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Calvin Mitchell Ranks Among the Top 20 Corner Outfield Prospects

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Baseball America continued their rankings of the top prospects by position on Monday afternoon, taking a look at the best corner outfielders. The Pittsburgh Pirates have one of the top corner outfielders, as Calvin Mitchell ranked 13th overall at the position.

Mitchell hit .280/.344/.427 in 119 games last year, with 29 doubles, three triples and ten homers. He spent the entire 2018 with the West Virginia Power, where he was one of the youngest players in the South Atlantic League. The lefty hitting Mitchell turns 20 years old next month and should be among the youngest players in the Florida State League this year. During his brief pro career, he has played 102 games in right field and 46 in left field.

It’s unknown right now if Bryan Reynolds or Jason Martin were considered for this list. We could find out tomorrow when BA posts the top center fielders list, which usually goes much deeper than 20 spots like today’s list. BA ranked Mitchell as the eighth best prospect for the Pirates, just ahead of Reynolds and Martin in the ninth and tenth spots, so it’s possible that they were considered corner outfielders for these lists. We have those two ranked ahead of Mitchell in our 2019 Prospect Guide and they are listed as corner outfielders on our depth chart.

A lack of depth at the corner outfield spot in the minors isn’t a real issue for the Pirates because center field is one of their top positions. You only need one center fielder in the majors obviously, so if you have depth in center, that means you’re eventually moving a center fielder to the corner. We have a total of nine outfielders on our top 50 prospects list, with six of them ranking in the top half of that list.

Here are the previous rankings by positions:

Catchers (at the bottom of the article)

First Base

Second Base

Third Base

Shortstop

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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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