After recognizing each team’s top performers in minor league baseball, we turn to the best throughout the entire minors!
Through the entire month of October, we examined the top performers in the minors for each team. We will now expand that to all of minor league baseball with a top performer for each position around the diamond and a half dozen pitchers.
This team is selected on numbers alone, not on the prospect status of the player, though in close “battles” there is weight given to age relative to league. That would mean a pair of players both hitting for an .800 OPS at second base in AA would lead to the 20-year-old performing at that level getting more consideration for this list than a 26-year-old.
We will start with the minor league leaders on the season, then examine our team of the year…
2018 Minor League Baseball Leaders (150 PA or 50 IP for rate stats)
AVG – Malcom Nunez, St. Louis Cardinals, .415
OBP – Cal Stevenson, Toronto Blue Jays, .511
SLG – Malcom Nunez, St. Louis Cardinals, .774
R – Vidal Brujan, Tampa Bay, 112
H – Josh Fuentes, Colorado Rockies, 180
2B – Alex Kirilloff, Minnesota Twins, 44
3B – Jorge Mateo, Oakland Athletics, 16
HR – Peter Alonso, New York Mets; Ibandel Isabel, Los Angeles Dodgers/Cincinnati Reds, 36
RBI – Peter Alonso, New York Mets, 119
SB – Myles Straw, Houston Astros, 70
TB – Alex Kirilloff, Minnesota Twins, 296
W – Scott Moss, Cincinnati Reds, 15
G – Pedro Beato, Philadelphia Phillies, 63
SV – Pedro Beato, Philadelphia Phillies, 35
IP – James Marvel, Pittsburgh Pirates, 167.1
K – Dean Kremer, Los Angeles Dodgers/Baltimore Orioles 178
ERA – Luis Rodriguez, Chicago Cubs 0.73
WHIP – Luis Palacios, Miami Marlins 0.60
K/9 – Demarcus Evans, Texas Rangers 16.6
K/BB – Bryan Valdez, Arizona Diamondbacks 59.00
Let’s start our minor league baseball team of the year with the infield…