Pittsburgh Pirates Aggregate Top Prospect Rankings

With most of the 2017 top prospect lists out, we take a look at all of the different rankings and create an aggregate ranking of the top Pittsburgh Pirates prospects.

As the off-season grows quiet, many of the major news outlets will begin releasing their 2017 top prospect rankings. We will take a look at all of them and trying to create an average ranking of the top 10 prospects in the Pittsburgh Pirates system.

Here’s how this works. We’ll take each list of the top 10 prospects in the Pirates system and assign each prospect on that list a point value, with the top ranking being worth 10 points, and the 10th ranking being worth one point. We won’t give points to prospects ranked beyond 10. Thus, the most total points would earn a prospect the top ranking, the second-most would put a prospect in the second spot, and so on through 10.

So take a look at the table below. You can see how each site ranks the top 10 Pirates prospects, and the total points for each prospect. They’re listed from first through 10th, and those that made some top ten lists but didn’t crack the total top 10 are listed as well. We’ll add to this as more 2017 rankings are released.

If you want to check out each sites individual rankings in depth with analysis, check out the following links below:

|  ESPN (Keith Law) |  MLBPipeline  |  Baseball America  |  Baseball Prospectus  |  Fangraphs  |  SB Nation (Minor League Baseball)  |

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