He did not pass. It sounds like Brannigan is going to develop as a two-way player. Might the changeup develop over time into a plus pitch? Matt Gorski, OF There isnt suddenly big power here or anything like that, but its the start of a physical step that was likely necessary for Cheng to take to play major league ball. 11/ . His arm action looks longer and looser than it was in his injury-shortened 2021, and his upper body appears more closed, which might be helping him hide the ball longer than before. He mixed in four pitches, with his four-seamer and slider accounting for 88% of his pitches, and the changeup and two-seamer bringing up the rear. Poised to compete for a rotation spot when 2023 camp breaks, Ortiz is one of a few high-upside Pirates youngsters who look like theyd fit in a contenders rotation. In his time at Bradenton, Chandler struck out 33 batters over 26 innings, and while his walk rate was an unacceptably high 15.8%, thats actually down a notch from what he was allowing over a larger sample on the complex. Hes poised for a big league bullpen role this season and has a repertoire thats deep and nasty enough that he should be considered a late-inning option. Webb dealt with a forearm strain that delayed the start of his 2022 season. It can be found here. While it may seem like a lot of time has passed since he put his name on the prospect map with his otherworldly 2018 DSL performance, Nunez is still very young; hell turn 22 during spring training, where hes a non-roster invitee. If his defense continues to look like it did in the 2022-23 Dominican Winter League during 2023 spring training, he may quickly be repositioned on this list. On Friday, FanGraphs released updated rankings. His slow, mid-70s curveball is easy to identify out of his hand, but it has lovely shape and depth of break, so perhaps it can be sculpted into a more traditional big league breaking ball. Play-by-play data prior to 2002 was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted His slider lacks nasty, biting movement, but his arm slot makes it tough on lefty hitters, and his command of it gives it back-foot utility against righties. Terrero is a compact outfielder with a well-rounded skill set and strong rookie-level line. Plaz had a cartoonish line in the DSL (he slugged over .700), but hes very burly and physically mature for a 17-year-old, so wed like to see him do it stateside. All major league baseball data including pitch type, velocity, batted ball location, From the left side of the plate, Rodriguez has an exceptional ability to rip his hands through pitches on the inner edge of the zone. While likely of low impact, Solometos feel to pitch will almost certainly enable him to be a big leaguer of some kind, either a backend starter or long reliever. He signed for $900,000 and barely played in the 2022 DSL. He can play a fine shortstop. He still has a pretty exciting hit/power combination for a player his age, showing a proclivity for big contact to dead center and the opposite-field gap, the latter in part due to his length, which causes him to be late. He entered the 2022 spring as a high-probability 40 FV prospect who some scouts thought belonged in the 40+ tier because of pitching approach changes Barco could make in pro ball that might enable a breakout, but he ended up blowing out his UCL and having Tommy John in May. He did not hit well after the injury, but thats typical of hitters coming off a wrist fracture, and a second IL stint due to the wrist was an indication that it was bothering Davis throughout the year. Overall, the Pirates adding six prospects to their top 50 list is pretty impressive. After spending most of the year at Triple-A, where he hit .289/.362/.430, Bae spent the last couple weeks of the 2022 season as an everyday member of the big league club, where he seems likely to stick throughout the coming season as a lefty-hitting 2B/OF. The 11-15 group consists of Jared Jones, Ji-hwan Bae, Anthony Solometo, Kyle Nicolas and Jared Triolo. His fastball velo is up a tick since 2021, now comfortably sitting in the 95-96 mph range and routinely touching 98. Martin has plus-plus raw power and a 30-grade hit tool, not enough for first base but maybe enough for consideration overseas. Chandlers pitching performance wasnt as lights-out as it had been pre-promotion, but it was still a display of the rightys potential. De Los Santos contact metrics are a hair south of average, and thats the biggest indicator that theres real risk here, but boy, there is also real ceiling. Drafted as a shortstop, he fell down the defensive spectrum pretty quickly but without finding