MLB Network’s Top 100 misses Pittsburgh

Photo by Shelley Lipton/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesOver the course of six days, MLB Network unveiled its top 100 players right now list. It didn’t take any insider information to figure out that not a single Pittsburgh Pirate would be included in its rankings. If that wasn’t clear enough from before the rankings were posted, when playoff sweetheart Randy Arozarena took spot number 100, all suspicions were confirmed: There wasn’t going to be anybody from Pittsburgh this time around.

Since 2018, only one Pirate has made the cut for the network’s list: That would be Josh Bell going into 2020. Before him, it was Andrew McCutchen and Starling Marte in 2017. But now, with a host of new faces,…