The Pittsburgh Pirates announced that they have signed eight more draft picks on Thursday night, bringing their total up to 23 players signed out of the 42 picks. Here’s the list, along with their round. The player pages are linked for information on each player:
22. Andres Alvarez
25. Ethan Goforth
26. Ryan Troutman
27. Samson Abernathy
28. Bear Bellomy
31. Josh Bissonette
36. Jake Sweeney
39. Daniel Ross
Alvarez, Sweeney and Ross have all been assigned to the GCL Pirates. The rest will be headed to Bristol. Expect more signings tomorrow night.
These were all day three picks, so you can read more on some of them in this link that recaps day three. Our draft tracker will be updated shortly.
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.
