Author Archives: WTM
Prospect Trends — Week Ending 5/13
The biggest “up” trend in the Pirates’ farm system lately has been Indianapolis, which has won 14 of its last 19. Help appears to be ready in AAA, but the… Read more
Prospect Trends — Week Ending 5/6
Some of the hitters in the system started picking it up in the past week. Apart from hitters mentioned here, Robbie Grossman and Tony Sanchez started showing some signs of… Read more
Prospect Trends — Week Ending 4/29
The big news of the week, of course, was the no-hitter by Justin Wilson and two Indianapolis relievers. Wilson’s been on and off with his control this year, but two… Read more
Prospect Trends — Week Ending 4/22
It wasn’t the best of weeks in the farm system. Several players who are repeating levels don’t seem to be making progress, nor do a couple of upper level position prospects. On… Read more
Prospect Trends — Week Ending 4/15
Welcome to the first 2012 edition of Prospect Trends. As with last year, the goal each week is to identify which Pirates prospects may be changing their status with their… Read more
Walks Again Plague West Virginia in Loss
In the first three games of their season-opening series against Hagerstown, West Virginia pitchers walked 20 in 25 innings. The same problem struck again, as Power pitchers walked six more… Read more
Allie Records Just One Out But the Power Win
Stetson Allie lasted just six batters in his West Virginia debut, retiring only one, but the Power prevailed over the Hagerstown Suns, 5-3. Strong relief from Mike Jefferson, Jordan Cooper… Read more
Hanson Leads Big Offensive Night For West Virginia
West Virginia dropped a seesaw affair in their opener, 11-9. The Power fell behind, 6-1, in the second inning, as Nick Kingham recorded only five outs. They came back to… Read more
BA Ranks Pirates’ Farm System 13th
In its just-published annual Prospect Handbook, Baseball America ranked the Pirates’ farm system 13th in baseball, up from 19th a year ago. The system no doubt was helped by the… Read more
Minor League Depth — Pitching, Part 3 (Lower Levels)
It’s not easy to project how the Pirates will manage their low level pitching staffs. A lot of factors beyond on-field performance come into play when the team is deciding… Read more
