- Position
- SS
- Age
- 19
- Pieces here
- 6
On the record
Called Shots →Jhonny Level's first 2027 regular-season game is for Double-A Richmond or a higher level. RIGHT if his first 2027 regular-season game (spring training and the Arizona Fall League do not count) is at Double-A, Triple-A or the majors. WRONG if it is at High-A, Single-A or the complex league. VOID if he plays no 2027 regular-season game by May 1, 2027.
Written about him
The Giants' farm had the best record in baseball. Promotions decided who rose
The Giants' seven minor league affiliates combined for a 413-303 record and a run differential of plus 540, the best of any organization, and MLB Pipeline named San Francisco its Farm System of the Year. A team record does not say which prospects rose. A promotion does, because the new level's pitchers have not seen the hitter and the rate either holds or it does not. Jhonny Level, 19, kept his strikeout rate under 19 percent after moving to High-A Eugene. Josuar Gonzalez hit better at Single-A than he had in the complex league and climbed from 15th to 7th on Pipeline's Top 100. Gavin Kilen, Trevor Cohen and Dakota Jordan all reached Double-A Richmond on July 17; Kilen's .812 OPS did not move, Cohen's walk rate fell by half and Jordan's power disappeared in 88 plate appearances. Bo Davidson improved after his promotion to Triple-A and reached the majors. Joe Whitman's strikeout rate fell from 33 percent to 19 after his.
The Level Changed Luis Hernández And It Did Not Change Josuar Gonzalez
The Giants promoted shortstops Josuar Gonzalez and Luis Hernández from the Arizona Complex League to Low-A San Jose on July 24, and both debuted for San Jose on July 25. Through August 22, Gonzalez is hitting .379/.476/.609 in 21 games with 16 walks against 19 strikeouts. Through August 20, Hernández is hitting .231/.276/.319 in 20 games with 6 walks against 29 strikeouts. A .463 batting average on balls in play accounts for most of the difference in the batting averages and will not last. The plate-discipline gap will not regress the same way: Gonzalez walked and struck out at San Jose at almost exactly the rates he posted in the complex league, while Hernández's walk rate halved and his strikeout rate nearly doubled. Hernández is fourteen months younger, is in his first full-season league, and had the better strikeout rate of the two in the complex over a sample nearly twice as large. He is on San Jose's active roster and has not batted since August 20. MLB Pipeline moved the Giants from 19th to 5th in its refreshed farm system rankings on August 16, credited Gonzalez in part, and ranks Gonzalez 17th and Hernandez 27th among all prospects in baseball.
The Giants Bought Four Shortstops. Only One Of Them Can Play Shortstop.
The Giants have spent north of $13 million assembling four different answers to the same question. Sorting them by arrival date instead of by ranking reveals something uncomfortable about the next four years.