Over the last few weeks, I’ve been creating a new system to rank and project the future value of prospects in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ minor league system. This approach is similar to the traditional 20-80 grading scale that projects out Future Values. The difference is that my system puts a bigger focus on the Current Values, while trying to project out a path to each player’s Future Value.
At this point in time, I’ve got individual grades on every player in the system, plus a Tiered ranking system that projects 72 players in the system with a future chance to reach the majors for at least one day.