Which major league team has the best farm system?

Question

My pick is the Twins. This year, Perkins, Blackburn, Buscher, and Span have all been brought up and doing outstanding.

But i may be a bit biased, being from MN.

Answer 1

Entering the 2008 season, Baseball America (they are the premier source for minor league and prospect information) rated the Tampa Bay Rays the top minor league system.

Answer 2

Rays,---  Crawford, Upton, Longoria, Navarro, Jackson, Zobrist, Sonnanstine were all in the Rays' farm system at one point.

Plus Josh Hamilton and Bobby Abreu to name a few

Answer 3

The Rockies by far.

Players from the farm system:

Matt Holliday- 2007 batting title, power hitter, you know him

Todd Helton- 3-time gold glove vet

Brad Hawpe- power hitter, 29 homers last year

Garrett Atkins- power hitter, career BA above 300

Troy Tulowitzki- ROY runner-up

Chris Ianetta- power hitting catcher

Manny Corpas- lights out setup man

Jeff Francis- Ace

Aaron Cook- All Star pitcher

Ubaldo Jimenez- hard throwing rookie

Jeff Baker- power

Clint Barmes- utility

...along with most of the rest of the team

The only players I can think of who didn't go through the Rockies farm system are Willy Taveras, Scott Posednik, Yorvit Torrealba, a few pitchers like Brian Fuentes.

They got to the World Series last year with a truly homegrown team :)

Good question

Answer 4

You are right with the Twins, they are always bringing up good young talent. The A's always have good young pitching that always gets traded away.

Answer 5

Minnesota...they've pulled up 6 players from the minors (Two pitchers and 4 Batters/infielder/O-fielders)

Glen Perkins 6-3 3.42 ERA

Nick Blackburn 7-6 4.41 ERA

Denard Span .347 BA in Two and a half weeks play

Alexi Casilla .313 BA has only played for a month and has 38 RBIs

Brian Buscher .333 BA 26 RBIs for the past month he would play like 3 games every week

Carlos Gomez(injured)-21 stolen bases, 53 runs

Answer 6

the a's have a good 1 the mets is probaly the worst

Answer 7

idk

but wat i do know is that the yankees have an abundance of young major league ready prospects to trade that is why they were able to go out and get marte & nady