2016 Composite Minor League Records (Low A - AAA)

[MadThinker88]

Thanks to a little help from a person on another board, I was able to put the following chart together without spending too much time & effort.

 

I realize that winning is secondary to developing the talent with the minors league teams, but it is still fun to watch & compare the records.

 

Here is to hoping that the winning done early will continue to bred a strong culture of winning & result in more wins at the major league level.

 

My plan is to update this every couple of weeks with a new posting. Enjoy.

 

 

As of end of 5/13/2016

# Franchise

W L Pct

1 Cleveland Indians

89 48 0.6496

2 Texas Rangers

87 50 0.6350

3 New York Yankees

79 57 0.5809

4 Philadelphia Phillies

75 61 0.5515

5 Seattle Mariners

74 61 0.5481

6 Washington Nationals

72 60 0.5455

7 Los Angeles Dodgers

73 61 0.5448

8 Tampa Bay Rays

75 66 0.5319

9 Chicago Cubs

71 63 0.5299

10 Colorado Rockies

71 64 0.5259

11 Arizona Diamondbacks

70 64 0.5224

12 Minnesota Twins

73 67 0.5214

13 New York Mets

69 65 0.5149

14 Pittsburgh Pirates

69 66 0.5111

15 Boston Red Sox

69 67 0.5074

16 Oakland Athletics

67 69 0.4926

17 Detroit Tigers

65 69 0.4851

18 Milwaukee Brewers

64 71 0.4741

19 Toronto Blue Jays

63 71 0.4701

20 St. Louis Cardinals

62 73 0.4593

21 Houston Astros

61 72 0.4586

22 San Diego Padres

63 75 0.4565

23 Baltimore Orioles

62 75 0.4526

24 Chicago White Sox

63 77 0.4500

25 Kansas City Royals

60 74 0.4478

26 Cincinnati Reds

62 77 0.4460

27 Atlanta Braves

59 78 0.4307

28 San Francisco Giants

58 78 0.4265

29 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

58 80 0.4203

30 Miami Marlins

58 80 0.4203

[bork]

I've been tracking the minor league records since 2000 (R-AAA, not including DSL or VSL). They have had exactly 4 winnings seasons in 17 years.

 

2016 -7

2015 -94

2014 +11

2013 -68

2012 -57

2011 -69

2010 -10

2009 -16

2008 -41

2007 +89

2006 -8

2005 -37

2004 -42

2003 -20

2002 -4

2001 +19

2000 +11

[MadThinker88]

update time..

 

As of end of 5/20/2016

# Franchise

W L Pct

1 Cleveland Indians

106 57 0.6503

2 Texas Rangers

101 61 0.6235

3 New York Yankees

98 66 0.5976

4 Philadelphia Phillies

92 71 0.5644

5 Washington Nationals

88 69 0.5605

6 Los Angeles Dodgers

87 73 0.5438

7 Seattle Mariners

88 75 0.5399

8 Pittsburgh Pirates

85 75 0.5313

9 Minnesota Twins

88 78 0.5301

10 Chicago Cubs

82 77 0.5157

11 Arizona Diamondbacks

83 79 0.5123

12 Boston Red Sox

83 81 0.5061

13 Tampa Bay Rays

84 82 0.5060

14 New York Mets

80 80 0.5000

15 Colorado Rockies

80 81 0.4969

16 Oakland Athletics

79 83 0.4877

17 Detroit Tigers

77 82 0.4843

18 St. Louis Cardinals

77 84 0.4783

19 Houston Astros

76 83 0.4780

20 Toronto Blue Jays

77 85 0.4753

21 Milwaukee Brewers

75 84 0.4717

22 San Diego Padres

75 88 0.4601

23 Cincinnati Reds

75 90 0.4545

24 Baltimore Orioles

73 91 0.4451

25 Kansas City Royals

71 89 0.4438

26 Miami Marlins

72 91 0.4417

27 Chicago White Sox

73 94 0.4371

28 San Francisco Giants

69 93 0.4259

29 Atlanta Braves

70 96 0.4217

30 Los Angeles Angels

68 94 0.4198

[Eye Black]

This isn't exactly related, but I stumbled upon this neat (and simple) site that shows the maps of each organizations affiliates. When you click on each team map it takes you from city-to-city in the chronological order a player would advance from Rookie ball to MLB.

