SAN FRANCISCO – Bryce Eldridge, the Giants’ 20-year-old power-hitting top prospect, could reach the major league team before the end of the season.

During an interview Thursday on KNBR (680 AM), Buster Posey, the Giants’ president of baseball operations, raved about Eldridge’s recent form at the plate.

Since returning from a hamstring injury that kept him out for almost a month, the 6-foot-7 slugger is batting .281 and has slammed eight home runs and driven in 26 runs over his last 17 games with Triple-A Sacramento.

In his four most recent starts, Eldridge has hit four homers.

“What’s been really fun to watch with Bryce is the way that he’s hitting the homers,” Posey said. “He’s hitting a ton of homers to left-center, and that plays really anywhere. That plays at our ballpark, any ball

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