Tigers Top Prospects 2009

The last few posts relating to Adam Dunn and the value of “top prospects” got me thinking about who exactly were the Tigers top MLB prospects. If you’re looking for the easy way out, you can dial up a Google search to the tune of “Detroit Tigers top prospects 2009” and you’ll get a few lists from some reputable sources. The “easy way out” isn’t a bad option but there are some minor drawbacks. First, those lists were formulated at the end (or beginning depending on your definition) of the year well before any statistics in 2009 were accumulated. Those outdated lists still might give an accurate depiction of who some of the top prospects are but things change considerably in four months of baseball. As far as I can tell, there is not a recent free list that has taken into account to-date statistics. The other problem is that even when you’re dealing with a reputable publication like Baseball America, there are going to be oversights and/ or mistakes. For instance, when Baseball Americ...