NewAgeOutlaw
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I've been banging the drum on the Bucs' international signings being suspect post‐Starling Marte for some time now.
OT: Pirates Talk: That Skenes guy is okay at teh baseball
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pistolpete11
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Not disagreeing with you, but remember Kang? He did kill it for those couple of years.
ChaosAgent
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They did just turn Luis Ortiz into Horowitz from an international perspective. Is he the best recent guy?
Empoleon8771
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Yeah Ortiz is the best recent international guy that they've signed. Ortiz, Bae and Castro are the only international guys who they signed and also had an impact (even a small one) for the Pirates in the past couple of years.
Kang wasn't really an international prospect, he was an established KBO hitter that came over to the Pirates. Not quite the same.
The international prospects being mentioned here are more referring to guys like Marte and Polanco, guys they signed at like 16 and developed. Since Polanco, they'd only gotten very short stints of effective play out of their international prospects. Ortiz last year and Castro in 2022 is really about it.
Big McLargehuge
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The Bucs have been terrible at developing talent, so it makes sense that the youngest prospects in the system would all pretty much stall out sooner or later. Usually sooner.