 

Here is the site... Called Up

 

Interesting how spread out some teams are versus teams like Baltimore and Washington who stick to close geographical proximity among all of their affiliates. The Rockies map draws what looks pretty close to a star.

[MadThinker88]

update time..

 

As of end of 5/27/2016

Franchise W L Pct

1 Cleveland Indians

119 71 0.6263

2 Texas Rangers

114 77 0.5969

3 New York Yankees

114 77 0.5969

4 Washington Nationals

103 80 0.5628

5 Philadelphia Phillies

105 85 0.5526

6 Seattle Mariners

105 85 0.5526

7 Pittsburgh Pirates

100 87 0.5348

8 Los Angeles Dodgers

99 89 0.5266

9 Minnesota Twins

100 92 0.5208

10 Chicago Cubs

97 90 0.5187

11 Arizona Diamondbacks

97 93 0.5105

12 Colorado Rockies

95 93 0.5053

13 Oakland Athletics

96 94 0.5053

14 New York Mets

94 95 0.4974

15 Houston Astros

93 94 0.4973

16 Boston Red Sox

93 97 0.4895

17 St. Louis Cardinals

92 97 0.4868

18 Detroit Tigers

90 95 0.4865

19 Toronto Blue Jays

91 98 0.4815

20 Tampa Bay Rays

92 100 0.4792

21 Miami Marlins

90 101 0.4712

22 San Diego Padres

89 102 0.4660

23 San Francisco Giants

87 103 0.4579

24 Milwaukee Brewers

86 102 0.4574

25 Cincinnati Reds

87 105 0.4531

26 Baltimore Orioles

85 104 0.4497

27 Atlanta Braves

83 108 0.4346

28 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

82 108 0.4316

29 Kansas City Royals

80 106 0.4301

30 Chicago White Sox

82 112 0.4227

 

I am not liking the trend the Brewers have taken over these 3 postings (18-21-24).

Here is to hoping they can turn it around and win a little more often

[MadThinker88]

Update time, with games thru 6-3-16.

at least the Brewer ranking improved from last week.

 

As of end of 6/3/2016

# Franchise W L Pct

1 Cleveland Indians

134 83 0.6175

2 New York Yankees

130 85 0.6047

3 Texas Rangers

124 90 0.5794

4 Seattle Mariners

124 92 0.5741

5 Washington Nationals

118 93 0.5592

6 Pittsburgh Pirates

118 96 0.5514

7 Philadelphia Phillies

117 99 0.5417

8 Minnesota Twins

113 104 0.5207

9 Los Angeles Dodgers

109 103 0.5142

10 Arizona Diamondbacks

110 106 0.5093

11 Chicago Cubs

108 105 0.5070

12 Houston Astros

108 106 0.5047

13 Detroit Tigers

106 106 0.5000

14 Boston Red Sox

107 110 0.4931

15 Oakland Athletics

106 109 0.4930

16 St. Louis Cardinals

106 109 0.4930

17 Tampa Bay Rays

107 113 0.4864

18 Colorado Rockies

104 111 0.4837

19 San Diego Padres

104 112 0.4815

20 Toronto Blue Jays

108 118 0.4779

21 New York Mets

103 113 0.4769

22 Miami Marlins

103 114 0.4747

23 Milwaukee Brewers

100 113 0.4695

24 San Francisco Giants

101 117 0.4633

25 Cincinnati Reds

98 119 0.4516

26 Baltimore Orioles

96 120 0.4444

27 Kansas City Royals

92 121 0.4319

28 Atlanta Braves

93 123 0.4306

29 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

91 124 0.4233

30 Chicago White Sox

93 127 0.4227

[MadThinker88]

after 6/10/16.

