Minor League Blogs

Baseball America unveiled their list of the top ten Mets prospects.  Baseball America has been doing this for years although one of my knocks against them is they tend to pick the more major league ready players.  Not a bad approach but they’re…

From January 7 through January 15, the Dodgers will get an early look at some of the players they expect could have an impact on the big league club in 2011.  Sixteen players (eight pitchers, eight position players) will take part in the developmental…

The prospect lists are making their way and while I plan on doing my composite top ten, John Sickels recently produced his top twenty Tigers prospect list.  It’s still looking like a thin system but we all know that.  Jacob Turner gets an A- bu…

The ever changing minor league affiliates of the Cincinnati Reds will get even more complicated in 2012 because the team’s Double-A affiliate, the Carolina Mudcats, are going to be moving to Pensacola, FL.  It wasn’t too long that the Reds…

Kevin Goldstein’s list of the Cubs top eleven prospects hit the website yesterday.  There’s no five star, but they do have three four star prospects which is nice.  Topping the list is Brett Jackson who’s probably close to making his debut after half of a season at Double A.  Goldstein thinks if Jackson has a [...]

Baseball America recently unveiled their top ten Athletics prospects.  Coming in at number one is the crown jewel, shortstop Grant Green.  He spent the entire season at Stockton and then numbers speak for themselves.  The high strikeout rate is some concern so we’ll see what happens when he makes the jump to Double-A. Number two [...]

Finally had a chance to take a look at the Blue Jays top ten prospect list that was put out by Baseball America.  There’s no surprise that future starter Kyle Drabek tops the list. He’s ready for the bigs and showed as much when he got his cup of coffee at the end of the [...]

I had a chance to read through the scouting reports for Baseball America’s top ten Rays prospects.  There’s no surprise that Jeremy Hellickson is number one.  He’s not only major league ready, he’s had some success at the big league level when he finished the season with the team.  The only thing that keeps people [...]

I’m a little late with this but in November, Baseball America, published their Yankees top ten prospects list.  While the Yankees will be competing for another title in 2011, it’ll be interesting to see what kind of home grown talent they …