So far, the Pittsburgh Pirates have only used two of their picks in this year’s draft on high school players. Those were the team’s first two picks of the draft, when they took Quinn Priester and Sammy Siani at pick number 18 and number 37 respectively. Since then, they took college players from the second round through the fifth round.
Well, they continued the college tend with their sixth and seventh round picks. The Pittsburgh Pirates took a dual position player with their sixth round pick, taking outfielder and pitcher Will Matthiessen from Stanford University. The Bucs announced Matthiessen as an outfielder, not a pitcher, so obviously the team likes his bat more than his arm.