As many fans know, Jake McGee is widely considered one of the top lefties in all of minor leagues. Plucked out of Sparks, Nev., in the fifth round of the 2004 draft, McGee has quickly cemented himself as one of the Rays top prospects. So, when he was penciled in to start against my local Double A affiliate, the Birmingham Barons, I could not help myself. I had to see what all the fuss was about. Let me say this, I was impressed.   more »

Adam Miller is back on the mound for the Buffalo Bisons tonight.   more »

Hello everyone...thanks for joining me again as I write my second blog entry. I would first like to thank everyone that emailed me regarding the last blog. I want you to know I read all of them, and I really appreciate the encouragement.   more »

Last year, I had some controversial picks in my top 100 which proved to be good picks. These included Troy Tulowitzki at #3 prospect overall, Dustin Pedroia at #18 (didn't make most top-100 lists, including BA's), with Longoria, Upton and Braun higher than most any other list, and Chris Davis in my top 100. I haven't compiled a top 100 this year, but here are the top 50 position players (with 20 pitchers added just for flavor at the end)...   more »

Today I take a look back at the incredible crop of high school center fielders that came from the already rich 2005 Major League Baseball Draft as they are about to join the youth movement taking over the National League.   more »

Hello fellow Baseball Digest Daily (known as BDD) and Big League Futures (known as BLF) readers, I wanted to take a moment to formally introduce myself to everyone as I've been writing here for a couple of weeks now.   more »

Big League Futures continues its stroll through the AL East with the New York Yankees. Peter Abraham was kind enough to be our guest for today's Q&A. Peter covers the Yankees for the Journal News and LoHud.com and has a vastly read blog, The LoHud Yankees.    more »

Coors Field, known as a hitters haven, is about to become pitcher friendly. Jeff Francis continues to develop into a #1 starter followed by Aaron Cook and highly touted youngsters Ubaldo Jimenez, Franklin Morales and Jason Hirsh. Greg Reynolds is almost ready to compete for the chance to make his mark on the NL Champs rotation.   more »

Brandon Jones chance for a platoon role with Matt Diaz dwindled with the addition of CF Mark Kotsay.   more »

Rohrbough and Locke headline a talented group of southpaws coming through the Braves farm system.   more »

The Rockies announced today that they have signed right-handed pitcher Aaron Cook to a four-year contract through 2011 with a mutual option for 2012.   more »

I updated a bunch of lists so check out the new 2008 Prospects Compilation spreadsheet. Included are the D-Backs Top 10 from Baseball America, A's Top 10 from Baseball Prospectus, Pirates Top 10 from Bucco Blog, Tigers Top 10 from John Sickels, Rangers Top 10 from Sports Grumblings, Dodgers Top 5 from Project Prospect, and Top 10 for 10 teams from Top Prospect Alert!

Want to know what your favorite experts feel about your team's top prospects? Want a nice neat handy worksheet listing all the prospects lists around the web. Well we have what you're looking for! Here's a glimpse of the Top 10 Minnesota Twins prospects published year-to-date by Kevin Goldstein, John Sickels, and Mound Talk. As more lists are generated, we'll continue to update the spreadsheet.

		BP's Kevin	John	Mound
Team		Goldstein	Sickels	Talk
Minnesota		Ben Revere	Tyler Robertson	Tyler Robertson
		Anthony Swarzak	Anthony Swarzak	Anthony Swarzak
		Jeff Manship	Ben Revere	Trevor Plouffe
		Eduardo Morlan	Eduardo Morlan	Jeff Manship
		Tyler Robertson	Jeff Manship	Eduardo Morlan
		Nick Blackburn	Trevor Plouffe	Chris Parmelee
		Brian Duensing	Brian Duensing	Brian Duensing
		Trevor Plouffe	Oswaldo Sosa	Danny Valencia
		Chris Parmelee	Jose Mijares	Ben Revere
		David Bromberg	Mike McCardell	Erik Lis

So if you're into prospect lists but don't know which ones to trust, don't worry. We give you them all in one place complete with links to the authors. You can download the most recent file by clicking here: 2008 Top Prospects List. The Excel workbook contains several tabs at the bottom representing each of the league's divisions as well as a tab for top 100 lists and the top 20 lists from Baseball America. Every time I update the file, I will change the topic heading to show the date of the revisions.

Here's the info on the latest prospect compilation update...the most significant one in a few days. Updated November 23, 2007 - Updated Arizona Top 10 from Mound Talk, Detroit Top 10 from Sports Grumblings, Angels Top 10 from Future Angels, and Top 25 from Diamond Cutter   more »

**Update** I've completed the Baseball America league top 20s and updated all the lists from the web through the end of today. I also formatted each of the Excel sheets so that they fit to one page, making it simple for everyone to print out each page.   more »

If you haven't been over to our Minors/College section, here's a bit of what you will find there today: Links to BA's top 20 AFL prospects and top 10 Florida Marlins prospects...More connections to John Sickels latest top 20 lists and Kevin Goldstein's top 11 prosects...Recaps of Arizona Fall League action...Hot news and links to Team USA and college baseball's top catchers...and much more! Don't forget to check it out regularly!   more »

Our AFL coverage has begun, and with prospect lists popping up all over the place, we've resumed our regular minor league, college, and prospect coverage. Stop by and take a look!

 

Several top prospects will join their major league clubs tomorrow.  Among those to keep an eye on include:

Cincinnati Reds 1B Joey Votto

Washington Nationals 2007 first round pick, P Ross Detwiler

Kansas City Royals P and 2006 first round pick, P Luke Hochevar as well as 1B Justin Huber

 

The Seattle Mariners announced their planned list of September call-ups today...