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Updated Top 100 Prospects List from Baseball America

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On Thursday morning, Baseball America updated their list of the top 100 prospects in baseball. They got updated scouting reports and made some adjustments and additions/subtractions to the list. The Pittsburgh Pirates still have six prospects on the list, but there was a change in the system rankings for two players, as well as some movement, both up and down the list.

We start with the top prospect, and Oneil Cruz was rated 11th in their previous update. He remains as the top prospect, but he dropped ten spots to 21st overall.

Henry Davis was 36th before, and he moved up two spots.

Nick Gonzales ranked 46th overall in the last update. He took a big hit today, dropping down to 68th place, which moved him from third to fourth in the system.

Roansy Contreras moves up to 51st place, making a jump of 19 spots. He and Gonzales basically swapped places on the list and in the Pirates system. Contreras will be the first Pirates player to graduate from this list and it could be soon if BA uses the 45 non-September roster days rule. He was with the Pirates until April 21st, and then he’s been back ten days since then, so he will be done before the end of the month. If they don’t use that rule, then he will lose it after 5-7 more starts due to innings.

Liover Peguero remained as the fifth best prospect in the system, moving up two spots to 69th overall, one spot behind Gonzales.

Quinn Priester, who has yet to debut this season, ranks 81st, down three spots.

Here’s a clean look at the list:

21. Cruz

36. Davis

51. Contreras

68. Gonzales

69. Peguero

81. Priester

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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