Garcia is only 19 but is already sitting 96. Very Young Prospects to Monitor The top of this draft class right now is LSU outfielder Dylan Crews, who had a big weekend. Top 35 Prospects: Pittsburgh Pirates by Eric Longenhagen and Kiley McDaniel November 26, 2018 Below is an analysis of the prospects in the farm system of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Its now fair to expect that the current version of Nicolas will be capable of holding down a spot toward the back of Pittsburghs rotation by the middle of 2024. Updated: Saturday, March 4, 2023 4:51 PM ET, Park Factors Hernandez, also 19, sat 93-96 in 2022 and has a good-looking two-planed slider, but a relief-only delivery and a mature build. Throw in the visual twitch and athleticism, and this is the player Spotifys algorithm would recommend to FanGraphs if prospects were musical artists. We considered Glenn a high priority senior sign in the 2021 draft, but he needed to hit all the way up the minor league ladder and didnt do that in 2022. Jones spent 2022, his second full pro season, at High-A Greensboro, where he sat 94-98 mph across 122.2 innings and posted a 26.7% K% and 9.6% BB%. In the past, Ortizs high-effort delivery and sub-optimal fastball shape put him on the starter/reliever line, but hes thrown plenty of strikes across multiple seasons while simultaneously developing more velocity and comfortably projects as a starting pitcher now. He stayed healthy throughout 2022, throwing 70.1 innings, and was more effective out of the bullpen than in his late-season starts. The Pirates got a deal done for a cool million, nearly twice the slot amount in the fourth round. Its possible Flowers strike-throwing consistency will make a big league manager feel secure going to him with consistency in the middle innings, but on stuff he projects more as a near-ready up/down reliever. Enmanuel Terrero, OF Pirates Reds: NL West. This is one of those prospects fantasy players should value more highly than this because of his potential home run output, whereas defensive limitations cause us to value his real-world roster fit in this range. Hes a young, switch-hitting catcher with cartoonish offensive numbers (especially from a bat-to-ball standpoint) and uncommon defensive versatility, as hes played a bunch of second base and left field as well. Nunez started 2022 at St. Louis Double-A affiliate before being dealt to Pittsburgh as part of the Jos Quintana deal at the trade deadline. He seems able to make some mid at-bat adjustments to this type of pitch but then ends up playing a guessing game with breaking balls. But theres big arm speed here and big riding life to Shims fastball. He has the stuff to continue developing as a starter just in case things click, but the bullpen is Jimenezs more likely future destination. Gonzales had a 68% Z-contact% as a 23-year-old at Double-A. Silvera, 18, is a physically mature righty who missed a ton of DSL bats even though he only sits 88-90. Hes a fun one cause he had 20 grade defense apparently but scored positive defensively and 30 grade speed but ran nearly 29 feet/second. Ricky Tiedemann is one of the fastest-rising pitching prospects in the game. Now 24 and neither protected from nor claimed during the 2022 Rule 5 draft, its imperative for him to start throwing strikes more consistently in order to find his way to a big league bullpen. It could stand to have more consistent depth, but the flashes are there, and remember that Kennedy is barely 18. Whether his ability to go get it in center field bounces back is the X-factor that will determine his ability to play a long-term big league role. You can really see his athleticism and remarkable hip/shoulder separation on his throws down to second. Nicolas has consistent glove-side command of his entire repertoire, and he tends to live on that half of the plate exclusively. Still, his tendency to roll his wrists over early in his swing, breaking up his attack angle, resulted in a groundball rate above 50%. In cases like these, sometimes the things that initially pique your interest, like data and/or available video, are enough to excite on their own even as you acknowledge that the error bars are as wide as can be because of the relative dearth of reinforcing club opinions. The top 38 spots on the list are all 55 FV or higher. Acquired in a. The ETAs listed generally correspond to the year a player has to be added to the 40-man roster to avoid being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Gonzales has begun to track like Keston Hiura, Carter Kieboom, and Jeter Downs, and his swing shares mechanical similarities with both Hiura and Kieboom. In most cases, corner-only outfielders who play consistent big league roles have better actualized their raw power in games. The 2021 edition of this list featured some carping about Eric Longenhagen ranking Gabriel Moreno in the 100, because he was the exact kind of player who might not have been highly regarded in earlier eras of public prospect