Baseball America expanded their list of the top 30 prospects for the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday morning. They previously released their top ten list back in December.
The top ten part of the list didn’t have any changes. It remained Endy Rodriguez, Termarr Johnson, Henry Davis, Luis Ortiz, Quinn Priester, Bubba Chandler, Liover Peguero, Nick Gonzales, Mike Burrows and Thomas Harrington.
The 11-30 has a change from their prospect guide, which I just received in the mail yesterday. They have added recent international signing Jun-Seok Shim in the 18th spot, moving everyone else behind him down one spot. Tyler Samaniego dropped off of the list. He was originally in the 30th spot.
I won’t go over the entire list because it is for subscribers of their site, but I will point out some things of note.
The 11-15 group consists of Jared Jones, Ji-hwan Bae, Anthony Solometo, Kyle Nicolas and Jared Triolo.
Besides Johnson and Harrington, two other 2022 draft picks made the top 30. They have Hunter Barco 17th and Michael Kennedy 19th.
BA has 14 pitchers among the top 26 prospects. They have three catchers on the list, including Axiel Plaz in the 28th spot. They have no full-time outfielders on the top half of the list. Matt Gorski rates the highest in the 16th spot.
The top 30 were acquired via:
Draft -18 players
International – 7
Trade – 5
