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Baseball America Ranks the Pittsburgh Pirates 16th Among Farm Systems

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Baseball America released their 2018 Organizational Talent Rankings on Monday morning. All 30 MLB teams are ranked by the strength of their farm system. The list also includes their previous five rankings, so you can see how each organization has been rated over the years.

The Pittsburgh Pirates are ranked 16th overall by BA. That is one spot below where Keith Law ranked them last week. The difference between the two lists is that Law had four Pirates in his top 100 and Kevin Newman just outside of the top 100, while BA had just Mitch Keller and Austin Meadows in their top 100.

BA had the Pirates seventh overall going into last year, but they have lost highly ranked prospects in Josh Bell and Tyler Glasnow since then to the majors. BA had also been high on Steven Brault in the past (ranked him seventh in their mid-season update), and he lost his prospect status. This is the lowest ranking for the Pirates by BA since 2011 when they were ranked 19th best.

On the 2018 list, the Pirates rank fourth in the NL Central, with the Cincinnati Reds leading the way in ninth place and the Chicago Cubs bringing up the rear in 28th. The Pirates are ninth overall among all NL teams. They were also fourth in the divisions and ninth in the league for Law.

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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