Over the past week, we’ve tried to figure out how the upcoming draft might go for the Giants by examining the track records of their new Director of Amateur Scouting and President of Baseball Operations, but we won’t really know until everything plays out.
That’s the one drawback of a new regime: we have no pattern recognition, no obvious comedic runners or even a comforting leitmotif. Still, the Giants do have a lot of John Barr’s scouting staff still under their employ and Farhan Zaidi has been on the job for just about seven months, so there’s still a very good chance that we’ll see a lot of NAIA and Division II picks coming up.