 

1 Cleveland Indians  148 96 0.6066

2 New York Yankees  145 96 0.6017

3 Texas Rangers  139 99 0.5840

4 Seattle Mariners  139 103 0.5744

 

24 Milwaukee Brewers  110 126 0.4661

 

28 Chicago White Sox  105 140 0.4286

29 Los Angeles Angels 103 138 0.4274

30 Kansas City Royals  97 140 0.4093

 

 

If the affiliate clubs could get themselves back to a combined .500 record, it would put them in the top half of baseball. Current #13 place (Houston) is the only .500 team at 119-119

[MadThinker88]

Update time.

Remember - these standings ONLY considers the FULL SEASON clubs in the minors (Low A thru AAA).

 

1 New York Yankees 161 108 0.5985

2 Cleveland Indians 159 113 0.5846

3 Texas Rangers 153 114 0.5730

4 Seattle Mariners 155 116 0.5720

5 Philadelphia Phillies 151 116 0.5655

 

25 San Francisco Giants 127 144 0.4686

26 Milwaukee Brewers 122 141 0.4639

27 Atlanta Braves 118 151 0.4387

 

29 Chicago White Sox 115 158 0.4212

30 Kansas City Royals 106 160 0.3985

[MadThinker88]

Update time. As of end of 6/24/2016

Remember - these standings ONLY considers the FULL SEASON clubs in the minors (Low A thru AAA).

 

1 New York Yankees 173 117 0.5966

2 Seattle Mariners 168 122 0.5793

3 Philadelphia Phillies 166 124 0.5724

4 Cleveland Indians 167 125 0.5719

5 Texas Rangers 161 130 0.5533

6 Pittsburgh Pirates 155 131 0.5420

7 Minnesota Twins 155 134 0.5363

8 Washington Nationals 153 133 0.5350

9 Los Angeles Dodgers 154 136 0.5310

10 Arizona Diamondbacks 153 137 0.5276

 

21 Cincinnati Reds 137 152 0.4740

22 Baltimore Orioles 137 153 0.4724

23 San Diego Padres 137 155 0.4692

24 Milwaukee Brewers 133 152 0.4667

25 San Francisco Giants 134 158 0.4589

 

26 Colorado Rockies 132 156 0.4583

27 Atlanta Braves 127 162 0.4394

28 Los Angeles Angels 124 166 0.4276

29 Chicago White Sox 121 171 0.4144

30 Kansas City Royals 116 173 0.4014

[MadThinker88]

Update time. As of end of 7/1/2016

Remember - these standings ONLY considers the FULL SEASON clubs in the minors (Low A thru AAA).

 

Interesting that a 12 & 13 week moves up the Crew affiliates up a spot in the overall standings.

 

1 New York Yankees 195 123 0.6132

2 Seattle Mariners 184 132 0.5823

3 Philadelphia Phillies 182 136 0.5723

4 Cleveland Indians 182 139 0.5670

5 Texas Rangers 173 143 0.5475

 

21 Cincinnati Reds 148 166 0.4713

22 San Diego Padres 149 168 0.4700

23 Milwaukee Brewers 145 165 0.4677

24 Detroit Tigers 147 168 0.4667

25 San Francisco Giants 148 171 0.4639

 

28 Los Angeles Angels 136 178 0.4331

29 Chicago White Sox 131 187 0.4119

30 Kansas City Royals 123 190 0.3930

[MadThinker88]

Update time. As of end of 7/8/2016

Remember - these standings ONLY considers the FULL SEASON clubs in the minors (Low A thru AAA).

 

A poor showing during the week (10 & 18) pushes the Crew affiliates down a few notches.

