This is a followup to some of the discussion on the Pirates’ international signings. There were some questions about how the Pirates compare to other teams. Any serious examination is going to take a lot more than a Bucco Breakfast piece, but I thought I’d make one, very limited, comparison.
What I did was count up the number of international signings in each team’s top 30 prospects in the most recent Baseball America prospect handbook. That would be last year’s book, but the exact year shouldn’t really matter much because we’ve been trying to look at the Pirates’ performance over time.