Minors: Awards

2011 Minor League All-Star Team
Sep. 16, 2011
The 2011 Minor League All-Star Team, as selected by Baseball America staff. [...] Continue Reading »

2011 Classification All-Star Teams
Sep. 16, 2011
Our 2011 postseason Classification All-Star Teams. [...] Continue Reading »

2011 Minor League Player Of The Year Mike Trout
Sep. 7, 2011
An Angels area scout was convinced that the team would have a Hall of Famer in Mike Trout. [...] Continue Reading »

2010 Freitas Award Winners
Dec. 29, 2010
We honor the top minor league operators for 2010. [...] Continue Reading »

2010 Minor League Manager Of The Year
Dec. 28, 2010
Fresh off a Triple-A national championship, Mike Sarbaugh is our 2010 Minor League Manager of the Year. [...] Continue Reading »

2010 Minor League Team Of The Year
Dec. 27, 2010
The Northwest Arkansas Naturals are our 2010 Minor League Team of the Year. [...] Continue Reading »

2010 Minor League Executive of the Year
Dec. 14, 2010
Monty Hoppel has managed to succeed in the heart of football country, which explains why the Midland general manager is our 2010 Minor League Executive of the Year. [...] Continue Reading »

2010 Classification All-Stars
Sep. 24, 2010
We pick 2010's best at every level of the minor leagues. [...] Continue Reading »

Minor League Player Of The Year Chat
Sep. 7, 2010
We answer questions about our Minor League Player of the Year on Sept. 7. [...] Continue Reading »

What Hellickson Has Learned Along The Way
Sep. 7, 2010
It took Jeremy Hellickson six years and six minor league stops to make it to the big leagues. Here's a snapshot of his path to the big leagues and what he's learned along the way. [...] Continue Reading »

Rays Patience Pays Off For Hellickson
Sep. 7, 2010
Jeremy Hellickson is the 2010 Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year. [...] Continue Reading »

Minor League Team Of The Year
Dec. 22, 2009
Before the 2009 season, there was little reason to predict the Indians' Double-A Akron team was destined for a record-setting run. [...] Continue Reading »

Minor League Manager Of The Year
Dec. 22, 2009
Durham Bulls manager Charlie Montoyo won Baseball America's 2009 Minor League Manager of the Year award. [...] Continue Reading »

Double-A Freitas: New Hampshire
Dec. 17, 2009
Although a minor league game is played in MerchantsAuto.com Stadium 71 times a year, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats front-office staff doesn't really consider the venue a ballpark. It's a community center to them, which explains their year-round success. [...] Continue Reading »

Class A Freitas Award: San Jose
Dec. 17, 2009
If a minor league owner could create a blueprint for success, it would probably look something like this: win games, boost attendance, become more profitable and remain an integral part of the community. The San Jose Giants have done all those things and more, making them an easy selection for Baseball America's 2009 high Class A Freitas Award. [...] Continue Reading »

Short-Season Freitas Award: Tri-City
Dec. 17, 2009
If the admiration of your peers is the highest complement, then the Tri-City ValleyCats have plenty of reasons to be proud. For over the past few years, the club that moved from Massachusetts to New York seven years ago has become the toast of the New York-Penn League. [...] Continue Reading »

Triple-A Freitas Award: Iowa Cubs
Dec. 17, 2009
Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of the Iowa Cubs' 2009 season is what the team had to endure in 2008. The I-Cubs' return to normalcy after one of the worst natural disasters to hit the region was no small feat—neither was the 10.2 percent increase the Triple-A Pacific Coast League affiliate saw at the gate in 2009. [...] Continue Reading »

Minor League Executive Of The Year
Dec. 3, 2009
International League president Randy Mobley likes to joke that he never knows where Norfolk Tides president Ken Young is going to call in from on the road. Young, a man of many hats with a unique background as a team owner, is the veritable "Where's Waldo" of minor league baseball. However, he's no simple face in the crowd, but rather one of the most respected, and busy, operators in the game. [...] Continue Reading »

Minor League Player Of The Year
Sep. 11, 2009
Jason Heyward is the Baseball America 2009 Minor League Player of the Year. [...] Continue Reading »

Freitas Award: Short-Season
Dec. 22, 2008
In their five seasons in the Rookie-level Appalachian League, the Greeneville Astros have consistently provided a high-quality product while annually leading the league in attendance, two key reasons why they are the 2008 short-season winners of the Freitas Award. [...] Continue Reading »

The Silver Touch
Dec. 22, 2008
Naomi Silver swears she was not trying to follow in her father's footsteps. It was only after the Rochester Red Wings' chief operating officer helped save minor league baseball in neighboring Batavia that she realized how the act so closely resembled an achievement of her father some 50 years ago. [...] Continue Reading »

The Future's So Bright
Dec. 22, 2008
The best is still ahead for one of minor league baseball's most accomplished franchises. The venerable Columbus Clippers will be moving to new Huntington Park in 2009 and will begin a new affiliation with the Indians. [...] Continue Reading »

Working Wonders
Dec. 22, 2008
In today's age, the minor league teams drawing the most fans are typically those with the newest ballparks. That's not the case with the Birmingham Barons. Sure, Regions Park is newer than the stadium they left, but that can be said of every ballpark in America. After all, Rickwood Field is the oldest standing ballpark in the country. [...] Continue Reading »

Reinventing The Team
Dec. 22, 2008
The Greensboro Grasshoppers are the 2008 Class A Freitas Award winner. [...] Continue Reading »

Packing Them In
Dec. 22, 2008
It's a tried and true recipe for success: Take a town hungry for baseball, give it a consistent winner in a beautiful, new ballpark and then sit back and watch the turnstiles spin. The Greeneville Astros have followed the plan to a tee in their five seasons in the Rookie-level Appalachian League, consistently providing a high-quality product while annually leading the league in attendance, two key reasons why they are the 2008 short-season winners of the Freitas Award. [...] Continue Reading »

2008 Classification All-Stars
Oct. 2, 2008
All-stars for 2008 from Triple-A, Double-A, high Class A, low Class A, short-season and Rookie-levels. [...] Continue Reading »

Frisco Won With Prospects
Sep. 22, 2008
At the Texas League all-star game in late June, shortstop Elvis Andrus seemed not far from becoming a one-man army at Double-A Frisco. The first half of the season had been full of stars and then promotions for the Rangers affiliate. One by one prospects advanced on to Triple-A Oklahoma, some on to the major leagues: Catcher Taylor Teagarden and outfielder John Mayberry departed in April. Within a three-week span just ahead of the all-star game, lefthander Matt Harrison, first baseman Chris Davis and catcher Max Ramirez followed suit. [...] Continue Reading »

Minor League POY Chat
Sep. 8, 2008
John Manuel and Kary Booher chatted about our POY selection [...] Continue Reading »

Georgia Tech's Hall Weighs In On Wieters
Sep. 8, 2008
Georgia Tech coach Danny Hall coached Jason Varitek, Mark Teixeira and Matt Wieters and compares the three Yellow Jackets alumni—all switch-hitters, all Scott Boras Corporation clients—to each other. [...] Continue Reading »

Taking Flight
Sep. 8, 2008
Matt Wieters has quickly risen through the Orioles' system, putting together a season worthy of our Minor League Player of the Year honor. [...] Continue Reading »