Giants trade Heliot Ramos to Yankees in deal including Jeff Kent's son

Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News on Aug 3, 2026

Published in Baseball

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SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Giants have traded outfielder Heliot Ramos to the New York Yankees in exchange for prospects Henry LaLane and Kaeden Kent, according to multiple reports. Kent is the son of 2026 Hall of Fame inductee Jeff Kent, while Lalane is one of New York’s top pitching prospects.

Ken Rosenthal was the first to report that the teams were working on a deal Monday afternoon. The Giants have yet to confirm.

Unlike veterans Luis Arraez and Robbie Ray, both traded earlier Monday, Ramos wasn’t on an expiring contract, and there wasn’t necessarily an urgency to trade him.

Ramos, 26, will enter his first year of arbitration during this upcoming offseason and was under team control through the 2029 season. The Giants, though, needed pitching more than they needed a corner outfielder, and they addressed that need by trading Ramos to the Bronx.

Lalane, a 6-foot-7 left-handed pitcher, was the Yankees’ No. 5 prospect according to Baseball America. He only began pitching at age 14 and but has good sporting pedigree as his father, also named Henry, is a former pro basketball player out of the Dominican Republic.

The 22-year-old uses a mid-90s fastball along with a changeup and slider. He is 4-1 with a 2.77 earned-run average in 78 innings between Single-A Tampa and High-A Hudson Valley so far this season. He has 98 strikeouts in those 16 appearances.

Ramos spoke to reporters about the news Monday in Arlington ahead of the Giants’ game in Texas.

“They gave me the sense to be a big leaguer. They gave me the sense to be who I am today,” he said of the Giants. “… I’m just really proud of being a part of this organization. They have a lot of history, so it’s obviously going to have a big place in my heart.”

He did say he thinks he’ll look nice in pinstripes, though.

“I can’t wait to hear from (Aaron) Judge, hear from all those guys,” he said. “The way they play, the way they are — it’s going to be fun for sure.”

Kent, a 22-year-old second base prospect, is part of the return package. He was born just under a year after his father Jeff, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame wearing a Giants cap last month, left the Giants in free agency. He was a third-round pick of the Yankees in 2025 after playing collegiately at Texas A&M. Kent was ranked No. 13 in the Yankees’ system according to MLB Pipeline and has also played this season at the High-A level, hitting .302 with six home runs and an OPS of .792.

The Giants have plenty of players on the active roster who could see time in left field now that Ramos has been traded, including outfielders Drew Gilbert and Grant McCray, as well as utilityman Jesús Rodríguez. Among those currently on the injured list, center fielder Jonah Cox started a rehab assignment with Triple-A Sacramento, while Victor Bericoto resumed baseball activities last week. Both are returning from oblique strains.

Looking down the line, prospects Bo Davidson and Parks Harber, who are both playing for Triple-A Sacramento, could see some time in the outfield down the stretch.

It’s worth noting that Davidson is Rule 5 Draft eligible this winter, meaning the Giants must add him to their 40-man roster to protect him from being poached by other teams. Harber, however, isn’t Rule 5 eligible until after the 2027 season, meaning there isn’t as much urgency to add him to the 40-man.

The Giants selected Ramos in the first round of the 2017 MLB draft, but it wasn’t until 2024 that Ramos finally broke onto the scene. That year, Ramos became the Giants’ first homegrown All-Star outfielder since Chili Davis in 1986, as well as the first right-handed batter to achieve a Splash Hit in Oracle Park history.

Over 384 games with San Francisco, Ramos hit .257 with 53 home runs, 177 RBIs and a .736 OPS. This season, he is hitting .264 with nine home runs. In 2025, Ramos was presented with the Giants Good Guy award by the San Francisco chapter of the BBWAA.

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