Adopt-A-Prospect 2017 Discussion Thread

[goulik]

Woot!

[Seth Stohs]

At 9:00 central time, the draft will begin. I'll post a list of 30-35 Twins prospects to be drafted in round 1. A Twins Daily reader will be able to draft one player in each round. Round 2 will be Thursday with a new group of prospects. Round 3 will be Friday... and we'll see where we are.

 

If you are going to Adopt Prospects, you need to commit to updating the thread often. Obviously if a player is hurt, it's unlikely there will be much to update. However, if you draft a player, you should do the following:

 

1.) The first thing is to set up your Prospects's thread. The title should be Player Name - Adopt-A-Prospect 2017. That way it is identifiable. Within that initial thread, please provide a bunch of background on the player. Age, background, status, history, level, etc. You can add some stats. You can write what you want, but it should  be a pretty thorough introduction to the player.

 

2.) Once that initial post is updated, your job is to keep the thread lively. Update it weekly or so with how the player is doing. If a player has a multi-hit game, or a home run, or something like that, post it. You can also do google searches for the player and see if you can find articles on them from their hometown newspaper or something like that. See if there is any fun YouTube video on the player. Stuff like that. 

 

Note that other people can post things on those sites if they find them as well. It's still a community thread, but you are in charge of your player's thread.

 

Make sure it's fun!

 

The Draft:

 

Sometime tonight, I'll post the 30ish players who will be eligible to be drafted tomorrow. It'll be top prospects and guys we could see in the big leagues in 2017. 

 

At 9:00 central time on Wednesday. I'll start a new thread with those names and say something like "The Draft now begins." Once that happens, it's first-come, first-serve for the players. Then we'll regroup the next day, and so on. 

[Shane Wahl]

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Yes, all that needs to happen for this to really work is for a full dedicated bunch of drafters to get threads started. It was exhausting to try to start so many. I follow these guys thoroughly, so I don't mind updating threads during the season. 

[goulik]

Hey, let's draft and adopt those prospects!! Go to the AAP forum now before I take all the best prospects!