A quick overview of what FV (Future Value) means can be found here. His on-mound athleticism enables plus long-term command projection, though for right now Harrington really only locates his fastball to his arm side. 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. Aside from the persistent Bryan Reynolds trade rumors, the general industry sentiment is that the team is shifting from prospect collection mode and into a phase where those players start to arrive. LSU played . For instance, hes struggled badly on defense, wracking up 46 errors combined the last two seasons. 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. Updated Top 30 Pirates Prospects List from MLB Pipeline 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. 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. Its unlikely hell make enough of an offensive impact to be a primary catcher, but hes very likely to spend time on big league 40-man rosters as a second or third catcher. Instead, Triolo looks like hell be a superutility guy. 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. Pirates 2B Termarr Johnson | 18 | A | 2025. Lolo Sanchez, CF He can play a fine shortstop. 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. It shows above-average arm-side action on occasion, but hes only throwing it 12% of the time. He stayed healthy throughout 2022, throwing 70.1 innings, and was more effective out of the bullpen than in his late-season starts. His 2022 performance deserves some age-related adjustment, but its possible we saw flaws in Pegueros game exposed by upper-level pitching. 2023 Opening Day Tracker. 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. Flowers velocity has never really popped in a big way despite some of the late projection because of his conversion. 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. Thats a very walkable path. Escotto, 20, was a 40+ FV prospect after his huge DSL season and later became part of the Jameson Taillon trade, but he struggled very badly in 2022 and needed to be demoted back to Low-A. Juan Jerez, 3B After spending most of the year at Triple-A, where he hit .289/.362/.430, Bae spent the last couple weeks of the 2022 season as an everyday member of the big league club, where he seems likely to stick throughout the coming season as a lefty-hitting 2B/OF. He practically straddles the plate and was hit by 20 pitches during an injury-shortened regular season, then was somehow beaned seven more times in just 17 Arizona Fall League games. 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. 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 will be an unmistakable fixture on Pittsburghs backfields for the next couple of years and is a power-hitting corner prospect of extreme variance. He pitched for Panamas U18 team in September and showed a good changeup and fair slider as well. Moreover, he has one of the more unusual profiles in professional baseball. window.FGWebsite_head_section.buildProspectsListControls(); Nicolas has consistent glove-side command of his entire repertoire, and he tends to live on that half of the plate exclusively. 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 and Solometo have the same flavor of stuff wrapped in different packages. He has above-average bat-to-ball skills and very little power. 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. Spending all season at Triple-A, he put up decent numbers, striking out roughly a quarter of opposing batters and allowing just four homers all season. Axiel Plaz, C Despite all of that, Priester took a hit in a lot of the national prospect outlets, dropping off quite a few Top 100 lists. 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. 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. Mason Martin, 1B As a right-handed hitter almost all of Endys damage is done on outer-third pitches that he can get fully extended against. He appears tentative on routine throws and still isnt a sure-handed defender. 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. That creates backspin and carry on his fastball and big depth on his curve. Ryan Vilade, LF Hes on the 40-man roster and will likely get a chance to sink or swim on the big league roster in 2023. Even though hes so young, youre not really projecting on his frame in a positive way so much as it feels possible Kennedy could have impact command at maturity, because his delivery is so effortless and the quality of his fastball strikes so advanced. Rodriguezs arm is comfortably plus. 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. His footwork on throws to second is clunky and variable, which often impacts his throw times and accuracy, but the pure arm strength is in there. These rankings are now available on The Board on the 2023 Fantasy Rankings tab, where you can also see the Top 120 Dynasty Rankings!. 2023 Offseason Tracker. Swaggerty matched the nine home runs he posted in 2019, but this time, he did so against better pitching, in fewer at-bats, and in a much less hitter-friendly park, and he improved on his walk rate by a couple of ticks. Throw in the visual twitch and athleticism, and this is the player Spotifys algorithm would recommend to FanGraphs if prospects were musical artists. That makes it seem all but inevitable that Chandler will eventually ditch the bat to optimize his development on the mound. The Royals designated Webb for assignment in mid-November and he elected free agency before signing with the Pirates. As for the top three prospects on all six lists, their average rankings: Termarr Johnson - 28.2 Endy Rodriguez - 38.5 Henry Davis - 52 John Dreker + posts John started working at Pirates. He spent more of his big league time in the outfield than at his native second base. feels like the more realistic path to an eventual 45-grade role, or above. Sammy Siani, LF. 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 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. On Friday, FanGraphs released updated rankings. 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. Sergio Campana, CF He has the stuff to continue developing as a starter just in case things click, but the bullpen is Jimenezs more likely future destination. Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports. Hunter Stratton, RHP His slow, mid-70s curveball is easy to identify out of his hand, but it has lovely shape and depth of break, so perhaps it can be sculpted into a more traditional big league breaking ball. Diego Cartaya (37) - Catcher Cartaya is listed a little higher in The. 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. Jimenez has a very good sweeping, upper-70s curveball and creates plus action on a changeup that he sells with fantastic arm speed. 