34.4 F
Pittsburgh

Tag: Lonnie White Jr.

The Pittsburgh Pirates hired Brent Strom to be their assistant pitching coach, as reported by Noah Hiles of the Post-Gazette. Strom is a highly regarded pitching coach, who has spent time with Houston and Arizona over...
The Pittsburgh Pirates have hired Matt Hague to be their next hitting coach, according to Scott Mitchell of CSN. Hague was the assistant hitting coach for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2024, after three years as...

2024 Pittsburgh Pirates Top 50 Tiered Rankings Version 4.0

Something occurred to me recently. According to my social media memories, 15 years ago around this time I was where most aspiring prospects writers are...

2024 Pittsburgh Pirates Top 50 Tiered Rankings Version 3.0

The month of July could bring a lot of changes to the Pittsburgh Pirates' minor league system. This is the time of year when the...

Williams: How Does the Pirates 2021 Draft Approach Look Three Years Later?

The Pittsburgh Pirates had the first overall pick in the 2021 MLB Draft. There wasn't a consensus best available player that year like there...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Lonnie White Jr. Homers in Greensboro Win

Lonnie White Jr. hit his eighth homer of the year on Wednesday for the High-A Greensboro Grasshoppers. The homer gave Greensboro a 5-4 lead...

Williams: Greensboro Raises a Lot of Questions About the Pirates Hitting Development

I've been going through the Pittsburgh Pirates' minor league system over the last month, projecting out the prospects at every level. The Triple-A level is...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Lonnie White’s Grand Slam Leads Greensboro to 15 Runs

The Greensboro Grasshoppers have been known to put up some big scoring nights. On Thursday, the Pirates' High-A affiliate combined for 15 runs on...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Bradenton is on a Ten Game Winning Streak

The Bradenton Marauders have won ten games in a row for the first time in franchise history, after sweeping all six games last week...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Pitching Leads the Way in the Pirates System

The strength of this Pittsburgh Pirates team is clearly on the pitching side. The top prospects in the system are pitchers. The depth of...

Pirates Prospects Daily: Jared Jones, Lonnie White Jr., Rain

The Pittsburgh Pirates were originally scheduled to see three top 100 prospects pitching on Thursday. Rain had other plans. Paul Skenes was scheduled to start...

Pirates Once Again Combine Jared Jones, Paul Skenes, and Bubba Chandler

If the weather holds up on Thursday, the Pittsburgh Pirates will once again send three top 100 prospects to the mound on the same...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Paul Skenes, Pitching Depth, and Power Bats

The second week of the 2024 minor league season brought the start of the campaigns in Double-A and both A-ball levels. This gave a...

Lonnie White Jr. Shows a Competitive Drive and Quick Learning Ability

Lonnie White Jr. was drafted 64th overall in 2021, signing with the Pirates rather than going to Penn State as a two-sport athlete. Injuries slowed the start of his career, but he returned in 2023, with some of the best numbers in the system during the second half.
Liked this article? Take a second to support Pirates Prospects on Patreon!
Become a patron at Patreon!