evaluation but who had all the markers of future success. His swing decisions and ability to make contact out front and tap into his latent power improved throughout the season. As of list publication, Rodriguez is one of just two catchers on Pittsburghs 40-man roster, and while its possible hes beaten out by a veteran non-roster invitee like Tyler Heineman, Rodriguezs defensive chops and versatility give him a shot to break camp with the big club, split time with Austin Hedges, and moonlight at one or two other positions before eventually seizing the primary catcher job. Clubs like the Pirates arent making buyers trades, so they have little to no incentive to move a potentially great young player, which in turn means teams have little incentive to scout said player. In 2022, it garnered just 8% whiffs and 13% chase during his time at Double-A, where he spent most of the season. 4/5 starter. 76. But he was then shut down and had TJ, which ended his season early enough that he could be back in 2023. Unlike the other lists released yesterday, Fangraphs has not posted their top 100 prospects list yet, so we didn't already have some idea of the top of their list. 2023 Opening Day Tracker. He was ranked 25th on the Pirates list at the end of 2022, but we were blown away after watching him on video and seeing some of his underlying DSL data during the construction of this list. Matt Fraizer, CF While he was already throwing quite hard, Ortiz came into even more velocity in 2022 and averaged 97 mph on his fastball, up two ticks from 2021. The site listed four Dodgers prospects on their list. There were some signs of offensive progress in 2022. He and Solometo have the same flavor of stuff wrapped in different packages. If you split his season exactly in half, the improvement is obvious. ), and some of the recent, perhaps overzealous examples (Maikel Escotto, Rodolfo Nolasco) are in this system. We. Despite all of that, Priester took a hit in a lot of the national prospect outlets, dropping off quite a few Top 100 lists. His slider has a sweeping horizontal shape, but his inability to locate it has hampered its utility. (One weird scouting note: Peguero chokes up with two strikes, but only with his top hand, creating separation between his two hands la Kevin Youkilis.) For instance, hes struggled badly on defense, wracking up 46 errors combined the last two seasons. Most of his swings and misses over the last few years have been on fastballs running away from him, but in 2022, he displayed a more advanced ability to poke the barrel at balls on the outer edge of the plate, extending his short levers in an effort to slap outside pitches the other way. Like his other stuff, his feel for location is better than the movement hes creating on the pitch. 2018 Brewers batting, pitching, and fielding traditional and advanced stats. Hes on the 40-man roster and will likely get a chance to sink or swim on the big league roster in 2023. The top six were already know from this list, because Fangraphs had six Pirates in their top 100 prospects. Chandlers pitching performance wasnt as lights-out as it had been pre-promotion, but it was still a display of the rightys potential. Jameson Taillon / SP 4. More glove-side fastballs might help him set up his sweeping slider more effectively, as that pitch has good-looking movement but wasnt a dominant offering in college. His acrobatics and creativity at third base make him a plus defender there. He mixed in four pitches, with his four-seamer and slider accounting for 88% of his pitches, and the changeup and two-seamer bringing up the rear. Given how good he is at third, it seems likely that Triolo will be a good defensive second baseman if given enough time, and hes a fine emergency option at short (Kyle Farmer has played there a ton and Triolo is about that good). The pitch has natural tailing action, but Ortiz can also blow it past hitters at the letters when he wants, and his TrackMan data shows hes mixing in four- and two-seamers in the locations where theyre most effective. While his walk and strikeout rates were both descent through the first half of 2022, only nine of his 57 hits through mid-June went for extra bases (eight doubles and a home run). His swing is quite uphill from the left side and he can tend to swing underneath fastballs up and away from him, but overall he is very difficult to make whiff inside the strike zone despite his steep-launch style of contact. If he moves to first base, this will become especially scary. If this were a high school draft prospect, you would already know his name based purely on how explosive De Los Santos is in the batters box. His range and footwork are great, while his actions and arm are fine. Isaias Uribe, LHP Whats more, theres a chance Triolo hits enough to simply be an everyday option at second (or if he turns out to be okay in center). Hernandez sat 93-96 mph in 2021 and when seen prior to Dodgers list publication last season, then kept throwing harder throughout the