Sanchez runs pretty well. Hell also show you a 92-96 mph fastball that plays down a bit due to its shape and Jimenezs lack of command, which caused him to walk 5.8 per 9 IP in 2022. While it may seem like a lot of time has passed since he put his name on the prospect map with his otherworldly 2018 DSL performance, Nunez is still very young; hell turn 22 during spring training, where hes a non-roster invitee. Massey, going on 23, is a very loose, projectable college prospect from Minnesota. Webb dealt with a forearm strain that delayed the start of his 2022 season. Pro teams are more open to east/west fastball operation and the Pirates might be able to coax more sweep out of Harringtons slider, though Campbell does a pretty good job developing pitchers, so there may be less developmental meat on the bone here than youd guess considering hes coming from a smaller program. None of his other pitches are above average in fact most of them are currently below average but Chen has plus command projection and a plus changeup, so hes pretty likely to pitch at the back of a big league rotation or as an innings-eating spot starter. Not exactly on topic, but Id love to get some thoughts on the recently graduated Jack Suwinski. For now, hes lithe enough for third, where he has a shot to be an everyday player based largely on his power projection. Here hes projected as a no. Bins is athletic for a catcher and has a good arm, but his receiving and contact skills are both 30s. His arm action is very long, and he bends at his torso as he lunges toward the plate, allowing for more extension during his release, but also creating an uncomfy angle that adds stress to his shoulder. Mechanically, Burrows adds additional length to his 6-foot-2 stature with an over-the-top delivery. The ETAs listed generally correspond to the year a player has to be added to the 40-man roster to avoid being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Uribe, 20, is a projectable lefty with a 92-93 mph fastball and high-spin breaking ball. How impactful a starter may depend on how his changeup, currently a tertiary offering, develops at the big league level. His fastball velocity is down, in the 92-94 mph range, a far cry from Priesters upper-90s peak. After bouncing around many websites covering hockey, he . Andres Silvera, RHP. Chen was the 22nd-ranked player on the 2019 International Player section of The Board and was generally seen as the best signable high school prospect in Taiwan. The clubs hit rate on these trades per prospect isnt great, but the hit rate per trade has been better than that because of their risk-mitigating approach. Drafted as a shortstop, he fell down the defensive spectrum pretty quickly but without finding a way to lift the ball and hit for power in games. Atlanta Braves Stats | FanGraphs Baseball Mlodzinski started for most of his 2022 season at Double-A but was called upon for middle-inning relief on a few occasions, and though it was only a handful of appearances, he was more effective as a reliever than as a starter. Solometo was a very high-profile amateur pitcher, drafted in the second round but given a bonus commensurate with the 24th overall pick ($2.8 million) as one of several exciting high schoolers who Pittsburgh landed with the pool space freed up by Henry Davis under slot agreement. He spent more of his big league time in the outfield than at his native second base. Those games were taking place amid weight-lifting and practice for the coming football season and then during the season itself, so Whites balance of strength and flexibility might change as he trains just for baseball. He has a pronounced bat wrap. Selbys fastball sits 96-98 mph and he looks to blow it past hitters up in the zone. This is the third year were delineating between two anticipated relief roles, the abbreviations for which youll see in the position column below: MIRP for multi-inning relief pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning relief pitchers. Either way, he played over half the season in the outfield and was roughly average, which is much better than I would have expected after the reporting on him previously called him a positionless defender. He absolutely towers over his father, who was twice a Baseball America Top 100 prospect but spent most of his pro career in Japan. Its now fair to expect that the current version of Nicolas will be capable of holding down a spot toward the back of Pittsburghs rotation by the middle of 2024. 