While I can understand the numbers being higher for Snyder than Crowe at first glance, when you look at the entire season, the peripherals, and the fact that this is Snyder's second season at AA, not to mention the fact that Snyder is 24 versus Crowe's 22, I have to agree that Crowe is ahead of Snyder.

Personally, it wouldn't shock me if Snyder is part of an offseason trade.  It's debatable that Ryan Goleski and Brian Barton are both higher on the totem pole than Snyder as well.  

In fact, I was just looking at Snyders' BB/K ratio last night, and while his BB rate has improved from last year, his K rate is about the same as last year, so he has not made significant improvement in cutting down on his Ks.  For a guy with decent, but not outstanding power, that's not a good sign.

I respect your opinion. :-)

Actually, Crowe had very limited time at AA Akron last year at age 21, but for all intensive purposes, he mastered High-A and graduated to AA at age 22.  Snyder didn't master High-A and graduate to AA until he was 23.  

Even though Snyder's stats look better than Crowe's at AA, this is Snyder's 2nd year there, and by most accounts, hasn't improved all that much in cutting down on his high K numbers - that is what has really held the Indians back in promoting him to AAA.  They had hoped most of his at-bats this season would be at the AAA level, but being that he really hasn't improved much in that department, I'm really not sure he's that much more ready to handle AAA pitching as he was to start this season.  Perhaps a slight improvement, but not so much so where you feel confident he will have AAA success.

He might start at AAA Buffalo next year, but that depends on who is left over at Buffalo next year (Francisco? Gutierrez?) and also on Ryan Goleski and Brian Barton's progress as well - right now, those two seem higher up on the ladder than Snyder, since both are handling the AA level better because both have higher OPS over Snyder (Goleski: .881; Barton: .897; Snyder: .800; granted, smaller sample sizes for Goleski and Barton,) and both are striking out at lower rates than Snyder in their first exposures to AA.  Plus, Goleski and Barton are actually 2 and 1 month younger, respectively, than Snyder.

Crowe - admittedly, he probably will start back at AA next year for two reasons; one, the stats you mention, though keep in mind that he is probably wearing down a bit with the position change and such, plus did have that ankle injury recently, which could still be affecting him as well; two, the position change - the Indians probably would want him to play 2B a little while longer at AA Akron, at a level where he has some experience before promoting him to AAA.

Overall, Crowe would rank higher than Snyder on the Indians' Top Prospect list because he's 1.5 years younger than Snyder and because of the progress he has made this year versus Snyder stalling out a bit at AA and not reaching AAA yet like he was expected to.

I respect your opinion, but I'd be very surprised if Trevor Crowe is not in the Top 5 - you have to look at more than the stats; you also have to look at the projected ability of these players as MLers, how young they are, how far they have progressed, etc.  All those factors say to me that Crowe will be in the Top 5.

Plus, I'm sure those who look at the stats will take Crowe's ankle injury into account; before the ankle injury, he was hitting well over .300 at AA - AA was not a problem for him.  I don't believe that he just all of a sudden lost his ability to hit there or that the pitchers there figured out some type of weakness - Crowe had very few, if any, weaknesses offensively.  

I'm pretty sure Crowe will be in the Top 5, along with Adam Miller, etc.

Brad Snyder might make Top 15, but certainly not Top 5, and probably not Top 10 either (at least, I wouldn't put him in the Indians' Top 10 Prospect List.)  He repeated AA, and while his walk rate is a bit higher, his K rate hasn't improved very much (the main reason he was still at AA Akron; he would have been at Buffalo this year, regardless of how many OFers they had there, if not for his inability to control the strike zone on a consistent basis.)  He's also 24, older than Barton and Goleski by 1 to 2 months respectively.  

He's losing the projectability that Crowe still has, and before the ankle injury, Crowe was playing at the level that the Indians have been expecting out of Snyder for the past two seasons.  Outside of a few small spurts, Snyder hasn't displayed that consistent high level of play like Crowe showed before his injury.  That's another main reason why Crowe will be in the Top 5 and rate higher than Snyder on the Indians' Top Prospect List.

Just my 2 cents. :-)