Many of you will recall that I developed a formula to rank pitching performances in the minor league system.  I have fine tuned this formula a bit in 2006, including minor league numbers only.  Following are the Top 30:

                                      2005

#1   Matt Garza        149.887         #22
#2   Kevin Slowey      148.509         # 3
#3   Pat Neshek        138.116         # 5
#4   J.D. Durbin       119.957         #33
#5   Julio DePaula     119.666         #19
#6   Oswaldo Sosa      119.270         #58
#7   Scott Baker       119.083         # 2
#8   Boof Bonser       118.743         # 9
#9   Beau Kemp         118.021         #20
#10  Yohan Pino        111.210         #31

#11  Jeff Manship*     109.987
#12  Eduardo Morlan    109.628         #24
#13  Anthony Swarzak   107.178         #13
#14  Dan Powers        106.735         #36
#15  Glen Perkins      106.354         #11
#16  Kevin Cameron     106.233         #32
#17  Jay Sawatski      105.831         #48
#18  Tristan Crawford  103.076         #38
#19  Zach Ward          99.709
#20  Ricky Barrett      99.472

#21  Brian Duensing     99.461         #23
#22  Danny Vais         98.096         #47
#23  Jason Miller       98.044         #26
#24  Dan Leatherman     98.037
#25  Alexander Smit     93.416         #21
#26  Kyle Waldrop       92.887         #28
#27  J.P. Martinez      92.632         #17
#28  Adam Harben        92.191         # 8
#29  Pete Munro         91.617
#30  Errol Simonitsch   91.073         # 7

* Very limited performance after signing late in summer.

That's the list of the Top 30!