 

1 New York Yankees 207 138 0.6000

2 Seattle Mariners 201 142 0.5860

3 Philadelphia Phillies 196 149 0.5681

4 Cleveland Indians 197 151 0.5661

5 Washington Nationals 183 157 0.5382

 

23 San Diego Padres 162 183 0.4696

24 Detroit Tigers 157 183 0.4618

25 Milwaukee Brewers 155 183 0.4586

26 Colorado Rockies 156 189 0.4522

27 Atlanta Braves 153 191 0.4448

28 Los Angeles Angels 149 193 0.4357

29 Chicago White Sox 144 201 0.4174

30 Kansas City Royals 141 199 0.4147

[MadThinker88]

Update time. As of end of 7/15/2016

Remember - these standings ONLY considers the FULL SEASON clubs in the minors (Low A thru AAA).

 

Franchise W L Pct

1 New York Yankees 220 146 0.6011

2 Seattle Mariners 217 149 0.5929

3 Philadelphia Phillies 211 155 0.5765

4 Cleveland Indians 205 163 0.5571

5 Houston Astros 198 166 0.5440

6 Pittsburgh Pirates 197 169 0.5383

7 Minnesota Twins 198 170 0.5380

8 Washington Nationals 194 168 0.5359

9 Texas Rangers 195 172 0.5313

 

21 San Diego Padres 174 193 0.4741

22 Cincinnati Reds 172 191 0.4738

23 San Francisco Giants 172 196 0.4674

24 Detroit Tigers 168 192 0.4667

25 Milwaukee Brewers 165 196 0.4571

26 Colorado Rockies 164 200 0.4505

27 Atlanta Braves 160 206 0.4372

28 Los Angeles Angels 155 207 0.4282

29 Chicago White Sox 155 213 0.4212

30 Kansas City Royals 150 213 0.4132

 

Outside of High A for the Crew, the affiliates are all within a few games of .500 and are basically .500 as a group of 3. A .500 record would be good for 15th place across all of baseball.

 

Brevard county... Can you say: train wreck. More than 30 games under .500 just by themselves.

[MadThinker88]

Update time. As of end of 7/29/2016

Remember - these standings ONLY considers the FULL SEASON clubs in the minors (Low A thru AAA).

Only the top 12 places have combined records of .500 or better.

 

# Franchise W L Pct

1 New York Yankees 252 166 0.6029

2 Seattle Mariners 248 170 0.5933

3 Philadelphia Phillies 246 174 0.5857

4 Cleveland Indians 234 187 0.5558

5 Houston Astros 227 190 0.5444

6 Washington Nationals 226 191 0.5420

 

23 Colorado Rockies 196 221 0.4700

24 Baltimore Orioles 195 222 0.4676

25 Detroit Tigers 189 222 0.4599

26 Milwaukee Brewers 186 226 0.4515

27 Atlanta Braves 187 229 0.4495

 

29 Chicago White Sox 176 245 0.4181

30 Kansas City Royals 171 245 0.4111

 

The division rivals:

10 Pittsburgh Pirates 218 200 0.5215

16 St. Louis Cardinals 204 212 0.4904

17 Chicago Cubs 204 214 0.4880

21 Cincinnati Reds 199 215 0.4807

[MadThinker88]

Update time. As of end of 8/5/2016

Remember - these standings ONLY considers the FULL SEASON clubs in the minors (Low A thru AAA).

Again, only the top 12 teams have winning composite records...

 

# Franchise W L Pct

1 New York Yankees 267 177 0.6014

2 Seattle Mariners 262 184 0.5874

3 Philadelphia Phillies 258 185 0.5824

4 Houston Astros 245 201 0.5493

5 Cleveland Indians 246 203 0.5479

6 Washington Nationals 242 204 0.5426

7 Minnesota Twins 237 208 0.5326

 

24 Baltimore Orioles 207 237 0.4662

25 Detroit Tigers 202 236 0.4612

26 Milwaukee Brewers 200 239 0.4556

27 Atlanta Braves 202 243 0.4539

 

29 Chicago White Sox 185 262 0.4139

30 Kansas City Royals 183 260 0.4131

 

Division Rivals

11 Pittsburgh Pirates 229 215 0.5158

14 Chicago Cubs 222 224 0.4978

15 St. Louis Cardinals 220 223 0.4966

22 Cincinnati Reds 208 236 0.4685

 

Interesting item of note: While Brevard County (High A for the Crew) is struggling with a .333 winning percentage, Dayton (the Low A team for the Reds) is performing even worse with a .306 winning percentage

[MadThinker88]

Update time. As of end of 8/19/2016

Remember - these standings ONLY considers the FULL SEASON clubs in the minors (Low A thru AAA).

