GIANTS DRAFT SELECTIONS: The San Francisco Giants had seven picks in the 2020 MLB First-Year Player Draft, tied with the St. Louis Cardinals for the most of any team. The Giants selected two infielders, two left-handed pitchers, two right-handed pitchers and one catcher. San Francisco selected six college players and one high school player.

GIANTS SELECT C PATRICK BAILEY WITH THEIR FIRST ROUND PICK: The San Francisco Giants selected catcher Patrick Bailey (North Carolina State) with the 13th overall selection in the 2020 First-Year Player Draft. The 6-foot-2, 207-pound junior hit .296 with a team-leading six home runs and 20 RBI over 17 games (16 starts) during the 2020 season, which was cut short due to COVID-19. Despite the shortened season, Bailey ranked tied for second in RBI (20), third in walks (17) and tied for fourth in home runs (6) among all ACC players.

GIANTS DRAFT SELECTIONS FROM DAY 2:

With their second selection (49th overall), the San Francisco Giants selected 3B Casey Schmitt out of San Diego State. The 6-foot-2, 200-pounder hit .323 with four doubles and nine RBI in 16 games and recorded six saves as the Aztecs closer in the shortened 2020 season. Schmitt received second-team all-Mountain West recognition in 2019 after finishing the season with a .315 batting average, five home runs, 36 RBI and a .415 on-base percentage. The San Diego native also made 21 appearances (four starts) as a pitcher, going 3-3 with a 3.77 ERA in 43.0 innings and a team-high eight saves. As a freshman he became the first SDSU player since Stephen Strasburg in 2007 to be named a freshman first-team All-American by Baseball America after setting SDSU’s single season earned run average record with a 0.28 mark (min. 30ip).

With the 67th overall selection, the Giants selected LHP Nick Swiney out of NC State. The Huntersville, N.C. native moved into the Wolfpack starting rotation this year as a junior after two seasons of mostly coming out of the bullpen as a middle reliever. In four starts prior to the COVID-19 shutdown, Swiney went 4-0 with a 1.29 ERA (4er, 28.0ip) and struck out 42 batters en route to being named a Collegiate Baseball Second-Team All-American. On February 29 vs. Purdue, he tossed 8.0 innings and fanned 15 batters while allowing one hit. In three years in Raleigh, Swiney went 15-1 with a 3.51 ERA (45er, 115.1ip) and 174 strikeouts in 50 games (eight starts) for the Wolfpack. He struck out a team-leading 95 batters during his sophomore season over 26 games (three starts). He was a teammate of the Giants 2020 first-round selection Patrick Bailey for all three of his seasons on campus at NC State and played with Will Wilson, whom the Giants acquired in December, for his first two seasons on campus.

With their fourth pick in the compensation round (68th overall), the Giants selected SS Jimmy Glowenke out of Dallas Baptist University. The 5-foot-10, 186-pound shortstop hit .415 (22-for-53) with seven RBI in 13 games for the Patriots in 2020. Glowenke is a two-time All-Missouri Valley Conference First Team Selection (2018-19). In his sophomore year he finished the year in the top 10 in nine offensive categories in the MVC including second in doubles (16), third in hits (80) and on-base percentage (.429) and fourth in batting average (.328). He compiled one of the most decorated freshman seasons in school history after being named a consensus Freshman All-American by five publications. He was also tabbed as the Freshman of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in the Missouri Valley Conference.

With their third round selection (#85th overall), the Giants selected LHP Kyle Harrison from De La Salle High School in Concord, CA. The 6-foot-2, 200-pound left-handed pitcher went 21-1 with a 1.19 ERA and 192 strikeouts in his high school career. Ranked 63rd by MLBPipeline among top draft prospects, the Danville native went 10-0 with a 1.26 ERA as a junior for the Spartans. Last summer, he had the top ERA in the 2019 WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup while pitching for Team USA. He didn’t allow a run in 10.0 innings while striking out 12 batters. His maternal grandfather, Skip Guinn, pitched parts of three seasons with the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros between 1968-71. Guinn, who had 40 strikeouts in 36.2 big league innings, was a teammate of Hall of Famers Hank Aaron, Joe Torre, Phil Niekro, Joe Morgan and former San Francisco Giants managers Dusty Baker and Felipe Alou.

With the 114th overall selection, the Giants picked RHP R.J Dabovich out of Arizona State University. The Pueblo, Colorado native posted a 0.77 ERA (1er, 11.2ip) with 17 strikeouts and four saves over nine games before the 2020 season was canceled. In his first season with the Sun Devils in 2019, he posted a 7-1 record with a 4.75 ERA (28er, 53.0ip) in 16 games (nine starts). Dabovich was teammates with Giants’ 2019 first round pick, Hunter Bishop, while at Arizona State. The 6-foot-3, 215-pounder played one season at Central Arizona College in 2018 and went 9-3 with a 1.81 ERA. He was ranked as the No. 9 overall player in the state of Colorado and the No. 5 right-handed pitcher in the state coming out of high school. Dabovich was originally drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 18th Round (542nd overall) of the 2018 First Year Player Draft.

With their fifth round selection (#144 overall), the Giants selected RHP Ryan Murphy out of Le Moyne College. The Wappingers Falls, N.Y. native made four starts during his junior campaign for Le Moyne (NY) before the COVID-19 shutdown, going 2-1 with a 3.91 ERA (10er, 23.0ip) with 36 strikeouts. Both of his wins this season were 7.0-inning complete games. In three seasons for the Dolphins, Murphy went 16-9 with a 3.40 ERA working primarily as a starter (29 starts, one relief outing). In 203.2 collegiate innings, he struck out 215 while walking 44. As a freshman at Le Moyne, Murphy fired a 7.0-inning no-hitter in the second game of a doubleheader at the University of New Haven on April 15, 2018. The no-no was the eighth individual no-hitter in school history and the first by a freshman.