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MLB.com Names Reese McGuire Among Top Catching Prospects

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On Thursday, MLB Pipeline named their top ten catching prospects and Reese McGuire ranked seventh. McGuire was also ranked seventh among catchers last year by MLB Pipeline. In the write-up of the top catchers by Jim Callis, he praises McGuire’s defense, calling his throwing, receiving and pitch framing, all above average. On offense, he uses the whole field and should develop gap power.

As one of the youngest players on Opening Day in the South Atlantic League, McGuire made the All-Star team and hit .262/.307/.334 in 98 games, while throwing out 39% of base runners attempting to steal.

On Tuesday, Tyler Glasnow was ranked as the third best right-handed pitching prospect and Jameson Taillon got an honorable mention. There weren’t any Pittsburgh Pirates listed among the top left-handed pitching prospects.

 

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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