 

Franchise W L Pct

1 Seattle Mariners 296 201 0.5956

2 New York Yankees 294 205 0.5892

3 Philadelphia Phillies 289 208 0.5815

4 Cleveland Indians 279 220 0.5591

5 Houston Astros 269 228 0.5412

6 Minnesota Twins 263 234 0.5292

7 Texas Rangers 260 238 0.5221

 

26 Atlanta Braves 225 270 0.4545

27 Milwaukee Brewers 218 273 0.4440

28 Los Angeles Angels 217 279 0.4375

29 Chicago White Sox 208 289 0.4185

30 Kansas City Royals 205 291 0.4133

 

Division Rivals

9 Pittsburgh Pirates 257 239 0.5181

15 Chicago Cubs 251 245 0.5060

18 St. Louis Cardinals 243 252 0.4909

21 Cincinnati Reds 239 257 0.4819

[adambr2]

I'm sure this is an oversimplification on my part and probably betrays a lack of understanding, but it seems logical to me that if we have the best farm system in baseball (or at least, a top 5), we would have better minor league teams. Why is that not the case?

[TheCrew07]

A couple of reasons.

 

Rankings are subjective and are based on ceiling, not production, we have a bunch of prospects who haven't been consistently productive so for example instead of WI being 20 games over .500, they sit just under .500. It doesn't mean the players on that team are overrated prospects, it just means that every prospect has a unique career path, and consistency in baseball is hard to come by.

 

BC is terrible bringing the whole system down and that's not so much a reflection of the talent, but rather how aggressive they've been promoted on the pitching side. On the hitting side, everyone has been terrible with the exception of Angel Ortega, Johnny Davis, and Dustin DeMuth who were promoted to Biloxi. Frankly I expected more from Coulter, Diaz, Houle, and Allemand. I have no idea how the organization justifies Malik Collymore playing in BC because they overcrowded the WI OF moving Denson there, he's struggled all year.. BC has the 2nd worst pitching (despite the Uber pitchers home park), and and the worst offense by .022 of OPS.

 

Talent doesn't directly correlate to winning, production does and as an organization the Brewers have just done okay in that regard. Most of our teams have been stronger in one regard than the other which doesn't lend itself to winning either.

 

As an FYI...

 

The Rattlers are 3rd in OPS in a 16 team league and 12th in runs allowed, so despite having talented pitchers they've pitched just okay on the whole and the defense has been suspect enough at times for the Rattlers to be 3 games under .500.

 

Biloxi is a game over .500 despite having the worst offense in the 10 team SL and the pitchers currently sit in 6th place for runs allowed.

 

Colorado Springs has the 5th best OPS but sits 14th in runs allowed, they sit a game under .500.

[MadThinker88]

Update time: these only consider the 4 full season affiliate clubs. Thru 8/26/16

 

"And down the stretch they come...."

 

Franchise W L Pct

1 Seattle Mariners 309 215 0.5897

2 New York Yankees 309 219 0.5852

3 Philadelphia Phillies 304 219 0.5813

4 Cleveland Indians 295 231 0.5608

5 Minnesota Twins 283 241 0.5401

 

25 Baltimore Orioles 241 283 0.4599

26 Atlanta Braves 239 282 0.4587

27 Milwaukee Brewers 234 283 0.4526

28 Los Angeles Angels 229 294 0.4379

29 Chicago White Sox 216 309 0.4114

30 Kansas City Royals 213 307 0.4096

 

At this point the main question is can Brevard County (High A for the Crew) avoid a 100 loss season. They stand 38-91 after play on Friday night...

