12:03PM: The Giants have officially announced the move. Right-hander John Brebbia has been placed on the bereavement list to create a 40-man roster space.
8:12AM: The Giants are promoting outfield prospect Heliot Ramos to the big leagues, as initially reported by Munger English Sports Management (Ramos’ agency). Ramos is expected to make his debut today for the Giants’ game against the Marlins.
With southpaw Trevor Rogers scheduled to start for Miami, the right-handed hitting Ramos is a logical fit for tonight’s lineup, and perhaps for throughout the season given the left-handed tilt of the Giants outfield. Mike Yastrzemski, Joc Pederson, Steven Duggar, and the currently-injured LaMonte Wade Jr. all swing from the left side, though San Francisco also has Darin Ruf, Austin Slater, Mauricio Dubon, and Luke Williams as available right-handed bats. Utilityman Williams might end up being the odd man out to make room for Ramos, as Williams still has three minor league options.
The 22-year-old Ramos has long been seen as one of the Giants’ best prospects, and he has been a regular on top-100 rankings since he was selected 19th overall in the 2017 draft. His stock has somewhat dropped as a result of not playing in 2020, and then a 2021 campaign that saw Ramos hit a modest .254/.323/.417 over 495 combined plate appearances at the Double-A and Triple-A levels. Still, The Athletic’s Keith Law rated Ramos 70th on his preseason top-100 list, Baseball America had Ramos in the 94th spot, and Fangraphs has Ramos ranked 101st.
Ramos only just turned 22 in September, and BA’s scouting report notes that Ramos has made his way up the minor league ladder “usually as one of the younger players at every stop.” Along the way, Ramos has shown glimpses of his potential, if there is some master-of-none aspect to his performance. As Fangraphs’ report puts it, “while it’s easy to call him a five-tool player since he’s competent in every aspect of the game, scouts struggle to figure out what Ramos’ one carrying tool is.”
At the plate, Ramos has hit .270/.340/.448 over 1625 PA in the minors, with 47 homers and 41 steals (out of 64 attempts). He has also struck out in 440 of those at-bats, and evaluators note that his swing lacks some loft, and that Ramos has looked a little susceptible to off-speed pitches. Ramos is expected to eventually move to right field due to his relative lack of top-tier speed and his good throwing arm, but Ramos has mostly played as a center fielder throughout his career and has looked decent up the middle. The Giants are probably likely to use Ramos primarily in center, though he has the flexibility to play at any of the three outfield positions based on situations.
Ramos hit well in the small sample sizes of Spring Training (10 PA) and the early stages of the Triple-A season (13 PA). While he didn’t break camp with the team, his quick promotion means that Ramos should still clock a full year of service time should he remain on San Francisco’s active roster for the remainder of the season. The newly-instituted Prospect Promotion Incentive could also somewhat mitigate the Giants’ service-time concerns, though Ramos may technically not qualify. As per The Athletic’s Evan Drellich, prospects are PPI eligible if they “are included in two or more of the preseason top-100 prospect lists put out by Baseball America, MLB.com or ESPN,” and of those three specific outlets, Ramos only cracked BA’s list.
Exciting!!
Ramos off to a good start; and scored from first on Slater’s double.
This will not work out well. Too soon for Ramos.
Says your crystal ball ?
Way too soon . Kid didn’t dominate at the AA level. MLB pitching will carve him up. This is clearly a desperate move by a front office that failed to spend the money necessary to build a competitive roster.
Frisco has Zero impact bats . They lost Posey, Bryant and Solano and replaced all of them w/ lowly Platoon guy Joc Pederson.
Line up currently consists of a bunch of old over the hill guys mixed w/ a group of waiver wire B guys and now a young player who put up mediocre numbers at the Double A level. LOL
Still gonna finish above the pads lol
@RoastGobot Haha Good luck with That
@TonyGwynnSD19 Since 2007, the Padres have finished above the Giants only 4 times (2007, 2013, 2017, 2020) I dont think they need luck, buddy, by now it should be common knowledge. LOL Padres.
Luck? Nope – pure skill….. And give me a break this is the Padres talking about… A dumpster fire is more entertaining.
Seth Beer day!
Bryant was 9th on the te last year in OPS. He was literally our ninth best hitter after he was traded to us.
@Antibelt . OPS . Lol. Bryant has TALENT . Did you watch the NLDS? How’d your OPS darlings do against elite arms? Bryant HIT those arms as did Posey. Other guys helped you get Bounced in the first round
Wow. Some sentences. Nice work, Tony.
You are living in the past. TALENT is so 2010’s.
Padres of course show how to spend half a billion and trade all their best prospects and still suck!
2-3 and scored a run.
“Way too soon”
Troll be wrong again..
