Minor League Blogs

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’ [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.
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