Giants make SNEAKY good move... MAJOR Giants Update | SF Giants News

We have a major San Francisco Giants update, as they make a very sneaky move within the organization. One of the more forgotten prospects just got promoted to a higher level, and we are going to break that down here on SF Giants Digest. If you're new here, welcome to the channel, I am your host Michael Montreal, and if you've been here before, welcome back to the channel, we are excited to have you back. Now, before we get into today's video, go down below in the comments and let me know who your favorite prospect in the organization is. Obviously, there are now a lot of names to choose from, especially considering the draft just took place last weekend, but let me know your favorite prospect in the system down in the comments below. Now, today's video is brought to you by PrizePix. PrizePix is America's number one sports pick app, and the best way to get in on the action. We'll dive into some crazy picks later, and some of the awesome promotions that they're running. Make sure to go down below, use the link in the description, and use code Digest when signing up today. It is one of the best ways to support the channel, and really does help us continue to bring the best Giants content and analysis on YouTube. Thank you guys for checking out PrizePix, and thank you to PrizePix for sponsoring today's video. Now, getting right into today's video, obviously, it's that time of year, I mentioned this in one of our more recent videos, but it's the middle of the season, and we're starting to get a lot of the promotions in the minor leagues. You know, guys show what they could do at a certain level to the first two to three months of the season, then around the all-star break, they get promoted and get their latest test in professional baseball, and as I mentioned in the intro, we get another, you know, more notable prospect in the system make their promotion with the San Francisco Giants. Now, the guy we are talking about in this video is Trevor Cohen. This comes from Chase Ford, who does a great job covering minor league baseball. He said the San Francisco Giants are promoting outfielder Trevor Cohen to Richmond AA. Cohen had a .297 batting average with 31 extra base hits and 26 stolen bases for the Eugene Emeralds. Now, I mentioned Cohen's one of the more, you know, underrated prospects in the system. Of course, when you think of current prospects in the organization, you think to Josuar Gonzalez, Luis Hernandez, Jackson Flora, Carson Boliman, there are a ton of names like Dakota Jordan, Bo Davidson with really high upside and a lot of prospect pedigree, but Trevor Cohen is a guy who gets, you know, forgotten about a lot in terms of the most highly touted prospects in the farm system, but he's having a good year of his own. Now, we look at what he's done so far, and this is from the SF Giants Digest Twitter account, so if you don't follow that yet, make sure to go over on X and follow them, but the SF Giants are reportedly promoting outfielder Trevor Cohen to AA Richmond Squirrels. Here's what last year's third round pick has done in 380 plate appearances this year. A 297, 387, 416 slash line, 120 WRC+, 3 home runs, and 26 doubles, 28 RBIs, 26 stolen bases. You like to see that with how bad the Giants have been in stealing bases over the past few years. A 13.7% strikeout rate and 12.6% walkout rate, so this guy came right out of college baseball at Rutgers, you know, a third round pick last season and hit the ground running in professional baseball. Now, he's walking basically as much as he's striking out. He's not going to slug a lot. You kind of know that in his profile. He's never been a guy to hit a lot of home runs. He did it in high school. I mean, excuse me, he did it in college, and the Giants were not expecting him to in professional baseball, but hitting close to 300, not striking out is exactly what this regime likes, and that's exactly what they drafted in the entirety of last year's draft for the most part. You know, their first round pick in 2025 was Gavin Keenan, an SEC star who didn't strike out a lot and hit for a very high average, and that's exactly what he's doing in the minor leagues. So, you know, Trevor Cohen getting promoted alongside Gavin Keenan, going from Eugene to Richmond. It'll be a really fun to see what this guy could do at the next taste of pro ball. Now, moving forward, kind of looking at what his prospect Savant profile looks like right now, and there's a lot of red. There's a lot of things to be excited about on this page. Now, the strikeout rate, the whiff percentage, the zone contact rate, those are all the highest at 95, 96th percentile in all of minor league baseball. There's some other really high ones up there. Savant's score is in the 89th percentile, so that's obviously very good. Obviously not in the 90th percentile, but still right on the outside of it. You also look at his, you know, zone swing percentage. He swings a lot at pitches in the zone, but it's okay that he does that because basically every time he swings, he is making contact, and as I mentioned, the strikeout rate at 95th percentile is exactly what Buster Posey, Zach Manassian, Randy Wynn, everyone in the Giants development camp is really looking to see in a lot of their prospects, and it is a good sign to see a guy like Trevor Cohen, who you never know how guys at mid-majors, I know Rutgers is in the Big Ten, but it's not a huge baseball school. You don't always know what, you know, guys from smaller baseball programs are going to look like when they make the transition into professional baseball, but we forget Trevor Cohen was a third round pick. It's not like this guy was drafted in the ninth round or the 12th round later in the draft on day two. He was a third round