Pittsburgh Pirates 2021: Three Young Prospects to Watch This Season

The Pittsburgh Pirates have a handful of prospects in their farm system who are 20-years-old or younger that have a high ceiling. Let’s take a look at three of these prospects that fans should be focusing on during the 2021 minor league season.

The Pittsburgh Pirates arguably have one of the top farm systems in all of baseball. They have high-end young talents like Nick Gonzales, Quinn Priester and Ke’Bryan Hayes, but the system has depth and talent throughout it. They have the most 40 or higher future value grade prospects than any other system FanGraphs has ranked so far.

However, many of their youngest prospects are ranked lower than they’ll probably end up. That’s normal for extremely young prospects. Not very many late teen professional ballplayers rank among the best prospects in the entire sport. However, by the end of 2021, they could climb the ranks and eventually put themselves into top 100 prospect watch.

Today, we will take a look at a few prospects who are 20-years-old or younger who have the best chance of reaching the top 100 or borderline top 100 status in the very near future and possibly by the end of this season. The Pittsburgh Pirates have plenty of these prospects, so let’s get into our first player.