Tag: Adrian Valerio

The Altoona Curve have placed shortstop Stephen Alemais on the 7-day injured list with a right shoulder strain. To take his place on the roster, infielder Adrian Valerio has been promoted from Bradenton. Alemais was injured on a slide during the first inning of Wednesday’s game. He remained in long enough to score a run, […]

The winter league season got off to a very slow start for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Just a handful of players were seeing action. Once the later starting leagues began playing, the Pirates ended up with a decent amount of winter participants. Below you’ll find a recap for every player, along with a note about the […]

The final day of the Dominican league regular season saw two Pittsburgh Pirates play their first winter league game. Lolo Sanchez (pictured above) was the tenth overall draft pick in this year’s winter draft in the Dominican, while Valerio was drafted last year. They both got to start the final game this year for the […]

The Major League Baseball Rule 5 draft takes place on Thursday. The Pittsburgh Pirates have a total of 48 players who are available to be selected by other teams. We will have a preview prior to the draft, but for now, I thought it would be interesting to look at the best tools available among […]

We posted the season recap for the 2018 Bradenton Marauders yesterday. Today we look at the top ten prospects from the team. For each of the first five top ten lists (see links below) we used the mid-season prospect guide for the rankings and we continue doing that with this list. Seven players for Bradenton made our mid-season […]

Every Monday during the minor league season, we take a look at the top performers in the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system, giving scouting reports on the top ten pitchers and top ten hitters from the previous week. The column was originally called Top Performers until last year when we changed it to The Twenty. The […]

We plan to have an article dedicated to the international side each Sunday throughout the season. So until the Dominican Summer League begins play on June 2nd, we will look at recaps of the previous international signing classes and see where they currently stand. Today we look at the progress of the 2013-14 signing class. […]

A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. If a player is in the majors for an extended time (Colin Moran), or loses his prospect eligibility (Edgar Santana, Kyle Crick, Max Moroff and Dovydas Neverauskas), he will be removed from this list. Everyone below him will be shifted up a spot, and […]

A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. If a player is in the majors for an extended time (Colin Moran and Edgar Santana), or loses his prospect eligibility (Kyle Crick and Dovydas Neverauskas), he will be removed from this list. Everyone below him will be shifted up a spot, and a […]

The weakest team in the Pirates’ system this year, as far as full-season teams, will be the Bradenton Marauders. The prospect depth at the level is thin, with very few players who could eventually become impact prospects, or even starters one day in the majors. The strength of the team is easily on the pitching […]