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Henry Davis Named as the Fourth Best Catching Prospect by MLB Pipeline

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MLB Pipeline has been ranking the top ten prospects at each position this week ahead of their top 100 prospects list, which will be released tomorrow night. Yesterday we posted about Nick Gonzales being named as the top second base prospect in all of baseball. Also in that article was Oneil Cruz being named as the ninth best shortstop in baseball. The Pittsburgh Pirates added one more prospect to this list on Thursday when Pipeline released their top outfielders and top catchers lists. Henry Davis has been ranked as the fourth best catching prospect.

Davis ranked seventh among all catchers for Baseball America when they did their top tens last month. It’s a really strong year for catching prospects, with Pipeline noting in their article that three catchers are among the top ten prospects in the game, and 12 total made the top 100 list. They called it the best catching crop in more than a decade. Pipeline ranked Davis has having a 70 grade arm, which was tops in the group. They gave him a big league ETA of 2024, which might be a little slow if he opens this year in Altoona.

Tim Williams recently had an article talking about Davis and his leadership skills at any early stage in his pro career.

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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