Tag: Quinn Priester

Baseball America is posting their draft report cards for all 30 teams. On Wednesday morning they covered the Pittsburgh Pirates, who had four of the first 72 picks in the draft and signed a total of 38 players. The draft report cards cover the top players in certain categories. I won’t spoil their entire article, […]

Baseball America continued their rankings of the top 20 prospects in every league throughout the minors on Friday afternoon. Today is the Gulf Coast League and the Pittsburgh Pirates have two of the top four prospects in the league. First round pick Quinn Priester ranks second for BA on today’s list. The 18-year-old (turned 19 […]

A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. If a player is in the majors for an extended time or loses his prospect eligibility (Clay Holmes, Jacob Stallings, Pablo Reyes, Kevin Newman and Bryan Reynolds), he will be removed from this list. Everyone below him will be shifted up a spot, and […]

We posted the season recap for the GCL Pirates yesterday, where we mentioned 22 players of note. Today we look at the top ten prospects in more detail. Usually we use a limit of 20 innings pitched/10 relief appearances and 70 plate appearances to qualify for the short-season top ten lists, but this team played […]

The GCL Pirates finished their season on Wednesday with an 18-36 record, losing their final two games from the schedule due to the hurricane headed towards Florida. The GCL season was already cut back from a 60-game schedule to 56 games. The Pirates had a team filled with high school draft picks and players over […]

First round pick Quinn Priester is on his way to Morgantown to finish out the 2019 season. The Pittsburgh Pirates moved him up two levels after he posted a 3.03 ERA in 32.2 innings with the GCL Pirates. He had a 1.19 WHIP, a .238 BAA, a 2.16 GO/AO ratio and a 37:10 SO/BB ratio. […]

A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. If a player is in the majors for an extended time or loses his prospect eligibility (Clay Holmes, Jacob Stallings, Kevin Newman and Bryan Reynolds), he will be removed from this list. Everyone below him will be shifted up a spot, and a new […]

A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. If a player is in the majors for an extended time or loses his prospect eligibility (Clay Holmes, Jacob Stallings, Kevin Newman and Bryan Reynolds), he will be removed from this list. Everyone below him will be shifted up a spot, and a new […]

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 […]

A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. If a player is in the majors for an extended time or loses his prospect eligibility (Clay Holmes, Jacob Stallings, Kevin Newman and Bryan Reynolds), he will be removed from this list. Everyone below him will be shifted up a spot, and a new […]