{"id":531382,"date":"2026-01-21T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/531382\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:30:14","slug":"san-francisco-giants-prospect-rankings-lhp-carlos-de-la-rosa-no-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/531382\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Giants prospect rankings: LHP Carlos De La Rosa No. 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s an exciting day for fans of San Francisco Giants prospecting. Over at Baseball America, the best top-100 list around has dropped<\/a>, and for the first time in a long time, it features four Giants: Bryce Eldridge (No. 18), Josuar Gonz\u00e1lez (No. 30), Bo Davidson (No. 87), and Jhonny Level (No. 98). Over at There R Giants, 80-grade Giants prospect writer Roger Munter has kicked off his top-50 list<\/a>, a must-read for anyone with an interest in Giants prospects. And here at McCovey Chronicles, we officially have a top 30, as we continue our community ranking of the 44 best prospects in the Giants system.<\/p>\n

Getting us to that point \u2014 and winning in a landslide election \u2014 is left-handed pitcher Carlos De La Rosa, who makes his CPL debut as the No. 30 prospect in the system.<\/p>\n

De La Rosa continues an exciting trend for the Giants: recent additions that strengthen the farm. He closes out the top 30, and he does so by becoming the whopping 10th player in that top 30 who has been acquired in the last six months (for those keeping count, that\u2019s five trade acquisitions, three draft picks, one international signing, and one Rule 5 Draft selection). And that doesn\u2019t even include Drew Gilbert, who is ineligible for the CPL after graduating late last season.<\/p>\n

The southpaw, who turned 18 less than two months ago, came to the Giants in the Camilo Doval trade, and is already the third player from that trade to appear on the CPL. He was a late signing by the New York Yankees in the 2025 international signing period out of the Dominican Republic, and spent his debut season in the Dominican Summer League. He wasn\u2019t a particularly heralded signing, but what he did in the DSL opened eyes.<\/p>\n

Across 10 games (nine starts) with the Yankees and Giants DSL affiliates, De La Rosa posted just a 4.73 ERA, but his FIP was 2.30, thanks to an utterly absurd strikeout-to-walk ratio. In 32.1 innings, he punched out a staggering 51 batters, while only walking 10.<\/p>\n

The DSL is, it goes without saying, a low-level league, but even so, the numbers jump off the page. There were 562 different pitchers who tossed at least 20 innings in the league last year, and De La Rosa was sixth in strikeouts per nine innings (14.20), 65th in walks per nine innings (2.78), and sixth in strikeout rate minus walk rate (27.9%).<\/p>\n

De La Rosa\u2019s fastball is his best pitch, and it sits mid-high 90s with 20 inches of induced vertical break, per Baseball America. He also has a decent slider and changeup.<\/p>\n

As with all players in the DSL, we\u2019ll learn a lot about where De La Rosa sits in the organization by whether or not he\u2019s repeating the level in 2026, or pitching stateside. Hopefully it\u2019s the latter \u2026 he\u2019d look good fronting the Complex League rotation.<\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s add to the list, and we have some new names to vote on in the comment section.<\/p>\n

Note: Clicking on the above names will link to the CPL where they were voted onto the list.<\/p>\n

Maui<\/a> Ahuna<\/a> \u2014 23.10-year old SS \u2014 .871 OPS\/144 wRC+ in High-A (52 PA); .802 OPS\/122 wRC+ in Low-A (168 PA); .842 OPS\/108 wRC+ in ACL (54 PA)<\/p>\n

Rayner<\/a> Arias<\/a> \u2014 19.8-year old OF \u2014 .173 OPS\/-42 wRC+ in Low-A (30 PA); .699 OPS\/87 wRC+ in ACL (178 PA)<\/p>\n

Reggie<\/a> Crawford<\/a> \u2014 25.1-year old LHP \u2014 did not pitch in 2025; 1.04 ERA\/4.07 FIP in AAA in 2024 (8.2 IP); 4.66 ERA\/4.93 FIP in AA in 2024 (9.2 IP)<\/p>\n

Lisbel<\/a> Diaz<\/a> \u2014 20.6-year old OF \u2014 .725 OPS\/96 wRC+ in Low-A (561 PA)<\/p>\n

Cam<\/a> Maldonado<\/a> \u2014 22.2-year old OF \u2014 .691 OPS\/92 wRC+ in Low-A (71 PA)<\/p>\n

Diego<\/a> Velasquez<\/a> \u2014 22.3-year old 2B \u2014 .677 OPS\/107 wRC+ in AA (566 PA)<\/p>\n

Reid<\/a> Worley<\/a> \u2014 19.6-year old RHP \u2014 yet to debut<\/p>\n

Note: Each player\u2019s first name links to their Baseball-Reference page, and their last name links to their Fangraphs page. All stats are from the 2025 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s an exciting day for fans of San Francisco Giants prospecting. Over at Baseball America, the best top-100…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,38978,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-531382","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-minor-leagues-prospects","11":"tag-mlb","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\/115934751888884236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531382","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=531382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}