2018 Brewers batting, pitching, and fielding traditional and advanced stats. He was Rule 5 eligible after the season, and hitters who have performed that well at High-A tend to be added to their clubs 40-man roster, but Lopez doesnt have a crystal clear defensive home and his plate discipline needs a lot of seasoning, so he wasnt a real threat to be taken. His four-seamer was around the same velo as it had been at the alt site, sitting comfortably at 93 mph and maxing out at 95. Born Harrison Michael Ford, in Atlanta, 20 years ago this week, the right-handed-hitting catcher is the son of English immigrants. Currently, Kennedys best attribute is multi-faceted fastball utility. Last year, Fraizers 2021 performance at Greensboro (which included 20 homers) convinced us that he had a chance to be a big deal, but his plate discipline was a big problem against Double-A pitching. His swing is already geared for lift, but he doesnt currently have the raw juice to make the most of it. Hudson Head, CF His maxed-out frame is cumbersome on the infield, but his footwork at first base has improved a ton since he started playing there, and weve updated our previous DH-only projection. Climbing the minor league ladder often comes with offensive slumps, many of which are cured as hitters accrue at-bats at the more advanced level. Hes different from Kieboom (lever length) and Kiura (simpler footwork) in meaningful ways, but that entire group (and Downs) has had issues with letter-high fastballs, which Gonzales often swings underneath. 2023 Opening Day Tracker. While prospect list ultimately isn't what makes a player great, it is . Big league sliders might force Davis to make an adjustment, but so far his contact performance has been solidly average. Not counting his time at the alt site in 2020, last season was Boltons first time back in competitive action since 2019. Reports around his once-stellar defense have dimmed, and were hoping its due more to rust and lost time than to an actual regression in ability. It has more details (and updated TrackMan data from various sources) than this article and integrates every teams list so readers can compare prospects across farm systems. The emergence of a consistently above-average third offering reignited Burrows projection as a starter (he had been projected as a reliever here in previous seasons, in part due to injuries), and of his 24 outings in 2022, only two came out of the bullpen and just four were shorter than three innings. A successful 2022 pro debut (47.2 IP, 9.63 K/9, 3.59 BB/9, 2.64 ERA) driven by very advanced fastball command contrasts with skepticism about how Solometos stuff will play against older and better hitters. Pittsburgh Pirates Top 61 Prospects | FanGraphs Baseball When an opposing pitcher releases the ball, the scoop in Johnsons bat head is pointing at the mound with his back elbow hiked way up above his shoulder in a position that seems to defy the rules of normal human physiology. The Royals designated Webb for assignment in mid-November and he elected free agency before signing with the Pirates. Their top ten, in. Thats something to watch as Jones continues to progress through the minors. If you split his season exactly in half, the improvement is obvious. Hes been up to 100 mph, sits 96, and has solid glove-side command of a mid-80s slider. The powerfully built Kelly, 19, is a squat but loose righty who sits 93-95 mph and throws quality strikes with his fastball. He had all the markers of a major league-ready Top 100 prospect prior to the injury, largely due to the progression of his changeup and its usage. That makes it seem all but inevitable that Chandler will eventually ditch the bat to optimize his development on the mound. RotoGraphs. Hernandez showed up to 2022 spring training with a harder breaking ball than he had previously shown, and as the season went along, he added to his fastball as well. Antwone Kelly, RHP He threw it 16% of the time (up from 9% the previous season) and induced a 53% whiff rate with this power-action, mid-80s change. Even though both Davis and Rodriguez are near-ready catching prospects, they arent redundant, and in fact they complement each other well. His delivery has a relief-only look to it. Tony Sanchez / C 6. Reports, tool grades, . To that point in the season, his mid-teens walk rate had inspired guarded optimism regarding an improved approach, though Nunez also may have become intentionally passive, as his raw swing% was a minuscule 40%. If he continues missing bats at High-A in 2023, though, Pittsburgh may be forced to add him. Johnson was a well-regarded prospect basically as soon as he reached high school, and there were scouts who were so excited when they first watched him hit that they considered him a future top 5-10 pick when he was only a freshman. Middle infielder Termarr Johnson, who the Pittsburgh. Overall, there is a ton of in-zone swing-and-miss happening here. In his time at Bradenton, Chandler struck out 33 batters over 26 innings, and while his walk rate was an unacceptably high 15.8%, thats actually down a notch from what he was allowing over a larger sample on the complex. Mason Martin, 1B The top of this draft class right now is LSU outfielder Dylan Crews, who had