{"id":431777,"date":"2026-08-13T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431777\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:58:14","slug":"at-long-last-the-giants-farm-system-is-loaded-we-were-very-very-disrespected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431777\/","title":{"rendered":"At long last, the Giants\u2019 farm system is loaded: \u2018We were very, very disrespected\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For subscribersPublished Aug. 13, 2026at6:00am<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The Giants have come a long way from Michael Tucker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Tucker, for fans who weren\u2019t around in the early 2000s or forgot about his Giants legacy, was the outfielder who was signed just so they could avoid making a first-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">As loony as that sounds in 2026, it\u2019s absolutely true. By signing Tucker on Dec. 7, 2003, the Giants intentionally forfeited their top pick in 2004. Had they waited one day and allowed for the Royals to nontender Tucker, they could have signed him and also maintained their No. 1 draft pick. They preferred to give Tucker a $1.5 million salary, about the amount they would have paid their first pick, a strange budgetary sign of the times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For subscribersPublished Aug. 13, 2026at6:00am The Giants have come a long way from Michael Tucker. Tucker, for fans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[10875,101,4820,103,102,104,106,105,127],"class_list":["post-431777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-buster-posey","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\/431777","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=431777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}