Balls, Bulls, Bears!

The Top 20 Tampa Bay Rays’ Prospects, as seen by John Sickels of Minor League Ball.

has developed exactly as scouts anticipated and is now everyone’s favourite soon-to-be lead-off hitter. After Jennings is a handful of terrific pitching prospects, and it’s fair to assume at least 2 of the 3 will have success at the Major League level.

1) , OF, Grade A
2) , RHP, Grade A-
3) Wade Davis, RHP, Grade A-
4) , LHP, Grade B+
5) Alexander Colome, RHP, Grade B
6) Reid Brignac, SS, Grade B-
7) , LHP, Grade B-
8) Tim Beckham, SS, Grade B-
9) Nick Barnese, RHP, Grade B-
10) Wilking Rodriguez, RHP, Grade B-

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John Sickels put together the Top-20 Prospects for a Mariners system that’s filled with toolsy guys and underachievers. The M’s first round pick in 2009, , tops the list even if his power isn’t exactly projectable. The biggest surprise is ’s epic fall from grace. It’s hard to look past Halman’s propensity to swing at absolutely everything, but if you do; you see all the tools in the world.

1) , OF-2B, Grade A-
2) Michael Saunders, OF, Grade B-
3) Gabriel Noriega, SS, Grade B-
4) , 3B, Grade B-
5) Carlos Triunfel, SS-3B, Grade B-
6) , SS, Grade B-
7) , RHP, Grade B-
8) , 3B, Grade C+
9) Dan Cortes, RHP, Grade C+
10) , OF, Grade C+

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It’s Tuesday morning and John Sickels of Minor League Ball has released his Top-20 Brewers Prospects

1) Brett Lawrie, 2B, Grade B+
2) , SS, Grade B
3) , RHP, Grade B
4) , C, Grade B
5) , 3B, Grade B-
6) Kentrail Davis, OF, Grade B-
7) , RHP, Grade B-
8) , RHP, Grade B-
9) , RHP, Grade B-
10) Kyle Heckathorn, RHP, Grade B-

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Sickels at MinorLeagueBall has put together a fairly solid Tigers’ list that includes the newly acquired . Casey Crosby is the money-maker however and he should be a blast for Tigers’ fans to watch mature as his career progresses.

1) Casey Crosby, LHP, Grade B+
2) Jacob Turner, RHP, Grade B+
3) , OF, Grade B
4) Alex Avila, C, Grade B
5) Dan Schlereth ( ), LHP, Grade B
6) Scott Sizemore, 2B, Grade B
7) , 1B-OF, Grade B-
8) Andy Oliver, LHP, Grade B-
9) Casper Wells, OF, Grade C+
10) , OF, Grade C+

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There’s quite a few guys on this list that’ll make the show, but their ceilings are limited. ’s still a bit iffy after undergoing Tommy John surgery, but leads the list of Diamondbacks put together by John Sickels of Minorleagueball.

1) , RHP, Grade B-
2) , 3B, Grade B-
3) Brandon Allen, 1B, Grade B-
4) , OF, Grade B-
5) Mike Belfiore, LHP, Grade B-
6) Marc Krauss, OF, Grade B-
7) Ryan Wheeler, 1B, Grade B-
8) Chris Owings, SS, Grade C+
9) , OF, Grade C+
10) Collin Cowgill, OF, Grade C+

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Everyone’s favourite evil-empire and everyone’s favourite future-DH prospect come together in John Sickels’ prospect list for the New York Yankees.

Montero’s just an absolute beast, especially given his age; it’ll be interesting to see when he gets the call because all signs point to him starting the year in AAA.

1) , C, Grade A
2) , C, Grade B
3) Manny Banuelos, LHP, Grade B-
4) Zach McAllister, RHP, Grade B-
5) , OF, Grade B-
6) , RHP, Grade B-
7) Gary Sanchez, C, Grade C+
8) John Murphy, C, Grade C+
9) Kelvin De Leon, OF, Grade C+
10) D.J. Mitchell, RHP, Grade C+

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