a way to lift the ball and hit for power in games. March 3, 2023. That said, it's getting harder. The bumps and bruises suffered from catching can sometimes level players for whole seasons, and Davis had a lot of them in 2022. Spending all season at Triple-A, he put up decent numbers, striking out roughly a quarter of opposing batters and allowing just four homers all season. Chen was the 22nd-ranked player on the 2019 International Player section of The Board and was generally seen as the best signable high school prospect in Taiwan. In most cases, corner-only outfielders who play consistent big league roles have better actualized their raw power in games. }); Grouped by type and listed in order of preference within each category. RotoGraphs. The average draft position (ADP) included is from Draft Champions leagues from January 19 to February 19 at the NFBC, which you can find here.These leagues draft 50 players and that's all they get for the year no pickups or drops. His swing is already geared for lift, but he doesnt currently have the raw juice to make the most of it. But when a potentially significant DSL prospect plays for a rebuilding team, it can be difficult to find other clubs that have pro scouting reports on them. Burrows had success as a starter throughout a 2022 season split between Double- and Triple-A before shoulder inflammation effectively ended his season. He was passed over in the 2022 Rule 5 Draft despite his stuff quality because hes so raw as a strike-thrower. Massey, going on 23, is a very loose, projectable college prospect from Minnesota. Shim is a big, physically mature righty with huge present arm strength, creeping into the upper 90s. Hes now 23 but could still be a fifth outfielder. wNS9+ With @longenhagen Discussing the @fangraphs Pirates Top Prospect List You found it controversial, so we discussed it Subscribe & Listen http://linktr.ee . Those games were taking place amid weight-lifting and practice for the coming football season and then during the season itself, so Whites balance of strength and flexibility might change as he trains just for baseball. As a wrap-up, the Pirates have. His acrobatics and creativity at third base make him a plus defender there. 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Thats something to watch as Jones continues to progress through the minors. Even though hes so young, youre not really projecting on his frame in a positive way so much as it feels possible Kennedy could have impact command at maturity, because his delivery is so effortless and the quality of his fastball strikes so advanced. Ryan Vilade, LF Podcasts: . Defensively, he has mostly played second base so far in his professional career, with just a handful of starts at short. Its possible Flowers strike-throwing consistency will make a big league manager feel secure going to him with consistency in the middle innings, but on stuff he projects more as a near-ready up/down reliever. From that point on, however, Triolo walked more and struck out less, such that both rates sat in the mid-teens, while flipping the slugging switch on to the tune of 13 doubles, five triples, and eight home runs over the course of the same number of games. That makes changeup development, or anything that might help him deal with righties, important, and indeed thats already underway Solometo has begun to more heavily incorporate a mid-80s changeup into his pitch mix. He spent more of his big league time in the outfield than at his native second base. He barely played in 2022 due to hamstring, elbow, and hip flexor injuries that cost him all but a couple of games. When an opposing pitcher releases the ball, the scoop in Johnsons bat head is pointing at the mound with his back elbow hiked way up above his shoulder in a position that seems to defy the rules of normal human physiology. He showed a tendency to expand the zone and make some sub-optimal contact as an amateur and in his 2022 pro sample, but there are times when Johnson does this and rather than frustrate scouts and analysts, he impresses them with his ability to identify and adjust to breaking balls, his barrel feel, and his hand-eye coordination. Johnson was a well-regarded prospect basically as soon as he reached high school, and there were scouts who were so excited when they first watched him hit that they considered him a future top 5-10 pick when he was only a freshman. His pop times are routinely in the 1.85-1.95 range in part because Endy has a strong arm, but also because hes almost always leaving his crouch before he even receives the pitch on steal attempts, which hastens his exchange. Here's a link to the Top 25.. Link to the Top 50.. Link to the Top 75.. Barring a velo bump or another significant alteration to some of the more concerning elements of his profile, he looks like a single-inning up/down reliever. Spotty command and limited fastball utility push Mlodzinski into a multi-inning relief role. The Royals designated Webb for assignment in mid-November and he elected free agency before signing with the Pirates. 