Over the weekend, the polar vortex wasn’t the only big thing to hit Washington, D.C. More than 100 MLB prospects came together for the league’s annual Rookie Career Development Program. The program is intended for players with no or minimal major league service time and is aimed at preparing those players for life in the big leagues.



Outfielder Steven Duggar was one of four Giants’ prospects to attend (Tyler Beede, Ryder Jones and Reyes Moronta were the other three; the A’s sent A.J. Puk and Dustin Fowler). With the Giants in dire need of impact talent in the outfield, Duggar could be putting the skills he learned at the RCDP to the test as soon as this year.



Although not as well known nationally as his 2016 Double-A Richmond teammates Christian Arroyo and Beede, Duggar was an under-the-radar favorite of several prospect evaluators and scouts that I spoke to coming out of the 2016 season. Duggar split that campaign between High-A San Jose and...