Here are my updated Class of 2012 Power Rankings. In short, a few things that jump out:

 

• Honestly, any one of the top three (Baxendale, Berrios, Jones) could be ranked #1. I have Baxendale there because of his unbelievable K/BB and K/9 ratios.
  
• 11th round pick Taylor Rogers out of the University of Kentucky has now thrown a total of 140 innings this year (89.1 in college, 50.2 as a Twin). His numbers for Beloit, although not terrible, are significantly worse than the numbers he was putting up at Elizabethton. He has 10 total appearances with the Twins, all starts. I wouldn't be surprised to see him come out of the bullpen soon if not shut down completely.
  
• Adam Walker continues to impress with the stick. He has four HR's in his last ten games which, according to Seth's Minor League leaderboard, places him in the top 10 among all Twins minor leaguers in just 45 games.
  

 

[TABLE=width: 641]

Rank

Player

Position

Round

Age

Team

Stats

1

D.J. Baxendale

RHP

10

21

ELZ-BEL

0.79 ERA, 0.53 WHIP

0-0, 11.1 IP, 23 K/1 BB

 

2

Jose Berrios

RHP

1

18

GCL-ELZ

0.87 ERA, 0.58 WHIP

1-0, 20.2 IP, 32 K/4 BB

 

3

Zack Jones

RHP

4

21

GCL-BEL

0.00 ERA, 0.73 WHIP

0-0, 13.2 IP, 23 K/6 BB

 

4

Taylor Rogers

LHP

11

21

ELZ-BEL

2.66 ERA, 1.15 WHIP

3-3, 50.2 IP, 59 K/15 BB

 

5

Mason Melotakis

LHP

2

21

GCL-BEL

2.20 ERA, 1.22 WHIP

3-2, 16.1 IP, 20 K/6 BB

 

6

J.T. Chargois

RHP

2

21

ELZ

2.19 ERA, 0.81 WHIP

0-0, 12.1 IP, 15 K/4 BB

 

7

Adam Walker

OF

3

20

ELZ

.264/.316/.527

21 XBH, 1/1 SB, 58 K/13 BB

 

8

Zach Larson

OF

20

18

GCL

.308/.400/.423

2 XBH, 3/3 SB, 7 K/3 BB

 

9

Tyler Duffy

RHP

5

21

ELZ

2.53 ERA, 0.75 WHIP

2-0, 10.2 IP, 13 K/2 BB

 

10

Christian Powell

RHP

8

21

ELZ

3.29 ERA, 1.31 WHIP

1-0, 13.2 IP, 18 K/5 BB

 

11

Joel Licon

IF

25

21

GCL

.260/.355/.344

9 XBH, 4/6 SB, 31 K/15 BB

 

12

Andrew Ferreira

LHP

32

21

ELZ

1.17 ERA, 1.30 WHIP

1-0, 7.2 IP, 9 K/4 BB

 

13

D.J. Hicks

1B

17

22

ELZ

.256/.368/.367

6 XBH, 1/1 SB, 30 K/14 BB

 

14

Byron Buxton

OF

1

18

GCL-ELZ

.218/.312/.436

13 XBH, 5/8 SB, 30 K/12 BB

 

15

Bryan Santy

C

30

22

GCL

.333/.463/.429

4 XBH, 1/4 SB, 7 K/8 BB

 

16

Jorge Fernandez

C

7

18

GCL

.299/.325/.325

2 XBH, 0/0 SB, 19 K/2 BB

 

17

Bryan Haar

1B

34

22

GCL

.227/.310/.300

6 XBH, 3/5 SB, 28 K/12 BB

 

18

Alexander Muren

RHP

12

20

GCL

1.96 ERA, 1.15 WHIP

2-2, 18.1 IP, 10 K/9 BB

 

19

Luke Bard

RHP

1

21

GCL-ELZ

3.86 ERA, 1.71 WHIP

0-0, 7.0 IP, 7 K/7 BB

 

20

John Murphy

OF

19

22

GCL

.214/.300/.286

9 XBH, 12/18 SB, 30 K/15 BB

 

21

Kaleb Merck

RHP

33

22

ELZ

5.74 ERA, 1.40 WHIP

2-1, 15.2 IP, 19 K/5 BB

 

22

Carson Goldsmith

RHP

28

22

GCL

6.75 ERA, 2.00 WHIP

0-0, 4.0 IP, 5 K/5 BB

 

23

Bo Altobelli

C

21

21

ELZ

.208/.255/.250

2 XBH, 0/0 SB, 10 K/3 BB

 

24

Andre Martinez

LHP

6

19

GCL

9.64 ERA, 1.93 WHIP

0-1, 9.1 IP, 3 K/9 BB

 

25

Will Hurt

SS

16

18

GCL

.132/.213/.132

0 XBH, 1/2 SB, 20 K/6 BB

 

26

Travis Huber

LHP

23

22

ELZ

14.21 ERA, 2.84 WHIP

1-0, 6.1 IP, 5 K/4 BB

[/TABLE]

This is very interesting and looks like it took a lot of work.

 

I am glad to see that your top 6 are pitchers. The Twins could use some good ones.