the 2026 MLB Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n This is the same franchise where uncle Barry Bonds and grandfather Bobby Bonds left a lasting legacy, but now it\u2019s Peyton\u2019s turn to blaze his own trail as a Giant.\u00a0<\/p>\n Peyton Bonds to the San Francisco Giants <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Peyton Bonds \u2013 a 6-foot-5-inch, 230-pound outfielder from Rutgers University \u2013 was drafted the first day in the third round with the 90th overall pick.\u00a0<\/p>\n This past season, the 20-year-old right-handed batter played in 36 games. He hit .352 with six home runs, 29 RBIs, eight doubles, scored 31 runs and stole 13 bases, according to Rutgers Baseball.<\/p>\n His season with Rutgers, however, was cut short when Peyton Bonds suffered a hamstring injury back in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n Familial baseball legacy\u00a0 <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Peyton Bonds is the son of Bobby Bonds Jr., who played 11 years as an outfielder in the minor leagues, including a 2-year stint with the San Jose<\/a> Giants.<\/p>\n Peyton Bonds is the nephew of Barry Bonds, the man who set a major league record with 762 career home runs, making him the “All-Time Home Run King.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Barry Bonds won seven Most Valuable Player awards throughout his 22-year career.\u00a0<\/p>\n But that’s not all. Peyton Bonds is also the grandson of Bobby Bonds, who played seven years for the Giants and was awarded the Ted Williams All-Star MVP and the NL All-Star in 1973.\u00a0<\/p>\n Bobby and Barry Bonds are considered one of the greatest father-son combinations in baseball history.<\/p>\n With a family that has baseball flowing through their veins alongside the talent of the Rutger athlete, the MLB Prospect ranked Peyton as no. 81 for this year\u2019s draft prospect.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to the MLB, Peyton Bonds had been on the Giants\u2019 radar for a while due to him playing alongside 2025 third-round draft pick Trevor Cohen at Rutgers last year, and his selection this year has Giants manager Tony Vitello excited.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: MLB websites on Peyton Bonds and player profiles, the Associated Press, the Rutgers Baseball website, and Baseball Reference.\u00a0<\/p>\n San Francisco<\/a>San Francisco Giants<\/a>News<\/a>MLB<\/a>Sports<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PISCATAWAY, NEW JERSEY – APRIL 10, 2026: Peyton Bonds #25 of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights bats during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,10897,1334,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,127,1181],"class_list":["post-397029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ca","tag-giants","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sports","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397029","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=397029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}