summer and ended up averaging 95-97 and touching 101 while with Double-A Tulsa. Short but not small, his lack of length and size is actually an advantage for Johnsons swing, as he can enjoy a bat path geared for power and lift without it being too long. He had all the markers of a major league-ready Top 100 prospect prior to the injury, largely due to the progression of his changeup and its usage. Podcasts: . Brennan Malone, RHP. Traded from Miami during the 2021-22 offseason as part of the three-player package for Jacob Stallings, Nicolas spent 2022 with Altoona, where he worked 90 innings with a FIP and ERA close to 4.00. Scouting reports were compiled with information provided by industry sources as well as our own observations. It had exploded even further when he was seen following the pandemic shutdown, as he sat 95-97 mph and was touching 101 during the 2021 regular season. Besides Johnson and Harrington, two other 2022 draft picks made the top 30. feels like the more realistic path to an eventual 45-grade role, or above. Not Quite Enough Hit Tool He has the strength to do damage the other way, but save for the occasional pitch on the outer edge, hes geared to pull. He doesnt always look comfortable out there, but his speed makes him viable at all three spots, solidifying his role as a heavily-used role player even without the power production. A fresh start with a new org (he was a waiver claim this offseason) might help him find a swing that produces more power. However, Priester makes up for it with his preferred secondaries a huge, arcing curveball that Priester has had forever, and a more recently developed mid-80s slider both of which have garnered swing-and-miss rates well above the big league average. FanGraphs released their top 100 prospect rankings on Wednesday. Those games were taking place amid weight-lifting and practice for the coming football season and then during the season itself, so Whites balance of strength and flexibility might change as he trains just for baseball. That's nearly 30% of all their picks coming up as noteworthy prospects. His on-mound athleticism enables plus long-term command projection, though for right now Harrington really only locates his fastball to his arm side. Pittsburgh Pirates Top 10 Prospects Updated by Marc Hulet September 10, 2018 The Pirates system doesn't have immense depth or a long line of high-impact players but the big league club could. With Endy Rodriguez around, it may not matter a ton. His arm action is very long, and he bends at his torso as he lunges toward the plate, allowing for more extension during his release, but also creating an uncomfy angle that adds stress to his shoulder. His low-80s slider, which has late, two-plane bite, has improved considerably and is now an above-average big league pitch. Pre-draft rumors pegged Kennedy as a tough sign given a strong commitment to LSU. Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports. Gutierrez has soft, quiet hands, he doesnt tip pitch type or location with runners on base, and he will drop to one knee when he receives some pitches as a means of framing them. Its going to be fascinating to watch him develop, and if it doesnt work, hell probably still be a viable reliever. Pegueros lack of throwing accuracy from shortstop is concerning. 1/ . Ercolani, an 18-year-old righty from San Marino, had a velo spike during the winter and has been up to 97 mph in the bullpen recently. If a clearer path at third base existed in this org, that might have been enough for us to do it. If you want to read me wax poetic about that you can check out my end of year review. A few months later, the Pirates emerged as the word-of-mouth favorite to sign him; he inked a deal for $750,000 in January. Here hes projected as a no. It should be noted that DeVitos development has been plagued by stops and starts caused first by the pandemic and then by an ulnar nerve issue that shortened his 2021 season. He has a delivery similar to Ubaldo Jimnezs, where his front side flies way open and he tilts out, which helps Kellington get to a vertical arm slot. His feel for throwing strikes would come and go, and hes only 6-feet-1, a little smaller than the prep pitching prototypes who you often see getting $2 million or more in the draft. FanGraphs Top 43 Pirates prospects blogs.fangraphs Vote 3 comments Best Add a Comment Robert_roberts82 14 min. Axiel Plaz, C He finished 2022 at Altoona and has a chance to be in the big leagues at some point this season. ago He missed basically all of September and was shelled in the only start he made coming off the IL. Mason Martin, 1B He showed a velo spike (92-96) at the onset of the 2022 college season before his arm strength and command regressed. Eddy Yean, RHP Flowers velocity has never really popped in a big way despite some of the late projection because of his conversion. Aside from the persistent Bryan Reynolds trade rumors, the general industry sentiment is that the team is shifting from prospect collection