On Tuesday night, Paul Skenes threw six shutout frames in Indianapolis. The top prospect in the Pittsburgh Pirates system, and the best pitching prospect...
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There are no minor league games on Monday, which means every Monday's Pirates Prospect Watch features the best performers from the previous week.
This week...
The Pirates have Gold Glove third basemen in Ke'Bryan Hayes and Jared Triolo. They've got another candidate in the system in power hitter Jack Brannigan.
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The 2011 Major League Baseball Draft concluded today with rounds 31-50. Throughout the draft, Pirates Prospects was working furiously to get player profiles up...
The Pittsburgh Pirates closed out their 2011 draft by selecting three more position players. The highlight of rounds 46-50 was 47th round pick Jordan...
The Indianapolis Indians exploded for two big innings, as they stampeded the Buffalo Bison at Coca-Cola Park in Buffalo, NY tonight. The Tribe took advantage of 3 physical errors, plus several mental errors by the Bison, and scored their 13 runs on only 10 hits, leaving only 2 runners on base.
Buffalo starter Josh Stinson faced the Indians on May 17th here in Indianapolis, and he did not have a good outing. He allowed 4 runs in the 1st inning, one in the 3rd, and 3 more in the 5th inning, as the Indians won the game 10-1, posting 16 hits. In that game, Stinson lasted 4.2 innings before being relieved.
Tonight, the Indians were even less kind to Stinson. He got through the 1st inning unscathed, allowing a single up the middle by SS Chase d'Arnaud, then removed d'Arnaud from the bases with a double play. It was in the 2nd inning that the wheels fell off for Stinson. 1B John Bowker began the fun with a double through into right field. 3B Matt Hague reached base safely when 1B Valentino Pascucci could not handle a low throw to first base, and Bowker moved to third base. RF Andrew Lambo bounced to Pascucci, who wanted to throw to the plate, but Pascucci hesitated and got himself set before making the throw. The hesitation was just enough to let Bowker slide into the plate ahead of the throw, for the Indians' first run. That left Hague and Lambo on base, and brought up C Eric Fryer. Fryer (photo) made it a 4-0 game when he took the first pitch he saw over the left field wall on a no-doubt-about-it 3-run homer.
CF Gorkys Hernandez followed the homer with a smash off the wall in the right-center gap, and raced all the way to third base, credited with a triple, when the Bison CF Fernando Martinez had trouble hitting his cut-off man on the throw in. Tribe starter Justin Wilson hit his second RBI double of the season into left field, scoring Hernandez easily. A wild pitch put Wilson on third base, and a walk to d'Arnaud gave the Indians runners on the corners. D'Arnaud stole second base on strike three when 2B Brian Friday struck out. LF Alex Presley walked to load the bases. That brought up Bowker again, and Bowker's second double of the inning, going into the left-center field gap, cleared the bases to give the Indians an 8-0 lead. That sent Stinson to the showers. Reliever Brian Sweeney got Hague to pop out, then former Indy Indian C Raul Chavez picked Bowker off second base to end the inning.
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The Pirates draft picks for the 2011 draft..... Gerrit Cole was selected in the first round on Monday night. Rounds 2 - 30 were chosen on Tuesday, and the rest will go on Wednesday.
The Pirates draft picks for the 2011 draft..... We'll keep it updated with the signings when they come along....
1. Gerrit Cole -- RHP -- UCLA (jr) 2. Josh Bell -- RF -- Jesuit College Prep, TX 3. Alex Dickerson -- 1B -- Indiana University (jr) 4. Colten Brewer -- RHP - Canton HS, TX SIGNED -- 6/20 5. Tyler Glasnow -- RHP -- Hart HS, CA
6. Daniel Gamache -- 3B -- Auburn Univ (jr) -- SIGNED -- 6/12 7. Jake Burnette -- RHP -- Buford HS, GA 8. Jason Creasy -- RHP -- Clayton HS, NC 9. Clay Holmes -- RHP -- Slocomb HS, AL 10. Taylor Lewis -- CF -- Univ Maine Orono, (jr) -- SIGNED -- 6/13
11. Jo-El Bennett-Lowe CF -- Houston Academy, AL 12. Condon Myles -- CF -- South Grand Prairie HS, TX 13. Brandon Platts -- RHP -- Mason City HS, IA 14. Jordan Dunatov -- OF -- Horizon HS, AZ 15. Kody Watts -- RHP -- Skyview HS, WA
16. Eric Skoglund -- LHP -- Sarasota HS, FL 17. Aaron Brown -- RF -- Chatsworth HS, CA 18. Josh Poytress -- LHP -- Fresno State (jr) SIGNED -- 6/22 19. Mike Nunez -- RHP -- Salmen HS, LA 20. Trea Turner -- SS -- Park Vista Community HS, FL
21. Alex Fuselier -- CF -- Univ Louisiana Layfayette (jr) SIGNED -- 6/17 22. Michael Jefferson -- LHP -- Louisiana Tech (sr) SIGNED -- 6/18 23. Jordan Cooper -- RHP -- Kentucky (so) SIGNED -- 6/22 24. Brian Sharp -- SS -- California Baptist Univ (jr) SIGNED -- 6/15 25. Josh Martin -- RHP -- Samford Univ (jr)
26. Nicholas Flair -- SS -- Belle Chasse HS, LA 27. Ryan Hornback -- C -- San Jacinto College North (J2) SIGNED -- 6/28 28. Jeffrey Zajac -- LHP -- Walker Valley HS, TN 29. Kirk Singer -- SS -- Cal State Long Beach (jr) SIGNED -- 6/ 13 30. Matt Benedict -- RHP -- Western Carolina Univ (sr) SIGNED -- 6/13
31. Derek Trent -- C -- East Tennessee St. Univ. (sr) SIGNED-- 6/13 32. David Jagoditsh -- RHP -- Pima CC (J2) SIGNED -- 6/18 33. Christopher Lashmet -- 3B -- Northwestern U (sr) SIGNED -- 6/21 34. Juan Rosado -- 1B -- Louisiana State Eunice (J1) 35. Reid Mathews -- 2B -- Dobyns Bennett HS TN
36. Isaac Ballou -- CF -- Marshall Univ (so) 37. Rodarrick Jones -- LF -- Southern Univ (jr) 38. Douglas Crumlich -- SS -- Univ of California Irvine (jr) 39. Rand Ravnaas -- LF -- Georgetown Univ (jr) 40. Raphael Rhymes -- 2B -- Louisiana State Univ (so)
41. Jon Schwind-- C -- Marist College (jr) SIGNED -- 6/17 42. Nicholas Hibbing -- RHP -- Lakes Community HS (IL) 43. William Argo -- CF -- University of Illinois (jr) 44. Bobby LeCount -- 3B -- Edmonds Comm Coll (J2) 45. Robert Ingram -- LHP -- Yavapai College (J1)
46. Jeff Schalk -- RF -- Wheaton North HS, IL 47. Jordan Deluca -- CF -- Tussey Mountain HS, PA 48. Zachary Thompson -- RHP -- Grace Prep Academy, TX 49. Austin White -- 3B -- Arkansas HS, AR 50. Zechariah Lemond -- RHP -- Waltrip HS, TX