A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. Note that this list doesn’t include players currently in the majors. If a player is in the majors, he will be removed, everyone below him will be shifted up a spot, and a new player will be added to the bottom of the list. If a player is out for the season (Nick Kingham, Jacob Taylor), he will be removed and everyone below him will move up a spot. Removing these guys doesn’t mean they have lost prospect status. It is just an attempt to get 30 active prospects on the list. Rankings are from the mid-season update, and links on each name go to their Pirates Prospects player pages.
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2. Jameson Taillon, RHP, Indianapolis – Disabled List
3. Austin Meadows, CF, Bradenton -[insert_php]
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4. Josh Bell, 1B, Indianapolis -[insert_php]
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5. Alen Hanson, 2B, Indianapolis -[insert_php]
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6. Reese McGuire, C, Bradenton -[insert_php]
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7. Elias Diaz, C, Indianapolis -[insert_php]
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8. Harold Ramirez, OF, Bradenton -[insert_php]
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9. Cole Tucker, SS, West Virginia – Disabled List
10. Kevin Newman, SS, West Virginia -[insert_php]
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11. Ke’Bryan Hayes, 3B, Morgantown -[insert_php]
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12. Mitch Keller, RHP, Bristol -[insert_php]
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13. Clay Holmes, RHP, Bradenton – Disabled List
14. Stephen Tarpley, LHP, West Virginia -[insert_php]
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15. Max Moroff, 2B, Altoona -[insert_php]
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16. Barrett Barnes, OF, Altoona -[insert_php]
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17. Yeudy Garcia, RHP, West Virginia -[insert_php]
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18. Trey Supak, RHP, Bristol -[insert_php]
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19. Gage Hinsz, RHP, Bristol -[insert_php]
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20. Adam Frazier, SS, Altoona -[insert_php]
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21. Willy Garcia, OF, Indianapolis -[insert_php]
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22. Steven Brault, LHP, Altoona -[insert_php]
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23. Kevin Kramer, 2B, West Virginia -[insert_php]
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24. Tyler Eppler, RHP, Bradenton -[insert_php]
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25. Adrian Valerio, SS, GCL -[insert_php]
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26. Connor Joe, 1B, West Virginia -[insert_php]
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27. John Holdzkom, RHP, Indianapolis – Disabled List
28. Jordan Luplow, 3B, West Virginia – Disabled List
29. Casey Hughston, OF, Morgantown -[insert_php]
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30. Billy Roth, RHP, Bristol -[insert_php]
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Tyler Glasnow lasted seven batters on Tuesday night. He recorded one strikeout, gave up a double off the center field wall and walked five batters. He threw 35 pitches in the inning, with 12 going for strikes, although he missed on the last ten pitches. He was close on a few pitches late, but the ump actually gave him a big strike zone to the first three hitters, with a couple questionable strike calls. Right from the start it didn’t look good, with the first pitch nearly hitting the righty batter in the head, followed by a ball in the left-handed batters’ box. Glasnow was throwing almost exclusively fastballs, with three curves mixed in.
This is his shortest career outing, and just the second time he couldn’t get out of the first inning. The first was back in 2012 when he was in the GCL. He now has 22 walks in 33.2 innings with Indianapolis. All six runners he allowed came around to score, three after he left the game, giving him a 2.41 ERA. – John Dreker
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Altoona’s offense had a great night tonight. Eight of the nine hitters in the lineup recorded a hit. Adam Frazier went 1-for-4 and now has a .326 average on the season. He still holds the Eastern League lead with a little less than a week remaining in the season, leading Gavin Cecchini by nine points. Max Moroff extended his hitting streak to nine games.
Jason Creasy had one of his best starts recently, giving up just two earned runs in six innings, with six strikeouts and one walk. Creasy was known for good control in the lower levels, but has walked 50 batters this year in 141 innings. That’s not a huge total, but it’s more walks than any two seasons in his career, and more than double his total last year in 148.2 innings. He’s had some better results in that category lately, with five of his last seven outings seeing five innings or more and two walks or less. Four of those outings saw him go six or more innings with two or fewer walks.