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. Hes been able to maintain nearly average contact rates despite a pull-heavy approach to contact. Atlanta Braves Stats | FanGraphs Baseball Pathways toward a more impactful role are most likely to be carved by Harringtons command outperforming this projection. The Pittsburgh Pirates are hiring. Blake Cederlind, RHP Neither his slider nor changeup is fully baked quite yet, but if either (or both) become viable, they would bring with them a higher probability that Priester slots in as a mid-rotation starter. Reports, tool grades, . He pairs it with two above-average secondaries: a high-80s slider with sharp, downward movement that garnered a 48% chase rate against righties, and an 11-5 curveball with a shape that mimics the slider, only slower and looser, which helps keep batters off balance and enables him to pitch backwards. The timing of his surgery is more detrimental than that of the other college pitchers, as it ups the odds that he wont (or will barely) pitch in 2023. Gonzales has begun to track like Keston Hiura, Carter Kieboom, and Jeter Downs, and his swing shares mechanical similarities with both Hiura and Kieboom. }); Grouped by type and listed in order of preference within each category. 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. Sanchez runs pretty well. Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports. Scouting reports are. Oliver Mateo, RHP Pittsburgh graduated two top-50 prospects in 2022 (Oneil Cruz and Roansy Contreras) and still has a top-five system, or close to it, because of the three potential stars atop the group and the many upper-level, core role-playing hitters who should arrive in the big leagues soon. Matt Fraizer, CF 1/ . 4/5 on a contender. The Pirates snagged him in Decembers Rule 5 draft, making him only the second lefty reliever on their 40-man, so hell likely be called upon for consistent use out of the big league pen in 2023. 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. 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. Garcia is only 19 but is already sitting 96. document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () { But he was then shut down and had TJ, which ended his season early enough that he could be back in 2023. He pitched five innings of relief over two games in early May for the Pirates without allowing a run. by Retrosheet. Maggi is, by definition, a Major Leaguer. Signed as an undrafted free agent in 2021, the 25-year-old right-hander has a degree in microbiology and premedical studies from Oxford, Ohio's Miami University, and he has worked as a . 2 prospect to Minors camp after injury February 24, 2023 Bucs invite top prospects Davis, Johnson, Priester to camp February 2, 2023 Shim realizes first part of dream as prospect signs with Bucs January 26, 2023 Top Prospects Team Lists 2022 2021 AL NL Pirates Top Prospects Reading Options Detail Level Data Only Full Position Filter All 60 FV Prospects 1. De Los Santos contact metrics are a hair south of average, and thats the biggest indicator that theres real risk here, but boy, there is also real ceiling. When we last saw Swaggerty for a full season of play, he was a 21-year-old whose nine home runs in 120 games was far lower than youd expect from someone with so much raw power playing in a hitter-friendly park. Even though both Davis and Rodriguez are near-ready catching prospects, they arent redundant, and in fact they complement each other well. 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. Middle infielder Termarr Johnson, who the Pittsburgh. Podcasts: . While hes played a bunch of shortstop, he is much more likely to wind up on the edge of 3B/1B than he is to see middle infield time at maturity. Martin has plus-plus raw power and a 30-grade hit tool, not enough for first base but maybe enough for consideration overseas. If a clearer path at third base existed in this org, that might have been enough for us to do it. His chase rates were at or below league average across the board, further emphasizing the troubling command. His quality of contact is very good when he does make it, and is already on par with the typical starting major league second baseman even though hes barely 22. 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. His letter-high, heater-heavy style of pitching, like Gerrit Coles, results in lots of fly balls and he may have long-term vulnerability to the home run. Some aspects of that optimistic projection still exist, while others have changed or are currently absent, but the tools package here is still on par with the middle of the everyday second baseman player population, and were hoping that young Peguero will polish up his games current smudges. His feel for throwing strikes would come and go, and hes only 6-feet-1, a little smaller than the prep pitching prototypes who you often see getting $2 million or more in the draft. Its a shorter, less natural looking delivery than what Flowers had as an amateur, but hes been able to throw strikes with it. Burrows had success as a starter throughout a 2022 season split between Double- and Triple-A before shoulder inflammation effectively ended his season. Pittsburgh Pirates Top 61 Prospects | FanGraphs Baseball Pittsburgh Pirates Prospects: Updated FanGraph Rankings 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). Not Quite Enough Hit Tool Smith-Njigbas on-base skills drive an above-replacement forecast here, but its tough to project a real big league role, and he may be an interesting candidate for teams in Asia. Its a pretty big lost year of reps for a multi-sport player looking to get traction with the bat in pro ball. Isaias Uribe, LHP JP Massey, RHP DSL data is noisy, in part because pitchers there dont yet throw enough strikes or with much velocity compared to more advanced levels of the minors. 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. 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. RotoGraphs. He sits in the upper 80s right now but has promising underlying traits and plenty of time to develop. If he moves to first base, this will become especially scary. Triolos swing and footwork in the box make him vulnerable in a couple of obvious ways (high heat, sliders away), and we dont think the 60-grade hit, 45-grade power profile that he has put on paper so far will hold quite that much water against big league arms. It sounds like Brannigan is going to develop as a two-way player. Their top ten, in. and play-by-play data provided by Sports Info Solutions. Hes already taken a sizable step in the breaking ball department in just two pros seasons. Cubs prospect Hayden Wesneski proving he belongs in the big leagues Harry Ford is one of the top prospects in the Seattle Mariners organization, and he is also unique among his peers. 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. Davis plate crowding helps enable his pull-heavy approach. 2011 Top 10 Prospects: Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates