2017 Pirates Farm System

[Pirates GM (TJ)]

Specs on various top 100 lists:


MLB:
9 - Austin Meadows
23 - Manny Margot
27 - Josh Bell
43 - Braxton Garrett
48 - Mitch Keller
59 - Kevin Newman
61 - Alex Verdugo
73 - German Marquez
89 - Christian Arroyo

Baseball Prospectus:
6 - Austin Meadows
18 - Manny Margot
25 - Josh Bell
27 - Mitch Keller
65 - Kevin Newman
66 - Alex Verdugo
71 - Braxton Garrett

Baseball America (pre-season):
6 - Austin Meadows
22 - Mitch Keller
24 - Manny Margot
35 - Josh Bell
53 - German Marquez
55 - Kevin Newman
58 - Alex Verdugo
76 - Braxton Garrett

Baseball America (May 11th update):
4 - Austin Meadows
18 - Mitch Keller
    - Manny Margot (graduated)
    - Josh Bell (graduated)
49 - German Marquez
50 - Kevin Newman
53 - Alex Verdugo
57 - Luis Urias
80 - Braxton Garrett
92 - Christian Arroyo
100 - Chance Adams

Keith Law:
9 - Austin Meadows
14 - Josh Bell
16 - Mitch Keller
24 - Manny Margot
31 - Alex Verdugo
33 - Kevin Newman
42 - Braxton Garrett
74 - Ke'Bryan Hayes
89 - Jack Flaherty

Sickels:
7 - Austin Meadows  (updated 3/27/17 - originally 20th)
25 - Mitch Keller
29 - Josh Bell
34 - Manny Margot
56 - Alex Verdugo
78 - Chance Adams
86 - German Marquez
96 - Josh Staumont
104 - Kevin Newman
114 - Christian Arroyo
115 - Jack Flaherty
137 - Matt Strahm
148 - Jacob Nix
150 - Ke'Bryan Hayes
158 - Braxton Garrett
178 - Brock Stewart

[Pirates GM (TJ)]

2017 Sickels rankings:

(Note that I am frankly not much of a believer in John Sickels at this point, feeling that he has been coasting on reputation for a few years now. But lots of people like his rankings, and they are easy enough to collate, so here they are.)


OF Austin Meadows (Pirates) - A-   (updated 3/27/17 - originally B+/A-)

RHP Mitch Keller (Pirates) - B+/A-

1B Josh Bell (Pirates) - B+
OF Manny Margot (Padres) - B+
OF Alex Verdugo (Dodgers) - B+

RHP German Marquez (Rockies) - B/B+
RHP Chance Adams (Yankees) - B/B+
RHP Josh Staumont (Royals) - B/B+

SS Kevin Newman (Pirates) - B
SS Christian Arroyo (Giants) - B
RHP Jack Flaherty (Cardinals) - B
RHP Matt Strahm (Royals) - B

3B Ke'Bryan Hayes (Pirates) - B/B-
2B Luis Urias (Padres) - B/B-
RHP Jacob Nix (Padres) - B/B-

LHP Braxton Garrett (Marlins) - B-/B

RHP Jake Woodford (Cardinals) - B-
RHP Adam Plutko (Indians) - B-
RHP Brock Stewart (Dodgers) - B-
LHP Kyle Muller (Braves) - B-
LHP Eric Skoglund (Royals) - B-
OF Taylor Trammell (Reds) - B-
OF Jorge Bonifacio (Royals) - B-

RHP Nick Kingham (Pirates) - B-/C+
SS Cole Tucker (Pirates) - B-/C+
3B Will Craig (Pirates) - B-/C+

RHP Yeudy Garcia (Pirates) - C+/B-
RHP Travis MacGregor (Pirates) - C+/B-

2B - Max Moroff (Pirates) - C+
C - Elias Diaz (Pirates) - C+
RHP - Luis Escobar (Pirates) - C+
RHP - Trevor Williams (Pirates) - C+
OF - Barrett Barnes (Pirates) - C+
RHP - Gage Hinsz (Pirates) - C+
RHP - Clay Holmes (Pirates) - C+
2B - Kevin Kramer (Pirates) - C+
LHP - Jared LaKind (Pirates) - C+
RHP - Dovydas Neverauskas (Pirates) - C+
LHP - Braeden Ogle (Pirates) - C+
1B - Jose Osuna (Pirates) - C+
RHP - Miguel Rosario (Pirates) - C+
RHP - Edgar Santana (Pirates) - C+

C - Reese McGuire (Blue Jays) - C+
OF - Harold Ramirez (Blue Jays) - C+
OF - Ray Patrick Didder (Braves) - C+
RHP - Ronnie Williams (Cardinals) - C+
3B - Bryce Denton (Cardinals) - C+
RHP - Frank Duncan (DBacks) - C+
2B - Omar Estevez (Dodgers) - C+
RHP - Sam Coonrod (Giants) - C+
LHP - Tim Cooney (Indians) - C+
OF - Thomas Jones (Marlins) - C+
OF - Austin Dean (Marlins) - C+
OF - Ricardo Cespedes (Mets) - C+
LHP - Jordan Guerrero (White Sox) - C+
OF - Tito Polo (Yankees) - C+