Earlier this year I presented a top 10 list of minor league pitchers according to Age-Adjusted Dominance Ratio - a stat that I developed last year as a quick method of assessing a pitcher's dominance by weighing strikeouts against walks, HBP. HR and Hits.
A link to part 2 and the April list can be found here.
I present here the top 20 for both AA and AAA as of the morning of May 31st. Player population excludes pitchers aged 30 and over (B-R age) and the top 20 contains only pitchers aged 26 or under (I took Francisco Liriano out). Further notes will be made in the Comments section.
| Pitcher | Age | Tm | Lev | Aff | raw DR | regressed | AADR | lg adj | rnk |
| Rafael Montero | 22 | BNG | AA | NYM | 3.41 | 2.82 | 2.47 | 1.87 | 1 |
| Danny Salazar | 23 | AKR | AA | CLE | 3.75 | 2.82 | 2.30 | 1.69 | 2 |
| Alex Wood* | 22 | MSS | AA | ATL | 2.74 | 2.39 | 1.94 | 1.35 | 3 |
| Jesse Biddle* | 21 | REA | AA | PHI | 2.72 | 2.36 | 1.88 | 1.28 | 4 |
| Archie Bradley | 20 | MOB | AA | ARI | 2.45 | 2.09 | 1.83 | 1.24 | 5 |
| Burch Smith | 23 | SAN | AA | SDP | 3.85 | 2.81 | 2.07 | 1.21 | 6 |
| Anthony Ranaudo | 23 | PRT | AA | BOS | 2.93 | 2.49 | 1.75 | 1.14 | 7 |
| T.J. House* | 23 | AKR | AA | CLE | 3.38 | 2.42 | 1.63 | 1.03 | 8 |
| Erik Johnson | 23 | BIR | AA | CHW | 2.67 | 2.34 | 1.62 | 1.02 | 9 |
| Yordano Ventura | 22 | NTA | AA | KCR | 3.01 | 2.55 | 1.84 | 0.98 | 10 |
| Taijuan Walker | 20 | WTN | AA | SEA | 2.10 | 1.95 | 1.57 | 0.97 | 11 |
| Kevin Gausman | 22 | BOW | AA | BAL | 2.62 | 2.26 | 1.55 | 0.94 | 12 |
| Brandon Workman | 24 | PRT | AA | BOS | 2.77 | 2.41 | 1.44 | 0.84 | 13 |
| Brian Flynn* | 23 | JCK | AA | MIA | 2.98 | 2.24 | 1.41 | 0.81 | 14 |
| Carlos Pimentel | 23 | FRI | AA | TEX | 2.85 | 2.46 | 1.52 | 0.65 | 15 |
| Jose Ramirez | 23 | TRE | AA | NYY | 2.68 | 2.19 | 1.25 | 0.65 | 16 |
| Jameson Taillon | 21 | ATO | AA | PIT | 2.09 | 1.95 | 1.19 | 0.59 | 17 |
| Zach Lee | 21 | CNG | AA | LAD | 1.97 | 1.86 | 1.14 | 0.55 | 18 |
| Nick McCully | 24 | BIR | AA | CHW | 2.62 | 2.15 | 1.01 | 0.42 | 19 |
| M. Foltynewicz | 21 | CPC | AA | HOU | 2.53 | 2.04 | 1.23 | 0.37 | 20 |
| Pitcher | Age | Tm | Lev | Aff | raw DR | regressed | AADR | lg adj | rnk |
| Tony Cingrani* | 23 | LOU | AAA | CIN | 4.76 | 3.10 | 2.94 | 2.42 | 1 |
| Vidal Nuno* | 25 | SWB | AAA | NYY | 4.41 | 2.89 | 2.25 | 1.73 | 2 |
| Jose Alvarez* | 24 | TOL | AAA | DET | 2.63 | 2.35 | 1.54 | 1.02 | 3 |
| Danny Hultzen* | 23 | TAC | AAA | SEA | 2.75 | 2.08 | 1.69 | 0.97 | 4 |
| Will Smith* | 23 | OMA | AAA | KCR | 2.36 | 2.07 | 1.66 | 0.95 | 5 |
| Sonny Gray | 23 | SAC | AAA | OAK | 2.29 | 2.04 | 1.60 | 0.88 | 6 |
| Alex Torres* | 25 | DHM | AAA | TBR | 2.75 | 2.36 | 1.39 | 0.87 | 7 |
| Tyler Skaggs* | 21 | REN | AAA | ARI | 1.95 | 1.80 | 1.42 | 0.70 | 8 |
| Allen Webster | 23 | PAW | AAA | BOS | 2.33 | 2.03 | 1.20 | 0.68 | 9 |
| Tyler Chatwood | 23 | CSP | AAA | COL | 2.30 | 1.92 | 1.34 | 0.62 | 10 |
| Jake Odorizzi | 23 | DHM | AAA | TBR | 2.17 | 1.96 | 1.09 | 0.57 | 11 |
| Jarred Cosart | 23 | OKC | AAA | HOU | 2.07 | 1.88 | 1.27 | 0.55 | 12 |
| R.J. Seidel | 25 | NVL | AAA | MIL | 2.50 | 1.99 | 1.17 | 0.45 | 13 |
| Drew Pomeranz* | 24 | CSP | AAA | COL | 2.11 | 1.91 | 1.16 | 0.45 | 14 |
| Matt Magill | 23 | ABQ | AAA | LAD | 2.21 | 1.84 | 1.16 | 0.45 | 15 |
| Brian Flynn* | 23 | NOR | AAA | MIA | 2.05 | 1.83 | 1.16 | 0.44 | 16 |
| Alex Colome | 24 | DHM | AAA | TBR | 2.16 | 1.99 | 0.96 | 0.44 | 17 |
| Danny Salazar | 23 | CLB | AAA | CLE | 2.41 | 1.87 | 0.94 | 0.42 | 18 |
| Carlos Carrasco | 26 | CLB | AAA | CLE | 2.51 | 2.18 | 0.92 | 0.40 | 19 |
| John Gast* | 24 | MEM | AAA | STL | 2.13 | 1.86 | 1.06 | 0.34 | 20 |
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