Tag: Oneil Cruz

The Bradenton Marauders placed shortstop Oneil Cruz on the 7-day injured list with a right foot fracture. He was injured yesterday while completing a 6-3 double play, as the runner from first base slid in hard to break up the play. Cruz was off to a slow start and missed time two weeks ago with […]

The Pittsburgh Pirates made a few minor moves today, and we received news on shortstop Oneil Cruz, who has played just once in the last eight days. According to Larry Broadway, who is the Senior Director of Minor League Operations for the Pirates, Cruz has been dealing with lower body discomfort. He is not expected […]

Yesterday we looked at the season preview for the Greensboro Grasshoppers. It’s a group that has a lot of potential for breakouts prospects. We go up a level to the Bradenton Marauders today and they’re a group that has both top end talent and some potential. The minor league season begins on Thursday for all four […]

The Pittsburgh Pirates played two games on Saturday afternoon, taking on the Philadelphia Phillies at home and the Boston Red Sox on the road. The Pirates won 5-3 at home, with Jordan Lyles getting the start. In five innings, he allowed three runs on seven hits, with no walks and five strikeouts. He gave up […]

On Thursday afternoon, MLB Pipeline released their list of the top 30 prospects for the Pittsburgh Pirates. We already knew the top five were Mitch Keller, Ke’Bryan Hayes, Travis Swaggerty, Oneil Cruz and Cole Tucker, in that order. That’s because Pipeline had the first four in their top 100 and Tucker was listed as one […]

Every year we post about five top 100 prospects lists. The fifth one came out on Wednesday morning from Fangraphs. The Pittsburgh Pirates have had between 3-5 prospects in each of the previously released lists. They have five again today, including a player making his first appearance on a top 100 list. At the bottom […]

Baseball America continued their rankings of the top prospects by position on Friday morning, rounding out the infield by going with shortstops. The Pittsburgh Pirates had one player on the lists for first base, second base and third base (links below), but shortstop is one of their better positions in the minors and they have […]

Over the last two days, Keith Law has been releasing his list of the top 100 prospects in the game. He has four Pittsburgh Pirates on his list, including three players ranked higher than anywhere else. You can see those lists here for the top 1-50 and here’s the top 51-100. He also posted a […]

On Saturday night, MLB Pipeline released their list of the top 100 prospects. The Pittsburgh Pirates had four players on that list, including Oneil Cruz, who ranked 96th. On Monday, Pipeline had a few more notes of interest for their top 100 list. Cruz was rated as the best arm among all position players in […]

MLB Pipeline will release their top 100 prospects tonight at 8 PM EST on MLB Network. I’ll update this article as any Pittsburgh Pirates make the list. For comparison sake, we just had two top 100/101 lists released earlier this week. Baseball America had the following Pirates in their top 100. 26. Mitch Keller 49. […]