While prospect list ultimately isn't what makes a player great, it is . Hunter Stratton, RHP A second base-only defensive fit puts the onus on Pegueros bat to perform at an everyday level. For instance, hes struggled badly on defense, wracking up 46 errors combined the last two seasons. Hes been up to 100 mph, sits 96, and has solid glove-side command of a mid-80s slider. Eddy Yean, RHP His chase rates were at or below league average across the board, further emphasizing the troubling command. Flowers velocity has never really popped in a big way despite some of the late projection because of his conversion. He could get a cup of coffee in 2023. 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. . Ricky Tiedemann is one of the fastest-rising pitching prospects in the game. Samaniego looks like a typical second lefty out of a bullpen, sitting 92-94 mph with a deceptive, whippy arm action, and locating his fastball with precision on the arm-side part of the plate. Solometo certainly has superficial frame-based projection, but his athleticism and explosiveness are comfortably below whats typical of someone who finds more and more velocity deep into their 20s. Endy had an incredible 2022 statline .323/.407/.590 most of which was generated at hitter-friendly Greensboro. But when a potentially significant DSL prospect plays for a rebuilding team, it can be difficult to find other clubs that have pro scouting reports on them. Johnson often ends his swing with his torso having made a full 180 degree rotation, sometimes swinging with such ferocious bat speed that he loses his balance and faceplants in the batters box. He can already land his breaker in the zone and its angle should help it become a viable back-foot offering to righties. After pitching well at the U-18 World Championships and at a Nike showcase in Asia, he signed for about $1.25 million, which is pretty sizable for a late-market signee. In 2022, it garnered just 8% whiffs and 13% chase during his time at Double-A, where he spent most of the season. 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. After the season, he again played winter ball, this time in Puerto Rico with Carolina, where Cheng struggled. He moved into a minor league relief role in 2022. Blake Cederlind, RHP All UZR (ultimate zone rating) calculations are provided courtesy of Mitchel Lichtman. His player page shows him above average in UZR/150, OAA and RAA (although only 1 in each of the latter two). He still has a pretty exciting hit/power combination for a player his age, showing a proclivity for big contact to dead center and the opposite-field gap, the latter in part due to his length, which causes him to be late. window.FGWebsite_head_section.buildProspectsListControls(); He maintained his patient approach in Altoona, and when the Double-A season ended, he was sent up to Indianapolis for the last five games of the Triple-A season. Kennedys delivery is simple, compact, repeatable, and easy-looking, and you can project heavily on his changeup because of this, though right now he often gets underneath it and it tends to cut on him. 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. To be fair, he was only about average in terms of OAA. Fourth-round high school pitcher Owen Kellington was a participant in the 2021 Draft League and Combine, and looked like an interesting, slow-burning developmental prospect prior to a hamstring injury than ended his 2022 season. Carter Bins, C He might end up becoming the player the industry hoped Francisco Meja would become. It should be noted that DeVitos development has been plagued by stops and starts caused first by the pandemic and then by an ulnar nerve issue that shortened his 2021 season. Many scouts are champing at the bit over Priesters prototypical frame and four- or five-pitch mix, depending on whether you consider his fastballs two distinct pitches. Johnsons swing bears some mechanical resemblance to Bryce Harpers, especially its lower half usage and finish. Oneil Cruz, SS Video Signed: July 2nd. March 3, 2023. Clubs like the Pirates arent making buyers trades, so they have little to no incentive to move a potentially great young player, which in turn means teams have little incentive to scout said player. }); Grouped by type and listed in order of preference within each category. Counter to our past reports, his swing is rather stiff and some of Lopezs length makes him vulnerable to pitches in on his hands. His range, footwork, ability to bend, and overall athleticism are all plus, and it made sense to try to develop him as a shortstop for as long as possible, but Peguero finally saw time at second base in 2022 and a permanent move there will hopefully help him throw more confidently and accurately. He barely played in 2022 due to hamstring, elbow, and hip flexor injuries that cost him all but a couple of games. That makes changeup development, or anything that might help him deal with righties, important, and indeed thats already underway Solometo has begun to more heavily incorporate a mid-80s changeup into his pitch mix. The depth-drive approach has extended to the amateur side of things, where the Pirates tend to spread out their bonus pool to at least a couple of over-slot prospects every year. Even if sliders are a chronic issue for Davis, hell likely still get to enough power to produce better than the average everyday catcher. The swing length and approach combination is scary enough to keep Lopez out of the 40+ FV tier even though he has this sort of upside. Alessandro Ercolani, RHP He has become meaningfully stronger over the last year and has more of a balanced, low-ball swing now, as opposed to the slash-and-dash style of contact in his pro