Fangraphs released their list of the top 21 prospects for the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday morning. Just like with yesterday’s list from Baseball Prospectus, outfielder Austin Meadows has the top spot on the list.
Fangraphs also has Tyler Glasnow in the second spot, then he’s followed by Mitch Keller and Josh Bell. Those last two are flipped in yesterday’s post. Just like with everyone else ranking the Pirates, they have Kevin Newman fifth overall. We have also seen lists already from Baseball America and John Sickels at Minor League Ball. Only Sickels has had Glasnow in the top spot, while BA went with Meadows. All four lists have the same players in the top four, just in a slightly different order.
As for the rest of the top ten for Fangraphs, they have (in order): Ke’Bryan Hayes, Cole Tucker, Steven Brault, Will Craig and Alen Hanson. They rank players by Future Value (FV) and Meadows is the clear winning with a 65 rating on the 20-80 scouting scale. Glasnow, Keller and Bell each have 55 FV, while Newman and Hayes are 50 each. Tucker, Brault, Craig, Hanson and Nick Kingham are 45 FV, and everyone else on the list has a 40 FV.
Besides reports on all 21 of the top prospects, Fangraphs also has reports on 11 other players. They are put in order of preference, so you could actually say it’s a top 32 list, though they don’t label it as such. At the bottom, they even included an extra report on Pablo Reyes, where they spelled my first name wrong and quoted his brother’s signing bonus for Pablo, so that’s a fun footnote to the article. Pablo Reyes actually got a $90,000 bonus, double what his younger brother Samuel received late last year.
Regardless of the Reyes mix-up, it’s an extensive article from Fangraphs and I encourage you to check it out.
