Bonds Selected by Giants in 2026 MLB Draft
Jul 11 | Baseball
Bonds is the fourth Rutgers player to be drafted by the Giants, joining Trevor Cohen (2025, third round), Bill Malloy (1996, sixth round) and Robert Kenney (1967, 38th round). Bonds will reunite with Cohen in the Giants system, with the two playing together in 2025 for the Scarlet Knights.
Bonds played in 36 games as a junior in 2026, hitting .352 with six home runs, 29 RBIs, eight doubles, scored 31 runs and stole 13 bases. While he missed 20 games with injury, Bonds returned in the final series at Northwestern and would play in the Big Ten Tournament in the postseason.
As a sophomore in 2025, Bonds hit .300 with five home runs, 10 doubles, two triples and 40 RBIs, scoring 49 runs and stealing 16 bases.
With the selection, Bonds becomes the 12th Scarlet Knight to be drafted in the last five seasons under head coach Steve Owens. It also marks the fourth straight season that a Rutgers player has been taken in the first three rounds, with Bonds joining Trevor Cohen (third round, 2025), Josh Kuroda-Grauer (third round, 2024) and Ryan Lasko (second round, 2023). Rutgers is the only team in the Big Ten to have a player drafted in the top three rounds in each of the last four years.
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