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Pirates Have Four Players Among Youngest In Their League

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J.J Cooper from Baseball America posted the lists of the ten youngest players in each league and four players in the Pittsburgh Pirates minor league system made the top ten in their league.

Gregory Polanco is the sixth youngest in the International League.

Alen Hanson ranks ninth in the Eastern League.

Jin-De Jhang ranks tenth in the Florida State League.

You won’t see Reese McGuire on the list(unless it gets updated), but he is tied for the tenth youngest player in the South Atlantic League. He was born on the same day as Miguel Andujar, who is list tenth on the list. Cooper obviously inadvertently left McGuire off the list.

A couple notes on the list. It doesn’t include players on the disabled list. That means that Jameson Taillon, Tyler Glasnow and Austin Meadows didn’t make the list.

If you want to include them, Taillon would have ranked fifth in the IL. Glasnow would have came in eighth place and Meadows would be ninth.

If you did that though, that also means McGuire and Jhang would have been pushed off the top ten in their league.

Either way you look at it, the Pirates have four active players among the youngest in their league and seven total if you count the three injured players. Six of these players rank among the top seven prospects in the Pirates system, while the seventh(Jhang) ranks just outside the top twenty.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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