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Fangraphs Releases Top 15 Pirates Prospects List

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Fangraphs has posted their top 15 Pittsburgh Pirates prospects list today and the beginning of the list is in line with what we saw yesterday from Jonathan Mayo and what we have posted here for our own rankings. The 1-8 spots are taken by(in order) Gregory Polanco, Jameson Taillon, Tyler Glasnow, Austin Meadows, Alen Hanson, Nick Kingham, Reese McGuire and Josh Bell. That was the same exact order that the composite list had yesterday and how we have them in our 2014 prospect guide.

The rest of the group has Harold Ramirez and Luis Heredia rounding out the top ten. Their order is reversed in our guide, but both players are very young with tons of upside, so there isn’t much difference between the two right now. After that, the list differs a lot from our list, but the system at this point is not only top heavy, it’s deep with talent and the differences just proves that fact.

Fangraphs has JaCoby Jones, Barrett Barnes and Wyatt Mathisen in the 11-13 spots. All three are high ceiling players that had injury issues in 2013 and if healthy, all three could be breakout players this year. Clay Holmes and Jaff Decker round out the list. Fangraphs’ top 100 list had seven Pirates make the cut.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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