Pittsburgh Pirates: Prospect Roundup 7/6-7/20

Once a week there will be a Pittsburgh Pirates Prospects roundup on the minor leaguers in the Pirate’s farm system and their stats. It is July and the stat sheets are filled up at this point.  We have a good judgement on the prospects’ season.

This week is different, as I did not post a round up last week.  Due to the all-star break and other breaks in the minor league schedule I decided to consolidate this article from the last two weeks for this article.

These articles show the top 30 prospect’s 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 supposed 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:

1. RHP Tyler Glasnow, AAA: 7-3, 1.94 ERA, 122K/55BB, 18 starts
2. OF, Austin Meadows, AAA & AA: .239 BA, 6 RBI, 2 HR, .793 OPS & .311 BA, 23 RBI,6 home runs, .976 OPS : 15 Day DL: Hamstring
3. 1b Josh Bell, AAA: .320BA, 53RBI, 13 home runs .932 OPS 
4. RHP Jameson Taillon, AAA: 4-2. 2.04 ERA, 61k/6BB, 10 starts; IN THE MLB: DL 
5. 3b Ke’Bryan Hayes, A-: .263BA, 37 RBI, 6 home runs, .711 OPS
6. OF Harold Ramirez, AA: .310 BA, 43 RBI, .772 OPS*
7. C, Reese McGuire, AA: .261 BA, 35 RBI, .688 OPS
8. C, Elias Diaz, AAA DL: One Game 0-4 
9. 2b Alen Hanson, AAA: .255 BA, 22 RBI, .658 OPS
10. LHP Steven Brault, AAA: 2-4, 2.44 ERA, 57k/18BB, 10 games and 9 starts
11. RHP Nick Kingham, AAA DL: Rehab in GCL: 0-1, 0.82 ERA, 7k/1BB, 3 games 11 innings
12. SS Kevin Newman, AA & A+: .333, 13 RBI, .838 OPS & .366, 24 RBI, .922 OPS *
13. RHP Mitch Keller, A-: 6-5, 2.64 ERA, 94K/11 BB, 16 starts * 
14. SS Cole Tucker A+ & A-: .215, 11 RBI, .578, & .234, 2 RBI, .677 OPS
15. LHP Stephen Tarpley, A+: 4-3, 4.50 ERA, 60 K/26 BB, 13 starts
16. RHP Chad Kuhl, AAA: 6-2, 2.58 ERA, 59k/16BB,14 start
17. RHP Clay Holmes, AA: 8-4, 4.27ERA, 41K/40BB, 18 starts 
18. OF Willy Garcia, AAA: .261, 32 RBI, .696 OPS
19. RHP Yeudy Garcia A+: 4-6, 2.86 ERA, 86K/37BB, 17 starts (1 Relief also) 
20. RHP Trevor Williams AAA: 5-4, 3.24 ERA, 33K/13BB, 11 starts*
21. OF/INF Adam Frazier, AAA: .333, 22 RBI, .827 OPS ; IN THE MLB
22. RHP Tyler Eppler, AA: 6-7, 4.12 ERA, 71K/22BB, 18 starts
23. OF/3b Jordan Luplow, A+: .244 BA, 36 RBI, .735 OPS
24. OF Barrett Barnes, AA: .283 BA, 21 RBI, .756 OPS
25. 2b/3b Kevin Kramer, A+: .282, 36 RBI, .735 OPS 
26. RHP Dario Agrazal, A-: 6-6, 4.11, 54K/13BB, 18 starts
27. RHP Gage Hinsz, A-: 2-3, 3.83 ERA, 31k/9BB, 9 starts
28. LHP Brandon Waddell, AA & A+:  6-5, 4.43 ERA, 51k/35BB, 13 GS & 4-0 ,0.93 ERA, 26k/2bb, 5GS 
29. INF Max Moroff, AAA: .240 BA, 40 RBI, .760 OPS
30. 1b Jose Osuna, AAA & AA: .269, 1 homerun, 5 RBI, .757; .271 BA, 38 RBI, 6 home runs, .767 OPS