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The Giants second overall pick in the 2018 MLB draft made quite a statement in his debut with Class A Short Season Salem-Keizer on Wednesday, belting two home runs and collecting four RBIs in a 15-1 win over the Hillsboro Hops.

With young pitchers Andrew Suarez and Dereck Rodriguez showing their value during their opportunities filling in with the club, Andrew Baggarly joined the Murph & Mac Podcast this morning to weigh in on what we could see the Giants do with Jeff Samardzija.

The San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $2.6 million deal with outfielder Marco Luciano, the second ranked international prospect according to MLB Pipeline, as reported by Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com.

Crawford once again showed why he’s the leading All-Star vote getter by a significant margin amongst NL shortstops on Wednesday evening, hitting a solo blast over the right-field wall to break a 0-0 tie, and give the Giants their fourth consecutive win.

Romo’s former teammate Kevin Frandsen joined Gary & Larry on Wednesday to discuss the incident. Frandsen believes Romo went overboard, and that his fake-tough guy act has gotten tired.

ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian joined Gary & Larry on Wednesday morning and offered up a few opinions on the Giants’ up and down 2018 season.

The Giants have won six of their past seven games to pull within 4.5 games of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West.

Buster Posey is having a solid season so far in 2018. Still, he’s below his career averages in batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage, leading many to believe that the veteran catcher may not be at 100 percent.

The Giants have to finally start showing us they mean business, and are not a collection of older, bruised bodies fighting to stay even.

The Giants have spent most of the 2018 season treading water, alternating from losing streak to winning streak seemingly weekly. Currently San Francisco sits one game above .500 (40-39) and five games out of first place in the NL West, as they await the return of star pitcher Johnny Cueto.