MLB Pipeline has the details of the competitive balance picks for the 2022 draft, which will take place over three days from July 17-19 and consist of 20 rounds. We already knew that the Pittsburgh Pirates had the fourth overall pick in the draft. We also knew that they were due to get a competitive balance pick in Round A this year after the first round, but the order wasn’t set until now. The Pirates received the fourth pick in Round A behind the Baltimore Orioles, Arizona Diamondbacks and Kansas City Royals. They finished ahead of Cleveland, the Colorado Rockies and San Diego Padres, with those three clubs getting the last three picks of Round A. The exact number where these picks will end up is still to be determined, but right now it sits as the 35th pick.
Pirates Get the Fourth Pick in the Competitive Balance Round A
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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.
