Marco Luciano, Bryce Eldridge among first round of Spring Training cuts

This morning, the San Francisco Giants reassigned 8 of their players to minor league camp. Per Andrew Baggarly’s post on Bluesky, 2 of the 8 included noted prospects, Marco Luciano and Bryce Eldridge. The rest:

RHP Mason Black (optioned)

LHP Raymond Buros

LHP Migel Del Pozo

LHP Ethan Small

RHP Kai-Wei Teng

RHP Cole Waites

This is Luciano’s last option year (Black has one more year), so, while it’s perhaps not a great situation for the guy, as Baggarly notes in the aforementioned post, this is the same situation that Heliot Ramos found himself in last season.

As Brady pointed out a couple of days ago, Luciano is just 2-17 with 5 strikeouts and an error. He needs work, and the major league roster is…