The San Francisco Giants are calling up first baseman Bryce Eldridge , one of the top hitting prospects in baseball, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

At midseason, CBS Sports ranked Eldridge as the No. 15 prospect in all of baseball . Here's part of R.J. Anderson's write-up:

Eldridge, who recently received the call to Triple-A, is a 6-foot-7 lefty whose immediate pathway to a big-league job became more complicated with the Rafael Devers trade. I have to imagine he's still the long-term plan at first base for the Giants -- beginning, perhaps, as soon as later this summer. For now, there's no harm in letting him have more time to develop given that his upside is a slugging first baseman with walks and strikeouts aplenty.

Eldridge, who doesn't turn 21 until Oct. 20, is a form

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