3:58 pm: Giants supervisor Gabe Kapler confirmed to reporters, together with Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle, that Harrison was poised to be promoted. He’ll begin the Giants’ sport towards the Phillies in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

10:14 am: The Giants are calling up prime pitching prospect Kyle Harrison, FanSided’s Robert Murray reviews (by way of X).  Earlier at the moment, the Athletic’s Andrew Baggarly wrote that San Francisco was “strongly contemplating” selling Harrison throughout an upcoming sequence with the Phillies, and Murray says that Harrison is being aimed to start out Tuesday’s sport.  San Francisco might want to make one other transaction earlier than then to create a 40-man roster spot for the left-hander.

The promotion makes for a pleasant late birthday present for Harrison, who turned 22 on August 12.  It’s fairly potential that the southpaw would have already made his MLB debut if it wasn’t for a hamstring pressure that put him on the injured checklist for nearly all of July, however after pitching in three Triple-A video games since his return from the minor league IL, Harrison has been deemed prepared for his first style of the Present.

It doesn’t appear as if Harrison shall be taking over a full-fledged starter function, as Baggarly notes that Harrison may work in additional of a piggyback capability on Tuesday, maybe not throwing greater than 3-4 innings.  Harrison has had a restricted workload for a lot of the minor league season, as he has topped the 80-pitch threshold solely thrice and has solely as soon as thrown as many as 5 innings in a single outing.

With this in thoughts, Harrison appears to be like to turn into the newest member of a patchwork Giants rotation that has not too long ago featured solely two common starters.  Past Logan Webb and Alex Cobb, a gaggle led by Jakob Junis, Alex Wooden, Sean Manaea, and Ross Stripling have made restricted begins, piggyback outings, or have labored as bulk pitchers behind an opener.  This assortment took a success yesterday when Stripling was positioned on the 15-day IL as a result of a again pressure, and Sean Hjelle was recalled from Triple-A to work as an extended reliever or bulk pitcher.

It’s not a super scenario for a group combating for a wild card berth, so there shall be a little bit of an even bigger highlight than traditional on Harrison as he turns into a giant leaguer.  Nevertheless, Harrison has handled loads of hype as his prospect inventory has risen over the previous few years, since being chosen by the Giants within the third spherical of the 2020 draft.  In current midseason updates to their prospect rankings, MLB Pipeline listed Harrison because the Twentieth-best prospect within the sport, whereas Baseball America slotted him thirty fifth on their newest itemizing.

There’s no secret about Harrison’s largest weak level, as he has a hefty 16.3% stroll price over 67 2/3 innings with Triple-A Sacramento this yr.  This shaky management (and pitching within the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League) has contributed to Harrison’s 4.52 ERA, although he additionally has an amazing 35.6% strikeout price.

Each Pipeline and BA give Harrison a 70-grade for his fastball and a 60-grade for his slider, and he additionally has an excellent changeup that’s nonetheless enhancing.  Two plus pitches and the opportunity of a 3rd has created loads of buzz about Harrison as a potential front-of-the-rotation starter, although the massive query is of course whether or not or not Harrison can enhance his management and command.  As Pipeline’s scouting report places it, Harrison is “nonetheless studying to harness his enhanced stuff, although his skill to overlook bats within the strike zone with all three of his choices implies that he doesn’t must find them with precision.”

Nevertheless the Giants choose to handle Harrison’s workload among the many remainder of the pitchers, it appears doubtless that the membership will restrict him to lower than 50 innings within the common season, so he can retain his rookie eligibility for 2024.  As per the foundations of the Prospect Promotion Incentive, the Giants can obtain a bonus choose within the 2025 draft if Harrison earns a full yr of MLB service time in 2024, and he both wins the NL Rookie of the 12 months award or has a top-three end in NL Cy Younger voting throughout any of his pre-arbitration seasons.  Harrison should be ranked as a top-100 prospect by a minimum of two of MLB Pipeline, Baseball America, or ESPN.com of their pre-2024 lists to totally qualify as a PPI-eligible participant, thought that looks as if a foregone conclusion.

Past the 50-inning threshold, pitchers additionally should have lower than 46 days on a Main League roster to retain rookie eligibility.  That date on the 2023 league calendar handed final week, so it isn’t shocking that Harrison and different notable prospects just like the Reds’ Noelvi Marte, the Cardinals’ Masyn Winn, and the Angels’ Nolan Schanuel have all been known as up inside the previous few days alone.

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