A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. If a player is in the majors and loses his prospect eligibility, 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, 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 2016 mid-season update, and links on each name go to their Pirates Prospects player pages.
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2. Austin Meadows, CF, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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3. Josh Bell, 1B, Pirates – [insert_php]
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4. Kevin Newman, SS, Altoona – [insert_php]
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5. Mitch Keller, RHP, Bradenton -[insert_php]
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6. Nick Kingham, RHP, Altoona – [insert_php]
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7.Cole Tucker, SS, Bradenton – [insert_php]
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8. Chad Kuhl, RHP, Pirates – [insert_php]
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9. Will Craig, 3B, Morgantown – [insert_php]
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10. Steven Brault, LHP, Pirates – [insert_php]
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11. Ke’Bryan Hayes, 3B, West Virginia -[insert_php]
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12. Elias Diaz, C, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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13. Clay Holmes, RHP, Altoona – [insert_php]
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14. Yeudy Garcia, RHP, Bradenton -[insert_php]
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15. Gage Hinsz, RHP, West Virginia – [insert_php]
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16. Trevor Williams, RHP, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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17. Alen Hanson, 2B, Pirates – [insert_php]
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18. Brandon Waddell, LHP, Altoona – [insert_php]
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19. Tyler Eppler, RHP, Altoona -[insert_php]
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20. Max Moroff, 2B, Indianapolis -[insert_php]
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21. Taylor Hearn, LHP, West Virginia – [insert_php]
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22. Adrian Valerio, SS – Bristol – [insert_php]
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23. Braeden Ogle, LHP, GCL Pirates – [insert_php]
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24. Kevin Kramer, 2B, Bradenton -[insert_php]
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25. Travis MacGregor, RHP, GCL Pirates – [insert_php]
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26. Max Kranick, RHP, GCL Pirates – [insert_php]
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27. Frank Duncan, RHP, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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28. Dovydas Neverauskas, RHP, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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29. Connor Joe, 3B, Bradenton – [insert_php]
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30. Erich Weiss, 2B, Altoona – [insert_php]
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Indianapolis lost 6-3 on Sunday, dropping the into a tie for second place with Louisville, who they will play tomorrow in the season finale. Justin Masterson got the start for Indianapolis and gave up five earned runs over four innings. He finished with a 4.97 ERA in Indianapolis, making five starts and 20 relief appearances for a total of 54.1 innings. Jason Creasy followed with two shutout innings, though he did walk three batters. Edgar Santana allowed one run over two innings.
Willy Garcia had the best game on offense for the Indians, picking up two hits, including his 30th double. He scored a run and picked up an RBI. Dan Gamache had a pinch-hit RBI double. Jung Ho Kang and Jose Osuna both went 0-for-3 with a walk and a run scored. This was the third rehab game for Kang, who is 1-for-8 with a home run. He committed a throwing error in the third inning. Elias Diaz missed his third straight game with a sore knee.
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RICHMOND, Va – Nick Kingham made his second start for Altoona on Sunday night. Kingham was very sharp in his first two innings. He struck out the first two hitters on six pitches, then got a routine grounder. His second inning was two weak grounders and a weak fly. His fastball was 90-91 on the first two hitters, 92-94 since, hitting 96 once. Breaking ball has been 83-84, change 87, and he’s throwing both for strikes. He started going to his secondary stuff on the first hitter. He’s had just one two-ball count.
The third and fourth innings were more of the same, with three Ks and three routine grounders. Kingham finally went to a full count on the third hitter in the fourth, but got a strikeout on a fastball. The pitch was still consistently 92-94. Kingham also lined a single to center his first time up.
In the fifth, Kingham ran out of gas. His fastball lost a tick to 91-93 and he couldn’t get his curve or change over at all. A triple, single, two walks and a sacrifice fly brought in two runs. Kingham got ahead of the next hitter 0-2, but missed on four straight pitches to load the bases back up. He then served up a grand slam. He struck out the next hitter to end his night.
Brandon Waddell followed Kingham, making his second career relief appearance. He threw his fastball 89-91, his slider around 83 and change around 84-85. Waddell struggled with the strike zone in his first inning, going to three-ball counts on the first two hitters mainly because he couldn’t get his secondary stuff over. He got outs with his fastball, though, and had a perfect inning. He had another in his second inning with less trouble as his command of his secondary pitches improved, letting him mix his pitches up more. Generally, he tried to move the ball around and change speeds a lot. In his third inning, Waddell gave up a walk and a double (when he left a pitch up), but also got two strikeouts. He issued a rare (in the minors) intentional walk to load the bases to get to a left-handed hitter and struck him out on two 77-78 mph curves, the only time he threw that pitch.
