2005 Alaska League: Top 10 Prospects

By Allan Simpson
August 25, 2005

Once the nation’s premier summer league in terms of producing future major league talent, the Alaska League has fallen on hard times. Not only were league managers almost universal in denouncing the overall talent in the league this summer, but the league uncustomarily fared poorly at the National Baseball Congress World Series, where an Alaska team had won 16 championships in the previous 36 years. The Alaska Goldpanners, who have sent almost 200 players to the big leagues while winning a record six NBC titles, lapped the field in the Alaska League this summer, but went quietly in Wichita as the league’s lone representative with a lineup that featured few bona fide prospects.

1. Michael Taylor, of, Mat-Su Miners (Stanford)

2. Gary Daley, rhp, Anchorage Glacier Pilots (Cal Poly)

3. Jimmy Van Ostrand, of, Anchorage Glacier Pilots (Cal Poly)

4. Sung-Wei Tseng, rhp, Anchorage Bucs (Taiwan)

5. Ty Davis, rhp, Peninsula Oilers (Vanderbilt)

6. Josh McLaughlin, rhp, Mat-Su Miners (College of Charleston)

7. Quinn Stewart, of, Alaska Goldpanners (Louisiana State)

8. Danny Valencia, 3b, Anchorage Glacier Pilots (Miami)

9. Matt Meyer, lhp, Peninsula Oilers (Boston College)

10. Josh Kahaulelio, ss, Peninsula Oilers (Oral Roberts)