At his best, Bubba Chandler is the best pitching prospect in baseball and the best athlete in the Pirates’ system. This is a guy who was drafted as a two-way player, after all, one who could have gone on to Clemson to play quarterback in the fall while both pitching and hitting in the spring.

It took him a while, as MLB.com's Alex Stumpf wrote, to embrace being a pitcher only . Once he did and focused his premium athleticism and competitiveness fully on his work on the mound, he took off, allowing him to climb to No. 7 overall on MLB Pipeline's Top 100 Prospects list.

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Chandler doesn’t lack confidence and has long understood he has the stuff to get big league hitters out. While that competitive fire can be a huge edge, it’s also shown it can be an obstacle

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