USA TODAY's Minor League Player of the Year

Paul White | USA TODAY Sports

Have you noticed what Wil Myers is doing for the Tampa Bay Rays this year?

That's what Minor League Players of the Year do and it's time to add another to the list that already includes 2012 winner Myers, plus the likes of Prince Fielder, David Price, Jose Reyes, Josh Hamilton and Jason Heyward since the award began in 1988.

Fans got to help vote for this year's winner. Each member of the USA TODAY Sports baseball staff, the group that whittled a strong field down to five finalists, gets one vote and online fan balloting counts as two votes.

Voting closed on Aug. 21, with the winner announced shortly after.

This year's finalists (statistics through Aug. 11):

Xander Bogaerts, SS, Boston Red Sox: The 20-year-old became the youngest player in the Class AAA International League when he was promoted to Pawtucket (R.I.) in June. He's held his own as an everyday shortstop after handling Class AA with a .311 batting average and .909 OPS. He quickly got acclimated to the higher level, needing barely a month at AAA to top the six homers he had hit at AA and batting .3111 with a .948 OPS in July. He's been playing som third base to give the Red Sox flexibility for the call-up that should be coming soon. Bogaerts' career average in four minor league seasons since signing out of Aruba continues to hover around .300 and he's just beginning to fill out his 6-3, 185-pound frame. That should continue to boost his power.

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Archie Bradley, RHP, Arizona Diamondbacks: The hard-throwing 2011 first-round pick has spent most of the season at Class AA Mobile (Ala.), a rapid rise from high school in Broken Arrow, Okla., for a player who didn't turn 21 until the second week of August. He ranks in the Top 5 at any level of the minors in earned run average, fewest hits per nine innings and most strikeouts per nine. He started the year with a promotion to Class A Visalia (Calif.), but was moved up again after just five starts in which he struck out 43 and walked 10 in 28 innings. He's been around a strikeout an inning at Class AA with command that's much improved from last season.

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Byron Buxton, OF, Minnesota Twins: The Mike Trout comparisons began early this season as Buxton dominated the Class A Midwest League as a 19-year-old – just as Trout did three years ago at age 18. Buxton's .341 average before his June promotion from Cedar Rapids (Iowa) was 21 points lower than what Trout did there, but Buxton's .990 OPS topped Trout's by 11 points. A month after his promotion to high Class A Fort Myers (Fla.), Buxton won Florida State League Player of the Week. He also is an exceptional center fielder, is on pace to steal more than 50 bases overall this season and has kept his overall on-base percentage over .400.

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Miguel Sano, 3B, Minnesota Twins: Power is the most impressive element of his game and he's already topped last season's 28 home runs. Sano turned 20 during the first half of the season at Class A Fort Myers (Fla.), where he tore up the Florida State League with 16 homers in 56 games and a 1.079 OPS. He hasn't quite matched those numbers at Class AA New Britain (Conn.), but still has an overall OPS over 1.000 and has topped fellow Twins prospect Byron Buxton in total bases, slugging percentage and OPS.

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George Springer, OF, Houston Astros: The question for the often spectacular defensive center fielder has been whether his offense would keep pace with the rest of his game, especially after he struggled late last season after a promotion to Class AA. That level was no match for him this year, as he had 19 homers and 55 RBI in 73 games before a promotion to Class AAA. His numbers actually have improved across the board – batting average, slugging and on-base -- since moving up and, at age 23, is on the verge of a major league callup.