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Ji-Hwan Bae Ranks Among the Top 20 Prospects in the South Atlantic League

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Baseball America continued their rankings of the top 20 prospects in each league throughout the minors. On Thursday, it was time for the South Atlantic League. The Greensboro Grasshoppers and Pittsburgh Pirates are represented on that list by infielder Ji-Hwan Bae.

Bae was the top prospect on our Greensboro top ten list we put out two weeks ago. He won the South Atlantic League batting title with a .323 average and he stole 31 bases, while playing strong defense at second base and looking like he could handle shortstop. He did all of that while playing a majority of the season before his 20th birthday. While his swing isn’t geared for over-the-fence power, he has decent size at 6’1″ and he’s still filling out. In 86 games, Bae had 25 doubles, five triples and he drew 43 walks. He ranked eighth overall for the Pirates in our mid-season updated rankings.

The Pirates had three players on the International League list and Oneil Cruz made the Florida State League list yesterday.

John Dreker
John Dreker
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.

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