San Francisco Giants: Predicting the Ceilings for Top 10 Draft Picks of 2011

Foretelling the potential upside of amateur draft picks is an exceedingly inexact science.

Five teams passed on Barry Bonds before the Pirates selected him 6th in 1985.

Five clubs bypassed Derek Jeter before he was picked in the same spot by the Yankees in 1992.

722 players were drafted before the Giants tabbed Brian Wilson as their 24th pick in 2003.

With that caveat out of the way, there's no harm in scouring the San Francisco Giants first ten 2011 draft picks for clues about their professional upside.

Last year the Giants focused on position players; this year they reverted to form, selecting pitchers with six of their first 10 picks.

For each of the 2011 top 10, here's a peek at their past, what experts are saying about them, and a stab at their o...

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