mode and into a phase where those players start to arrive. Connor Scott, RF window.FGWebsite_head_section.buildProspectsListControls(); Prospects 2022 Top 100 Prospects. The older brother of Ohio State wide receiver phenom Jaxson Smith-Njigba, Canaan is another of the many prospects acquired from the Yankees for Jameson Taillon. Robert_roberts82 1 min. The type of contact he makes is unlikely to ever lead to home run power commensurate with a true everyday player, but Bae makes enough stinging, all-fields contact that he projects to hit plenty of doubles and triples. This is the case with De Los Santos. Both feel like high-floored backend or long relief types who need to walk an atypical path to an impact role. Counter to our past reports, his swing is rather stiff and some of Lopezs length makes him vulnerable to pitches in on his hands. Smith-Njigbas on-base skills drive an above-replacement forecast here, but its tough to project a real big league role, and he may be an interesting candidate for teams in Asia. From a heuristics standpoint, you cant do much better than Rodriguezs profile. So compact and short to the baseball is Rodriguez that he can wait an extra beat to diagnose pitch types, which enables him to make in-flight adjustments to breaking balls, spoil the well-located ones, and crush the hangers. document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () { Could Solometo eventually throw harder? 2 prospect to Minors camp after injury February 24, 2023 Bucs invite top prospects Davis, Johnson, Priester to camp February 2, 2023 Shim realizes first part of dream as prospect signs with Bucs January 26, 2023 He has a wide arsenal, including a changeup and a two-seamer, but tends to rely more heavily on pairing his riding fastball and curveball to keep hitters off balance. Its a shorter, less natural looking delivery than what Flowers had as an amateur, but hes been able to throw strikes with it. Moreover, he has one of the more unusual profiles in professional baseball. Play-by-play data prior to 2002 was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted After pitching well at the U-18 World Championships and at a Nike showcase in Asia, he signed for about $1.25 million, which is pretty sizable for a late-market signee. Lolo Sanchez, CF His carrying tool is still his defense, especially his receiving, which is crafty and advanced. Still, the teenage pitcher demo is bust-prone and, anecdotally, this seems especially true when the prospect in question already throws really hard at age 17 or 18. The timing of his surgery is more detrimental than that of the other college pitchers, as it ups the odds that he wont (or will barely) pitch in 2023. His two-plane slider has nasty, late break and his changeup might have late projection because his arm action is so clean and loose. He still has a pretty exciting hit/power combination for a player his age, showing a proclivity for big contact to dead center and the opposite-field gap, the latter in part due to his length, which causes him to be late. It sounds like Brannigan is going to develop as a two-way player. Campana, soon to be 21, is the youngest of this group. Johnson was a well-regarded prospect basically as soon as he reached high school, and there were scouts who were so excited when they first watched him hit that they considered him a future top 5-10 pick when he was only a freshman. He will be an unmistakable fixture on Pittsburghs backfields for the next couple of years and is a power-hitting corner prospect of extreme variance. Hes 19 and struggled over the winter in Australia. Manual adjustments are made where they seem appropriate, but we use that as a rule of thumb. His 2022 was not as remarkable from a walk and strikeout standpoint but it was still good, as he hit .270/.376/.418 with 38 extra-base hits (pretty good for the Florida State League) and 33 steals at Low-A Bradenton. Every once in a while he will show you the power, and hes very good at hitting pitches out away from him to the opposite field with authority, but you can get him out if you can execute location against Gonzales, and big league pitchers often do. The organization will be thrilled if . The powerfully built Kelly, 19, is a squat but loose righty who sits 93-95 mph and throws quality strikes with his fastball. The Pirates snagged him in Decembers Rule 5 draft, making him only the second lefty reliever on their 40-man, so hell likely be called upon for consistent use out of the big league pen in 2023. The depth charts found on the Team Pages are based on projected playing time, NOT the current status of a team's roster. He has a short arm action, which aids in his command, though refining his location will likely be the order of the day upon his return from injury as he continues to work out of the Pirates pen. Shim is a big, physically mature righty with huge present arm strength, creeping into the upper 90s. This is the third year were delineating between two anticipated relief roles, the