The 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List marches on, and folks, we\u2019re getting close! After this next chapter concludes, we\u2019ll be three-quarters of the way to ranking the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s ballot was very close, but a winner emerged: it\u2019s outfielder Lisbel Diaz, who has been voted as the No. 32 prospect in the system. It\u2019s a drop of 15 spots for Diaz, who debuted at No. 17 in last year\u2019s CPL.<\/p>\n
That drop might suggest that Diaz had a bad 2025, but it\u2019s more that he merely held serve while others around him rose (and were added to the system). The right-hander, who signed in 2023 out of Cuba, spent the entirety of the year with Low-A San Jose, where he had spent a good chunk of time in 2024 as well. Diaz, who turned 20 over the summer, did some good things, though the overall offense was middle of the road: he slashed .269\/.320\/.405 for a .725 OPS and a 96 wRC+ in the Cal League.<\/p>\n
In many ways, that was disappointing, after Diaz posted a slightly better line (.767 OPS, 101 wRC+) at the same level the year prior, with nearly identical strikeout and walk rates. But there were some things that he made improvements on: most notably, Diaz looked very comfortable in the outfield in 2025, and was quite solid in center field when he filled in for the injured Dakota Jordan and Carlos Gutierrez. He also boosted his performance on the basepaths, stealing 26 bases in 32 attempts, after just nine thefts in 2024.<\/p>\n
While Diaz will need to boost the offense to have a Major League future, there\u2019s a solid framework in there. He has very strong contact skills, and posted just an 18.7% strikeout rate and an 11.6% swinging strike rate in 2025. Presumably he\u2019ll be starting at a corner in High-A Eugene when the Minor League season begins in a few months, and hopefully we\u2019ll get to see some offensive improvements.<\/p>\n
Now let\u2019s add to the list! As a reminder, voting now takes place in the comment section using the \u201crec\u201d feature.<\/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 Cam<\/a> Maldonado<\/a> \u2014 22.2-year old OF \u2014 .691 OPS\/92 wRC+ in Low-A (71 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":"The 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List marches on, and folks, we\u2019re getting close! After this next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540201,"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-540200","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\/115965721817057195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540200","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=540200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}