MiLB.com Farm System Grades. The Twins' is Graded...

[Mike Sixel]

FWIW, KLAW does a mid-season top 5 systems.

 

The Twins are not top 5, and did not make the short (3 team) honorable mention.

 

He doesn't do a full system re-ranking during the year, iirc, at all.

 

Annoyingly, Houston and NYY are top 5, and are good this year too....

[Willihammer]

Glaring omission from the MLB list is Jo Adell. Hitting .350/.381/.650 thru 43 PAs in the Arizona League.

[Mike Sixel]

 

Glaring omission from the MLB list is Jo Adell. Hitting .350/.381/.650 thru 43 PAs in the Arizona League.

 

this was just posted:

 

Jake
12:34 Have you had a chance to see Jo Adell? If so how does he look?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:34 He's eating AZL pitching alive.

[Darius]

Why would you smirk about that sentence?

 

* The DSL team has a record of 28-11, the best record among 40 (!) teams in the DSL

 

* Our GCL team is 14-7, the most wins in a 17 team league.

 

* Early on, the ETown team is 17-10, third best among 10 teams.

 

* Cedar Rapids at Low A is 50-46 overall. Only 4 teams in a 16 team league have a better record.

 

* Fort Myers in A+, who you might remember trashing big time early on, is 18-7 here in the second half, by far the best record of the 12 teams in the league, and they are 51-42 overall.

 

* AA Chattanooga is lapping the other 9 teams. They're 20-6 in the second half (.789!) and their overall record is a stunning 62-34.

 

* Rochester is shuttling players back and forth to MLB and has still managed to build a better record than all but 3 teams in a 14 team league in AAA. They're 55-41 (.573!) overall.

 

I wonder if you can find another organization who can say they that all six minor league teams boasts a winning record. I don't think you'll find an organization who has a combined winning percentage that matches ours. At the time of MiLB's article, they had a winning percentage of .592, and it's better now.

 

I think it's interesting that the system is regarded so poorly, and would guess that's probably a result of blowback from the parent team's poor results from last year.

 

Regardless, Twins teams know how to win, that's for sure.

Good thing they're making up for all the losing the big club has done for 25 years

 

"Twins" teams don't know how to win. Over the last decade, the Twins have a better winning percentage than only the Marlins and Astros. Which, is absolutely embarrassing considering nearly all of that was played in a new stadium that was supposed to let the Pohlad's compete for big-time free agents.

 

Think about that. Teams like the Padres, Rockies, Athletics, and Mariners have better records than the Twins over the last decade. That includes a few Twins teams ('07-'09) that were supposed to be "good" teams. They have worse records than teams that don't even attempt to field competitive teams.

 

But, hey, at least we have the Cedar Rapids Kernals to look forward to every summer. Maybe they should start playing in the tax-payer funded stadium.

[Darius]

A winning minor league system seems to be a good thing to me. There has to be some talent on the field, the coaches are doing a good job, and the plan(s) in place are working well. Prospects learning to win together and play in playoff games are important. This also helps the teams brand and the teams relationship with it's affiliates.

 

How much of all of this translates to the majors? I'm not sure. It's beneficial for sure. How much of this indicates future talent? Again I don't know. Much like prospect rankings, metrics, and just about everything else in baseball, nothing is absolute.

Or it's just because the Twins system is chalk full of 26-30 year olds playing against 19-20 year olds. If you're looking for wins, it sure doesn't hurt to have 32 year old SEC triple-crown winner Brent Rooker mashing on 125 lb. 16 year-old Dominican kids in the GCL.

[drjim]

Good thing they're making up for all the losing the big club has done for 25 years

 

"Twins" teams don't know how to win. Over the last decade, the Twins have a better winning percentage than only the Marlins and Astros. Which, is absolutely embarrassing considering nearly all of that was played in a new stadium that was supposed to let the Pohlad's compete for big-time free agents.

 

Think about that. Teams like the Padres, Rockies, Athletics, and Mariners have better records than the Twins over the last decade. That includes a few Twins teams ('07-'09) that were supposed to be "good" teams. They have worse records than teams that don't even attempt to field competitive teams.

 

But, hey, at least we have the Cedar Rapids Kernals to look forward to every summer. Maybe they should start paying in the tax-payer funded stadium.

Unfortunately a new stadium can't cover for years of poor decision making from a front office.

 

Someone has to be 28th!

[MN_ExPat]

 

Reed has been disappointing in AAA. Not exactly demanding a promotion.

1.84 ERA / .184 Average against / .95 WHIP

 

How is that bad or disappointing?

[drjim]

1.84 ERA / .184 Average against / .95 WHIP

 

How is that bad or disappointing?

I'm primarily a k and bb rate guy over hits and era. He hasn't dominated like I hoped.

[bird]

 

I'm primarily a k and bb rate guy over hits and era. He hasn't dominated like I hoped.

 

 

I've been sort of wondering if he fits the Tonkin mold?

[MN_ExPat]

True, but he does still have I believe 12K in 14 2/3 innings.   Not lights out, but still pretty good, and considering some of the alternatives already in the pen... I don't think he would be worse if he could at least keep up similar numbers in the majors.

 

REALLY hoping that he's nothing like Tonkin. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

I think it's interesting that the system is regarded so poorly, and would guess that's probably a result of blowback from the parent team's poor results from last year.

No, I don't think that's the reason. I think the reason the system has been graded as mediocre is the lack of high-end talent... which is natural. After a team graduates the likes of Rosario, Sano, Berrios, Buxton, Kepler, et al in a time span of 28-ish months, coming away from that with a "mediocre" farm system is something of an accomplishment.

 

What we're seeing now is the emergence of a new crop of talent, which is going to bump the farm system back up a few notches. Seeing players like Gonsalves, Romero, Gordon, and Thorpe begin to come into their own suddenly makes the system look a fair amount better.