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Buster Posey excited for Giants to find \u2018franchise-altering player’ in MLB draft<\/a> originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a><\/p>\n

Buster Posey already is licking his lips about the Giants\u2019 2026 MLB Draft.<\/p>\n

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San Francisco secured the No. 4 pick, giving the team its highest selection since taking Joey Bart<\/a> with the second overall pick in 2018.<\/p>\n

Posey, who himself was selected No. 5 overall in 2008, knows this impending decision can be franchise-changing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s exciting,\u201d Posey said Thursday morning on KNBR\u2019s \u201cMurph & Markus.\u201d<\/a> \u201cI mean, when you get to pick that high in the draft, there\u2019s definitely opportunity to land a franchise-altering type of player. So yeah, I mean, Michael Holmes and his group, regardless if we\u2019re picking forth, or, you know, we hopefully are picking much later than that going forward \u2014 but it is really exciting.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Holmes and his amateur group do a tremendous job just with preparation and gathering information and background info on players.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Luck was on the Giants\u2019 side in the draft lottery.<\/p>\n

San Francisco finished the 2025 season with an 81-81 record and was in line to pick somewhere in the middle of the first round, with the 12th-best odds at snagging the No. 1 overall selection.<\/p>\n

The Giants have picked fourth or better just four times since 1965. Those picks were Will Clark (No. 2 in 1985), Matt Williams (No. 3 in 1986), Jason Grilli (No. 4 in 1997) and Joey Bart (No. 2 in 2018). It\u2019s safe to say they nailed at least half of those picks, with two players becoming franchise icons in one of the most memorable eras in San Francisco history.<\/p>\n

But Posey knows his front office staff must tread carefully, as talent won\u2019t be hard to find that early in the draft, but he wants to ensure they find the right culture fit for what it means to be a San Francisco Giant.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think as much as anything, when you\u2019re picking that high in the draft, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be that hard to see talent,\u201d Posey explained. \u201cI think that the challenge is you want to really feel good about who the person is, and that\u2019s where we\u2019re going to have to spend a lot of our time, because so much of baseball is between the years, and I got to witness it firsthand. Players that I felt like were equally as talented, even more talented than me. Maybe it didn\u2019t pan out just because of one thing or another cropping up over the years.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re excited. It\u2019s going to be fun, and having an opportunity to add that type of talent to our system is a great thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luck was on the Giants\u2019 side; now it\u2019s up to the decision-makers to make the right one.<\/p>\n

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