Teenage shortstops Josuar Gonzalez and Luis Hernandez were both given a ticket to San Jose and a step up to the Single-A level on Thursday
By Ryan K Boman | Sports Illustrated | July 26, 2026
It seems as if the San Francisco Giants have been waiting on some of their prospects forever. Names that have been marked for future success have been bantered about all throughout the 2026 season, which has been a blowup from the beginning.
With the local boys sitting in fourth place in the NL West and ready to start selling off players at the trade deadline, Bay Area fans have started paying more attention to what’s happening down on the farm. And there was plenty of interest in the news that broke on Thursday.
Teenage shortstops Josuar Gonzalez and Luis Hernandez were both given a ticket to San Jose and a step up to the Single-A level on Thursday, per MLB Pipeline. The pair are the top two prospects in the organization, with Gonzalez widely considered to be among the top 20 in all of Major League Baseball. Both have amazing upsides, so this advancement at such an early age only bodes well for this stage of their development
Gonzalez, who is just 18 years old, looks like a future … READ MORE HERE
Ryan K Boman is an MLB Writer & Columnist for Sports Illustrated at SI.com and On SI, and the Editor in Chief of TheSidearmer.com, who is the author of the 2023 book, Pop Music & Peanut Butter: A Collection of Essays Looking at Life with Laughter & Love.
He has covered regional and national sports for over 30 years and has written for the Sporting News, Yahoo! Sports, MSN, Yardbarker, and the Miami Herald. He is the owner of Two Turnbuckles Media & Marketing and currently resides in Du Quoin, Illinois.
