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Top-10 picks more bust than boom for Pirates

Hope yinz like roller coasters.

June 10, the Pirates will make the No. 7 pick in the 2020 MLB Draft, marking the first selection from new general manager Ben Cherington and associate general manager Steve Sanders in Pittsburgh.

While those two would love to make a splash — and history shows that, at No. 7, they absolutely can — the Pirates' recent history with top-10 picks represents a Kennywood-certified journey filled with loops, corkscrews and freefalls aplenty.

In the past 25 years, the Pirates have made 15 top-10 selections in the MLB Draft, giving us plenty of data to comb through today.