The Pittsburgh Pirates have been tanking.
Call it what you want, but the reality is that this team didn’t put much effort into adding to their MLB club in the previous three seasons. The result is that the Pirates have been the worst team in baseball from 2020-2022.
In that time, they’ve been building up their minor league system with prospects who could help the next winning team in Pittsburgh. The depth they’ve stacked up has made them one of the top farm systems in the game, and started to spill over to the majors last summer.