The Curve hitters had little trouble making hard contact against Richmond starter Tyler Beede, who’s ostensibly the Giants’ to pitching prospect. Unfortunately, they got little to show for it. Every hitter in the lineup except Elvis Escobar hit at least one bullet or long drive somewhere, but most of them went at fielders or got tracked down. The Curve finally broke through when Stetson Allie blasted his sixteenth HR far over the left field wall with Eric Wood on base on an infield hit that was ruled an error in an apparent effort to help Beede’s ERA. Allie finished with two hits, while Barrett Barnes and Edwin Espinal had doubles. Kingham and Waddell combined to go 2-2 with a walk, both of the hits being line drive singles. – Wilbur Miller
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Bradenton lost their season finale to Ft Myers by a 5-2 score, giving them a final record of 70-66 on the season. They lost four games due to weather over the course of the season. The Marauders will begin their best-of-three first round playoff series in St Lucie on Tuesday night.
Austin Coley started the game and allowed one run over four innings. He finishes the season with a 4.65 ERA in 139.1 innings. Buddy Borden got the loss, giving up one earned run over two innings. Tanner Anderson and Jose Regalado each allowed one run in one inning of work.
The Marauders had four hits, though three of them went for two bases. Cole Tucker was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk. He hit 12 doubles with Bradenton and four before he was promoted from West Virginia. Taylor Gushue hit his 17th double. Logan Ratledge doubled, drove in a run and scored a run. Pablo Reyes drove in a run with a sacrifice fly.
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CHARLESTON, WV – In his third and final start with the West Virginia Power, Taylor Hearn gave us a glimpse of the power potential he possesses. In the longest outing of his professional career, Hearn looked absolutely dominant in his first turn through the rotation with slightly less superhuman results in later innings.
“He’s got three good pitches, and they’ve gotten better since he’s been here,” remarked manager Brian Esposito, who became the winningest manager in Charleston’s South Atlantic League history today. “He’s done a good job of pitching to contact. He’s not out there chasing strikeouts; he just has really good stuff that’s producing a lot of strikeouts.”
In five innings, Hearn set season-high marks in innings, pitches, strikes, strikeouts, and batters faced. He allowed only three hits, two of which were weak grounders. The third hit constituted Hearn’s only mistake of the game. Hearn struggles to control his lightning-fast fastball at times, and he left one over the plate that then ended up on the street outside the ballpark.
With Hearn’s reliance on power pitching and strikeouts, efficiency becomes an issue. Hearn threw 81 pitches in only five innings. If he had allowed any more hits or had hit a spot of trouble, a high pitch count could have easily knocked him out of the game in spite of his dominant stuff.
“It’s only going to take a few times where he gets those five and dives or four and a thirds because of an elevated pitch count for him to really understand the art of what pitching is,” said Esposito. “Those things come with time. They’re learned.”
Speaking of inefficiency, of the six runners the Power had in scoring position, four failed to cross the plate. In one instance, Greenville seemed to want to give West Virginia a run when John Bormann advanced to second on a wild pitch and to third on a balk with only one out, but the Power left him there.
In fact, the Power run scoring today was so bad that they won the game without recording a single RBI. Both Power runs crossed on account of wild pitches by Greenville pitchers.
Luckily, the Power bullpen brought their A-game this afternoon. Scooter Hightower got the win with three innings of perfect relief. Hightower’s curveball looked especially effective, but his fastball wasn’t much to write home about. (Though, this could be due to the unavoidable comparison to Hearn earlier in the game.) Seth McGarry followed with a perfect ninth to record his ninth save of the season. – Abigail Miskowiec
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Morgantown won 4-3 on Sunday on a walk-off single from Kevin Mahala, putting them one game above .500 with one game to play. Stephan Meyer made the start and went seven innings, allowing three runs on six hits and no walks, striking out four batters. After posting a 7.89 ERA through his first seven starts, Meyer was able to lower it to 4.50 by the end of today’s game. Evan Piechota threw scoreless ball over the last two innings for the win.
In the ninth inning, Chris Harvey led off with a single, then moved to second on a sacrifice bunt, and to third on a wild pitch. That was followed by the game-winning single from Mahala. Will Craig had a single and two walks, extending his on base streak to 36 games. Mahala had three hits. Harvey had two hits and scored two runs. Sandy Santos had a single and drove in a pair.
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The Bristol Pirates have finished their season.
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The GCL Pirates have finished their season.
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The DSL Pirates have finished their season.
