No surprises here as MiLB.com breaks down the top prospects by position based on their major league affiliate’s division. Both Andrew Miller (LHP) and Cameron Maybin (OF) made the cut. And speaking of Miller, there’s already some speculation that, if he shows his stuff, he’ll be up quicker then first thought to take Kenny Rogers’ […]
MiLB.com previewed the Mets minor league system today with profiles at each level of the organization as well as a 2006 draft recap. The also project the cream of the crop will be Carlos Gomez and Deolis Guerra. There’s a ton of stuff here and it’s a great read.
This may be hard to believe, but the Reds actually have other pitching prospects other then Homer Bailey. They might not be as promising, but they definitely bear keeping an eye on. The “next best guy” in the Reds farm system is right hander Johnny Cueto. Mr. Cueto was signed out of the Dominican Republic […]
Baseball America ran through a final look at Tigers spring training from a minor league perspective yesterday. Of course, Cameron Maybin was in the spotlight but Brent Clevlen got some love as well. Kody Kirkland was the guy who fell into the “Who’s Not” section and they agree he needs more time at Double A.
Chris Kline at Baseball America got a scout’s take on Homer Bailey and while he starts with the fact that Bailey doesn’t yet have a third pitch, and he finishes up with how he thinks Bailey should get some time at Triple A like the Reds are giving him.
Three Reds minor leaguers made the cut in MiLB.com’s All NL Central prospect team. Homer Bailey is the top right handed starting pitcher while Joey Votto (1b) and Jay Bruce (OF) also made the cut. Not too shabby considering if they had done this a couple of years ago, there probably wouldn’t be any Reds […]
Jayson Stark wrote up a column on the the five players to remember in upcoming years as the spring season comes to a close. While he doesn’t ranke them, one of the five was Cameron Maybin. He’s got some nice things to say and the quote from the unnamed scout was worth it’s weight in […]
Tyler Clippard was the Yankees ninth round pick back in 2003. He made his minor league debut that season and pitched in the Gulf Coast League where he had an impressive 56/5 strikeout to walk ratio in 43 2/3 innings. He followed that up in 2004 with a full season at Battle Creek where once […]
Coming in at number five is right handed pitcher John Meloan. Drafted in the fifth round of 2005 draft, Meloan flew through the system in 2006, making three different stops and throwing well at all three. He finished things up at Double A as a reliever and he struck out 23 batters in 10 2/3 innings. […]
Alright, for those of you who don’t know me, I go by the handle Blade Stevens. I’ve been blogging the Reds for two and a half years, followed the team pretty closely and even delved into some historical content. If you want to know more about me, here’s my first post at Reds Cutting Edge. […]
Alan Schwarz at Baseball America posted a very interesting Q&A today with Mets prospects Mike Pelfrey and Philip Humber. It’s a pretty casual interview to start with but they get to each of the two guys pitches and it also talks about how both guys are fighting for a spot in the rotation right now.
Welcome, my name is Ray Wilson. I’m a life long Mets fan who just missed the 1969 championship but basked in the Mets glory in 1986. I started up an email conversation with Jon Earving when he was running his 1986 Mets diary at Tom Seaver Fan Club and when we got to talking about […]
As this Baseball America story highlights, shortstop Tony Giarratano’s shoulder injury leaves a hole in the system as far as shortstops go. He was supposed to start the season at Toledo with Dlugach getting the start at Erie but with Giarratano down for the season. The question now becomes, with the hole at Toledo, how […]
MLB.com’s Jason Beck recently profiled Tigers top prospect Cameron Maybin. There’s a lot of stuff here, including Maybin’s relationship with Curtis Granderson, as well as some of the other Tiger players’ thoughts on the upstart centerfielder.
It’ll be interesting to see how much Maybin learned with his time on the big league club this spring. I’ll […]
The number seven prospect for the Yankees is J. Brent Cox, the Yankees second round pick in 2005. He was the closer for the Texas Longhorns in 2005 and he made his minor league debut for Tampa in 2005. There, he nearly struck out a batter an inning and kept his walk rate down en […]
Coming in at number six is second baseman Blake DeWitt. who was the Dodgers first round draft pick back in 2004. His best showing was on John Sickels list where he was seventh and he was eighth on the other two. I know you’re wondering why he’s sixth on my list and that’s because most […]
Baseball America caught up with Tigers pitching prospect Jair Jurrjens today in a very interesting interview. They talk about his approach to pitching, what pitches he throws (he has four of them) and his excellent command of the strike zone. There’s a ton of mechanical stuff in here and they mention the fact that he […]
MiLB.com recently reviewed the Tigers minor league system in their organizaton reviews. There’s a bunch of stuff here, with the bulk of the column being on players on each stop in the Tigers minor league system. Kyle Sleeth is profiled in the Double A section and if you haven’t gotten enough of Andrew Miller and […]
This was no big surprise but man was he hitting the ball well. Cameron Maybin was sent to minor league camp and he’ll most likely start the season at Lakeland. The Tigers sent a bunch of other guys down as well, none of which were a surprise. Probably the most notable were Brent Clevlen, who […]
MiLB.com recently took a look at some of the happenings with the Tigers at spring training. They discuss where Andrew Miller and Cameron Maybin will eventually end up (which appears to be Lakeland) and there’s also a Q&A with the guy with the super slider himself. It wraps with a discussion on Kyle Sleeth and […]
Coming in at number eight is the Yankees first round pick in 2006, Ian Kennedy. He had his best showing on the Baseball America list where he finished fifth and his lowest showing was tenth on John Sickels list. He slipped to the Yankees in the first round because of a lackluster 2006 college season […]
Yorman Bazardo, the pitcher the Tigers acquired this offseason from the Mariners, was recently sent down to the minors. I couldn’t find what level he’ll be starting at but my guess would be either a repeat of Double A or a bump to Triple A Toledo.
