Those of us who love baseball enjoy following our favorite team’s Minor League prospects. Every year, various entities rank individual prospects as well as organizations’ farm systems, and by the looks of things, the Pirates have one of the better systems in all of Major League Baseball.
But as we all know, a sizable percentage of prospects never reach their full potential. Some might consider them “disappointments,” but maybe that’s too harsh. After all, baseball might be the most unpredictable of all sports when it comes to guessing which prospects are going to hit it big.
The whole prospect prediction thought came to mind this week when I came across the name of Eddy Yean.