SF Giants are projected to make a huge reach in MLB Draft according to one expert

The 2026 MLB Draft is just over a week away. It will take place from July 11-12 and with the current state of the SF Giants, the future is all that there is to look forward to so San Francisco really needs to nail this draft.

It’s obvious the Giants want Roch Cholowsky to fall to them but that seems very unlikely. Many mock drafts have the Giants taking shortstop Jacob Lombard which would be a massive reach in the estimation of one expert.

Keith Law of The Athletic released his big board ahead of the draft and he has Lombard ranked as the twentieth-best prospect in the draft. Going off his rankings, that would be a pretty huge reach if the Giants took him at No. 4 which is what the most recent MLB Pipeline mock draft predicts they will do.

Law is just one analyst and there are differing opinions about him from other draft experts. At the end of the day, teams are really just picking lottery tickets and hoping that they get lucky just like in any other sport.

Sure, there are times when a really special talent comes along and it seems pretty much certain that they are going to succeed but this is a draft without a clear-cut consensus pick so that means a lot of teams are evaluating these guys quite differently and it may not line up with whatever Law thinks or whatever Jim Callis projects.

Giants have talent in farm system but it is far away

The Giants have a lot of promise in their farm system, the only problem is that it’s far away from debuting at the big league level. Drafting Lombard would be another player who probably wouldn’t debut at the big league level this decade given the fact he’s only 18.

San Francisco already has teenage shortstops like Luis Hernández, Josuar Gonzalez, and Jhonny Level populating their minor league ranks so adding Lombard to that mix would be an interesting move.

Drafting pitcher Jackson Flora seems like it would make sense since he’s the top pitching prospect in the draft and the Giants are a bit light on promising young pitchers in the organization. Yet, teams don’t usually draft for need, they just try to draft the best player available and some consider the pitching talent in this year's draft to be on the weaker side.

President of baseball operations Buster Posey needs to get this draft right. Obviously we won’t know how the draftees will pan out for years in many cases but he needs to give fans hope for the future after how poorly this season has gone. Will drafting Lombard do that? Not if Law is right about him and he ends up being a caterpillar reach who turns into a butterfly bust.

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