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Pirates Ranked as Sixth Best Farm System

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Jim Callis provided a post-trade deadline update to his ranking of the farm systems in baseball and he has the Pittsburgh Pirates as the sixth best overall. The Pirates were ranked fourth in his preseason top ten and they have five prospects on their mid-season top 100 list.

Callis cites the injuries to Jameson Taillon and Nick Kingham as setbacks for the pitching side, but has encouraging words to say about the hitters, mentioning Josh Bell, Alen Hanson, Austin Meadows, Harold Ramirez and Reese McGuire. Specifically, he calls McGuire one of the top catching prospects in the minors.

The Pirates were passed by the Dodgers and Rockies. The Dodgers were only two spots behind them in the preseason, but the Rockies bolstered their farm system through a strong draft and the Troy Tulowitzki deal. They were outside the top ten prior to the season.

The Cubs are ranked fourth, while no other NL Central team made the top ten.

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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