Kiley McDaniel on ESPN Insider posted his top 100 prospects in baseball on Tuesday. It’s a subscription article, so I won’t go into full details, but I will share the placements for the top prospects for the Pittsburgh Pirates, while comparing it to other lists that have been released recently from Baseball America, Keith Law, Baseball Prospectus and Fangraphs.
McDaniel has Oneil Cruz has the 13th rated prospect in baseball and the top prospect for the Pirates. He’s followed by Henry Davis rated 39th, Liover Peguero 53rd, Nick Gonzales 70th, Roansy Contreras 76th and Quinn Priester 77th. It’s the same six prospects who rank in the top six for the Pirates as everyone else, just everyone has their own order. Even my own order is different than any released so far, but it’s the same players.
Here are the other orders we have seen so far. I completely forgot that McDaniel moved to ESPN, so before this came out, I was just waiting for MLB Pipeline and Fangraphs to release their top 100 lists before doing a longer comparison article. I’m all for more voices with experience in the rankings game, because I’d rather go with an aggregate opinion than any one individual. It’s tough enough comparing different players in the same system over different levels/ages, etc, but to do all 30 teams at once is quite a task.
Baseball America
Cruz 14th
Davis 41st
Gonzales 49th
Peguero 78th
Conteras 80th
Priester 88th
Keith Law
Davis 20th
Priester 57th
Cruz 65th
Peguero 77th
Contreras 83rd
Gonzales 93rd
Baseball Prospectus
12. Cruz
18. Davis
29. Gonzales
38. Peguero
89. Contreras
Fangraphs released their top prospects list for the Pirates (but not their top 100 yet) and had the following order for the top six players:
Oneil Cruz
Henry Davis
Roansy Contreras
Liover Peguero
Quinn Priester
Nick Gonzales
