During the college season BluGrass Baseball publishes a weekly leaderboard for all Kentucky collegians. Minor League Baseball is less conducive to such an arrangement because players are scattered across several leagues and ability levels, but I thought I’d publish the end of season statistical leaderboard in advance of the MiLB pitcher and player of the year awards coming out later this week. Remember stats from higher-level leagues are more impressive, but this is a good place to start in examining the best 2010 MiLB performances.

I’ll post a separate leaderboard for short-season players later this week in advance of the “Rookie of the Year” award.

Batting Average (2.7 PA/team game)

• Jake Shaffer (High A High Desert) – .336
• Jason Kipnis (AA Akron) –  .307
• Ben Revere (AA New Britain) – .305
• Wade Gaynor (Low A West Michigan) – .286
• Collin Cowgill (AA Mobile) – .285

On-base Percentage

• Jake Shaffer (High A High Desert) – .386
• Jason Kipnis (AA Akron) – .386
• Ben Revere (AA New Britain) – .371
• Collin Cowgill (AA Mobile) – .360
• Wade Gaynor (Low A West Michigan) – .354

Slugging Percentage

• Jake Shaffer (High A High Desert) – .511
• Jason Kipnis (AA Akron) – .492
• Collin Cowgill (AA Mobile) – .464
• Chris Dominguez (Low A Augusta) – .456
• Seth Bynum (AAA Syracuse) — .436

Runs

• Jason Kipnis (AA Akron) – 96
• Wade Gaynor (Low A West Michigan) – 91
• Collin Cowgill (AA Mobile) – 89
• Chris Dominguez (Low A Augusta) – 85
• Boomer Whiting (AAA Syracuse) – 66

RBI

• Chris Dominguez (Low A Augusta) – 101
• Collin Cowgill (AA Mobile) – 83
• Wade Gaynor (Low A West Michigan) – 80
• Jake Shaffer (High A High Desert) – 78
• Jason Kipnis (AA Akron) – 74

Home Runs

• Chris Dominguez (Low A Augusta) – 21
• Chad Cregar (Low A Greensboro) – 17
• Collin Cowgill (AA Mobile) – 16
• Jason Kipnis (AA Akron) – 16
• Marcus Nidiffer (SS Tri-City) — 14
• Seth Bynum (AAA Syracuse) – 14

Stolen bases

• Boomer Whiting (AAA Syracuse) – 48
• Ben Revere (AA New Britain) – 36
• Collin Cowgill (AA Mobile) – 25
• John Shelby (AA Birmingham) – 15
• Cameron Conner (R Idaho Falls) – 15 *

*  — Nidiffer and Conner played in short-season leagues.