debut. Hes now 23 but could still be a fifth outfielder. Maggi is, by definition, a Major Leaguer. Acquired in a. Amid a couple of short IL stints in 2022, Selby put up impressive numbers split between Double- and Triple-A and then looked great in the Arizona Fall League. He has a wide arsenal, including a changeup and a two-seamer, but tends to rely more heavily on pairing his riding fastball and curveball to keep hitters off balance. Gorski had a nutty statline at Greensboro and indeed has plus raw power, but its tough to project a real role for a 25-year-old who struck out as much as he did at High- and Double-A. Born Harrison Michael Ford, in Atlanta, 20 years ago this week, the right-handed-hitting catcher is the son of English immigrants. Not counting his time at the alt site in 2020, last season was Boltons first time back in competitive action since 2019. 4/5 starter. In some ways, this makes aspects of De Los Santos data even more impressive, because hes turning around soft DSL pitching with ridiculous pace. But the improvement on his slider means he could solidify a role as a middle reliever, especially if the converted infielder is able to re-establish the fastball velos he flirted with a few years ago. feels like the more realistic path to an eventual 45-grade role, or above. Injured Arms His 2022 was not as remarkable from a walk and strikeout standpoint but it was still good, as he hit .270/.376/.418 with 38 extra-base hits (pretty good for the Florida State League) and 33 steals at Low-A Bradenton. Jose Tabata / OF. The top 38 spots on the list are all 55 FV or higher. From a heuristics standpoint, you cant do much better than Rodriguezs profile. While he hasnt continued producing the mid-to-upper-90s velocity he did during college relief outings, Nicolas still sits a respectable 92-95 mph and leans on his two above-average breaking balls, a low-80s curveball and a mid-80s slider. Whether his ability to go get it in center field bounces back is the X-factor that will determine his ability to play a long-term big league role. RotoWire News: Gonzales will join the Pirates' major-league camp this spring. 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. He spent two years at a JUCO before heading to South Alabama in 2020, and he only pitched 21 total innings for the Jaguars due to the timing of his transfer. He also has a promising sweeper slider, but he lacks typical physical projection for a teenage pitcher. Jameson Taillon / SP 4. Scouting reports were. Jesus Castillo, SS Besides Johnson and Harrington, two other 2022 draft picks made the top 30. A 2022 eighth rounder, Nielsens velocity has been up and down depending on when hes been seen, peaking at 94 in 2022 but at 96 in years prior. DeVito is a bird of a feather that has flocked together in the Pirates system: a promising arm with in-zone swing-and-miss, but one whose unsteady command has prevented him from capitalizing on that whiff rate. ), and some of the recent, perhaps overzealous examples (Maikel Escotto, Rodolfo Nolasco) are in this system. Readers should note that taking an aggressive line with players like this has yielded predictably mixed results in the past (so far, so good: Kevin Alcantara, Marco Luciano, Alexander Canario, Jordy Vargas, etc. Rodriguezs arm is comfortably plus. Thats a very walkable path. On Friday, FanGraphs released updated rankings. The top six were already know from this list, because Fangraphs had six Pirates in their top 100 prospects. Ercolani, an 18-year-old righty from San Marino, had a velo spike during the winter and has been up to 97 mph in the bullpen recently. White was a multi-sport star in high school and after initially making a verbal commitment to Clemson solely for baseball, he eventually became a two-sport commit to Penn State to play wide receiver and center field. We considered Glenn a high priority senior sign in the 2021 draft, but he needed to hit all the way up the minor league ladder and didnt do that in 2022. 2023 Offseason Tracker. Any Top 100 prospects, regardless of their ETA, are also included on this list. Even though both Davis and Rodriguez are near-ready catching prospects, they arent redundant, and in fact they complement each other well. It shows above-average arm-side action on occasion, but hes only throwing it 12% of the time. Mason Martin, 1B His arm action looks longer and looser than it was in his injury-shortened 2021, and his upper body appears more closed, which might be helping him hide the ball longer than before. 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Plaz had a cartoonish line in the DSL (he slugged over .700), but hes very burly and physically mature for a 17-year-old, so wed like to see him do it stateside. Pittsburgh Pirates Top 10 Prospects Updated by Marc Hulet September 10, 2018 The Pirates system doesn't have immense depth or a long line of high-impact players but the big league club could. 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. It sounds like Brannigan is going to develop as a two-way player. Even though he was sitting 96-98 in Arizona, Webbs fastball doesnt play like an upper-90s pitch right now, and his mid-80s breaking ball quality is highly variable (lots of 30s, some 50s). Hes on track to debut in 2025 as a starter if those issues improve and as a reliever if they do not. Still, his strikeouts come primarily on in-zone swing-and-miss, so its important for the strike-throwing to improve for him to capitalize on his ability to overpower hitters as he continues to advance. 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. 