Baseball America updated their farm system rankings to include draft picks on Thursday and the Pittsburgh Pirates saw a drop from their preseason rankings, despite having five top 100 prospects in the latest BA update.
The Pirates ranked third in the preseason rankings when they had Oneil Cruz and Roansy Contreras among the top 100 prospects in the game. Both players have graduated from prospect status this year, as well as numerous other lower tier prospects like Jack Suwinski, Cal Mitchell and Diego Castillo. Even with draft picks added, including Termarr Johnson ranking tops in the system now (44th overall), the Pirates dropped to ninth in the mid-season organizational rankings.