2023 Updated In-Season Projections Format = Team Position Player | Age on 4/1/23 | Highest level played | ETA. Defensively, Nunez has transitioned from full-time third baseman to mostly first base, with a handful of innings in the other corner of the infield still mixed in. The top 38 spots on the list are all 55 FV or higher. Amid a couple of short IL stints in 2022, Selby put up impressive numbers split between Double- and Triple-A and then looked great in the Arizona Fall League. Top 42 Prospects: Pittsburgh Pirates by Eric Longenhagen February 28, 2020 Below is an analysis of the prospects in the farm system of the Pittsburgh Pirates. (2/2/2021) The Pirates claimed him off waivers and quickly lost him to the Diamondbacks in the minor league phase of the 2022 Rule 5 draft. When Smith-Njigba takes a comfortable, max-effort hack, its obvious that he has big power, and his exit velo data reinforces the visual evaluation. Jose Tabata / OF. He pitched for Panamas U18 team in September and showed a good changeup and fair slider as well. 2 prospect to Minors camp after injury February 24, 2023 Bucs invite top prospects Davis, Johnson, Priester to camp February 2, 2023 Shim realizes first part of dream as prospect signs with Bucs January 26, 2023 It has more details (and updated TrackMan data from various sources) than this article and integrates every teams list so readers can compare prospects across farm systems. Updated: Saturday, March 4, 2023 4:51 PM ET, Park Factors Cheng entered 2022 coming off an incredible season in which he slashed .311/.449/.492 with twice as many walks as he had strikeouts. Even with that in mind, any team would be happy to sign a teenager with this kind of stuff for just $750,000 of their bonus pool. The husky Nunez swings really hard and generates big peak exit velocities. He spins the hell out of everything that leaves his hand, in particular his slider, which averaged over 2,700 rpm, but his inability to fine tune his command puts a damper on its utility (his walk rate was an untenable 12.4% across his 75.2 innings of work). A 2022 eighth rounder, Nielsens velocity has been up and down depending on when hes been seen, peaking at 94 in 2022 but at 96 in years prior. From 2017-21, Webbs strikeout rate more than doubled as a result of his uptick in arm strength. His breaking ball is his best pitch and he could be a lefty relief piece. It shows above-average arm-side action on occasion, but hes only throwing it 12% of the time. Campana, soon to be 21, is the youngest of this group. He projects as a quick-moving no. The component parts of a scouting, tools-oriented look De Los Santos frame, bat speed, and infield actions put him in that range, while the DSL data reinforces it somewhat. Climbing the minor league ladder often comes with offensive slumps, many of which are cured as hitters accrue at-bats at the more advanced level. Joness velocity and breaking ball quality (a power, mid-80s slider with vertical action) give him the floor of a really good reliever, especially if he can somehow throw harder an inning at a time. Pittsburgh to add him to their 40-man roster after the season, indicating that hell be a big league relief option in 2023. Maggi is, by definition, a Major Leaguer. Hes on track to debut in 2025 as a starter if those issues improve and as a reliever if they do not. He seems able to make some mid at-bat adjustments to this type of pitch but then ends up playing a guessing game with breaking balls. Once-Loved Outfielders But as Triolos pro success with the bat continued at a high level, and with KeBryan Hayes manning the hot corner for the Pirates foreseeable future, the Pirates began searching for defensive alternatives in order to plug Triolo into their lineup. So compact and short to the baseball is Rodriguez that he can wait an extra beat to diagnose pitch types, which enables him to make in-flight adjustments to breaking balls, spoil the well-located ones, and crush the hangers. Davis plate crowding helps enable his pull-heavy approach. 