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Four Pirates on Updated Top 100 Prospects List for Baseball America

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Baseball America updated their top 100 prospects list to include draft picks and the Pittsburgh Pirates have four players on their new list. The group is headlined by a new name.

First round pick Termarr Johnson is ranked 46th over by BA on the new list, tops for the Pirates. He ranks fourth among draft picks from this year, trailing Druw Jones (21st), Brooks Lee (40th) and Jackson Holliday (41st).

Second for the Pirates is Quinn Priester, who was dominating Double-A with Altoona until his last start this weekend. He ranks 69th on the list.

He’s followed by Liover Peguero in the 82nd spot. Then Henry Davis ranks fourth in the 86th spot.

The last update from BA still had Oneil Cruz on the list, but he’s no long eligible. The Pirates had four players that time as well, with Davis ranked 44th, Peguero 68th and Priester 74th. Davis was already not playing when that previous list came out, so they really knocked him for missed time. Even though draft picks are part of this now, there have also been players who have graduated from the list. Only eight players ahead of him are draft picks. The opposite can be said for Priester, who moved up five spots despite new eligible players on the list, while Peguero isn’t far behind his old ranking when you factor in the draft picks.

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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