pick, so the Giants were very high on him to pick him that early in the draft, especially when not a lot of teams were going to pick him, you know, that early. Of course, it was probably an underslop pick by the Giants a year ago, but still, they had to have been high on him, they had to have liked him, and that was the start of, you know, the Giants now drafting Peyton Bonds in the third round of this year's draft, so it started that relationship, and this just looks like a pick that is really going to pan out nicely for the Giants. Now, does he become an everyday regular at the big leagues? I'm not sure about that. You can kind of get into what his profile looks like as it currently stands. Now, this was Arm laying a nice write-up on Trevor Cohen on the Giants top 15 prospects list that came out a few weeks ago, but Cohen was Buster Posey's third round pick a year ago and perfectly fits the model players San Francisco tried to bring to their system since the introduction of the new regime. The 22-year-old is a left-handed outfielder with good back-to-ball skills and a contact oriented approach, walking as much as he struck out at the lower levels. He likes to go the other way, which exaggerates extreme lack of in-game power, as he has some sneaky raw pop otherwise, 89 mile an hour average exit velocity, and I think that's something that's kind of forgotten in Trevor Cohen's profile is, you know, when looking at a lot of video, looking at a lot of his data, there is some pop in there. He has some good power, it's just his approach really, really hinders that. You know, he doesn't pull the ball, he doesn't pull the ball in the air whatsoever, so a lot of his approach is going the other way, you know, kind of that old school mind of hitting and it helps him hit for average. There's no doubt about that, hitting around 300 in his minor league career, but it really does hinder his, you know, power potential. His offensive ceiling could be raised significantly if he can find a way to pull the ball in the air a bit more, as we just mentioned. He's a plus runner with strong instincts and projects as a slightly above average defender, capable of manning all three spots, so great out much better in a corner, but possesses solid arm strength and is a good enough athlete to handle center. He profiles as a fourth outfield type who could move through the minor leagues quickly. Now, defensively, he's fine. You don't have to worry about him in any outfield spot, most likely it'll be in a corner, but if the Giants need him to, you know, play center in a pinch in a few years, there's no question he would be fine out there. In terms of the speed, this is a guy who, as we mentioned, 26 stolen bases so far in 2026, and the Giants have been bottom of the barrel in terms of stealing bags at the big league level for the better part of a decade now. The last three years, they're one of the worst two teams in baseball in terms of total stolen bases, so it's something the Giants have lacked for a long time, and seeing guys put up numbers like this in the minor leagues is extremely encouraging. We look at guys like Dakota Jordan, who've been stealing a lot of bases, Bo Davidson even, who could be up, you know, at the end of this year, early next year, so we're starting to see some of these prospects learn how to steal bases, learn how to use their speed a lot more effectively than we have seen the big leaguers for the San Francisco Giants over the past few seasons. Now, I did mention we would get into some specific picks from prize picks in today's video. Now, of course, the World Cup is going on, the final, Argentina versus Spain, probably the chalk final that a lot of fans were not hoping for, but we did end up getting it. We'll see Messi versus Yamal, kind of the the go of soccer versus the young star, and you can go more or less 0.5 goal plus assists with Messi. Obviously, there are a ton of picks you can go on how many times a guy's off sides, excuse me, more or less on prize picks. You can check out all of those picks on prize picks today. 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Now, getting back into this conversation about Trevor Cohen, the Giants farm system, I mentioned he gets forgotten a lot when we talk about the best prospects in the system, but in terms of what Buster Posey likes, in terms of what this entire regime, the people running the Giants like, it's guys who don't strike out, it's guys who get on base, and it's guys who hit for a very high average. That is exactly what Trevor Cohen excels at, so it would not surprise me if we see him up at the big leagues at some point in 2027, if there is a 2027, and that is extremely exciting for fans of the San Francisco Giants. We're starting to see this next wave of young Giants come up now. You look at Bo Davidson getting promoted, Gavin Keelan, Dakota Jordan also going with Trevor Cohen to double A. We're starting to see these prospects we've been hearing about for, you know, a year or two now get closer and closer to the big leagues, and it's finally looking like the youth development is working for the San Francisco Giants after having such a lackluster farm system and such a lackluster ability of developing these young prospects over the past decade and some time, so really exciting to see Trevor Cohen get promoted, and we will definitely be following how he hits in the Eastern League with double A Richmond Flying Squirrels because that is a tough environment to hit in one of the toughest leagues in all of professional baseball to hit in. Thank you so much for watching. If you enjoyed today's video, make sure to go down below, hit that subscribe button. That'd be much appreciated by myself and everyone over at Digest Media. As always, thank you so much for watching, and we will see you next time.