Since signing with the Tigers for $1,795,100 as the 34th overall choice last June, Stewart has continued to mash. He slammed 10 homers in his 71-game pro debut last summer and already has surpassed that total in little more than a month in high Class A this year. He went deep in four games last week and leads the Minors with 13 in 37 contests. The last Detroit farmhand to top the Minors in homers was Phil Hiatt with 42 at Triple-A Toledo in 1996.
Stewart is the standout performer on our latest Prospect Team of the Week, which covers games from May 9-15:
Expected to make Colorado's big league club out of Spring Training, Murphy instead returned to Triple-A Albuquerque and missed the first month with a strained left oblique.