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. Be warned that he may hit for huge power at Greensboro in 2023, but the key thing to watch is his strikeout rate. Hard-Throwers Instead, Triolo looks like hell be a superutility guy. Youll occasionally see a low-90s changeup from Hernandez as well, but hes a relief prospect all the way and likely to stick in Pittsburghs bullpen despite below-average command. His swing may look different in 2023 and prompt a re-evaluation. During a full season at Double-A in 2022, he saw time at third base, shortstop, and center field, and in 2023 hell start seeing more time at second base. 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. If it does, he should be a 50, and that grade was discussed during the Pirates list-making process. Prospects Coverage | FanGraphs Baseball In addition to sending Bradley back to Boston, the Milwaukee Brewers are also sending two of their top-30 prospects. He pitched for Panamas U18 team in September and showed a good changeup and fair slider as well. He absolutely towers over his father, who was twice a Baseball America Top 100 prospect but spent most of his pro career in Japan. He was passed over in the 2022 Rule 5 Draft despite his stuff quality because hes so raw as a strike-thrower. Top 51 Prospects: Pittsburgh Pirates by Eric Longenhagen February 24, 2021 Below is an analysis of the prospects in the farm system of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Pegueros lack of throwing accuracy from shortstop is concerning. Pegueros pull-heavy style of contact leaves him vulnerable to breaking balls on the outer half, even ones that catch a lot of the plate. All major league baseball data including pitch type, velocity, batted ball location,
While likely of low impact, Solometos feel to pitch will almost certainly enable him to be a big leaguer of some kind, either a backend starter or long reliever. His two-plane slider has nasty, late break and his changeup might have late projection because his arm action is so clean and loose. . Here's a link to the Top 25.. Link to the Top 50.. Link to the Top 75.. A core scouting rule of thumb is to take the long view with catchers who have impact offensive potential. Traded from Arizona to Pittsburgh as part of the Starling Marte deal, Peguero had been a top 100 prospect for the last couple of years, tracking like a plus bat middle infielder. As a wrap-up, the Pirates have. Priesters four-seamer is divisive. Looking forward to fangraphs being wrong Campman92 5 min. Hernandez, also 19, sat 93-96 in 2022 and has a good-looking two-planed slider, but a relief-only delivery and a mature build. As the Pirates improve and fall into the middle of the draft order, opportunities to do this might dwindle since they cant create a big pool space surplus as easily, but their steady stream of competitive balance picks should give them at least some opportunity to explore creativity in the draft room just about every year. This also may have been part of why the Pirates lost so many players (11!) Its not a great look to lose half a minor league rosters worth of players in the Rule 5, but that whole group might produce one or two big league role players, which is a small price to pay if theyre byprospects of a bigger group from which the Pirates can pick and choose before exposing the rest to that arcane process. He was throwing as hard as ever when he returned but still got shelled, and was quite wild at Double-A before he was sent to Arizona to audition to keep his 40-man spot with Kansas City. Finding a great changeup (or maybe a split?) 4/5 on a contender. But Jones athleticism and physical strength drove confidence that he could maintain plus fastball velocity across a starters workload in pro ball (which so far has been true), and his natural breaking ball bite gave him at least one likely plus pitch to go with it. 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. 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. 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. Scouting reports were compiled with information provided by industry sources as well as our own observations. Milwaukee Brewers Batting Postseason Stats 2021. In April and May, he posted a strikeout rate of 15.9% and a walk rate of 14.5%; from June to September, he improved those marks to 28.5% and 6.9%, respectively. Martin has plus-plus raw power and a 30-grade hit tool, not enough for first base but maybe enough for consideration overseas. As FanGraphs sourced TrackMan/Hawkeye data from team personnel after the season, De Los Santos hard hit rate and peak exit velocities stood apart from most of his peers, especially when limiting the sample to the DSLs age-appropriate players. Aspects of the offensive profile that made him exciting in the first place are still here, led by Pegueros compact but authoritative swing, which is especially good at punishing pitches at the very top of the strike zone. A proactive bullpen move could put him in position to debut in 2024. Bolton was able to stay healthy for the entirety of 2022, which was an accomplishment in itself given that his professional career has been plagued by injury since it began. Back with former Astros pitching coach Brent Strom in Arizona . ago They do not like solemeto or Gonzalez. Theres still some prospect clout here because of Nolascos power and long-haul physicality, but at this stage, he should be considered more of power-driven flier than a likely big leaguer. His breaking ball is now a mid-80s power breaker thats up to 88-89 at peak and generates plus chase and whiff rates. Ortiz rocketed through the system in 2022, skipping High-A and spending most of the season with Double-A Altoona before making his big league debut across four starts in September and October. He would slot among Priester and Ortiz on this list had he completed a totally healthy 2022. While especially adept at launching pitches on the inner third, Johnson also shows some ability to shorten up and cover the top and outer edge of the strike zone. 