Tag: Tahnaj Thomas

There are different levels of breakout prospects each year, which always makes this an interest award to decide. You could have a player come out of nowhere to become a top 50 prospect. You could have a player who was a top twenty prospect, work their way up to a top five prospect in the […]

Baseball America continued their rankings of the top prospects by league on Tuesday morning with the Appalachian League. The Bristol Pirates and Pittsburgh Pirates are represented on that list by right-handed pitcher Tahnaj Thomas. Thomas was acquired from the Cleveland Indians during the off-season in the Jordan Luplow/Max Moroff deal. The 20-year-old from the Bahamas […]

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 […]

The Bristol Pirates had a winning record for the first time in six seasons since becoming an affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. For the fans of Bristol, this season ended a much longer drought. It was their first playoff appearance in 17 years. That might not sound like a huge stretch of time for not […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

We are going to have a recap of the weekend action in Bristol coming up soon from Wilbur Miller, who is there covering three days’ worth of action. One of the players he will be talking about is Tahnaj Thomas, the 20-year-old, 6’4″ right-hander from the Bahamas. On Saturday night, Thomas tossed five shutout innings […]