Today we posted our top ten prospects for Morgantown, which completes the short-season write-ups for the Pirates' system. You can check out the Morgantown article here, along with the top ten prospects for Bristol and the GCL. Now that we've wrapped up the short-season affiliates, it feels like an appropriate time to recap the 2016 draft.
It's hard to evaluate a draft after just half a season. It used to be a lot worse, with the old CBA making it so that most of the top players didn't even play the year they were drafted. The current CBA leads to quicker signings, which means we get an early look at the players the Pirates selected, and they get an early start to their careers.