Spring Training is officially less than a week away! We won’t quite be done ranking the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization when it starts, but we’ll be getting fairly close!
Our next name is a player most people aren’t too familiar with, because he hasn’t yet donned a jersey for the Giants: it’s right-handed pitcher Reid Worley, who makes his CPL debut as the No. 36 prospect in the system.
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Worley represents arguably the most exciting and combustable demographic in the draft: high school pitchers. The Giants took him out of Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia in the ninth round of July’s draft, but his signing bonus — $747,500 — was in line with a late third-round pick, and was the third-highest mark the Giants gave out.
He’s on the older side for a prep prospect, as he turned 19 a few weeks before the draft, and will be debuting in his age-20 season, but the Giants are fairly enamored with him, for understandable reasons. Worley has a truly dynamic — and unique — slider that already has spin rates that would stand out in the Majors. Giants fans certainly have first-hand experience with the potential that can be unlocked with a tremendous slider.
Having such a great slider can only mean one thing: there’s some pressure on Worley’s fastball to play well enough form a one-two punch with the knockout slider, and that will be the biggest thing to watch when he debuts later this year, presumably in the Complex League rotation. For now he’s a fairly slight pitcher, but with the might of a professional organization behind him, he should be able to add some muscle and enhance his athleticism, and hopefully pump up his fastball from its current residence in low-90sville.
Personally, I always love prospects like Worley, because they’re so fun to follow. He has so much potential, but so many questions, and we know so little. He seems as good a candidate as any to be this year’s version of Argenis Cayama, Keyner Martinez, or Luis De La Torre, popping off and making a run for the top-10 in next year’s CPL. But it also wouldn’t be surprising in the least if he struggles through his professional debut, and he’s not even on the radar for next year’s list.
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That’s why they play the games. And thankfully, those games are right around the corner.
Now let’s add another name to the list! As a reminder, voting now takes place in the comment section, using the “rec” feature.
The list so far
Note: Clicking on the above names will link to the CPL where they were voted onto the list.
No. 37 prospect nominees
Rayner Arias — 19.9-year old OF — .173 OPS/-42 wRC+ in Low-A (30 PA); .699 OPS/87 wRC+ in ACL (178 PA)
Sabin Ceballos — 23.5-year old 3B — .670 OPS/102 wRC+ in AA (420 PA)
Jack Choate — 24.9-year old LHP — 3.51 ERA/4.17 FIP in AA (102.2 IP)
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Jakob Christian — 23.4-year old OF/1B — .950 OPS/155 wRC+ in High-A (92 PA); .815 OPS/119 wRC+ in Low-A (318 PA)
Reggie Crawford — 25.1-year old LHP — did not pitch in 2025; 1.04 ERA/4.07 FIP in AAA in 2024 (8.2 IP); 4.66 ERA/4.93 FIP in AA in 2024 (9.2 IP)
Note: Each player’s first name links to their Baseball-Reference page, and their last name links to their Fangraphs page. All stats are from the 2025 season.
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