The San Francisco Giants have had a problem at first base all year long. And that problem is seemingly a step closer to being solved. On Tuesday afternoon, Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Giants are promoting top prospect Bryce Eldridge to AAA Sacramento. And as they say, once you’re in AAA, you’re only ever a phone call away from the big leagues.
San Francisco’s new regime spent the offseason and spring training preaching patience with prospects, and suggesting that prospects would spend a long time at each level. But Eldridge is an exceptional enough talent that there’s no need for the rules to fully apply to him.