The Pittsburgh Pirates traded their starting catcher, Jacob Stallings, back in November, bringing back MLB starting pitcher Zach Thompson, along with prospects Kyle Nicolas and Connor Scott. I had a chance to talk with both prospects recently at Pirate City during minor league Spring Training.
Over at Baseball America, my feature this month was on right-handed pitcher Kyle Nicolas. My assignment was actually to focus on more of a sleeper, or someone making noise. Sure enough, on the first day of camp there were two people signing the praises of Nicolas in some of his first days in the organization.