On Thursday morning, Keith Law posted his list of the top prospects by position and the Pittsburgh Pirates were well represented. He had six Pirates among his top 74 prospects in the game and all of them made the list for their position. He also added another player surprisingly high as you will see below.
Mitch Keller and Tyler Glasnow each made the right-handed pitchers list, with Keller ranked fourth overall, and Glasnow is seventh. Keller was Law’s 16th best prospect overall.
Law wrote this about Glasnow today, “Glasnow is the big tumbler, from the No. 2 right-hander to No. 7 after a year in which his command and control didn’t improve and scouts started to raise concerns about his getting those to where they need to be.”
Josh Bell ranked second among first basemen and last week Law put him as the 14th best prospect in baseball.
Kevin Newman is sixth for shortstops, on a list where the tenth ranked shortstop is the 53rd best prospect in baseball.
Austin Meadows ranked third among outfielders, with Andrew Benintendi and Victor Robles both ranking ahead of him. Meadows was named the ninth best prospect last week by Law and tenth best by MLB Pipeline. The tenth ranked outfielder is the 34th overall prospect for Law, so it’s a deep position right now.
Ke’Bryan Hayes is Law’s sixth best third basemen. He called the position surprisingly deep at the moment.
Elias Diaz is the sixth best catcher, trailing five players who all made Law’s top 100. Law ranked Diaz as the seventh best prospect for the Pirates earlier this week.
For comparison sake, MLB Pipeline wrapped up their top ten by position last week and they had Tyler Glasnow second for right-handed pitchers, with Keller just outside the top ten. Josh Bell was second for first basemen on that list as well. They also had Meadows third for outfielders, Hayes was ninth for third basemen, and Newman was just outside the top ten for shortstops. Elias Diaz did not get consideration for the MLB Pipeline list according to Jonathan Mayo.
