The Pirates expanded their minor league system back in 2014 to include a team in the advanced-rookie level Appalachian League. They did it as a development tool for prep pitchers, with their better prep pitching draftees going to Bristol the year after they were drafted. The rest of the team has been largely an afterthought, generally a mixture of organizational depth guys and lower level players who just haven’t shown the ability to advance out of rookie ball. The result has...