SAN FRANCISCO — Batting practice was optional for the Giants’ position players Monday, following a late-night arrival back home from St. Louis.

Still, a smattering of players gathered around the cage inside Oracle Park to watch a couple other athletes take some hacks.

Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith, the San Jose Sharks’ top picks in the 2024 and 2023 drafts, respectively, and their two biggest young stars, traded in their skates for spikes and took BP before the Giants began their homestand against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Celebrini’s lineage is well known in these parts, the son of Warriors head trainer Rick Celebrini, but did you know Smith’s family tree runs deep in baseball? He is the great, great grandson of the former White Sox owner Charles Comiskey and also played shortstop g

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