Minor League Blogs

Mike, who was the founding blog in this minor league network, came up with a system that takes three of the great prospects lists out there and sort of blends them together.  I’ll be taking this same system and doing something similar with the Yankees prospects and I’ll be starting the series tomorrow with number [...]

Jordan Tata comes in as the sixth best prospect using my highly scientific algorithm.  Remember he was actually tied with Brent Clevlen but he finished sixth on both the Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus lists but John Sickels only had him at ninth, which probably cost him one or two spots in the order. 
Tata was [...]

Remember there was a tie at the bottom and tied for tenth on my list is Ivan DeJesus.  The shortstop mostly cashed in because he finished fifth on the Baseball America list.  He was tenth on John Sickels’ and didn’t even show up on Kevin Goldstein’s.  DeJesus was the Dodgers second round pick in 2005 and he [...]

Number seven and number six are actually a tie.  I hate ties so I decided to arbitrarily pick one at seven and one at six and Brent Clevlen got the short end of the stick.
Brent Clevlen has been the Tigers minor league version of Jeckyl and Hyde.  He was the Tigers second round pick in 2002 [...]

I’m going to start my list of the top ten eleven Dodgers prospects tomorrow or Sunday.  Although I guess I shouldn’t say it’s my list, it’s a combination of three lists that I like the most.  I’ll be taking the top ten lists from Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus (Kevin Goldstein) and John Sickels and then [...]

All points indicate to a return to Triple A for minor league pitcher Humberto Sanchez.  That’s not going to stop the pitching prospect from trying to force the team to make room for him with a solid spring.  You can read about Sanchez in a nice player profile by following the link.
Sanchez was the cornerstone [...]

Hello, my name is Mitch Paulson and I’ll be covering the Yankees farm system in coordination with one of the great Yankee sites out there, Baseball Savior.  I hope to provide you with a one stop source for anything and everything in the Yankees minor league system and I’ll also be taking a look at [...]

Second base prospect Scott Sizemore was taken by the Tigers in the sixth round of the 2006 draft and then he proved he may have been a steal when he had a very nice season at Oneonta.  In 294 at bats, he hit .327/.394/.435 with three homeruns and a 47/32 strikout/walk ratio.  He landed as [...]

Kevin Goldstein recently unveiled his Top 100 prospect list and the Dodgers are pretty well represented with four prospects on the list.  Clayton Kershaw comes in at number 16 and Andy LaRoche is at 20 to give the Dodgers two in the top twenty.   Scott Elbert came in at 32 and James Looney just missed making [...]

Kevin Goldstein recently released his top 100 prospect list and the Tigers had a very solid showing in the top twenty with Cameron Maybin coming at number seven and Andrew Miller finishing seventeenth.  The bad news is, those were the only two Tiger representatives on the list.   Former Tiger farmhand Humberto Sanchez came in at 65.
We all [...]

Baseball America released their list of the top ten Dodgers prospects today.  No major surprises and despite all of the promotions last year, the Dodgers remained stocked with talent.
Andy LaRoche comes in at number one.  LaRoche had solid numbers at both Double A and Triple A and he could be the teams starting third baseman [...]

Welcome.  My name is Rich McMahon and I’ll be covering the Dodgers minor league system here all season.  If you have an interest in the Dodgers, I hope you’ll stop by and see how your prospects are doing.  And if you’re just a minor league fan, I hope you’ll check out what will hopefully be [...]

Coming in at number nine in my composite top ten prospect list is Jeff Larish.  Like Ron Bourquin, Larish was all over the board.  He rated as high as sixth on John Sickels list, he finished ninth on the Baseball America list and then didn’t even make Goldstein’s list.
First baseman Jeff Larish was the Tigers [...]

Jeff Sackman, who’s the developer of the excellent website Minor League Splits, recently ranked the organizations.  He did it for one of the books he wrote in so the column is light on details (as far as why the Tigers rank how they do, he does a nice job of explaining his methodology), but the [...]

Kevin Goldstein recently took a high level look at all of the minor league systems in baseball and the Tigers came in at the middle of the pack.  They barely made the top half with a 15th ranking.  They finished tenth in position players and 21st in pitching.
No major surprise here.  Once you get past [...]

Coming in at number ten in my highly scientific method for rating Tiger prospects is third baseman Ron Bourquin with five prospect points.  Just missing the cut was right handed pitcher Dallas Trahern.  Trahern showed up on more lists then Bourquin did, but Bourquin was the fifth best prospect on Kevin Goldstein’s list so that pushed [...]

Hello, my name is Mike Cassidy and welcome to my blog that will cover all six of the Tigers minor league affiliates.  I got to talking with Brian at Tigerblog after I read some Mud Hens news and he urged me to do this.  I’m a Detroit transplant who now lives south of Cleveland, so [...]