2012 Detroit Tigers Consensus Top 31 Prospects
Posted: March 1, 2012 Filed under: Prospects, Rankings 1 Comment »Introduction
I have created a cumulative prospect list for each team based on other (more knowledgeable) peoples’ lists. Each time a prospect appears on a list, he gets a number of points (21 minus his ranking). The prospect with the largest amount of points is ranked first. I will be posting each team once they have been completed by all of my sources. You can find a link to all of the other teams top prospects on the Team Prospects page. Clicking on the links below will take you to the team’s list on each respective site.
I included another column to the table named “Con. Rank,” which is the consensus overall ranking of each prospect, as compiled by me.
Lists with reports
Baseball America (scouting reports for subscribers)
Fangraphs (scouting reports for top 10)
Kevin Goldstein, Baseball Prospectus (scouting reports for top 11 for subscribers)
Other lists
Keith Law, ESPN (Subscription required)
The List
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| Rank | Player | Total | Con. Rank |
| 1 | Jacob Turner | 320 | 16 |
| 2 | Nick Castellanos | 303 | 47 |
| 3 | Drew Smyly | 277 | 121 |
| 4 | Casey Crosby | 263 | 173 |
| 5 | Andrew Oliver | 235 | #N/A |
| 6 | James McCann | 190 | #N/A |
| 7 | Brenny Paulino | 188 | #N/A |
| 8 | Aaron Westlake | 141 | #N/A |
| 9 | Danry Vazquez | 112 | #N/A |
| 10 | Rob Brantly | 107 | #N/A |
| 11 | Alex Burgos | 89 | #N/A |
| 12 | Tyler Collins | 81 | #N/A |
| 13 | Avisail Garcia | 77 | #N/A |
| 14 | Eugenio Suarez | 69 | #N/A |
| 15 | Daniel Fields | 64 | #N/A |
| 16 | Tyler Gibson | 58 | #N/A |
| 17 | Brian Flynn | 57 | #N/A |
| 18 | Bruce Rondon | 56 | #N/A |
| 19 | Jay Voss | 43 | #N/A |
| 20 | Kyle Ryan | 36 | #N/A |
| 21 | Brandon Loy | 33 | #N/A |
| 22 | Jose Ortega | 18 | #N/A |
| 23 | Jason King | 16 | #N/A |
| 24 | Dean Green | 15 | #N/A |
| 24 | Josue Carreno | 15 | #N/A |
| 26 | Matt Hoffman | 13 | #N/A |
| 27 | Dixon Machado | 12 | #N/A |
| 28 | Kevin Eichhorn | 10 | #N/A |
| 29 | Kenny Faulk | 6 | #N/A |
| 30 | Adam Wilk | 4 | #N/A |
| 31 | Duane Below | 1 | #N/A |
Here is a spreadsheet that contains all of the Detroit Tigers team rankings in one place.
And this page links to all of the different team’s rankings from all of the sites.

[...] Both bombs came off 6’8 left-handed Tigers prospect Brian Flynn, at 2011 seventh-rounder who was the 11th-best prospect in that system coming into the season, according to Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus, the eighth-best according to John Sickels at Minor League Ball– who mentions Flynn’s 90-95mph fastball– and seventeenth overall, based on the aggregation of several lists by Steal of Home. [...]