This story was excerpted from Maria Guardado's Giants Beat newsletter. To read the complete newsletter, click on this link. And sign up for get it consistently in your inbox. SAN FRANCISCO Giants two-way prospect Reggie Crawford took advantage of Single-A San Jose's day of rest on Monday to make a quick check out to Oracle Park, where he was spotted absorbing batting technique together with his uncle, Frank Vernusky Giants Shorts. Sporting a gray sweatshirt from the 2007 All-Star Game in San Francisco, Crawford took a while to talk concerning his course with the Giants, that picked the two-way standout with the 30th overall pick of the 2022 Draft. Crawford missed his junior period at UConn after undertaking Tommy John surgery, yet he's back on the pile and at home plate currently that he's healthy and in his first complete specialist period in the Giants' company. " It really feels great," claimed Crawford, the Giants' No. 9 possibility. "Undoubtedly, it was a lengthy roadway loaded with ups and downs like everyone states. However it's really excellent to be with a terrific group of people in San Jose. It's an extraordinary society from the coaching team down. .. I'm just pleased to be around once again. " The Giants are being added mindful with the 22-year-old Crawford, who is currently topped at two innings per pitching appearance. He's thrown 9 innings in his first five beginnings, providing up five work on nine hits while setting out 15 and strolling three. He's likewise hitting once a week, going 4-for-16 with two doubles and a crowning achievement in four games at designated hitter. Crawford, that bats and tosses left-handed, played very first base in college, however the Giants are restricting him to DH obligations in the meantime. " Doing both is the baseball that I've understood for my whole life," Crawford claimed. "I understand there's still a ways to go. That's the most exciting part since it's a discovering procedure, whether it gets on the pile or it goes to home plate. " Despite the rise of Angels superstar Shohei Ohtani, two-way players continue to be reasonably unusual around baseball, developing added obstacles for Crawford as he attempted to map out his workload with San Jose. " We basically need to think of our very own strategy," Crawford stated. "It's rather a lot our very own routine because clearly bottles have their routine, hitters have their schedule, but I can't inevitably follow either/or every day because it's not the same. We're sort of rolling with the punches and discovering week by week, day by day, what works and what doesn't work. I seem like we're truly obtaining a mutual understanding of where we go to and what it's mosting likely to resemble later on. " Crawford hopes he'll be removed to take more swings as he ramps up his hitting development, particularly after releasing his first expert home run with San Jose earlier this month. " It was finally great to really feel among those again," Crawford stated, grinning. "Everybody was very inflated for me. They gave me the quiet therapy when I entered the dugout. " Crawford is blinking excellent power on the mound too, as he claimed his fastball has actually been resting at 96-100 miles per hour given that coming back from the surgery. He's currently in the procedure of expanding his arsenal, as he's incorporated a changeup and is functioning to add more deepness to his curveball and a couple of more ticks to his slider to much better differentiate his two damaging rounds. "I was 75 percent fastball up till like 2 beginnings ago," Crawford stated. "There's a point where they can just sell out for the fastball and if they obtain fooled on the offspeed, they understand the chances are a heater is coming and it's mosting likely to remain in that square. So that's what we saw. Now it all right, possibly we spin a little extra. Perhaps we kind of bait them with a heater that's a bit more off home plate. Simply stuff like that. That is extremely beneficial. I'm not losing sleep if I quit a home run since I gain from that. That's been truly great to see due to the fact that I 'd rather see what's flawed and type of fine-tune it from there. "