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. Cheng entered 2022 coming off an incredible season in which he slashed .311/.449/.492 with twice as many walks as he had strikeouts. Scouting reports are. That fact isn't apparent on his Baseball-Reference or FanGraphs pages, but for about 48 hours, Maggi, who homered to break up the Yankees' shutout bid in the ninth inning of the Pirates' 9-1 split-squad loss on Thursday, enjoyed life in the Majors. He has the talent to be an everyday player, but has to improve in one or two key areas (throwing accuracy, slider recognition) for that to be his outcome. He missed basically all of September and was shelled in the only start he made coming off the IL. Updated: Saturday, March 4, 2023 4:51 PM ET, Park Factors
It plays nicely with Flowers plus slider, and he has enough changeup feel to parachute one in against lefties once in a while. His range and footwork are great, while his actions and arm are fine. Pirates 2B Termarr Johnson | 18 | A | 2025. Oliver Mateo, RHP Chen is a very advanced righty with a deep repertoire led by his plus changeup. RotoGraphs. Might the changeup develop over time into a plus pitch? 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. Meanwhile, Chandlers post-promotion production at the plate plummeted to a sub-.200 batting average and an OPS of just .574, thanks largely to a strikeout rate just barely south of 40%; he launched just a single dinger in his 32 Low-A games compared to three in his 14 games on the complex. Short but not small, his lack of length and size is actually an advantage for Johnsons swing, as he can enjoy a bat path geared for power and lift without it being too long. He has basically been the same guy since he entered pro ball, sitting 94-95 with ineffectual shape and a pretty good slider. Joness velocity and breaking ball quality (a power, mid-80s slider with vertical action) give him the floor of a really good reliever, especially if he can somehow throw harder an inning at a time. He has now struck out nearly 30% of the time during each of the last two seasons, but hes still performed comfortably above the league average at each stop because of the quality of the contact he does make. If this were a high school draft prospect, you would already know his name based purely on how explosive De Los Santos is in the batters box. A fresh start with a new org (he was a waiver claim this offseason) might help him find a swing that produces more power. Scott, Siani, and Campana all have big physical tools and have all struggled badly from a bat-to-ball standpoint. Luigi Hernandez, RHP. 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 mixes in the occasional changeup or curveball, which accounted for a combined 11% of his offerings at Low-A. Nicolas spent most of his college career in the bullpen, but hes held up well as a starter in pro ball, developing two distinct breaking balls that hes using much more than he did at Ball State. They all received. He has above-average bat-to-ball skills and very little power. Garcia is only 19 but is already sitting 96. Hayden Wesneski is a 25-year-old starting pitcher in the Chicago Cubs system. Format = Team Position Player | Age on 4/1/23 | Highest level played | ETA. Defensively, he has mostly played second base so far in his professional career, with just a handful of starts at short. He spent more of his big league time in the outfield than at his native second base. There were some signs of offensive progress in 2022. Throw in the visual twitch and athleticism, and this is the player Spotifys algorithm would recommend to FanGraphs if prospects were musical artists. 2018 Brewers batting, pitching, and fielding traditional and advanced stats. His swing is already geared for lift, but he doesnt currently have the raw juice to make the most of it. by Handedness, 25th on the Pirates list at the end of 2022, Effectively Wild Episode 1966: Joe West, Young Man, Ben Cherington on Pittsburghs Two Top Prospects. He sits in the upper 80s right now but has promising underlying traits and plenty of time to develop. Bins is athletic for a catcher and has a good arm, but his receiving and contact skills are both 30s. 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%. Indeed, of his offerings, only his four-seamer had a whiff rate above the big league average, and he struggled to keep that pitch competitive, only throwing it for a strike 57% of the time. 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). Barco is a low-slot lefty with advanced command and several underlying pitch traits that give clubs hope of more upside even though he looks like a lower-variance backend starter prospect on the surface. Hes a young, switch-hitting catcher with cartoonish offensive numbers (especially from a bat-to-ball standpoint) and uncommon defensive versatility, as hes played a bunch of second base and left field as well. He has a delivery similar to Ubaldo Jimnezs, where his front side flies way open and he tilts out, which helps Kellington get to a vertical arm slot. Dombkowski is a lefty whose high-80s fastball plays up thanks to his low arm slot and excellent command over his above-average secondaries. Every once in a while he will show you the power, and hes very good at hitting pitches out away from him to the opposite field with authority, but you can get him out if you can execute location against Gonzales, and big league pitchers often do.
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