2010 Minor League Pitching Leaderboard

Written by Greg Fertel | 07 September 2010

The minor league regular season has come to an end for some of the teams, while others will try their hand in the playoffs. Since the regular season is over, I wanted to put together a final leaderboard for both pitchers and hitters(which I'll post later). For full season ball, I'm looking at pitchers only with at least 80 innings and at least 25 from the short-season leagues.

RHP Chris Cabrera, had a very nice debut season at just 17 years old after the Yankees signed him for $400,000. He has drawn comparisons to Arodys Vizcaino in the past, and couldn't have had a much better season. He only pitched 35 innings, so I wouldn't expect to see him pushed too far next season.

Craig Heyer, who the Yankees are sending to the Arizona Fall League, had a much more impressive season than I had realized. The 11:1 strikeout to walk ratio is pretty absurd, and it came in 92 innings of work for Tampa. The Yankees definitely liked what they saw, and had him begin starting games regularly on July 20, after spending much of the season in the bullpen.

The performances from Dellin Betances, Graham Stoneburner, David Phelps, and Hector Noesi have all been well documented, but you just don't see so many pitchers in one system have such successful seasons that often. That's before even mentioning guys like Andrew Brackman, Adam Warren, and Jose Ramirez.

Other than Cabrera, I don't know too much about most of the names in the short-season league sections and those numbers tend to not matter very much. At that level it is much more about improvement and scouting than it is numbers, so I won't make any assumptions about any of those guys.