I'm not a prospect guy. I like reading all the top prospects lists and all that, but it's not something I pay attention to on any kind of regular basis. I enjoy minor league games, but because they're cheap and fun. I tend not to watch all that much baseball (especially, I discovered last weekend, if one of my companions is my three year old).
There might be only one time in my life that I've gone to a minor-league game specifically interested in watching one player play. It was fully nine years ago now, and that player was Sean Burroughs.
Taken by the Padres with the ninth overall pick in 1998 (11 spots ahead of C.C. Sabathia), Burroughs was destined for stardom basically from birth (he is the son of a former MVP, after all). His minors page on Baseball-Reference says that he peaked in 2002 as Baseball America's #4 prospect, but I remember him as even higher than that. Maybe because he had been a top-ten prospect three years in a row.