abbreviations for which youll see in the position column below: MIRP for multi-inning relief pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning relief pitchers. Hes been able to maintain nearly average contact rates despite a pull-heavy approach to contact. During a full season at Double-A in 2022, he saw time at third base, shortstop, and center field, and in 2023 hell start seeing more time at second base. Theyre finding them. That fact isn't apparent on his Baseball-Reference or FanGraphs pages, but for about 48 hours, Maggi, who homered to break up the Yankees' shutout bid in the ninth inning of the Pirates' 9-1 split-squad loss on Thursday, enjoyed life in the Majors. Even if sliders are a chronic issue for Davis, hell likely still get to enough power to produce better than the average everyday catcher. While likely of low impact, Solometos feel to pitch will almost certainly enable him to be a big leaguer of some kind, either a backend starter or long reliever. His delivery evokes Madison Bumgarners long, slingin lefty arm stroke, and Solometos east/west feel for location is Bum-ish, but dont mistake this for a true comp, as Bumgarner had already made 24 big league starts at Solometos age. Pittsburgh Pirates 2021 Top 50 Prospects January 1, 2021 Kyle Brown General, MiLB, NL Central, Pirates, Top 50 Lists 2 Graphic design by John Stewart, @jonance on Twitter The Pirates had a woeful time in 2020 once the season got going. He spent more of his big league time in the outfield than at his native second base. Plaz had a cartoonish line in the DSL (he slugged over .700), but hes very burly and physically mature for a 17-year-old, so wed like to see him do it stateside. All Win Expectancy, Leverage Index, Run Expectancy, and Fans Scouting Report data licenced from TangoTiger.com. Pegueros pull-heavy style of contact leaves him vulnerable to breaking balls on the outer half, even ones that catch a lot of the plate. He pitched for Panamas U18 team in September and showed a good changeup and fair slider as well. ago I'm surprised how far Nick Gonzalez and Hudson Head dropped in a few years. Poised to compete for a rotation spot when 2023 camp breaks, Ortiz is one of a few high-upside Pirates youngsters who look like theyd fit in a contenders rotation. He did not pass. Top 51 Prospects: Pittsburgh Pirates by Eric Longenhagen February 24, 2021 Below is an analysis of the prospects in the farm system of the Pittsburgh Pirates. A much deeper overview can be found here. It shows above-average arm-side action on occasion, but hes only throwing it 12% of the time. Quants and front office analyst types are more bearish, citing issues with Priesters fastball playability. Davis skills and offensive style are tailored like those of Evan Gattis. None of his other pitches are above average in fact most of them are currently below average but Chen has plus command projection and a plus changeup, so hes pretty likely to pitch at the back of a big league rotation or as an innings-eating spot starter. His range, footwork, ability to bend, and overall athleticism are all plus, and it made sense to try to develop him as a shortstop for as long as possible, but Peguero finally saw time at second base in 2022 and a permanent move there will hopefully help him throw more confidently and accurately. Scouting. Unfortunately, he then lost the 2020 season to the pandemic and most of 2021 to a shoulder injury he sustained just 12 games into the season. Hes a good enough defender that hed probably being playing shortstop had he ended up at Arizona State, but in pro ball the keystone is Johnsons likeliest defensive home given his maxed-out, stocky build and what projects to be somewhat limited range. The Pirates have three of those 38 players, with Termarr Johnson ranked 21st, Endy Rodriguez 22nd and Henry Davis 38th. When healthy, he was a hard-throwing 40 FV reliever. DeVito is a bird of a feather that has flocked together in the Pirates system: a promising arm with in-zone swing-and-miss, but one whose unsteady command has prevented him from capitalizing on that whiff rate. He maintained his patient approach in Altoona, and when the Double-A season ended, he was sent up to Indianapolis for the last five games of the Triple-A season. Kennedys delivery is simple, compact, repeatable, and easy-looking, and you can project heavily on his changeup because of this, though right now he often gets underneath it and it tends to cut on him. The reason why he graded out so positively was due to his arm, gunning down runners like crazy, which was fantastic, and his tool grade for his armwas a 40. The 11-15 group consists of Jared Jones, Ji-hwan Bae, Anthony Solometo, Kyle Nicolas and Jared Triolo. Before he was drafted he was considered, at least at FanGraphs, a more likely reliever due to the quality of his stuff. When an opposing pitcher releases the ball, the scoop in Johnsons bat head is pointing at the mound with his back elbow hiked way up above his shoulder in a