BP names top Tigers prospects
posted in 2006-07 offseason, minors |The Tigers prospects are ranked behind a required subscription at Baseball Prospectus, so I’m not going to list everything out for you. But I’ll offer a few nuggets.
CF Cameron Maybin and LH-SP Andrew Miller are rated excellent prospects. Not giving away any state secrets with that one!
CF Gorkys Herndandez and SP RH-SP Jair Jurrgens are ranked very good and good, respectively.
Everyone else is average, at best. But several 2006 draftees made the list. Take that for what you will. So yah, the Tigers’ minor league system is not exactly flowing over with prospects right now.
On the other hand, BP does something it calls “The Big Picture,” which combines prospects with a team’s current major league players under the age of 25 for a good look at the talent level the team should have over the coming years. When you think Justin Verlander, Joel Zumaya and Jeremy Bonderman are on that list, along with Curtis Granderson who turns 26 during spring training and was not eligible for the list, you’ve got a pretty good, young base.
In fact, BP writer Kevin Goldstein said ranking the top five in Detroit’s organization was so hard, he took a poll of what some other experts thought, just like he had to do with the talent-laden Cleveland Indians. Verlander and Bonderman took most of the first-place votes, with Verlander edging JB.
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