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Adrian Florencio is the Pirates Prospects 2021 Pitcher of the Year

Adrian Florencio had just 47.1 innings of pro experience prior to this season, coming in 2019 with Bristol, where he had a 4.75 ERA...

Matt Fraizer is the Pirates Prospects 2021 Breakout Prospect of the Year

"Fraizer comes with questions about his bat..." That was the introduction to Matt Fraizer's profile in the 10th Anniversary Prospect Guide coming into this season. That...

Pittsburgh Pirates 2021 Minor League Recaps: FCL Pirates

If you were assessing the Pirates' overall 2021 performance in the Florida Complex League (stupid name, but it beats "Low A Southeast"), you'd have...

Prospect Roundtable: Henry Davis or Oneil Cruz as the Pirates’ Top Prospect?

Welcome to Prospect Roundtable, a new feature on Pirates Prospects where we will discuss different topics about the Pirates' farm system with the people...

Scouting the Statline Player Comps for Pirates Prospects

Lots of prospect analysts think player comps are lazy — Josh Bell will turn into Willie Stargell! Oneil Cruz is similar to Charlie Blackmon!...

Prospect Analyst Aram Leighton on Nick Gonzales, Matt Fraizer, the Pirates’ 2021 Draft and More

Here at Pirates Prospects, we appreciate speaking with other prospect analysts, especially those who dive deep into player evaluation at all levels.  We recently...

More Greensboro Splits: The Guns of August

August has been a pretty wacky month for the Greensboro Grasshoppers.  It ended well, with a four-game winning streak that left them 17-9 for...

Pittsburgh Pirates Updated Top 30 Prospects

Pittsburgh Pirates' General Manager Ben Cherington has been on the job for almost two years now. In that time, he has worked to overhaul the...

Oh, Those Greensboro Splits

I think we've all understood that the stats in the Low-A Southeast League (the former Florida State League for actual baseball fans) are potentially...

An Early Look at the Pirates 2020-21 International Signing Class

The international signing period started on January 15th this year, but the players signed that day were the players who would have normally been...

Williams: Development Dimensions

This is a continuation of a series about prospect development and evaluation. The Introduction can be found here, and Part One of the series...

Williams: Defining Our Own 20-80 Scale to Evaluate Baseball Players

This is Part One of a multi-part series, explaining the Prospect Grading methodology and theories that will be used on Pirates Prospects going forward....

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