It would seem that fans feel very similarly about the San Francisco Giants first-round pick in 2020 as they do about the team’s first-round pick in 2021. In the eighth iteration of the 2022 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, fans were tasked with choosing between four different players for the coveted position of No. 8 prospect in the system.
467 votes were tallied, and when the dust settled, there were exactly 169 each for Patrick Bailey and Will Bednar.
And so we have a runoff.
In one corner it’s Bailey, a switch-hitting catcher taken with the No.