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Bradenton won in walk off fashion tonight on Jin-De Jhang’s fifth homer of the year. They’re currently fighting for a playoff spot, and moved to two games back from Palm Beach with the win over the Cardinals tonight. Aside from Jhang’s homer, Edwin Espinal went 2-for-5 and knocked in the other two runs on the night. Austin Meadows scored one of the runs, walking twice and stealing his 20th base of the year.
Frank Duncan had a solid outing tonight, giving up three runs in seven innings, with two walks and a strikeout. Duncan was efficient, with 89 pitches and 59 strikes, while getting a lot of ground balls and 12 ground outs. Bradenton was able to keep it close thanks to Junior Lopez, who pitched three perfect innings in relief, striking out three in the process, to pick up the win.
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The good news for Yeudy Garcia tonight was that he threw five shutout innings, giving up two hits and striking out two. The bad news was that he walked five batters in the process. Control hasn’t been a big issue for Garcia, as he walked just 17 in 50.1 innings over his previous ten outings, and never had more than two walks in a start. So this can be chalked up to an off-night with the walks.
Elvis Escobar hit his fifth homer of the year. Kevin Newman had a walk and a hit, and stole his fourth base. The 2015 first round pick had a .718 OPS coming into this game, and was on fire in his last ten games with a .359 average. Pablo Reyes continued his quietly impressive season with his 20th double of the year. Reyes isn’t hitting for a high average, but had a .161 ISO coming into this game, which is pretty good for a young middle infielder.
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Luis Escobar was promoted from the GCL earlier this week, and made his debut in Morgantown tonight. He went three shutout innings, giving up two hits and two walks, while striking out three. Escobar has been getting his fastball up to 95 this season, and consistently sits in the 91-93 range. He was rated one of our top GCL prospects, and this promotion shows that he has opened a few eyes with his performance. Morgantown followed that up with six shutout innings from the bullpen, and a lot of good offense.
Mitchell Tolman led the way with three hits and his 14th double of the year. Casey Hughston and Erik Forgione also had three hits each, with Hughston stealing his fourth base of the season. Carlos Munoz continued his power run, hitting a double tonight. He has two hits in eight at-bats so far for Morgantown, with a homer and a double. On the season between Bristol and Morgantown he had 12 homers and 21 doubles. Ke’Bryan Hayes is off to a slow start in his first taste of a college league, going 2-for-20 in his first six games.
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Gage Hinsz started the last game of the season for Bristol and it would have been nice if the season had a couple weeks left, because he had a terrific outing. His day did have an odd ending, which you normally don’t see from Pirates’ pitchers. Over the first five innings, he gave up one unearned run on five hits and no walks, striking out six batters. In yesterday’s Bristol game, Mitch Keller was extended to almost 90 pitches, which you don’t see from high school pitchers in their second season. They are usually capped at 5IP/75 pitches, whichever comes first. Hinsz came out for the sixth inning for the first time in his career and it ended up ruining and excellent outing. He allowed a hit and two walks, throwing a total of 84 pitches in the game.
If you disregard the sixth inning, Hinsz did his job well, giving up one hard hit ball that went for a triple in the first inning. He was pounding the strike zone and it would have been the first game this year that he didn’t issue a walk. It’s an odd approach because you usually see pitchers limited in their last start if they decide to do something different. You don’t see a pitcher get stretched out more as his season ends, but they’ve done it twice in the last two days with top prospects and it didn’t work out either time. – John Dreker
The GCL Pirates have completed their season. Season recap and top ten prospect list can be found here.
The DSL Pirates have completed their season. You can read our full season recap here, with reports on 41 different players. There is also a list of 12 players to watch, which can be found here.
