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Pirates Select Outfielder Tanner Tredaway with Their Tenth Round Pick

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With their tenth round pick in the 2022 MLB draft, the Pittsburgh Pirates selected outfielder Tanner Tredaway out of Oklahoma.

Tredaway is nearly 23 years old (August birthday), putting in four seasons at Oklahoma, where he played a little bit of everywhere, but mostly in center field. He’s 6’1″, 175 pounds and bats/throws from the right side. After putting up a .671 OPS as a freshman in 2019, he had a 1.082 OPS in 18 games before the 2020 season was ended early. Last year he hit .309/.391/.423 in 39 games. He played 68 games this year and hit .370/.414/.549, with 18 doubles, three triples, nine homers and 24 steals in 28 attempts. He saw a major drop in his walk rate, but he struck out just 28 times in 318 at-bats, so there are clearly excellent contact skills here. He did not run much or hit for a lot of power until this season. He was not rated among Baseball America’s top 500 players or MLB Pipeline’s top 250.

As a senior sign, Tredaway is going to come with some savings. The Pirates should have plenty of bonus pool space left after the first two days were played safe with almost every single pick, as well as two seniors.

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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