Stewart on MLB Pipeline’s Prospect Team of the Week

MLBPipeline.com’s Prospect Team of the Week honors the best performances from the previous seven days. Any player currently on an organization Top 30 Prospects list on our Prospect Watch is eligible, including big leaguers.

Christin Stewart set a Georgia high school record with 26 homers as a junior in 2011 and matched Micah Owings’ state career mark with 69, the fourth-highest total ever for a prepster. On the 2014 U.S. collegiate national team that included the top two picks in the 2015 Draft (Dansby Swanson, Alex Bregman), another first-rounder (D.J. Stewart) and a likely 2016 first-rounder (Zack Collins), Stewart led Team USA in most offensive categories, including all three slash stats at .383/.474/.605.

Since signing with the Tigers for $1,795,100 as the 34th overall choice last June, Stewart has continued to mash. He slammed 10 homers in his 71-game pro debut last summer and already has surpassed that total in little more than a month in high Class A this year. He went deep in four games last week and leads the Minors with 13 in 37 contests. The last Detroit farmhand to top the Minors in homers was Phil Hiatt with 42 at Triple-A Toledo in 1996.

Stewart is the standout performer on our latest Prospect Team of the Week, which covers games from May 9-15:

C: Tom Murphy, Rockies (No. 9 prospect) 5 G, .316/.350/.789, 4 R, 2 2B, 2 3B, 1 HR, 6 RBI, 1 BB, 5 SO

Expected to make Colorado’s big league club out of Spring Training, Murphy instead returned to Triple-A Albuquerque and missed the first month with a strained left oblique. He translated his well-above-average raw power into game production in his first full week back in the lineup and could rejoin the Rockies in the near future with Nick Hundley sidelined with oblique issues of his own.

1B: Rowdy Tellez, Blue Jays (No. 8 prospect) 7 G, .375/.444/.875, 4 R, 3 2B, 3 HR, 8 RBI, 3 BB, 4 SO

Tellez is having a rough introduction to Double-A New Hampshire, batting just .198/.336/.414 after posting an .801 OPS between two Class A stops last year. While he has struggled to climb above the Mendoza Line, he does rank second in the Eastern League with 25 walks, and he …

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