In today’s day and age, most of your casual baseball fans, when they pay attention to the farm system, if at all, will look at their team’s top 30 lists. If you’re a hardcore minor league nut like me, you should enjoy this next prospect profile on the Pittsburgh Pirates 20th round pick from 2019’s draft in left fielder Jake Snider.
Snider is from the great state of Iowa and attended the University of Louisville from 2017-2019. Going into his freshman year at Louisville, he was regarded as being extremely patient at the plate and came with a short compact swing that could be advantageous to a power game.