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. 2023 Updated In-Season Projections Now 24 and neither protected from nor claimed during the 2022 Rule 5 draft, its imperative for him to start throwing strikes more consistently in order to find his way to a big league bullpen. He would slot among Priester and Ortiz on this list had he completed a totally healthy 2022. Very Young Prospects to Monitor 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. Finding a great changeup (or maybe a split?) In the past, Ortizs high-effort delivery and sub-optimal fastball shape put him on the starter/reliever line, but hes thrown plenty of strikes across multiple seasons while simultaneously developing more velocity and comfortably projects as a starting pitcher now. A second base-only defensive fit puts the onus on Pegueros bat to perform at an everyday level. He has an interesting long-term body projection and breaking ball combination. Dodgers: FanGraphs Lists Four LA Prospects on Top 100 List Maikol Escotto, 2B 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. 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. Grant Hartwig is one of the most promising under-the-radar prospects in the New York Mets system. Fantasy Update: 2023 Re-Draft Top 25/Dynasty Top 120 Harry Ford is one of the top prospects in the Seattle Mariners organization, and he is also unique among his peers. Play-by-play data prior to 2002 was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted
Top Prospects Team Lists 2022 2021 AL NL Pirates Top Prospects Reading Options Detail Level Data Only Full Position Filter All 60 FV Prospects 1. Cy Nielson, LHP Back with former Astros pitching coach Brent Strom in Arizona . Chen is a very advanced righty with a deep repertoire led by his plus changeup. He is a 6-foot-5 20-year-old, after all. Still 17 years old as of initial list publication, De Los Santos DSL barrel rate (its more a proxy for a barrel rate the exit velo and launch benchmarks arent exactly the same as Statcasts Barrels, but its the same idea) is so high that it actually breaks an age-adjusted 20-80 scale, grading out as an 83. Meanwhile, put on the tape, limited though it may be, and youll see an explosive young athlete with a prototypical baseball frame and premium bat speed, sizzling line drives all over the field. His maxed-out frame is cumbersome on the infield, but his footwork at first base has improved a ton since he started playing there, and weve updated our previous DH-only projection. Thats something to watch as Jones continues to progress through the minors. His swing is quite uphill from the left side and he can tend to swing underneath fastballs up and away from him, but overall he is very difficult to make whiff inside the strike zone despite his steep-launch style of contact. Jimenez has a very good sweeping, upper-70s curveball and creates plus action on a changeup that he sells with fantastic arm speed. Every once in a while he will show you the power, and hes very good at hitting pitches out away from him to the opposite field with authority, but you can get him out if you can execute location against Gonzales, and big league pitchers often do. Pittsburgh graduated two top-50 prospects in 2022 (Oneil Cruz and Roansy Contreras) and still has a top-five system, or close to it, because of the three potential stars atop the group and the many upper-level, core role-playing hitters who should arrive in the big leagues soon. It had exploded even further when he was seen following the pandemic shutdown, as he sat 95-97 mph and was touching 101 during the 2021 regular season. If you want to read me wax poetic about that you can check out my end of year review. Flowers velocity has never really popped in a big way despite some of the late projection because of his conversion. Some aspects of that optimistic projection still exist, while others have changed or are currently absent, but the tools package here is still on par with the middle of the everyday second baseman player population, and were hoping that young Peguero will polish up his games current smudges. 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Hes going to be a star if he ends up with even average raw power, and even if he doesnt, were talking about a switch-hitting catcher who can make an impact on both offense and defense. The reason why he graded out so positively was due to his arm, gunning down runners like crazy, which was fantastic, and his tool grade for his armwas a 40. Anthony began writing over 10 years ago, starting a personal blog to cover the 2011 MLB draft, where the Pirates selected first overall. Sunday Notes: Born To Brits, Harry Ford Could Be - blogs.fangraphs.com Webb dealt with a forearm strain that delayed the start of his 2022 season. Smith-Njigbas on-base skills drive an above-replacement forecast here, but its tough to project a real big league role, and he may be an interesting candidate for teams in Asia. The high-waisted Lopez has a wide range of athletic/mobility outcomes that will impact where he ultimately ends up on defense. Triolos swing and footwork in the box make him vulnerable in a couple of obvious ways (high heat, sliders away), and we dont think the 60-grade hit, 45-grade power profile that he has put on paper so far will hold quite that much water against big league arms. 