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Baseball America Ranks the Pirates as Having the 11th Best Farm System

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Baseball America released their updated farm system rankings on Wednesday morning. They have the Pittsburgh Pirates ranked as the 11th best farm system.

We have seen the Pirates do better in two earlier farm system rankings. ESPN had them slightly better as the ninth best system, while The Athletic had them ranked sixth overall.

Baseball America last updated the rankings in August after the draft signings were completed. The Pirates ranked ninth back then. Not much has changed in the system since then, though the Pirates did add two of the top internationals signings back in January, when they signed Raymond Mola and Jun-Seok Shim. BA recently ranked Shim as the 18th best prospect in the system.

The Pirates rankings have dropped a lot since this time last year for BA. They were ranked third back then, but that included Oneil Cruz and Roansy Contreras as top 100 prospects, as well as some lesser top 30 prospects in the system who graduated throughout the year, such as Jack Suwinski and Cal Mitchell. The 2022 draft was unable to off-set those losses at the top, despite adding Termarr Johnson.

BA has the Pirates third among National League Central teams, trailing the Cincinnnati Reds (eighth) and St Louis Cardinals (ninth), while placing just ahead of the Milwaukee Brewers (13th) and Chicago Cubs (16th).

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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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