Tag: Jose Maldonado

Yesterday we posted the season recap for the Bristol Pirates and noted that the top ten prospects list would be much stronger than normal at this level. The Pirates have sent some solid pitching prospects here in the past, but the real difference this year is the depth of the list. The list below is […]

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, then The Twenty. The number 21 obviously has a lot of […]

And now for the good part after yesterday’s recap of the hitters.  What upside the Bristol team has you’ll find mainly in the rotation.  The Pirates are currently going with a six-man rotation:  Luis Ortiz, Santiago Florez, Tahnaj Thomas, Jose Maldonado, Adrian Florencio and Dante Mendoza.  Of the six, the most notable are arguably Ortiz, […]

In our Bristol Season Preview, we mentioned that they had a group of pitchers with high upside. I wanted to take a deeper look at what made their six-man starting rotation such an interesting group. On an off-day yesterday for Bristol, I was able to have a long in depth conversation with their first-year pitching […]