As new prospect rankings emerged this winter from the major national sites, they rapidly joined our consensus opinion that the Detroit Tigers have one of the best, if now the best farm system in the game. The Tigers have had six players consistently ranked in national top 100 lists, with a few more just outside that level. Baseball America came out with their system rankings on Wednesday, and that stockpile of talent has the Tigers as their second ranked system after the Boston Red Sox.
Plenty has been written about Jackson Jobe, Kevin McGonigle and Max Clark already.