How do you fix a team like the San Francisco Giants? They should get some better pitchers, for one. Maybe a hitter who reminds you of Barry Bonds, even when he’s not doing anything. Just doing those two things would be a heckuva start.Friend, do the Giants have an amateur draft to share with you.The Giants selected University of California, Santa Barbara right-hander Jackson Flora with the fourth pick in the 2026 MLB Draft, then selected pitchers with three out of their next four picks. With their third-round pick (fourth selection), they selected an outfielder by the name of Bonds. Peyton Bonds. He wore No. 25 at Rutgers in honor of his uncle, who used to play at Arizona State and for the Pittsburgh Pirates. We’ll get to that.Start with the pitching, though. The Bonds story is fun, but the lack of pitching in the Giants’ organization is closer to existential. The 2026 Giants currently have the seventh-worst adjusted ERA in San Francisco Giants history. They’re on pace to have the second-highest ERA in the Oracle Park era, behind only the 2006 team. There’s a very real chance this staff could have one of the worst seasons for the franchise since leaving New York.None of this is why the Giants drafted Flora. It isn’t why they drafted pitchers with their first three picks. Every team will repeat “best player available” as many times as they need to, year after year, because that’s the philosophy of every team. You can’t worry about 2026 when you’re focused on 2030 and beyond.When the best player available happens to be exactly the kind of player you would put on the Giants with a magic wand, though, it sure makes it easier to imagine how it all might work.Flora was the top college pitcher of the draft. The next college pitcher was selected at pick 19. Flora has an ace’s repertoire, an ace’s build and an ace’s work ethic. If he turns into a perfectly decent starting pitcher, he’ll have beaten the odds that most pitching prospects begin with, but the Giants are hoping he’ll be an ace. And soon.No pressure, kid.Jackson Flora can reach triple-digits with his fastball. (Jeff Liang / UCSB Athletics)Flora has the kind of ready-made stuff that organizations dream of, with all the bells and whistles that modern analysts and scouts like these days, like a high spin rate, a flat approach angle and excellent arm extension. He has two major-league pitches already, with a fastball that can sit in the mid-to-upper 90s and a wipeout sider, and he added a kick-change that should give him a third. He needs to refine his command and control, like almost every other 21-year-old pitcher — so he’s not close to where, say, Paul Skenes was when he was drafted — but he’s still ahead of most of his peers in that respect.But wait: There’s even more urgency. The Giants’ farm system is currently in the top third of baseball, but that’s mostly on the strength of position players in A-ball and below. The upper levels are starting to spit hitters out, though. Bryce Eldridge has the highest profile of the recent graduates, but he should be followed in short order by a variety of infielders and outfielders. All that’s left is the pitching.No pressure, kid.Here’s where Flora might not have only been the best player available, but also the player who made the most sense for the Giants right now. It’s not as if the Giants are without pitching prospects — Roger Munter from There R Giants recently wrote that if 21-year-old Keyner Martínez were draft-eligible, he’d have the kind of stuff that might have put him in consideration for the fourth pick — but it’s hard to identify another Giants pitching prospect you can practically guarantee will be in a major-league rotation soon. Carson Whisenhunt has a chance, but it’s possible that he follows Keaton Winn into the bullpen, with Blade Tidwell and Carson Seymour likely taking a similar path.Before Flora was selected, that left open the possibility of a gap between the first and second waves of hitting prospects and any young starters in the majors to support them. While Flora is still a young pitcher, and you should never, ever trust those things, he’s not a high school infielder who needs to be polished and perfected at every step along his developmental path. While the competency and effectiveness of every organization’s player-development team can vary wildly, Flora feels like a pitcher whose success will have more to do with his body holding up than anything his organization does or doesn’t do. He should in the majors at the same time as Jhonny Level, Gavin Kilen, Bo Davidson and/or Dakota Jordan, a foundation that ideally would be followed shortly by a second wave of prospects who are still teenagers right now, like Luis Hernández and Josuar Gonzalez.Will the Giants need pitching when that happens? No idea. Never draft for need. In two years, the Giants might have the best group of pitching prospects in the country, and all of the hitting prospects might have stalled.Using all of the available evidence we have at the moment, though, it sure seems like a polished college right-hander would be perfectly positioned for a team on the Giants’ timeline. Flora, in this perfect world where all the dominoes fall as expected, would be established by the time the youth movement picks up.