 

Division Rivals

11 Chicago Cubs 269 253 0.5153 (worst affiliate: AA Tennessee Smokies 54-75)

12 Pittsburgh Pirates 268 255 0.5124 (worst affiliate: AAA Indianapolis Indians 64-69)

17 Cincinnati Reds 255 268 0.4876 (worst affiliate: Low A Dayton Dragons 45-86)

21 St. Louis Cardinals 252 269 0.4837 (worst affiliate: High A Palm Bach Cardinals 52-77)

[MadThinker88]

Final Update time..

Since this is the last update on the records, I will list out all clubs (1 to 30) and add a few interesting tidbits for the NL Central squads.

 

If I am able to complete some additional research, I will add in the number of playoff qualifiers for each club to the posting at a latter date.

 

So, here you go..

 

As of end of 9/5/2016

Franchise W L Pct

1 New York Yankees 331 228 0.5921

2 Philadelphia Phillies 330 229 0.5903

3 Seattle Mariners 327 235 0.5819

4 Cleveland Indians 315 250 0.5575

5 Minnesota Twins 304 257 0.5419

6 Houston Astros 296 266 0.5267

7 Los Angeles Dodgers 293 267 0.5232

8 Washington Nationals 293 270 0.5204

9 Chicago Cubs 291 269 0.5196

10 Tampa Bay Rays 288 270 0.5161

11 Texas Rangers 290 272 0.5160

12 Pittsburgh Pirates 287 272 0.5134

13 Boston Red Sox 286 273 0.5116

14 Arizona Diamondbacks 287 275 0.5107

15 Toronto Blue Jays 280 281 0.4991

16 Oakland Athletics 280 281 0.4991

17 Cincinnati Reds 275 286 0.4902

18 New York Mets 274 285 0.4902

19 San Francisco Giants 275 289 0.4876

20 St. Louis Cardinals 271 287 0.4857

21 Colorado Rockies 271 291 0.4822

22 Miami Marlins 265 290 0.4775

23 Detroit Tigers 261 292 0.4720

24 San Diego Padres 262 301 0.4654

25 Atlanta Braves 260 299 0.4651

26 Baltimore Orioles 259 306 0.4584

27 Milwaukee Brewers 250 304 0.4513

28 Los Angeles Angels 246 316 0.4377

29 Kansas City Royals 229 328 0.4111

30 Chicago White Sox 228 335 0.4050

 

NL Central Clubs (worst affiliate record)

9 Chicago Cubs : Tennessee Smokies (AA) 58-81

12 Pittsburgh Pirates : Indianapolis Indians (AAA) 70-74

17 Cincinnati Reds : Dayton Dragons (Low A) 47-93

20 St. Louis Cardinals : Palm Beach Cardinals (High A) 58-79

27 Milwaukee Brewers : Brevard County (High A) 40-97

[Crash2303]

There is so much new talent in the system and a lot of talented guys will be repeating a level. So, with that said, here are a few 2017 predictions:

 

1) Our CMLR goes from 27th to top 5.

 

2) 3 out of our 6 affiliates will make the playoffs

 

3) Our A+ affiliate will lead the league in ERA

[MadThinker88]

There is so much new talent in the system and a lot of talented guys will be repeating a level. So, with that said, here are a few 2017 predictions:

 

1) Our CMLR goes from 27th to top 5.

2) 3 out of our 6 affiliates will make the playoffs

3) Our A+ affiliate will lead the league in ERA

 

Crash,

I think your dreaming/ overly optimistic with those 2017 predictions.

Earlier in this thread, Bork listed the plus/ minus for the Crews minors over the last 17 years. Only 4 winning seasons. That needs to change.

 

How about a top half finish with a winning record that gets repeated/ improved upon in 2018??? Last time there was back to back winning seasons was 2000 & 2001.

 

I have a sneaky suspicion that DS will be making changes in the player development ranks (managers/ coaches/ coordinators) this off season after seeing how 2016 went.

[Crash2303]

can't a man dream...

[Mass Haas]

Via Baseball America's Matt Eddy -- I know April is rough, but the Midwest League's placement was a bit surprising