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Sam Selman has tremendous numbers at Sac. Big K numbers. Fernando Abad has been decent. Both lefties. Selmen yet another Vandy guy. He’s 28. Abad is 32 with some MLB experience. They also have a right handed submariner, Tyler Rogers, he’s 28. Had excellent years at Sac in ‘17 and ‘18. Hasn’t been as good this year.

I suspect all three will be up at some point. Not kids. Like Yaz Dickerson Slater Solano Vogt. Been around a while.

Giants have a pretty big gap between late 20’s guys like these and their top prospects, BART, Heliot Ramos and Luciano (17). Best overall pitching prospects are young - Gregory Santos (19) and Sean Hjelle a 6’11 righthander. Also Logan Webb. He got derailed a bit by a PED suspension.

Bob, are you familiar with the relief pitching prospects in the Giants farm system?  Coonrod is one of those guys I speak about when referencing depth of relief pitching in the system.  

Smith is valuable for sure, but if you can't trade him and fill in with other guys, how does the team get improved much for the stretch run in the next week? He can still be re-signed as a Free Agent after this season.

[lex24]

Sam Selman has tremendous numbers at Sac. Big K numbers. Fernando Abad has been decent. Both lefties. Selmen yet another Vandy guy. He’s 28. Abad is 32 with some MLB experience. They also have a right handed submariner, Tyler Rogers, he’s 28. Had excellent years at Sac in ‘17 and ‘18. Hasn’t been as good this year.

I suspect all three will be up at some point. Not kids. Like Yaz Dickerson Slater Solano Vogt. Been around a while.

Giants have a pretty big gap between late 20’s guys like these and their top prospects, BART, Heliot Ramos and Luciano (17). Best overall pitching prospects are young - Gregory Santos (19) and Sean Hjelle a 6’11 righthander. Also Logan Webb. He got derailed a bit by a PED suspension.

Bob, are you familiar with the relief pitching prospects in the Giants farm system?  Coonrod is one of those guys I speak about when referencing depth of relief pitching in the system.  

Smith is valuable for sure, but if you can't trade him and fill in with other guys, how does the team get improved much for the stretch run in the next week? He can still be re-signed as a Free Agent after this season.