Tigers Minor League Baseball Blog

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- but he’s still a year away from making much of an impact.  After that it gets kind of spotty.  You’ve got Nick Castellanos and Andy Oliver at B’s but you get quite a few B-’s pretty quickly (including Dan Schlereth, who I like.

One surprise was Casper Wells all the way down at number ten.  I guess he is old but outside of maybe Andy Oliver, he has the best chance of making an impact for the Tigers in 2011.  Ryan Strieby almost fell off the list because of his age and Danny Worth is an honorable mention.

This isn’t too far off from what Baseball America put out which isn’t a surprise in a thin system.  You have pretty much locks up near the top, then several interchangeable parts once you get past the blue chips.