Giants release 2 former top prospects in midseason roster decisions

With the "second half" of the baseball season about to get underway, the San Francisco Giants have made a couple changes.

On Tuesday, the Giants released two former top-10 organizational prospects.

Both were cut from the Double-A Richmond Squirrels, per NBC Sports Bay Area.

Vaun Brown was one of the released players. He was the Giants' No. 5 prospect as recently as 2023, based on MLB Pipleine rankings.

This season, Brown was batting .248 across three levels of the minors with 14 steals but no home runs. Brown was a 10th-round pick in 2021, batted .346 with with 23 homers and 44 steals in 2022, but then never got past Double-A.

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The other cut is Jairo Pomares.

He was ranked as high as No. 7 in the San Francisco system in 2022.

Pomares batted .209 with nine homers and nine steals this season for Richmond.

Organizational cuts will start to happen across the league following the MLB Draft. The contraction of the minor leagues means that there are fewer open spots to put the drafted players in, so some players have to be released in order to fit all the new guys at various levels.

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