I also read a snippet about Kody Kirkland being sent down as […]
Coming in at number seven is third base prospect Josh Bell. Bell was the team’s fourth round pick back in 2005 and he his best showing was on Kevin Goldstein’s list, where he came in at sixth place. He finished ninth on both John Sickels and Baseball America’s list.
He had a solid minor league debut […]
In a recent Baseball Prospectus column, PECOTA take on the centerfield prospects and Cameron Maybin makes a solid showing at number four. It’s even more impressive when you figure the top two guys (Chris Young and Felix Pie) are major league ready. The strikeouts concerned Nate Silver but he said Maybin had a better season […]
Coming in at the number nine spot is starting pitching prospect Christian Garcia. The Yankees third round pick in 2004, Garcia made his minor league debut that year in Gulf Coast League and tore through hitter after hitter. He struck out 47 in 38 innings and he gave up only one homerun. He then jumped […]
Preston Mattingly comes in as the Dodgers eighth best prospect and he’s the first guy I’ve wrote up that showed up on all three listsd. His best showing was on Kevin Goldstein’s list where he finished seventh. John Sickels indicated that he was drafted as a shortstop out of high school in the supplemental first […]
Coming in at number two, and the top pitching prospect in the Tigers’ minor league system, is the man with the wicked slider, Andrew Miller. While the Tigers’ rotation may be set, one of those guys better look out because at some point, Miller is going to be in the there. The only question is who’s […]
Alright, the Tigers made some cuts today and none of them were big surprises. Probably the most optimistic move was announcing that Kyle Sleeth will start at Double A. After a solid spring, the former first round draft pick will get the promotion despite struggling last year in the minors. Having Kyle Sleeth there will […]
While the fact that Jair Jurrjens was the consensus number four prospect on all three prospect lists by itself isn’t particularly interesting, the fact that all three prospect gurus had a different guy at number three ahead of Jurrjens was. The net result is, three fourth place finishes gets you number three just for being […]
Like Tony Abreu and Ivan DeJesus, shortstop prospect Chin-lung Hu was across the board. He didn’t show up at all on Baseball America’s list and he just made Kevin Goldstein’s at number ten. John Sickels likes him the most though and actually had him all the way up at number five with a B rating.
Hu […]
This is a great article on Tigers 2003 first round draft pick Kyle Sleeth, who after Tommy John surgery has fallen off of most people’s radar. Sleeth is throwing strong in spring training so far and it’ll be interesting to see what the Tigers do with all of these arms.
Sleeth was solid in the Gulf […]
Jayson Stark’s last column was on Phillip Hughes and the Yankees shift towards rebuilding their farm system. When asked, Brian Cashman pulled no punches when he said those days where the Yankees purged their farm system for some immediate help was over with. The Yankees are going to build a solid core of young players […]
Now we’re getting to the cream of the crop. Gorkys Hernandez was signed by the Tigers out of Venezuela in 2005 and made his Gulf Coast League debut in 2006. He just turned 19 in September so as an 18 year old, the outfield prospect hit an impressive .327/.356/.463 in 205 at bats. He showed […]
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Coming in tied with Ivan DeJesus is Tony Abreu, the second baseman who the Dodgers signed out of the Dominican Republic back in 2002. He showed up on only one of the three lists, but Baseball America had him as the fifth best prospect so here he is.
He made his minor league debut in the […]
Alright, Kevin Whelan kicks off the Yankees top ten prospect list using the aggregates of the three lists in the left side bar. Oddly, Whelan only shows up on one list, but he was high enough to pick up enough points to land him just in the top ten. He doesn’t show up on John […]
The Tigers number five prospect is Eulogio De la Cruz and he was also across the board amongst the three lists. John Sickels rated him highest at third but he also finished as low as ninth on Kevin Goldstein’s list (you can find the lists on the left sidebar). A seventh place finish with Baseball […]
The Yankees are pretty well represented on Baseball America’s top 100 prospect list. Of course Phillip Hughes is near the top at number four. Further down the list is outfield prospect Jose Tabata at 27, Humberto Sanchez landed at number 57, Joba Chamberlain was 75 and just making the cut is Dellin Betances at 100.
That’s […]
Baseball America recently unveiled their Top 100 prospect list and four Dodgers made the cut. Andy LaRoche topped the Dodgers and came in at number 19 and Clayton Kershaw wasn’t too far behind at number 24. Scott Elbert was 31 and James Looney was at 44. Four guys in the top fifty is definitely a […]
Andrew Miller and Cameron Maybin showed up on Baseball America’s Top 100 Prospect List. Maybin comes in at number six while Miller just made the first tier and he came in at number ten. Unfortunately that’s all that made the list but anytime you have two in the top ten, you have to be happy.
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