Fake Teams Monitors the Minor League Links

As we get started on fantasy baseball offseason for keeper leagues, here's the links for this week for the minor leagues. I am planning on trying to write up specific prospects for fantasy purposes during the offseason, and am looking for suggestions, so please comment with players who you're interested in hearing about for fantasy. I will take a look at some and see which ones are the most interesting for our purposes.

Baseball America has started to release their top 10 lists for the 2012 season. You can find the schedule here, and they started out with the Atlanta Braves on Monday. Not a huge surprise, as Julio Teheran was their #1 prospect in the Braves' system. To me, the most interesting name on this list is #4, Andrelton Simmons. I plan on taking a look at him later in the offseason, but he's a target for keeper leagues to be sure. Just remember that he is likely to start in AA, and isn't likely to be in the Majors until late 2013 at the soonest.

John Sickels over at Minor League Ball wrote up a brief analysis comparing his Atlanta Braves top 10 to the Baseball America one. Very similar lists, but it's interesting to see how John notices what differences occurred, and why.

John also released his top 20 list for the Detroit Tigers on Monday. This system really seems like it's a bit devoid of high-ceiling talent at the moment, but having Jacob Turner and Nick Castellanos should still help this system overall.

Baseball Prospectus also started releasing their lists, as Kevin Goldstein posted his top 10 for the Astros. The farm system is actually not as bad as I initially thought, but nearly all of the top half of their system was acquired this year either via trade or the draft. The name that I did not expect to see so high on this list is #4, Brett Oberholtzer.

The Arizona Fall League announced the Rising Stars game rosters via their Twitter feed on Tuesday. You can see the rosters after the jump...

 

East Roster			West Roster
Pitching Staff			Pitching Staff
Steve Ames	RHP	LAD	Nate Adcock	RHP	KCR
Charles Brewer	RHP	ARI	Anthony Bass	RHP	SD
Chris Carpenter	RHP	CHC	Brad Boxberger	RHP	CIN
David Carpenter	RHP	LAA	Jed Bradley	LHP	MIL
Gerrit Cole	RHP	PIT	Cory Burns	RHP	CLE
Jacob Diekman	LHP	PHI	Wes Etheridge	RHP	TOR
Terry Doyle	RHP	CHW	Preston Guilmet	RHP	CLE
Trey McNutt	RHP	CHC	J.J. Hoover	RHP	ATL
Kevin Munson	RHP	ARI	Danny Hultzen	LHP	SEA
Rob Scahill	RHP	COL	Jeremy Jeffress	RHP	KCR
Casey Weathers	RHP	COL	Taylor Whitenton	RHP	NYM
East Catchers			West Catchers
Jason Castro	C	HOU	Christian Bethancourt	C	ATL
Derek Norris	C	WAS	Kyle Skipworth	C	FLA
East Infielders			West Infielders
Nolan Arenado	3B	COL	Matt Adams	1B	STL
Brian Dozier	SS	MIN	Tyler Bortnick	2B	TAM
Junior Lake	SS/3B	CHC	Christian Colon	SS	KCR
Will Middlebrooks	3B	BOS	Matt Dominguez	3B	FLA
Joe Panik	2B	SF	Nick Franklin	SS	SEA
Ben Paulsen	1B	COL	Mike Olt	3B	TEX
Jean Segura	SS	LAA	Joe Terdoslavich	1B	ATL
East Outfielders			West Outfielders
Xavier Avery	OF	BAL	Michael Choice	OF	OAK
Robbie Grossman	OF	PIT	Jaff Decker	OF	SD
Bryce Harper	OF	WAS	Anthony Gose	OF	TOR
Mike Trout	OF	LAA	Mikie Mahtook	OF	TAM
Tim Wheeler	OF	COL	Wil Myers	OF	KCR

David Heck of Roto Hardball takes a look at some of the minor leaguers playing in the Carribean Winter Leagues.

Bullpen Banter has released their first list, their top 15 for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Interestingly, they have a list from two different of their writers, and the top 7 prospects in the system are exactly the same on both lists.

Adam Foster over at Project Prospect takes an interesting look at the top 100 lists from some of the major sites from 2010, and notes some interesting details on players omitted and the most valuable sleepers from these lists.

Over at Fangraphs, Marc Hulet kicked off their top 15 prospect lists with the Washington Nationals. Top draft pick Anthony Rendon came in at #2, and it will be interesting to see how he adjusts to moving to 2B.