A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. If a player is in the majors for an extended time, 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 Mid-Season Update, and links on each name go to their Pirates Prospects player pages.
1. Mitch Keller, RHP, Altoona – [insert_php]
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2. Austin Meadows, CF, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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3. Shane Baz, RHP, GCL Pirates – [insert_php]
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4. Cole Tucker, SS, Altoona – [insert_php]
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5. Kevin Newman, SS, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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6. Ke’Bryan Hayes, 3B, Bradenton -[insert_php]
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7. Will Craig, 1B, Bradenton – [insert_php]
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8. Elias Diaz, C, Pirates – [insert_php]
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9. Taylor Hearn, LHP, Bradenton – [insert_php]
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10. Gage Hinsz, RHP, Bradenton – [insert_php]
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11. Calvin Mitchell, OF, GCL Pirates – [insert_php]
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12. Braeden Ogle, LHP, Bristol – [insert_php]
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13. Edgar Santana, RHP, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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14. Kevin Kramer, 2B, Altoona -[insert_php]
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15. Steven Brault, LHP, Pirates– [insert_php]
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16. Clay Holmes, RHP, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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17. Jordan Luplow, LF, Pirates – [insert_php]
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18. Luis Escobar, RHP, West Virginia – [insert_php]
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19. Max Kranick, RHP, Bristol – [insert_php]
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20. Steven Jennings, RHP, GCL Pirates – [insert_php]
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21. Adrian Valerio, SS, West Virginia – [insert_php]
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22. Nick Kingham, RHP, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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23. Conner Uselton, OF, GCL Pirates – Disabled List
24. Max Moroff, INF, Pirates – [insert_php]
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25. Dovydas Neverauskas, RHP, Pirates – [insert_php]
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26. Eric Wood, 3B, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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27. Eduardo Vera, RHP, West Virginia – [insert_php]
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28. Logan Hill, LF, Altoona – [insert_php]
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29. Tyler Eppler, RHP, Indianapolis -[insert_php]
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30. Lolo Sanchez, CF, GCL Pirates – [insert_php]
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Indianapolis finished their season with a 79-63 record. They begin their first round playoff series on the road against Durham tomorrow night.
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Altoona finished their season with a 74-66 record. They will begin their first round playoff series against Bowie tomorrow night on the road.
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Bradenton finished their season with a 70-62 record.
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West Virginia finished their season with a 69-67 record.
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Morgantown was the only team playing on Tuesday night, as their regular season goes until Thursday. They were eliminated from the playoff race on Monday.
Scooter Hightower started this game and it was not the typical dominating pitcher we have seen this season. He allowed just one earned run over five innings, but he was getting hit pretty well and not throwing as many strikes as usual for him. Hightower allowed seven hits, with four of them going for extra bases. He also walked two batters and hit another, which doesn’t sound too bad, but that’s coming from someone who had seven walks in 83 innings prior to tonight. He finished with five strikeouts on the year, giving him 80 for the season, which is a record for the three-year-old franchise.
The Black Bears scored three runs in the second inning with some help from the Williamsport defense. Lucas Tancas singled, then Jose Barraza walked. That was followed by a Jared Oliva single that score Tancas. Kevin Kramer singled home Barraza, then an error on a catch by the third baseman sent Oliva to third base, where he would scored on a wild pitch. In the fifth inning, Tristan Gray hit his seventh home run of the season to make it a 5-4 game, with Williamsport on top.
Williamsport added a run in the sixth off of Hector Garcia, who was lucky to escape with just the one run because he was having trouble throwing strikes. Hector Quinones allowed a run in the seventh.
Morgantown scored two runs in the seventh. Deon Stafford hit a triple, then scored on an error. Dylan Busby reached on the error, then moved to second on a wild pitch, third on a Tristan Gray single and scored on a Jose Barraza ground out. The Black Bears would tie the game in the bottom of the ninth on a Dylan Busby home run, his first as a pro.
That sent the game into extra innings and neither team would score until the bottom of the 14th inning. Raul Siri walked, then moved to second base on a sacrifice bunt. A passed ball got him to third base, before Brett Pope hit a shallow fly to center field, which was caught on an amazing diving catch. It was shallow, but with the outfielder laying out to catch the ball, Siri scored easily, ending the game.
Matt Seelinger pitched terrific in relief, allowing just one hit over four shutout innings, coming in for the ninth and going until the 12th.
Kevin Kramer went 1-for-5 with an RBI single and a strikeout in his second rehab game with Morgantown. He left after nine innings. Including his one GCL game, he is 1-for-11 in three games. Jared Oliva, Dylan Busby, Tristan Gray, Lucas Tancas and Bligh Madris each had two hits in this game. Blake Weiman got the win with two scoreless innings.
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Bristol finished their season with a 17-49 record.
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The GCL Pirates finished their season with a 26-34 record
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The DSL Pirates finished with a 36-34 record.