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. If he moves to first base, this will become especially scary. His changeup is deceptive against batters in both boxes, but in particular against righties, who have a 40% chase rate on the offering. He maintained his patient approach in Altoona, and when the Double-A season ended, he was sent up to Indianapolis for the last five games of the Triple-A season. Overall, there is a ton of in-zone swing-and-miss happening here. He doesnt always look comfortable out there, but his speed makes him viable at all three spots, solidifying his role as a heavily-used role player even without the power production. 76. Anthony began writing over 10 years ago, starting a personal blog to cover the 2011 MLB draft, where the Pirates selected first overall. Andrew McCutchen / OF 3. His 2022 was not as remarkable from a walk and strikeout standpoint but it was still good, as he hit .270/.376/.418 with 38 extra-base hits (pretty good for the Florida State League) and 33 steals at Low-A Bradenton. Nicolas has consistent glove-side command of his entire repertoire, and he tends to live on that half of the plate exclusively. The effects of a pro strength and conditioning program might kick-start him down the path toward finding a more consistent release and sustaining the big velocity as a pro starter. He has above-average bat-to-ball skills and very little power. Thats a very walkable path. Carter Bins, C Hes on the 40-man roster and will likely get a chance to sink or swim on the big league roster in 2023. 2023 Offseason Tracker. His mother spent her childhood in London, while his father "a real Brit; he still has an . Short but not small, his lack of length and size is actually an advantage for Johnsons swing, as he can enjoy a bat path geared for power and lift without it being too long. He sits in the upper 80s right now but has promising underlying traits and plenty of time to develop. The high-waisted Lopez has a wide range of athletic/mobility outcomes that will impact where he ultimately ends up on defense. He has a delivery similar to Ubaldo Jimnezs, where his front side flies way open and he tilts out, which helps Kellington get to a vertical arm slot. Pittsburgh Pirates: Top 10 Players Under Age 26 (as of 4/1/11) 1. Bolton was able to stay healthy for the entirety of 2022, which was an accomplishment in itself given that his professional career has been plagued by injury since it began. Currently, Kennedys best attribute is multi-faceted fastball utility. Instead, Lopez picked up some reps in the Dominican Winter League, just a few games against the most advanced competition he has yet seen, and is poised to spend 2023 as a 21-year-old at Altoona. Barcos long, low arm slot creates a flat approach angle, but hes not really inclined to climb the ladder and pitch at the top of the zone right now, instead living on the arm-side third of the plate with sink and tail. He clearly wasnt comfortable in center field during his brief time there last season, but he only played there once every couple of weeks and he isnt a firm no at the position, even if he is bad there right now. Their top ten, in. As FanGraphs sourced TrackMan/Hawkeye data from team personnel after the season, De Los Santos hard hit rate and peak exit velocities stood apart from most of his peers, especially when limiting the sample to the DSLs age-appropriate players. Here hes projected as a no. His curveball was his only secondary to induce an above-average chase rate. His chase rates were at or below league average across the board, further emphasizing the troubling command. Enmanuel Terrero, OF Ke'Bryan Hayes, Oneil Cruz, Mitch Keller, Travis Swaggerty, Tahnaj Thomas and. If this were a high school draft prospect, you would already know his name based purely on how explosive De Los Santos is in the batters box. The FanGraphs prospect team presents their 2022 top 100 list . When we last saw Swaggerty for a full season of play, he was a 21-year-old whose nine home runs in 120 games was far lower than youd expect from someone with so much raw power playing in a hitter-friendly park. 4/5 starter. Malone, a former first round high schooler who was part of the Starling Marte trade with Arizona, has barely pitched since he was acquired, and dealt with shoulder injuries in 2022. During a full season at Double-A in 2022, he saw time at third base, shortstop, and center field, and in 2023 hell start seeing more time at second base. But at other times, he had difficulty maintaining the velocity as the innings wore on, which was compounded by his ongoing command inconsistency. . He spent much of the season leading off for Altoona, where he slashed .282/.376/.419 and stole 24 stolen bases. His defensive versatility will allow the Pirates to play