A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. If a player is in the majors for an extended time (Trevor Williams, Alen Hanson, Jose Osuna), or loses his prospect eligibility, he will be removed from this list. 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 more active prospects on the list. Rankings are from the 2017 Prospect Guide, and links on each name go to their Pirates Prospects player pages.
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14. Elias Diaz, C, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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15. Edgar Santana, RHP, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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19. Kevin Kramer, 2B, Altoona -[insert_php]
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20. Tyler Eppler, RHP, Indianapolis -[insert_php]
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21. Stephen Alemais, SS, West Virginia – [insert_php]
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22. Brandon Waddell, LHP, Altoona – [insert_php]
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24. Barrett Barnes, LF, Indianapolis -[insert_php]
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28. Chris Bostick, INF/OF, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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Indianapolis won 2-1 as Nick Kingham had an impressive outing and continues to build up his pitch count and innings after missing the start of the season.
Kingham went 6.1 innings on Sunday and allowed just three hits and a walk, with the first hit coming in the fifth inning. His curveball was as strong as ever in this game. He went to it often, both early in the count for strikes and late in the count while going for strikeouts. He finished with five strikeouts on the day, a 6:4 GO/AO ratio and he threw 63 of his 96 pitches for strikes. The lone run crossed the plate after he left the game, with Dovydas Neverauskas allowing the inherited runner to score. Kingham started with five innings in his season debut with Bradenton and has gone up slowly in each of his three outings with Indianapolis.
Austin Meadows was the star on offense in this one, going 3-for-4 with two doubles. He scored the first one on a Jason Rogers single, then drove home Chris Bostick with the second run. Meadows now has six multi-hit games in his last seven starts and he has reached base in 17 straight games. He has a .262 average now, up 40 points in the last nine days.
Meadows had three of the team’s eight hits, while five other players each contributed a single. Erich Weiss was the only other batter to reach twice, singling and drawing the only Indianapolis walk. The Indians won their 20th game of the month. It’s the first time they have reached 20 wins in a month since 2013.
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Jameson Taillon returned to action on Sunday and threw three shutout innings, striking out six batters, while giving up one hit and one walk. Alan Saunders had live coverage of the game, which can be read here.
Yeudy Garcia was the scheduled starter for Altoona before the Taillon rehab was announced. Garcia came on in the fourth and gave up two runs on two hits and two walks in two innings, throwing 52 total pitches. He now has a 5.09 ERA in 35.1 innings. Jared Lakind followed with three shutout innings and Tate Scioneaux closed out the game for the 3-2 win.
Altoona had ten hits in this game, including two big swings. Jackson Williams hit his first homer of the season, a solo shot in the third inning. Edwin Espinal hit his sixth homer of the season in the fourth inning, also a solo shot. He had three hits and scored the third Altoona run in the eighth inning, as an error on a Jin-De Jhang single allowed Espinal to score from first base. Elvis Escobar has had a tough season so far, but he picked up three hits in this game, including his second double. Kevin Newman went 1-for-5 with a single, while Kevin Kramer went 0-for-5 and committed his fifth error.
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Bradenton lost 10-5 on Sunday, as starter Dario Agrazal had his shortest start of the season. Agrazal had a combo of bad pitching, bad defense and bad luck. He allowed five earned runs on eight hits and one walk, while striking out four batters. The first two runs that scored reached on consecutive infield hits, followed by a grounder that found a hole. In the fourth inning, errors from Cole Tucker and Logan Hill led to three unearned runs, as Jupiter pounded out eight singles over the last 1.2 innings and not all were softly hit. Agrazal had gone six innings or more in each of his last eight starts.
Cole Tucker went 1-for-4 with his 27th stolen base of the season, which tied the Bradenton team record. It was a tough game otherwise, as he had the costly error, was thrown out stealing trying to go for the team record, and struck out twice. Tucker, who normally doesn’t strike out much, has had at least one strikeout in each of his last 11 games and 31 on the month. Only Casey Hughston with 33 has more strikeouts in May among all Pirates.
Bradenton got production from all three catchers in this game. Christian Kelley batted third and was the DH with Will Craig getting the day off. He had two hits and scored two runs. Kevin Krause was in right field and had three hits and drove in two runs. Former Major Leaguer John Bormann was behind the plate and had two hits, including his fourth double, and he scored a run.
Ke’Bryan Hayes went 1-for-4 with a walk and a run scored. Bradenton has off tomorrow.
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West Virginia lost 7-2 on Sunday to first place Hagerstown, dropping the Power down to 6.5 games back of first place with three weeks left in the first half of the season. Starter Matt Anderson allowed four runs over two innings, then gave way to Mike Wallace, who ended up throwing six innings in relief. He allowed three runs, though he saved the bullpen by being efficient with just 56 pitches.
Adrian Valerio extended his hit streak to six games with a single, run scored and a walk. He went 1-for-20 in his first five games back from a broken hand suffered in Spring Training, but he’s hitting .456 since then.
Clark Eagan had two doubles and an RBI. He has seven doubles on the year. Both Eagan and Ty Moore picked up outfield assists on runners cut down at home plate. Carlos Munoz picked up his ninth double. Andrew Walker played second base and went 1-for-4 in his first game of the season. He joined the team on Saturday after Trae Arbet was injured.
