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Pittsburgh Pirates: Prospect Round-Up Week of 8/17-8/23

By Nicholas Caporoso

Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports
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Once a week there will be a Pittsburgh Pirates Prospect roundup on the minor leaguers in the Pirate’s farm system and their stats. It is August and the minor league season is coming to end in about a month.  We have a good judgement on the prospects’ season at this point.

These articles contain the top 30 prospect’s for the Pittsburgh Pirates and their main stats for the season thus far.  This will give you an easy and accessible page to view a prospect’s roundup and how they are doing on the year. The hitter stats will include batting average, RBIs, and OPS, some will have home-runs if they are suppose to be power hitting prospects.  Pitcher stats will include  their win-loss record, ERA, and their strike outs to walks on the season.

Some of the site contributors got to together and created this list after putting together a formula that consists of a number of stats, intangibles, and watching film on them. The stats that were used were based on their previous season performance and their career  stat lines.  With that being said, stats make up the bulk of how they are rated. Through this we put the prospects in a tiered system, but for these updates it will be easier to use the traditional 1-30 rankings:

Prospects Reese McGuire and Harold Ramirez were removed; Taylor Hearn andDovydas Neverauskas were added.  Jordan Luplow and Max Moroff were lowered to accommodate the two new adds.  With that the list still remains as close to the beginning of the season list. Jameson Taillon has lost prospect status, and Tito Polohas been added. The 2016 draft picks are in their own weekly round up article.

Prospects:

  1. RHP Tyler Glasnow, AAA: 7-3, 1.94 ERA, 122K/55BB, 18 starts: MLB DL Rehabbing
  2. OF, Austin Meadows, AAA & AA: .250BA, 14 RBI, 3 HR, .830 OPS & .311 BA, 23 RBI,6 home runs, .976 OPS : 15 Day DL: Hamstring
  3. 1b Josh Bell, AAA: .295BA, 60RBI, 14 home runs .850 OPS; IN MLB 
  4. 3b Ke’Bryan Hayes, A-: .263BA, 37 RBI, 6 home runs, .711 OPS: DL Rehabbing
  5. C, Elias Diaz, AAA: .267 BA, 9 RBI, .588 OPS, 20 games 
  6. 2b Alen Hanson, AAA: .262 BA, 32 RBI, .693 OPS 
  7. LHP Steven Brault, AAA: 2-6, 3.63 ERA, 78k/34BB, 15 games and 14 starts
  8. RHP Nick Kingham, AAA: Rehab A+ & GCL: 2-0, 0.00 ERA, 10K/1BB, 2 GS 11 IP; 0-4, 3.00 ERA, 12k/1BB, 6 GS 24 innings
  9. SS Kevin Newman, AA & A+: .302, 23 RBI, .754 OPS & .366, 24 RBI, .922 OPS 
  10. RHP Mitch Keller, A-: 8-5, 2.56 ERA, 124K/16 BB, 22 starts *  

  11. SS Cole Tucker, A+ & A-: .244, 24 RBI, .629, & .262, 2 RBI, .750 OPS 

  12. LHP Stephen Tarpley, A+: 6-3, 4.40 ERA, 84 K/36 BB, 19 starts
  13. RHP Chad Kuhl, AAA: 6-2, 2.55 ERA, 60k/16BB,15 start: MLB
  14. RHP Clay Holmes, AA: 10-7, 4.27ERA, 98K/59BB, 25 starts 
  15. OF Willy Garcia, AAA: .248, 38 RBI, .671 OPS
  16. RHP Yeudy Garcia A+: 6-8, 2.74 ERA, 120K/52BB, 23 starts (24 games) *
  17. RHP Trevor Williams AAA: 7-6, 2.79 ERA, 63K/28BB, 18 starts
  18. OF/INF Adam Frazier, AAA: .333, 22 RBI, .827 OPS ; IN THE MLB
  19. RHP Tyler Eppler, AA: 8-9, 4.01 ERA, 93K/29BB, 24 starts
  20.  LHP, Taylor Hearn, A-: 1-1, 3.09 ERA, 18 strikeouts to 5 walks (11.2 IP, 5 games 1 start)
  21. OF Barrett Barnes, AA: .307 BA, 39 RBI, .841 OPS
  22. 2b/3b Kevin Kramer, A+: .277, 55 RBI, .733 OPS 
  23. RHP Dario Agrazal, A-: 7-11, 4.47, 77K/15BB, 24 starts
  24. RHP Gage Hinsz, A-: 4-6, 3.15 ERA, 48k/14BB, 12 starts
  25. LHP Brandon Waddell, AA & A+:  7-8, 4.19 ERA, 77k/55BB, 18 GS 19 games & 4-0 ,0.93 ERA, 26k/2bb, 5GS 
  26. OF/3b Jordan Luplow, A+: .250 BA, 48 RBI, .761 OPS
  27. 1b Jose Osuna, AAA & AA: .295, 7 home runs, 29 RBI, .855 ; .271 BA, 38 RBI, 6 home runs, .767 OPS 
  28. RHP, Dovydas Neverauskas, AAA: 3-4, 3.72 ERA, 23 strikeouts to 11 walks (24 games)
  29. 2b, Max Moroff, AAA: .232 BA, 44 RBI, .725 OPS
  30. OF, Tito Polo, A+ & A-: .278, 4 home runs, 26 RBI, .715 OPS; .302, 12 home runs, 37 RBI, .919 OPS

Give comments below about the prospects roundup and your thoughts on how they are performing thus far.  You can also ask questions about specific prospects on the prospects roundup if you would like to know more about them.

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Pittsburgh Pirates Draft Picks will have their own weekly stat update on Thursdays.

All Stats are Courtesy of Baseball Reference

Stats Based on entering play on the day of the post

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