@Tony I, too, am a troll
It’s unknown how long they even intend to keep him up. He’s taking Brebbia’s roster spot while he’s away for a couple days on the bereavement list. They may view this as a matchup opportunity and some initial MLB seasoning, before he’s sent right back down.
Wow. Someones predicting a prospect will fail. When does THAT ever happen?!?!
welcome to the show!
let’s go baby!
F scot cousins
The Giants have more coaches-per-player than any team to good results. He might get better training at the MLB level than in the minors. If he’s not quite ready for prime time, they can send him back.
28 man rosters. 56 man coaching staffs.
This should be interesting
DH unless he practiced the vast OF.
I wonder if he is related to Stelio Kontos.
Do you think Heliot Ramos is as mean as he is Greek?
The left-handed “tilt” to the SF outfield should have been dealt with during the off season through free agent signings and or trades. Unacceptable to have all 3 starting outfielders swinging from the left side with the traditional negative impact against left handed pitchers.
Poor planning and action by the front office to go out and sign another lefty swinger in free agency (Pederson). Only 4 more recalls of Ramos remain now for the 2022 season.
When asked about this Zaidi said “People are severely underestimating our right handed hitters”
He said this about the pitching staff and bullpen before the season last year. Let’s see if he’s right.
Farhan Zaidi is a CheapAsss
A..J. Preller hiring Jayce Tingler and Andy Green. LOL Padres.
Georgie Boy, back from the dead!?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think the options are being counted until May 1st.
I felt the same way about needing to address the OF situation in free agency, but I also like that the Giants are deliberately not blocking opportunities for guys like Heliot Ramos, Thairo Estrada, and Bart. Let’s see what they got, and if it’s not good enough, Zaidi will address it. The guy knows what he’s doing. Hell…he was also right about Connor Joe.
You’re correct. The new rule stating that teams will only be able to option a player 5 times in a season doesn’t take effect until May. Also, IL will temporarily stay at 10 days (instead of 15), teams can have more than 13 pitchers, and the most publicized change a 28 man roster instead of the normal 26. All until May 1 or 2, in order to help teams ease into the season despite a short Spring Training. (If only they’d get rid of the ghost runner after April as well !!!)
Much rather have a look at Ramos and Matos as right handed power and moving towards youth.
Hope he seizes his opportunity!
Off season was a lock out.
This is a better move.
Let the kids play !
Jacksson13, nope. Wrong. the 5-option limit rule doesnt take effect until May 1 or 2.
107 wins last yr I’ll go with the FO over you nimrod
Jacksson13:
Are you saying FZ was unaware of the issue? Or that he was, recognized it as a problem, and decided to do nothing? Maybe he knows that Ramos and Matos are better options than what was available.
Kung Fu Panda 2!
Finally a top prospect gets a chance!
What about Bart?
Yes Bart too.
Finally ?
We are 2 games into the season.
It’s been a long and exhausting wait, foppert.
Williams should stay and Dubon s/b traded for more right handed hitting.
One minor correction: Brebbia going on the bereavement list opens up a spot on the active roster, not the 40-man. Ramos was already on the 40-man roster.
Nothing special. Gonna have a waiver wire career.
Change your name to lowest level IQ little one
That’s not nice guy.
It wasn’t nice. But for someone that gives themselves the name “Highest IQ”, then posts something that’s recognizably not very smart, would have to expect that kind of thing. I’m positive that someone with the highest IQ would not have stated so categorically, something that cannot be known for sure, by him, or anyone else.
@tad I graduatud hervard top off the class.
Are you new to the internet or just old?
I laugh at everything you write
Ask me if I care.
I gerduated from Yele, tip of my cless
Cainer, Yer the reeeson peeple shouldn’t drink n’ drive. Because if U, they haf 2 drink, then drive.
Now, stop spilling cause your slurring my drink.
A correction for the 12:03 update: Brebbia was the corresponding move to get Ramos on the 26-man roster, not the 40. He was already on the 40-man!
andsc, 28 man roster!!!!
Ramos was already on the 40-man roster. Was going to be Rule 5 eligible last offseason.
40 man roster space? He was already on the 40 man. He was put on the 28 man roster.
Yeah exactly, I was going to say the same thing. Brebbia going out created the 28-man roster space that was needed.
Cry.
All these evaluations of him scream the next Nomar Mazara to me.
@tonygwynnsd19 wow can you be more delusional? The padres are one of if not the biggest laughing stock of any team in the league. Say what you want about Zadi but at least our GM was never suspended by Major League Baseball lol what a joke. The padres please. Same padres who haven’t made it to the World Series since 1998 and couldn’t even manage to win a game when they got there. Lol the padres such a joke I’m sure you were saying all last year how the padres would finish ahead of the giants. Lol the padres such a joke…
What the Heliot is going on here?