Pittsburgh Pirates: Prospect Round Up 7/27-8/2

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  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:

Prospects Reese McGuire and Harold Ramirez were removed; Taylor Hearn and Dovydas 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.  

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: .310BA, 55RBI, 13 home runs .896 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: DL
6. C, Elias Diaz, AAA: .167 BA, 1 RBI, .419 OPS, 8 games
7. 2b Alen Hanson, AAA: .254 BA, 22 RBI, .672 OPS
8. LHP Steven Brault, AAA: 2-4, 2.15 ERA, 66k/22BB, 11 games and 10 starts
9. RHP Nick Kingham, AAA: Rehab in GCL: 0-2, 2.25 ERA, 10k/1BB, 4 games 16 innings
10. SS Kevin Newman, AA & A+: .320, 24 RBI, .809 OPS & .366, 24 RBI, .922 OPS 
11. RHP Mitch Keller, A-: 6-5, 3.02 ERA, 103K/14 BB, 19 starts  
12. SS Cole Tucker, A+ & A-: .253, 16 RBI, .657, & .234, 2 RBI, .677 OPS *
13. LHP Stephen Tarpley, A+: 4-3, 4.18 ERA, 66 K/29 BB, 15 starts
14. RHP Chad Kuhl, AAA: 6-2, 2.55 ERA, 60k/16BB,15 start: DL Possibly
15. RHP Clay Holmes, AA: 9-7, 4.34ERA, 81K/49BB, 21 starts 
16. OF Willy Garcia, AAA: .253, 35 RBI, .685 OPS
17. RHP Yeudy Garcia A+: 5-8, 2.63 ERA, 108K/46BB, 20 starts (1 Relief also) 
18. RHP Trevor Williams AAA: 6-5, 2.88 ERA, 42K/23BB, 14 starts
19. OF/INF Adam Frazier, AAA: .333, 22 RBI, .827 OPS ; IN THE MLB
20. RHP Tyler Eppler, AA: 7-8, 3.95 ERA, 80K/25BB, 20 starts
21.  LHP, Taylor Hearn, A-: 0-0, 4.50 ERA, 1 strike out to 1 walk (2 IP, 1 relief app)
22. OF Barrett Barnes, AA: .299 BA, 27 RBI, .785 OPS
23. 2b/3b Kevin Kramer, A+: .275, 37 RBI, .724 OPS 
24. RHP Dario Agrazal, A-: 6-9, 4.46, 64K/13BB, 21 starts
25. RHP Gage Hinsz, A-: 4-5, 3.26 ERA, 41k/11BB, 11 starts *
26. LHP Brandon Waddell, AA & A+:  7-6, 4.33 ERA, 62k/45BB, 15 GS & 4-0 ,0.93 ERA, 26k/2bb, 5GS 
27. OF/3b Jordan Luplow, A+: .245 BA, 39 RBI, .740 OPS
28. 1b Jose Osuna, AAA & AA: .273, 4 home runs, 12 RBI, .829 ; .271 BA, 38 RBI, 6 home runs, .767 OPS *
29. RHP, Dovydas Neverauskas, AAA: 2-2, 1.45 ERA, 15 strikeouts to 5 walks (17 games)
30. 2b, Max Moroff, AAA: .229 BA, 41 RBI, 728 OPS