A few notes from the past week regarding the 2012 Draft Class:

• Jose Berrios jumps to the #1 ranking thanks to a dominant performance last Friday against Kingsport (5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 11 K)
  
• As I suspected last week, Taylor Rogers made his next appearance out of the bullpen, likely due to his high number of innings pitched.
  
• Three players didn't accumulate any stats this past week. Luke Bard, who I suspect is still dealing with the injury that caused him to leave his Aug 10th appearance after one batter. Carson Goldsmith, who hasn't appeared since Aug 2nd. Jake Proctor, who missed the last part of his college season due to an injury. Anyone have any updates on Goldsmith or Proctor?
  
• I do realize that in the lower levels of professional ball, pitchers have the upper hand and their stats do inflate their value a bit, but I am excited to see that the top performers so far are pitchers who are posting K/9 numbers that are beyond promising.
  
• I am also excited the Twins got a few bats with pop (Walker, Buxton, Proctor when healthy).
  
• There are always early-round busts, but I'm looking forward to seeing more positives out of disappointing starts from Buxton, Bard, Martinez, and Hurt.
  
• As usual, comments are welcome and appreciated!
  

 

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Rank

Player

Position

Round

Age

Team

Stats

1

Jose Berrios

RHP

1

18

GCL-ELZ

0.70 ERA, 0.55 WHIP

2-0, 25.2 IP, 43 K/4 BB

 

2

D.J. Baxendale

RHP

10

21

ELZ-BEL

0.68 ERA, 0.53 WHIP

0-0, 13.1 IP, 25 K/1 BB

 

3

Zack Jones

RHP

4

21

GCL-BEL

0.57 ERA, 0.77 WHIP

0-0, 15.2 IP, 25 K/6 BB

 

4

Taylor Rogers

LHP

11

21

ELZ-BEL

2.68 ERA, 1.16 WHIP

3-3, 53.2 IP, 62 K/15 BB

 

5

J.T. Chargois

RHP

2

21

ELZ

2.02 ERA, 0.96WHIP

0-0, 13.1 IP, 17 K/4 BB

 

6

Mason Melotakis

LHP

2

21

GCL-BEL

2.60 ERA, 1.21 WHIP

4-2, 17.1 IP, 21 K/6 BB

 

7

Tyler Duffy

RHP

5

21

ELZ

1.80 ERA, 0.60 WHIP

2-0, 15.0 IP, 22 K/2 BB

 

8

Adam Walker

OF

3

20

ELZ

.256/.314/.522

21 XBH, 3/3 SB, 67 K/16 BB

 

9

Zach Larson

OF

20

18

GCL

.270/.341/.351

2 XBH, 3/3 SB, 9 K/3 BB

 

10

Andrew Ferreira

LHP

32

21

ELZ

1.04 ERA, 1.27 WHIP

1-0, 8.2 IP, 12 K/4 BB

 

11

D.J. Hicks

1B

17

22

ELZ

.269/.387/.419

8 XBH, 1/1 SB, 31 K/16 BB

 

12

Joel Licon

IF

25

21

GCL

.254/.352/.331

9 XBH, 5/7 SB, 33 K/17 BB

 

13

Byron Buxton

OF

1

18

GCL-ELZ

.208/.304/.400

14 XBH, 6/9 SB, 34 K/14 BB

 

14

Bryan Santy

C

30

22

GCL

.300/.419/.380

4 XBH, 1/4 SB, 9 K/8 BB

 

15

Jorge Fernandez

C

7

18

GCL

.291/.319/.314

2 XBH, 1/1 SB, 22 K/3 BB

 

16

Bryan Haar

1B

34

22

GCL

.235/.309/.326

9 XBH, 3/6 SB, 31 K/13 BB

 

17

Christian Powell

RHP

8

21

ELZ

5.74 ERA, 1.60 WHIP

1-0, 15.2 IP, 20 K/7 BB

 

18

Alexander Muren

RHP

12

20

GCL

1.59 ERA, 0.93 WHIP

3-2, 22.2 IP, 11 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

.204/.285/.270

9 XBH, 13/19 SB, 34 K/15 BB

 

21

Kaleb Merck

RHP

33

22

ELZ

5.82 ERA, 1.48 WHIP

2-1, 17.0 IP, 21 K/5 BB

 

22

Bo Altobelli

C

21

21

ELZ

.216/.273/.255

2 XBH, 0/0 SB, 10 K/4 BB

 

23

Carson Goldsmith

RHP

28

22

GCL

6.75 ERA, 2.00 WHIP

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

 

24

Andre Martinez

LHP

6

19

GCL

6.30 ERA, 1.70 WHIP

0-1, 10.0 IP, 6 K/8 BB

 

25

Will Hurt

SS

16

18

GCL

.141/.221/.141

0 XBH, 1/3 SB, 23 K/7 BB

 

26

Travis Huber

LHP

23

22

ELZ

10.80 ERA, 2.16 WHIP

1-0, 8.1 IP, 8 K/4 BB

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