Baseball prospectus Twins rankings, chat and top 101

[gunnarthor]

I missed these when they came out but I don't see them on here, either.  BP ain't what it used to be but ...

 

Their top 101 only had two Twins - 48 Gordon and 98 Jay.  

 

Their top 10 Twins list is here.  

 

In the top 101 chat, they mention that Kiriloff and Romero are in the "just missed" group.

 

There are some nice things in here though.  BP is pretty high on Romero (#3) and Wander Javier (#6), they noted that Jay's fastball and slider sometimes are a 70 on the scouting scale, they like Kiriloff but he's a long way off, and they even have Zach Granite at #10.

 

They also write "Much like the awkward in-between state that 20th century American poet Britney Jean Spears spoke of in “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” from her classic Britney collection, the Twins’ best long-term building blocks are not prospects, but not yet established stars.

Minnesota’s farm system is mediocre at best. However, more than any other team, the Twins show the flaws in evaluating an organization’s young talent strictly by prospect-eligible players. Despite losing prospect eligibility Buxton, Berrios, and Polanco are still just 23, making them the same age or younger than one quarter of BP’s top 101 prospects. Even Sano and Kepler, at 24, are no older than a dozen top 101 prospects. Minnesota has tumbled down prospect rankings, but the overall collection of young talent remains among the best in baseball and that’s evident by the first five names on the 25-and-under list already graduating out of prospect-dom."