Pittsburgh Pirates: Prospect Roundup 7/20-7/27

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 July and a lot of innings and stats have been logged.  We have a good judgement on the prospects’ season at this point.

These articles contain the top 30 prospect’s  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 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: MLB DL 
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: .318BA, 53RBI, 13 home runs .924 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: .313 BA, 49 RBI, .775 OPS
7. C, Reese McGuire, AA: .265 BA, 36 RBI, .689 OPS
8. C, Elias Diaz, AAA: .273 BA, 0 RBI, .697 OPS, 3 games 
9. 2b Alen Hanson, AAA: .251 BA, 22 RBI, .654 OPS
10. LHP Steven Brault, AAA: 2-4, 2.15 ERA, 66k/22BB, 10 games and 9 starts
11. RHP Nick Kingham, AAA: Rehab in GCL: 0-2, 2.25 ERA, 10k/1BB, 4 games 16 innings
12. SS Kevin Newman, AA & A+: .326, 18 RBI, .806 OPS & .366, 24 RBI, .922 OPS 
13. RHP Mitch Keller, A-: 6-5, 2.86 ERA, 100K/14 BB, 17 starts  
14. SS Cole Tucker A+ & A-: .230, 13 RBI, .617, & .234, 2 RBI, .677 OPS
15. LHP Stephen Tarpley, A+: 4-3, 4.43 ERA, 61 K/27 BB, 14 starts
16. RHP Chad Kuhl, AAA: 6-2, 2.55 ERA, 60k/16BB,15 start: DL Possibly
17. RHP Clay Holmes, AA: 9-6, 4.46ERA, 77K/47BB, 20 starts 
18. OF Willy Garcia, AAA: .255, 33 RBI, .683 OPS
19. RHP Yeudy Garcia A+: 4-7, 2.87 ERA, 101K/38BB, 18 starts (1 Relief also) 
20. RHP Trevor Williams AAA: 6-5, 3.13 ERA, 40K/18BB, 13 starts*
21. OF/INF Adam Frazier, AAA: .333, 22 RBI, .827 OPS ; IN THE MLB
22. RHP Tyler Eppler, AA: 7-7, 3.95 ERA, 78K/25BB, 19 starts
23. OF/3b Jordan Luplow, A+: .243 BA, 37 RBI, .739 OPS
24. OF Barrett Barnes, AA: .302 BA, 24 RBI, .796 OPS
25. 2b/3b Kevin Kramer, A+: .280, 36 RBI, .726 OPS 
26. RHP Dario Agrazal, A-: 6-8, 4.36, 61K/13BB, 20 starts
27. RHP Gage Hinsz, A-: 3-5, 3.42 ERA, 33k/11BB, 10 starts
28. LHP Brandon Waddell, AA & A+:  7-5, 4.20 ERA, 56k/40BB, 14 GS & 4-0 ,0.93 ERA, 26k/2bb, 5GS 
29. INF Max Moroff, AAA: .235 BA, 41 RBI, .742 OPS
30. 1b Jose Osuna, AAA & AA: .296, 4 home runs, 5 RBI, .920 ; .271 BA, 38 RBI, 6 home runs, .767 OPS *