The minor league baseball season is starting to wind down, with only a few weeks left before teams across the country finish up their regular season schedules over Labor Day weekend. As such, the time has come for Baseball America to release their annual list that names the players with the top tools across all the full-season levels of MiLB. There are 10 leagues and 20 different player categories rated for each league, including offensive, defensive, pitching tools. There is even an additional column for “best managerial prospect.”
Baseball America currently views the Milwaukee Brewers as having the worst farm system among all 30 Major League Baseball franchises, but their scouts still saw fit to recognize four prospects from the org who were rated as having a top tool in their league:
The Biloxi Shuckers currently rank second-best on the circuit in team steals, and that is due in large part to the contributions of Aviles, 24.