Last week, Baseball America released their top 100 prospect list, putting seven Pirates on their top 100 list. Along with that, we mentioned four other major prospect rankings lists and where the Pirates players ended up on each list. Today, Jonathan Mayo made a composite list of those five lists and eight Pittsburgh Pirates prospects made the top 95. If a player wasn’t listed in the top 100, Mayo used 101 as the default ranking for them. That wouldn’t be too far off, because we heard from some of the people who put the lists together and they mentioned that certain players just missed making their list. Below are the rankings on Mayo’s composite list:
13. Gregory Polanco
18. Jameson Taillon
31. Tyler Glasnow
51. Austin Meadows
73. Alen Hanson
74. Nick Kingham
85. Reese McGuire
95. Josh Bell
The interesting thing about this list is that the players ended up in the same order as our own personal top eight rankings in our 2014 prospect guide. Mayo ran the list down to 135 players and no other Pirates made the cut. That wasn’t a surprise because no other Pirates made any top 100 lists. Baseball America listed their position-by-position rankings and five other Pirates players made those lists.
