Ben Badler from Baseball America does a terrific job each year finding out the top July 2nd targets for each of the 30 MLB clubs. He usually gets 1-2 names for the Pittsburgh Pirates and they have landed almost all of the top targets he identified. Badler posted the NL Central forecast this morning and he has four potential top targets for the Pirates.
The Pirates will have $5,504,500 to spend on international players from July 2, 2018 until June 15, 2019. That's a small drop from their bonus pool this past signing period ($5.75M), but it's a small increase over the original figure we heard earlier in the year ($5.