{"id":689722,"date":"2026-05-04T02:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/689722\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T02:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:18:19","slug":"giants-to-promote-bryce-eldridge-jesus-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/689722\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants To Promote Bryce Eldridge, Jesus Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Giants will promote prospects Bryce Eldridge<\/a> and Jesus Rodriguez<\/a> prior to Monday\u2019s game with the Padres, Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> reports.\u00a0 Slusser wrote earlier today<\/a> that the Giants were giving \u201cserious consideration\u201d to bringing the duo up to the Show, and neither Eldridge or Rodriguez were in the lineup today for Triple-A Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Both players are already on the 40-man roster, so the Giants will just need to make two 26-man roster adjustments to create space.\u00a0 Eldridge made his MLB debut in the form of 10 games last season, while Rodriguez is on the verge of his big league debut.<\/p>\n

While nobody expects two rookies to instantly change the team\u2019s fortunes, it isn\u2019t surprising that the Giants are looking for any kind of spark for their dismal offense.\u00a0 Heading into Sunday\u2019s action, San Francisco ranked 30th of 30 teams in runs (105), home runs (19), and stolen bases (eight), while ranking 29th in OBP (.289) and OPS (.646).<\/p>\n

The lineup sputtered again in today\u2019s 2-1 loss to the Rays in 10 innings, and the Giants have now lost six straight games.\u00a0 The 12-win Mets are the only team in baseball with fewer victories than the 13-21 Giants, underlining San Francisco\u2019s struggles over the first five weeks of play.<\/p>\n

Eldridge has been a consensus top-30 prospect for the last couple of years, though the 16th overall pick of the 2023 draft hit only .107\/.297\/.179 over his first 37 plate appearances in the Show.\u00a0 He struck out in 13 of those 37 trips to the dish, and the Giants\u2019 decision to start Eldridge\u2019s 2026 campaign at Triple-A was due in part to the team\u2019s desire to see the 21-year-old correct those contact issues.\u00a0 This specific problem hasn\u2019t been solved since Eldridge has whiffed 41 times in 137 PA so far in Sacramento this season, but he is crushing the ball to the tune of a .333\/.445\/.518 slash line and five home runs.<\/p>\n

Though Eldridge played 23 games in right field during his first minor league season, he has since played only first base.\u00a0 That means the Giants would have to use Eldridge and Rafael Devers<\/a> in some combination as the first baseman and DH.\u00a0 Casey Schmitt<\/a> has been in that timeshare with Devers so far, and removing Schmitt from the lineup is an issue since Schmitt has (surprisingly) been far and away the Giants\u2019 best hitter in the early going.<\/p>\n

Schmitt has experience at all four infield positions, but inserting him elsewhere around the diamond would mean the Giants would have to sit one of Devers, Luis Arraez<\/a>, Matt Chapman<\/a>, or Willy Adames<\/a>.\u00a0 Arraez is the only member of that group who is hitting well, but the Giants may be hesitant to take at-bats away from any their highest-paid veterans even despite their slumps.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez would bring much more defensive versatility to Tony Vitello\u2019s roster.\u00a0 The 24-year-old has played mostly as a catcher and third baseman over his minor league career, with some time in left field and at both corner outfield slots.\u00a0 Rodriguez has primarily stayed behind the plate this season in Sacramento, but he has made two appearances at second base and five appearances in left field.<\/p>\n

As much as this extra versatility adds to Rodriguez\u2019s resume, he might just end up at the catcher position.\u00a0 Patrick Bailey<\/a> is hitting even less than usual, and the Giants may want to get more pop in the lineup even if it means a downgrade in terms of catcher defense.\u00a0 Rule 5 pick Daniel Susac<\/a> was off to a blazing start at the plate, but is expected to miss perhaps another week on the 10-day IL while he recovers from elbow neuritis.\u00a0 Veteran Eric Haase<\/a> had his minor league contract selected in the wake of Susac\u2019s injury and is probably a DFA candidate tomorrow when Rodriguez is called up.<\/p>\n

For all of Rodriguez\u2019s multi-positional usage, he isn\u2019t considered much of a defender at any position.\u00a0 As a catcher, Rodriguez has subpar blocking and receiving skills, though he is a good pitch-framer and he has a good throwing arm.<\/p>\n

At the plate, Rodriguez has posted at least solid hitting numbers at all levels of the minors, including a .330\/.400\/.440 slash line with two home runs over 115 Triple-A plate appearances this year.\u00a0 Rodriguez has a knack for getting on base and making a lot of solid contact, yet the MLB Pipeline and Baseball America scouting reports note that his contact ability can work against him to some extent \u2014 Rodriguez goes after a lot of pitches outside the strike zone, resulting in less-than-ideal contact.<\/p>\n

Pipeline ranks Rodriguez 18th on their list of Giants prospects, and Baseball America puts him 19th.\u00a0 He began his career as an international prospect in the Yankees\u2019 farm system, and Rodriguez was one of the four minor leaguers acquired at last year\u2019s trade deadline<\/a> as San Francisco\u2019s return for sending Camilo Doval<\/a> to the Bronx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants will promote prospects Bryce Eldridge and Jesus Rodriguez prior to Monday\u2019s game with the Padres, Susan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,710,16008],"class_list":{"0":"post-689722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-baseball","7":"tag-baseball","8":"tag-bryce-eldridge","9":"tag-jesus-rodriguez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116513911828307520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689722","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=689722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}