Baseball America posted their updated farm system rankings on Wednesday afternoon. I've been asked numerous times recently where I think the Pirates rank among all 30 farm systems in baseball. That's a tough one for me to answer because I only follow the Pittsburgh Pirates.
My usual answer is that they ranked around 11-15 for most people coming into the season and they graduated a lot of top 30 prospects to the majors this year, so they are probably ranked a little lower than the start of the year. They haven't added more talent than they graduated, and they didn't have many breakout prospects.