a big weekend. He was one of the younger players available in the 2022 draft and yet at a listed 205 pounds, Kennedy is more physically mature than most of his peers, even some who are a year or two older than he is. Still tracking like a high-probability backup catcher, Gutierrez set a career-high in homers in 2022 amid an uptick in strikeouts that his underlying data (just a 10% swinging strike rate) indicates will bounce back to career norms. The reason why he graded out so positively was due to his arm, gunning down runners like crazy, which was fantastic, and his tool grade for his armwas a 40. He mixed in four pitches, with his four-seamer and slider accounting for 88% of his pitches, and the changeup and two-seamer bringing up the rear. Jesus Castillo, SS If he moves to first base, this will become especially scary. He spins the hell out of everything that leaves his hand, in particular his slider, which averaged over 2,700 rpm, but his inability to fine tune his command puts a damper on its utility (his walk rate was an untenable 12.4% across his 75.2 innings of work). A fresh start with a new org (he was a waiver claim this offseason) might help him find a swing that produces more power. So compact and short to the baseball is Rodriguez that he can wait an extra beat to diagnose pitch types, which enables him to make in-flight adjustments to breaking balls, spoil the well-located ones, and crush the hangers. Pathways toward a more impactful role are most likely to be carved by Harringtons command outperforming this projection. Despite all of that, Priester took a hit in a lot of the national prospect outlets, dropping off quite a few Top 100 lists. It comes out of his hand from a high arm slot that looks like the kind optimized for data-friendly ride, but the pitchs downhill angle makes it less of a weapon at the letters and actually makes it very vulnerable within the strike zone. Overall, the Pirates adding six prospects to their top 50 list is pretty impressive. He can already land his breaker in the zone and its angle should help it become a viable back-foot offering to righties. Don't Count Quinn Priester Out Due to Low Strikeouts Stratton, 26, sat 94-96 mph in 2022 and has a plus-flashing slider that he rarely throws for strikes. He was passed over in the 2022 Rule 5 Draft despite his stuff quality because hes so raw as a strike-thrower. . Roelmy Garcia, RHP He was promoted to Bradenton and fell into a rhythm where each pitching appearance was buttressed by an off day before and after it, with the 19-year-old DHing in the intervening days. Jones checked all but two scouting boxes as a high school pitcher. On the showcase circuit, he was less whiff-prone than is typical for a multi-sport guy from the Northeast, though he was a pull-only hitter and struggled to contact fastballs in the upper/outer quadrant of the zone. Barcos long, low arm slot creates a flat approach angle, but hes not really inclined to climb the ladder and pitch at the top of the zone right now, instead living on the arm-side third of the plate with sink and tail. A proactive bullpen move could put him in position to debut in 2024. Looking forward to fangraphs being wrong Campman92 5 min. If it does, he should be a 50, and that grade was discussed during the Pirates list-making process. 76. There were only three big league hitters with 100 plate appearances who had sub-70% in-zone contact rates in 2022 (Chris Morel, Brett Phillips, Eli White). These rankings include six Pittsburgh Pirates prospects cracking the FanGraph top 100. 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Webbs velocity began to climb in 2019, when he went from sitting 89-92 mph to sitting 90-94 and touching 96. Out over the plate, he has a tendency to stay inside fastballs and lift them toward the opposite field gap. You can see the power and athleticism in Davis lower half throughout other aspects of his game, and its an indication that he has the ability to polish this stuff up and control the running game. He signed for $900,000 and barely played in the 2022 DSL. Pittsburgh Pirates Top 43 Prospects by Eric Longenhagen and Tess Taruskin February 9, 2023 Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports Top Prospects Team Lists 2023 2022 AL NL Below is an analysis. There isnt suddenly big power here or anything like that, but its the start of a physical step that was likely necessary for Cheng to take to play major league ball. But at other times, he had difficulty maintaining the velocity as the innings wore on, which was compounded by his ongoing command inconsistency. Scouting. Robert_roberts82 1 min. Ricky Tiedemann is one of the fastest-rising pitching prospects in the game. Unlike the other lists released yesterday, Fangraphs has not posted their top 100 prospects list yet, so we didn't already have some idea of the top of their list. 2023 Offseason Tracker. Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports. Head, who was part of the Joe Musgrove trade, has Kd at a 33% clip in A-ball and might also be in the midst of a swing change that gets rid of his arm bar. Chen began his career with 26 consecutive walk-free innings in the 2021 Florida Complex League, then spent all of 2022 at Bradenton, where he had a solid second pro season, carrying a 3.76 FIP across 98 innings. Both can be in the lineup every night because of Rodriguezs defensive versatility and the universal DH, and a more liberal timeshare behind the plate might help keep them both healthier and more consistently productive on offense. Quants and front office analyst types are more bearish, citing issues with Priesters fastball playability. 11/ . From the left side of the plate, Rodriguez has an exceptional ability to rip his hands through pitches on the inner edge of the zone. He also threw a smattering of changeups in 2022, though it amounted to fewer than a dozen across his 50.2 innings of work at Double-A, and the changeup didnt show up at all when the Bahamian took the mound for Great Britains WBC squad. He has above-average bat-to-ball skills and very little power. The bumps and bruises suffered from catching can sometimes level players for whole seasons, and Davis had a lot of them in 2022. Hes still the contact-first, chop-and-spray hitter hes always been, an approach to hitting enabled and bolstered by his speed, which allows him to beat out infield singles. Manual adjustments are made where they seem appropriate, but we use that as a rule of thumb. M.J. Melendezs 2019 and Bo Naylors 2020 are recent examples of otherwise good-hitting catchers who had a terrible offensive season in the mid-minors that was followed by an immediate and significant rebound the following year. Below is an analysis of the prospects in the farm system of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Obviously the 2021 draft was the big one, and seven players from that class are currently on the list. He re-emerged in 2022 as a 24-year-old at Triple-A, and had an offensive season commensurate with that of an extra outfield prospect, a lefty stick with more raw power than hed hit for in games, but enough bat to play a bench role provided hes capable of playing center field. This impressive performance inspired his offseason 40-man addition. Now 24 and neither protected from nor claimed during the 2022 Rule 5 draft, its imperative for him to start throwing strikes more consistently in order to find his way to a big league bullpen. Sammy Siani, LF. There were some signs of offensive progress in 2022. When Smith-Njigba takes a comfortable, max-effort hack, its obvious that he has big power, and his exit velo data reinforces the visual evaluation. Pittsburgh Pirates Top 43 Prospects | FanGraphs Baseball All of the ranked prospects below also appear on The Board, a resource the site offers featuring sortable scouting information for every organization. Blanco is a gigantic corner outfield/1B prospect who had the most present raw power in the January 2022 international signing class. in the minor league phase of the 2022 Rule 5 Draft. Still, the teenage pitcher demo is bust-prone and, anecdotally, this seems especially true when the prospect in question already throws really hard at age 17 or 18. Connor Scott, RF . As a high schooler, his ultra-low spin splitter seemed like the more promising pitch, but his feel for it has regressed. Here are the Pirates' 2023 Top 30 prospects March 1, 2023 Pirates' Chandler going all in on pitching February 28, 2023 Pirates return No. The component parts of a scouting, tools-oriented look De Los Santos frame, bat speed, and infield actions put him in that range, while the DSL data reinforces it somewhat. FanGraphs released their top 100 prospect rankings on Wednesday. He has the stuff to continue developing as a starter just in case things click, but the bullpen is Jimenezs more likely future destination. The Pirates are going to develop him at many different positions with the hope that he can provide a late-game upgrade at a couple different spots (hes already very good at third base), serve as righty power off the bench, and work in middle relief. His 2022 performance deserves some age-related adjustment, but its possible we saw flaws in Pegueros game exposed by upper-level pitching. Top 42 Prospects: Pittsburgh Pirates | FanGraphs Baseball ), and some of the recent, perhaps overzealous examples (Maikel Escotto, Rodolfo Nolasco) are in this system. Hes a good enough defender that hed probably being playing shortstop had he ended up at Arizona State, but in pro ball the keystone is Johnsons likeliest defensive home given his maxed-out, stocky build and what projects to be somewhat limited range.
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