Where Joey Bart, Marco Luciano rank on Baseball America's new top 100

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With the 2020 MLB Draft a thing of the past, Baseball America has updated its top 100 prospects list. Top draft pick and Petaluma native Spencer Torkelson already comes in at No. 11, while none of the Giants' draft picks made the list. 

Three Giants prospects -- Marco Luciano, Joey Bart and Heliot Ramos -- did make the update. 

Luciano, 18, is seen as the Giants' top prospect by Baseball America. He went from No. 19 to No. 21 in their latest top 100, and is the fifth-highest ranked shortstop. But Gavin Lux and Carter Kieboom, who are ranked ahead of Luciano, actually don't primarily play shortstop.

Last season, Luciano hit .322 with 10 home runs and a 1.055 OPS in the Arizona Rookie League before finishing the year in Class A Short Season with the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. If the Giants do have a young star like what Ronald Acuna has been for the Atlanta Braves, Luciano is their man. 

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Bart comes in behind Luciano at No. 34, down from No. 32. The second-overall pick in the 2018 draft made it all the way to Double-A Richmond last season and appears right on the cusp of the big leagues. Between Single-A San Jose and Richmond, Bart hit .278 with 16 homers, but he also dealt with a wrist injury in San Jose and again in the Arizona Fall League. 

Recovered and healthy, Bart tore up big league camp in spring training by batting .438 with two homers in nine games.

Rounding out the Giants' trio is outfielder Heliot Ramos. Yes, he fell in the update, but it was a nice change. Ramos went from No. 63 to No. 69.

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Ramos also might have been the Giants' most impressive minor leaguer last season. After a down 2018 season, he hit .306 with 13 homers for San Jose before hitting three more bombs in Double-A. And he did all this while spending the season at only 19.

The future is bright in San Francisco, it certainly starts with these three.

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