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. Be warned that he may hit for huge power at Greensboro in 2023, but the key thing to watch is his strikeout rate. This is one of those prospects fantasy players should value more highly than this because of his potential home run output, whereas defensive limitations cause us to value his real-world roster fit in this range. Solometo was a very high-profile amateur pitcher, drafted in the second round but given a bonus commensurate with the 24th overall pick ($2.8 million) as one of several exciting high schoolers who Pittsburgh landed with the pool space freed up by Henry Davis under slot agreement. That creates backspin and carry on his fastball and big depth on his curve. The older brother of Ohio State wide receiver phenom Jaxson Smith-Njigba, Canaan is another of the many prospects acquired from the Yankees for Jameson Taillon. Blanco is a gigantic corner outfield/1B prospect who had the most present raw power in the January 2022 international signing class. Matt Gorski, OF Hes now 23 but could still be a fifth outfielder. Still, the teenage pitcher demo is bust-prone and, anecdotally, this seems especially true when the prospect in question already throws really hard at age 17 or 18. ago 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. Jim Rosati on Twitter: "RT @NorthShoreNine: wNS9+ With He missed basically all of September and was shelled in the only start he made coming off the IL. Hes already taken a sizable step in the breaking ball department in just two pros seasons. That said, it's getting harder. feels like the more realistic path to an eventual 45-grade role, or above. Nick Gonzales - Stats - Batting | FanGraphs Baseball He walked more than a batter per inning in 2022. Across the 2022 calendar, Davis had nearly as many HBPs as he did extra-base hits, to which the wrist fracture likely contributed. He might end up becoming the player the industry hoped Francisco Meja would become. The type of contact he makes is unlikely to ever lead to home run power commensurate with a true everyday player, but Bae makes enough stinging, all-fields contact that he projects to hit plenty of doubles and triples. document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () { Jesus Castillo, SS Martin has plus-plus raw power and a 30-grade hit tool, not enough for first base but maybe enough for consideration overseas. 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. Cubs pitching prospect Hayden Wesneski is proving he belongs in his latest Spring Training outing. 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. 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. While hes played a bunch of shortstop, he is much more likely to wind up on the edge of 3B/1B than he is to see middle infield time at maturity. Thats a very walkable path. Righties get a nice long look at everything Solometo does, and he could be very platoon-vulnerable against big leaguers. A successful 2022 pro debut (47.2 IP, 9.63 K/9, 3.59 BB/9, 2.64 ERA) driven by very advanced fastball command contrasts with skepticism about how Solometos stuff will play against older and better hitters. Swaggerty matched the nine home runs he posted in 2019, but this time, he did so against better pitching, in fewer at-bats, and in a much less hitter-friendly park, and he improved on his walk rate by a couple of ticks. He has the stuff to continue developing as a starter just in case things click, but the bullpen is Jimenezs more likely future destination. 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. ), and some of the recent, perhaps overzealous examples (Maikel Escotto, Rodolfo Nolasco) are in this system. Maggi is, by definition, a Major Leaguer. 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. He can already land his breaker in the zone and its angle should help it become a viable back-foot offering to righties. Moreover, he has one of the more unusual profiles in professional baseball. Gorski had a nutty statline at Greensboro and indeed has plus raw power, but its tough to project a real role for a 25-year-old who struck out as much as he did at High- and Double-A. FanGraphs Prospects. From a heuristics standpoint, you cant do much better than Rodriguezs profile. Averaging Out the Top Prospect Rankings - Pirates Prospects Jones spent 2022, his second full pro season, at High-A Greensboro, where he sat 94-98 mph across 122.2 innings and posted a 26.7% K% and 9.6% BB%. D-backs Dodgers Giants Padres Rockies: Offseason Tools. Pirates Prospects Daily: Bryan Reynolds Plays Left Field In His Spring White was seen early and often as an underclassman since he went to a Philadelphia high school with University of Virginia outfielder Chris Newell, and would frequently match up against the Siani brothers during varsity play. Selbys fastball sits 96-98 mph and he looks to blow it past hitters up in the zone. Hes 19 and struggled over the winter in Australia. But he was then shut down and had TJ, which ended his season early enough that he could be back in 2023. A double-plus hit tool leads the way for Termarr Johnson, a 5'7" 175 lb left-handed hitter who calls Jose Ramirez to mind on a quick visual evaluation. Garcia is only 19 but is already sitting 96. Pittsburgh Pirates Prospects: Updated FanGraph Rankings These rankings are now available on The Board on the 2023 Fantasy Rankings tab, where you can also see the Top 120 Dynasty Rankings!. Isaias Uribe, LHP Defensively, he has mostly played second base so far in his professional career, with just a handful of starts at short.