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Ramirez and Hayes Drew Consideration for Top 100 Prospect List

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MLB Pipeline released their top 100 prospects list on Friday night, including five Pirates in their rankings. They had Tyler Glasnow(#10), Austin Meadows(#20), Josh Bell(#49), Jameson Taillon(#54) and Reese McGuire(#98) in their top 100 rankings.

Today on Twitter, they were answering questions about the top 100 list, so I inquired about which players may have either been considered, or just missed the list. I got answers from Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo, as well as Mike Rosenbaum, who had a hand in making the list along with Callis and Mayo.

So it sounds like Harold Ramirez was at least considered a top 100 prospect by Jim Callis, and he just missed the overall list. Rosenbaum said that Elias Diaz got some consideration, while both Callis and Mayo threw out Ke’Bryan Hayes as a name that they considered. Ramirez made the top 101 for Baseball Prospectus, ranking 80th overall.

Diaz will likely graduate from the prospect rankings this year, unless he doesn’t come up before September. That’s possible if Francisco Cervelli and Chris Stewart are healthy all season. Hayes and Ramirez won’t graduate from the prospect rankings this year though, which means each of them could end up in the top five for the Pirates when our next prospect guide comes out. While I don’t see him passing Austin Meadows, I could see Ramirez being ranked #2 in the Pirates’ system next year at this time.

On the other hand, one player who didn’t get consideration, or a strong report, was 2015 first round pick Kevin Newman. Callis considers him a regular second baseman, not a shortstop. He also thinks he won’t be a star.

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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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