SF Giants prospect Ryan Murphy discusses hot start, draft, and more

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One of the hottest pitching prospects in the SF Giants organization through the first month of the 2021 season is right-handed pitcher Ryan Murphy. The Giants’ fifth-round pick in the 2020 draft began the season with the Low-A San Jose Giants and has been dominant. Over the first three starts of his professional career, the 21-year old has a 1.84 ERA with 21 strikeouts against just 2 walks in 14 2/3 innings of work.

A rather unheralded pitching prospect out of Le Moyne, a Division III school in the state of New York, Murphy was viewed by many as a low-level prospect in the system entering the year. However, he’s quickly changing that…