The former best hope of the Giants, Luciano, accepting the change of position in 2025 originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
San Jose – The journey of leading hope towards fame in the big leagues is very rarely linear. There are a few exceptions, like Bryce Harper, for example, but unravel at the MLB level, and even less immediately, can be extremely difficult and take time, whatever the talent of a young player.
Marco Luciano is discovering it, perhaps at his expense, or perhaps the way he was supposed to do so.
Luciano, 16, signed with the Giants in 2018 as a stopping and one of the best international hopes for the game. His ascent in the San Francisco minor leagues system was mixed. His short passages in the majors in the past two seasons have been disappointing.
Luciano, in 41 championship games in 2023 and 2024 combined, had trouble finding his place, both on the field and in marble. In 126 marble appearances, Luciano hits .217/.286/.304 with zero circuit, three points produced and nine additional strokes while sharing the time also between the decourt stop, the second goal and the designated striker.
Although it probably entered spring training in 2025 outside to seek a potential place in alignment for the opening day, Luciano put himself in a better position this spring because of his work On the ground this offseason, a position he held when he was a teenager before signing. With the giants over six years ago.
Luciano spoke with local journalists during the Giant Fan Fest on Saturday in San Jose and shared that even if he mainly trained this off-season on the left field, he has always trained at the stop , in the second and third goal and feels comfortable at all positions.
The young hope has trained throughout the offseason with Edwin Castillo, a coach of strikers in the Dominican Republic who runs his own baseball academy and with whom Luciano has been training since the age of 16.
Luciano admitted that he did not experience the best season in 2024, both with the Triple-A of Sacramento and with the Giants, and although the main change of position and his overall defensive versatility could open more Doors at the major leagues, he believes that his bat and marble confidence will ultimately give him the best chance of staying in the majors this season, whatever the place he plays on the field.
Even if Luciano’s difficulties at the start of his career probably forced him to abandon the team’s long -term plan of the team, at least for the moment, the young inner field and voltiseur player can not seek further than the One of his teammates to motivate himself as he seeks to win again as a potential key player.
“”[Heliot] Ramos is an excellent example, isn’t it? The president of the Giants baseball operations, Buster Posey, told Alex Pavlovic de NBC Sports Bay Area in October. “Ramos is an excellent example of a guy who was a very praised hope and who fought a little, then for any reason, something was released this year, whether it was confidence, [or] An adjustment has been made, and I hope it is something that Luciano can also release.
Luciano told journalists on Saturday that he had been inspired by the ascent of Ramos of the status of best hope formerly in difficulty to that of the MLB star, and that he hoped to follow his traces in 2025 and beyond.
And while Luciano can draw inspiration from Ramos, he can turn to the veteran Copword Willy Adames to obtain support, a role that the new bogine of the Giants is impatient to assume as a leader of the clubhouse .
“I am super excited to work with him, to help him in any way possible and just to be there for him,” Adames at NBC Sports Bay Area said on Saturday. “Whatever needs me, I will help him with everything I can. I am just excited to play with him, to see his talent, to see his personality, to get to know him and to try to guide him so that he becomes a real professional.
Similar to Ramos last season, Luciano will probably not be present at the level of the major leagues right away and will have to make a new place in the major leagues with a good start in 2025, probably in Sacramento, before being able to rewrite the story of his career.
And if it can, it will serve as an important reminder for the organization of the giants only when it comes to developing young talented hopes, sometimes patience is enough.
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