Overview
- The San Francisco Giants selected Peyton Bonds with the 90th overall pick in the 2026 MLB Draft on July 11, 2026.
- Bonds hit .352 with a .436 on-base percentage and a .535 slugging mark in 36 games for Rutgers this season while recording six home runs.
- He posted a 90th-percentile exit velocity of 110.6 mph at the MLB Draft Combine, a metric that helped his prospect stock rise.
- Scouts emphasize Bonds’s 6'5", roughly 225–230-pound frame, excellent defensive instincts in the outfield, and strong contact skills highlighted by a 12.7% strikeout rate.
- Bonds was the Giants’ first position-player pick of the class and joins earlier selections such as first-rounder Jackson Flora; no signing terms or pro assignment have been reported and the main questions are whether his power will grow and how quickly he moves through the system.