[EmpireWF]

Here is a list by MinorLeagueBaseball.com writer Jonathan Mayo ranking the top 50 prospects in all of baseball.

I'll list the top 15...

1. OF - Delmon Young, Tampa Bay
2. 3B - Alex Gordon, Kansas City
3. RHP - Homer Bailey, Cincinnati
4. RHP - Philip Hughes, Yankees
5. SS - Brandon Wood, Los Angeles of Anaheim
6. OF - Cameron Maybin, Detroit
7. OF - Justin Upton, Arizona
8. OF - Jay Bruce, Cincinnati
9. SS - Troy Tulowitzki, Colorado
10. RHP - Yovani Gallardo, Milwaukee
11. LHP - Scott Elbert, Los Angeles (NL)
12. RHP - Mike Pelfrey, Mets
13. OF - Billy Butler, Kansas City
14. RHP - Adam Miller, Cleveland
15. OF - Andrew McCutcheon, Pittsburgh

[Gotham Dark Knight]

I like Brandon Wood...think he will be the real thing...

[azrael492]

I have been hearing great things about Homer Bailey. The Reds are afraid to bring him up to early or overworkhim. They shut him down the last month of the season. They are banking on him being the next big pitcher.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by azrael492

I have been hearing great things about Homer Bailey. The Reds are afraid to bring him up to early or overworkhim. They shut him down the last month of the season. They are banking on him being the next big pitcher.

Bad stadium ot be the next great pitcher in...its a bit of a hitters park...

[Lefty Noob]

Thanks for the head's up on this. Had to go check out the Pirates' Andrew McCutcheon. Looks like a pretty good prospect, hitting .308 with a .379 OBP and a .474 SLG in Double-A last season. Wonder if we'll see him in the bigs at all this year or not.

[mervinout]

ha this a good list to check out, the roylas seem to have some top talent ready to go. Is this do to good scouting which is hard for me to belive, or the wealth of top picks they have every year?

The angels are up their yet again, not a suprise they do a great job of scouting espically in the pitching field.

They say the eta on hughes is 2007, this cant be possible can it, the only way i see it is if pettite pavano and randy stay injured which is possible but far to unlikely for cashmen to move him up this year

[EmpireWF]

Originally Posted by mervinout

They say the eta on hughes is 2007, this cant be possible can it, the only way i see it is if pettite pavano and randy stay injured which is possible but far to unlikely for cashmen to move him up this year

I've always heard Hughes won't be rushed and the plan is to have him join the rotation in the 08 season.

[MJHMarc]

Can Alex Gordon be the savior to the Royals organization?

[ski]

i think the only way mccuthen gets a look is a sept call-up if ( i mean when) chris duffy stuggles and decides he doesn't want to play again, but he will probably see very little time. just remember he had a good spring training. boy major leagues and 20 years old you don't see that very often.

[MJHMarc]

Yeah, they keep on getting younger and younger.

Someday, 13 year olds will be playing major league ball.

[flamnotspam]

Yeah, look at Cameron Maybin!! He played in some exhibition games last year too, at the age of EIGHTEEN....he probably won't be called up yet, but nonetheless, he's playing big league ball. Even if they wait to call him until 2008 he'll still be only 20.

Tigers love these babies though. They brought up Bonderman at 20, and Zumaya at 21....if they do bring up Maybin their average age is going to drop below some of the high schools around here (and I'm including Leyland here haha).

Scaaaaaaaaaary.