#bryce-eldridge

#bryce-eldridge

No, ahead of a week-long road trip and amid a playoff race, the San Francisco Giants are calling up their top prospect power-hitting first baseman Bryce Eldridge and they're doing it for the purest of reasons: They think he can be the difference. And it's the right button to push at exactly the right time for Giants director of baseball operations and eager button-pusher Buster Posey.

VIENNA, Virginia Vienna is a town of about 17,000 people in high-density Fairfax County, which has a population of just more than 1 million and is just west of the nation's capital. It is about 10 miles from the baseball field at James Madison High in Vienna to the White House in Washington, a city that was without a Major League Baseball team from 1972 until the Nationals came to town in 2005.

Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote earlier in the week that it's "more likely" the 20-year-old will finish out the season in Triple-A and hope for his first call to the majors in 2026. President of baseball operations Buster Posey removed further doubt the following day when telling John Shea of the San Francisco Standard that his team would "most likely not" promote Eldridge for his big league debut before season's end.