Minor League Recap

Dejan has a great recap of the minor league season in today's Post Gazette. I don't follow the minors or chronicle them on this site maybe as much as I should, so this is really a rather informative article for people like me. Everyone knows about Walker and McCutchen, who may both open next year at Altoona (McCutchen is still kind of a question mark I guess because of his age, but he's certainly performed there this year). It's also very obvious that the organization thinks very highly of Brad Lincoln, despite his season ending injury, as Brian Graham places him on a level with Walker and McCutchen. Next year is the year we'll start to find more out about Lincoln, but it seems to me that they think he's going to climb pretty quickly.

There's also a ton of stuff about middle infielders (of course) as Brent Lillibridge and Brian Bixler have kind of made themselves into prospects this year (they really weren't when the year started) and of course lots of middle relievers thrown into the mix. As Dejan notes, there is a major power outage in the minors, and Walker and McCutchen may well be our best power prospects, which is kind of a problem. The whole thing is definitely worth a read if you've got the time.