in-game matchups that take advantage of Baes speed and ability to put balls in play. Pedro Alvarez / 3B 2. He throws precise, high-quality strikes with the heater, and the pitch has enough tailing action to have stayed off of A-ball barrels. His fastball velocity is down, in the 92-94 mph range, a far cry from Priesters upper-90s peak. 1/ . Some of his early-career success seems to have stemmed from his physical maturity. As the Pirates improve and fall into the middle of the draft order, opportunities to do this might dwindle since they cant create a big pool space surplus as easily, but their steady stream of competitive balance picks should give them at least some opportunity to explore creativity in the draft room just about every year. Scouting reports were. He had all the markers of a major league-ready Top 100 prospect prior to the injury, largely due to the progression of his changeup and its usage. Its not a great look to lose half a minor league rosters worth of players in the Rule 5, but that whole group might produce one or two big league role players, which is a small price to pay if theyre byprospects of a bigger group from which the Pirates can pick and choose before exposing the rest to that arcane process. Still, his tendency to roll his wrists over early in his swing, breaking up his attack angle, resulted in a groundball rate above 50%. M.J. Melendezs 2019 and Bo Naylors 2020 are recent examples of otherwise good-hitting catchers who had a terrible offensive season in the mid-minors that was followed by an immediate and significant rebound the following year. This FV grade is commensurate with a mid-first round high school infield prospect. All Win Expectancy, Leverage Index, Run Expectancy, and Fans Scouting Report data licenced from TangoTiger.com. LSU played . Rodriguezs arm is comfortably plus. It plays nicely with Flowers plus slider, and he has enough changeup feel to parachute one in against lefties once in a while. FanGraphs Prospects. 4/5 on a contender. More glove-side fastballs might help him set up his sweeping slider more effectively, as that pitch has good-looking movement but wasnt a dominant offering in college. Garcia is only 19 but is already sitting 96. The timing of his surgery is more detrimental than that of the other college pitchers, as it ups the odds that he wont (or will barely) pitch in 2023. He missed basically all of September and was shelled in the only start he made coming off the IL. If he does end up having relevant chase issues, he might track like a left-handed hitting Brendan Rodgers, but Johnsons makeup and personality are so universally lauded that its fair to expect him to make relevant adjustments and become a key cog on Pittsburghs next competitive team. Its bat-missing capabilities are limited to the bottom arm-side portion of the zone, where this two-seam-ish fastball tends to finish. FanGraphs Top 43 Pirates prospects blogs.fangraphs Vote 3 comments Best Add a Comment Robert_roberts82 14 min. The Pittsburgh Pirates are hiring. He and Solometo have the same flavor of stuff wrapped in different packages. The Pirates got a deal done for a cool million, nearly twice the slot amount in the fourth round. None of his other pitches are above average in fact most of them are currently below average but Chen has plus command projection and a plus changeup, so hes pretty likely to pitch at the back of a big league rotation or as an innings-eating spot starter. The depth charts found on the Team Pages are based on projected playing time, NOT the current status of a team's roster. Not counting his time at the alt site in 2020, last season was Boltons first time back in competitive action since 2019. Axiel Plaz, C Ricky Tiedemann is one of the fastest-rising pitching prospects in the game. That's nearly 30% of all their picks coming up as noteworthy prospects. His on-mound athleticism enables plus long-term command projection, though for right now Harrington really only locates his fastball to his arm side. Manual adjustments are made where they seem appropriate, but we use that as a rule of thumb. He has a pronounced bat wrap. A second base-only defensive fit puts the onus on Pegueros bat to perform at an everyday level. Theyve tripled since his claim-staking 2019 DSL season and Nolsaco Kd at a whopping 34% rate in the 2022 Florida State League. Hes still on a path toward a glove-reliant bench role but is closer to having meaningful pop than he was last year. Counter to our past reports, his swing is rather stiff and some of Lopezs length makes him vulnerable to pitches in on his hands. He moved into a minor league relief role