position that seems to defy the rules of normal human physiology. and play-by-play data provided by Sports Info Solutions. His player page shows him above average in UZR/150, OAA and RAA (although only 1 in each of the latter two). by Handedness, 25th on the Pirates list at the end of 2022, Effectively Wild Episode 1966: Joe West, Young Man, Ben Cherington on Pittsburghs Two Top Prospects. In some ways, this makes aspects of De Los Santos data even more impressive, because hes turning around soft DSL pitching with ridiculous pace. The FanGraphs prospect team presents their 2022 top 100 list . Harry Ford is one of the top prospects in the Seattle Mariners organization, and he is also unique among his peers. RotoGraphs. Thats hard enough to do for any batter, let alone one whose schedule also includes the grueling demands of pitching development. Format = Team Position Player | Age on 4/1/23 | Highest level played | ETA. Not counting his time at the alt site in 2020, last season was Boltons first time back in competitive action since 2019. That pitch plays up against lefties for reasons that are probably obvious, but it isnt a nasty pitch in a vacuum. Rodriguezs arm is comfortably plus. His delivery has a relief-only look to it. White was seen early and often as an underclassman since he went to a Philadelphia high school with University of Virginia outfielder Chris Newell, and would frequently match up against the Siani brothers during varsity play. FanGraphs Prospects. in the minor league phase of the 2022 Rule 5 Draft. White was a multi-sport star in high school and after initially making a verbal commitment to Clemson solely for baseball, he eventually became a two-sport commit to Penn State to play wide receiver and center field. While he hasnt continued producing the mid-to-upper-90s velocity he did during college relief outings, Nicolas still sits a respectable 92-95 mph and leans on his two above-average breaking balls, a low-80s curveball and a mid-80s slider. Theres still some prospect clout here because of Nolascos power and long-haul physicality, but at this stage, he should be considered more of power-driven flier than a likely big leaguer. 2023 Updated In-Season Projections A proactive bullpen move could put him in position to debut in 2024. RotoGraphs. That said, it's getting harder. Hunter Stratton, RHP He pairs it with two above-average secondaries: a high-80s slider with sharp, downward movement that garnered a 48% chase rate against righties, and an 11-5 curveball with a shape that mimics the slider, only slower and looser, which helps keep batters off balance and enables him to pitch backwards. The Pirates claimed him off waivers and quickly lost him to the Diamondbacks in the minor league phase of the 2022 Rule 5 draft. Webb dealt with a forearm strain that delayed the start of his 2022 season. He can already land his breaker in the zone and its angle should help it become a viable back-foot offering to righties. Born Harrison Michael Ford, in Atlanta, 20 years ago this week, the right-handed-hitting catcher is the son of English immigrants. Not exactly on topic, but Id love to get some thoughts on the recently graduated Jack Suwinski. A core scouting rule of thumb is to take the long view with catchers who have impact offensive potential. Solometos fastball sits in the 88-92 mph range. Scouting reports were. The depth-focused style of their rebuild in which the Pirates often got many mid-tier prospects back in trade rather than just one key piece has had some profound positive impacts on this system (its arguably why they have Cruz, Endy Rodriguez, Contreras, and four of their 40+ FV prospects or better on this years list) even as many of the pro departments targets have started to fizzle out at the upper levels. Hayden Wesneski is a 25-year-old starting pitcher in the Chicago Cubs system. He has now struck out nearly 30% of the time during each of the last two seasons, but hes still performed comfortably above the league average at each stop because of the quality of the contact he does make. He throws precise, high-quality strikes with the heater, and the pitch has enough tailing action to have stayed off of A-ball barrels. Below is an analysis of the prospects in the farm system of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Readers should note that taking an aggressive line with players like this has yielded predictably mixed results in the past (so far, so good: Kevin Alcantara, Marco Luciano, Alexander Canario, Jordy Vargas, etc. Escotto, 20, was a 40+ FV prospect after his huge DSL season and later became part of the Jameson Taillon trade, but he struggled very badly in 2022 and needed to be demoted back to Low-A. The power might be enough to make him a 1-WAR player if given regular at-bats in the big leagues, but as a second base-only defender, its hard to find an on-roster role for a player like this if they arent hitting enough to play there all the time.
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