Minor Happenings: Notes 11/12

Baseball Prospectus just released their Indians Top 11 Prospect list over the weekend. For more detail on these rankings, you will need to have a subscription to Baseball Prospectus. However, here is the listing (which is free):

Five-Star Prospects
None
Four-Star Prospects
1. Adam Miller, RHP
2. Wes Hodges, 3B
3. Beau Mills, 1B
Three-Star Prospects
4. Chuck Lofgren, LHP
5. Nick Weglarz, LF
6. Aaron Laffey, LHP
7. Jensen Lewis, RHP
8. Josh Rodriguez, SS
Two-Star Prospects
9. Jordan Brown, 1B
10. Trevor Crowe, OF
11. David Huff, LHP

Just Missing: Brian Barton, OF; Jared Goedert, 3B; Scott Lewis, LHP; Matt Whitney, 1B

Just looking over that list, the only real surprise is Beau Mills being ranked so high and Jordan Brown somewhat low. Also, Huff may be a little high as well. But, overall, expect this list to be commonly duplicated among other Top 10 lists which will issue over the course of the next three to four months.

Also, of note, Baseball America just started releasing their Top 10 lists on-line. They started with the NL East and the Indians Top 10 list is scheduled to be unveiled on January 16th. Their full Top 30 prospects list for the Indians as well as for every other team will be available in the 2008 Prospect Handbook which should issue sometime in February. You can pre-order the book here.

Tomorrow, I will give an update on how some of the players in the Arizona Fall League and Hawaii Winter League are doing, and also provide some info on an Indians minor league FAQ I am working on.

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