in 2022. Not Quite Enough Hit Tool In some respects, its easy to assess DSL players. in the minor league phase of the 2022 Rule 5 Draft. Righties get a nice long look at everything Solometo does, and he could be very platoon-vulnerable against big leaguers. Sammy Siani, LF. The swing length and approach combination is scary enough to keep Lopez out of the 40+ FV tier even though he has this sort of upside. Bins is athletic for a catcher and has a good arm, but his receiving and contact skills are both 30s. That makes it seem all but inevitable that Chandler will eventually ditch the bat to optimize his development on the mound. He ultimately went fourth overall to Pittsburgh, and because hes a relatively advanced hitter with a mature build, theres a good chance the Pirates move Johnson through the minors pretty quickly if he hits the ground running offensively. We added RosterResource's Depth Charts; these reflect a team's current. The powerfully built Kelly, 19, is a squat but loose righty who sits 93-95 mph and throws quality strikes with his fastball. His swing decisions and ability to make contact out front and tap into his latent power improved throughout the season. A proactive bullpen move could put him in position to debut in 2024. His finishing pitch, though, is his slider, a nasty upper-80s sweeper that generated a 50% whiff rate and 38% chase rate in 2022. This impressive performance inspired his offseason 40-man addition. Across his 94.1 innings, he racked up 111 strikeouts against just 31 walks, with a 1.21 WHIP. Given how good he is at third, it seems likely that Triolo will be a good defensive second baseman if given enough time, and hes a fine emergency option at short (Kyle Farmer has played there a ton and Triolo is about that good). However, Priester makes up for it with his preferred secondaries a huge, arcing curveball that Priester has had forever, and a more recently developed mid-80s slider both of which have garnered swing-and-miss rates well above the big league average. Jerez has above-average power and a 70 arm. He was promoted to Bradenton and fell into a rhythm where each pitching appearance was buttressed by an off day before and after it, with the 19-year-old DHing in the intervening days. A few months later, the Pirates emerged as the word-of-mouth favorite to sign him; he inked a deal for $750,000 in January. In August of 2022, Jun-Seok announced he would skip the September KBO draft in order to sign with an MLB club right away. Still, his strikeouts come primarily on in-zone swing-and-miss, so its important for the strike-throwing to improve for him to capitalize on his ability to overpower hitters as he continues to advance. He has now struck out nearly 30% of the time during each of the last two seasons, but hes still performed comfortably above the league average at each stop because of the quality of the contact he does make. Hayden Wesneski is a 25-year-old starting pitcher in the Chicago Cubs system. After the season, he again played winter ball, this time in Puerto Rico with Carolina, where Cheng struggled. After coasting through the low and mid-minors, he finally hit a speed bump in 2022, posting his first below-average statline as a 21-year-old at Double-A Altoona. RotoGraphs. He has the strength to do damage the other way, but save for the occasional pitch on the outer edge, hes geared to pull. Stratton, 26, sat 94-96 mph in 2022 and has a plus-flashing slider that he rarely throws for strikes. His player page shows him above average in UZR/150, OAA and RAA (although only 1 in each of the latter two). Be warned that he may hit for huge power at Greensboro in 2023, but the key thing to watch is his strikeout rate. You can really see his athleticism and remarkable hip/shoulder separation on his throws down to second. Mechanically, Burrows adds additional length to his 6-foot-2 stature with an over-the-top delivery. He has an interesting long-term body projection and breaking ball combination. He practically straddles the plate and was hit by 20 pitches during an injury-shortened regular season, then was somehow beaned seven more times in just 17 Arizona Fall League games. Oliver Mateo, RHP As for the top three prospects on all six lists, their average rankings: Termarr Johnson - 28.2 Endy Rodriguez - 38.5 Henry Davis - 52 John Dreker + posts John started working at Pirates. He pitched five innings of relief over two games in early May for the Pirates without allowing a run. Thomas 2022 was a tale of two seasons. His low-80s slider, which has late, two-plane bite, has improved considerably and is now an above-average big league pitch.