Overview
- The San Francisco Giants took Rutgers outfielder Peyton Bonds with the No. 90 overall pick in the 2026 MLB Draft on Saturday.
- Bonds is a 6-foot-5, roughly 225–230 pound right-handed outfielder who hit .352/.436/.535 with six homers in 36 games for Rutgers this season.
- He is a member of the Bonds family — son of Bobby Bonds Jr., grandson of Bobby Bonds and nephew of Barry Bonds — a lineage that has amplified attention on the pick.
- Giants officials, including senior director of amateur scouting Michael Holmes and manager Tony Vitello, framed the selection as based on his defensive instincts, contact skills and measurable bat speed rather than his name.
- Scouts view him as a likely defensive center fielder with very high exit velocities but limited collegiate home-run totals, making power development and recovery from a spring hamstring injury the primary items for the Giants to address in the minors.