Weekend Minor League roundup, April 17-19: Cam Maldonado can’t miss!

Fort Myers, FL - February 21: Northeastern outfielder Cam Maldonado catches a fly ball for an out. (Photo by Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) | Boston Globe via Getty Images It’s time again for the mega Monday San Francisco Giants Minor League Baseball roundup. The Giants have an off day today, so why not spend it reading about what happened to their A-ball affiliates on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday?

Let’s dive in! Link to the 2026 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL) All listed positions in the roundup are the position played in that particular game. News No transactions over the last few days, but one fun bit of news: Low-A San Jose outfielder Cam Maldonado (No.

34 CPL) was named Player of the Week in the California League. Read on to find out why (spoiler: it’s because he did some absurd things with the bat). AAA Sacramento (11-8) Friday: Sacramento River Cats lost to the Tacoma Rainiers 7-6 [ box score ] Saturday: Sacramento River Cats lost to the Tacoma Rainiers 6-4 [ box score ] Sunday: Sacramento River Cats beat the Tacoma Rainiers 1-0 [ box score ] Quite an uninteresting weekend for the River Cats.

The offense was fairly uninteresting — they had just 6 extra-base hits in the 3 games, and in their highest-scoring game they still struck out 15 times. The pitching was also fairly uninteresting, in part because their impressive Sunday shutout was a bullpen game, rather than the result of a star showing from a starter. The biggest swing of the bat over the weekend came at the start, in the 1st inning of Friday’s game, when Eric Haase launched a 3-run home run, his 2nd big fly of the year.