Minor League Blogs

Toledo Mud Hens – 67-77, 21 games back of the first place Columbus Clippers in the International League West Erie SeaWolves – 67-75, 13 games back of the first place Harrisburg Senators in the Eastern League Western Division Lakeland Flying…

Here’s a look at when each of the Tigers four full season minor league affiliates kick off their season: Toledo Mud Hens – April 7 at Louisville Erie SeaWolves – April 7 at home against the Curve Lakeland Flying Tigers – April 7…

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 Tigers announced that Larry Parrish will return as the Mud Hens manager in 2008 after missing the 2007 season after he had ankle surgery.  Mike Rojas took over the team in 2007 and for his efforts in guiding the Mud Hens to the playoffs in 2007, he was made the Tigers Minor League field coordinator.  [...]

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 [...]