Although Parks Harber hit 20 home runs and compiled a 1.073 OPS as a North Carolina senior in 2024, he went undrafted and signed with the Yankees.<\/p>\n
But as the calendar turns to 2026, Harber is no afterthought in the Giants\u2019 organization. San Francisco acquired Harber from New York in the Camilo Doval deal at the 2025 trade deadline, and 24-year-old third baseman thrived with both High-A Eugene and in the Arizona Fall League.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a rare blend, and I think that\u2019s where he\u2019s a separator,\u201d Giants farm director Kyle Haines said. \u201cHe has power to all fields, but it\u2019s not his power you talk about. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the blend\u2014his ability to hit a lot of different pitch types to a lot of different fields. He\u2019s a hitter first and a power hitter second.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 25 games for Eugene, the righthanded hitter belted seven homers and had a 1.097 OPS. In 17 AFL games, Harber went deep three times and had a 1.196 OPS.<\/p>\n
Listed at 6-foot-3, 225 pounds, Harber played both corner infield spots in college, his first three seasons at Georgia followed by one at UNC. Haines believes Harber could be an everyday third baseman, but the Giants have Matt Chapman ensconced at third and likely will have Rafael Devers and\/or Bryce Eldridge set at first for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n
Harber also has spent a bit of a time as a corner outfielder.<\/p>\n
Haines said the Giants plan to make Harber ready to play any position that could help the team.<\/p>\n
Harber isn\u2019t the only Giants prospect who went undrafted. Outfielder Bo Davidson also wasn\u2019t selected in the 20 rounds; the Giants signed him in July 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s a good lesson that there are still plenty of good players out there, and it\u2019s a credit to (Harber) for not giving up,\u201d Haines said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t become discouraged. If anything, he used that as motivation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found Bo Davidson and others, and a lot of teams across baseball have learned that the value doesn\u2019t stop when the rounds stop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Parks Harber hit 20 home runs and compiled a 1.073 OPS as a North Carolina senior in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,4,3935,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-508185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-organization-reports","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-giants","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","16":"tag-sf","17":"tag-sf-giants","18":"tag-sfgiants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115849313898602473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}