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This Day in Baseball Jays Minor Leaguers Of The Year Announced
Via the Jays website their winners are...

AAA: LHP David Purcey: 19 starts, 117 IP, 97 H, 8 HR, 34 BB, 121 SO, 2.69 ERA and now a major leaguer

AA: 2B Scott Campbell: 302/398/427 over 417 AB with 9 HR, 66 BB and 63 SO

A+: 1B Brian Dopirak: 308/382/577 over 409 AB's in A+, he had 29 HR and 101 RBI overall (including AA)

A: LHP Marc Rzepczynski: 22 starts, 121 IP, 100 H, 2 HR, 42 BB, 124 SO, 2.83 ERA

A-: RHP Robert Bell: 19 relief games, 27 2/3 IP, 15 H, 0 HR, 0 BB, 39 SO, 0.98 ERA, 10 saves, first pro season at 22 plus 3 perfect innings in A

Short Season: 3B Balbino Fuenmayor: 307/360/468 over 179 AB's, big improvement for the 18 year old

Dominican: C Carlos Perez and INF Oliver Dominguez
Posted by John Northey on Wednesday, September 17 2008 @ 01:21 PM EDT.
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Mick Doherty - Wednesday, September 17 2008 @ 04:38 PM EDT (#192539) #
Obviously, this list isn't exactly equivalent to "Toronto's top eight prospects," not by a long shot -- but how many teams would put together a list like this and not have a single outfielder listed???
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iains - Wednesday, September 17 2008 @ 05:34 PM EDT (#192541) #
All I can say about Robert Bell is 'wow'.  No walks and about 1.5 K/inning pitched?  That's one heck of an 18th rounder.
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Ducey - Wednesday, September 17 2008 @ 07:01 PM EDT (#192544) #

but how many teams would put together a list like this and not have a single outfielder listed???

Well, to be fair, Snider would have obviously been there had he not moved so fast.  It is not really a problem when your best outfield prospect is too good to be on the list.

Lind has just passed the minor league stage by a few months as well.

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wacker - Wednesday, September 17 2008 @ 07:02 PM EDT (#192545) #
how could balbino be the player of the month for july when talleys numbers dwarfs his? .369/.403/.569.
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John Northey - Wednesday, September 17 2008 @ 07:39 PM EDT (#192549) #
Well, this was for player of the year not month.

Jonathan Talley did well, 303/354/493 overall, 300/348/493 for the level the award was for while splitting time equally between DH/CA/1B. Fuenmayor hit 307/360/458 while playing almost exclusively third base.

There is a case for Talley, but since Fuenmayor played in the field all season I figure that was the decision maker.
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