Article: Twins Daily 2018 Top 20 Prospect Countdown: 16-20

[BJames]

I'm much higher on Jay.  I'm also, one that values guys from AA up as opposed to guys with high ceilings in rookie ball.  

 

[biggentleben]

 

Think they will move Severino to the outfield?  That infield at CR is already stacked. 

Toby is going to have to get creative.   

 

He's an extremely good 2B, but he needs time at Elizabethton. I think he was an even better get than Maitan. If I had to rank them coming from the Braves, I'd have had Yefri Del Rosario #1 and Severino #2. Maitan and Livan Soto would have been very close for #3, and then there was a big gap to the next player.

 

 

[howieramone2]

 

Hate to see Tyler Jay dropping like that, injury and all.  Drafted to be a starter, they really need him to at least be a good reliever.  Really never understood the gamble with I believe was the 6th overall pick, hoping he could develop into a starter when he'd never done it.  

He was a starter in high school and his freshman year in college. Every thing I read about him going into the draft was, teams were going to look at him as a starter. A lefty throwing 96-98, with what was once called the best slider in the organization, and several times I've read he has a 4 pitch mix. It was a no-brainer to draft him and also to see if he could transition to a starter.  His last year in college he pitched 70 innings, so they knew going in it was a 2 and probably a 3 year project to get him up a starter innings. Injuries are part of the game, and no one knew his first 3 years he would pitch only about 100 innings. 

[bird]

 

Hate to see Tyler Jay dropping like that, injury and all.  Drafted to be a starter, they really need him to at least be a good reliever.  Really never understood the gamble with I believe was the 6th overall pick, hoping he could develop into a starter when he'd never done it.  

 

Draft experts viewed the pick positively, so describing it as a risky pick is an inaccurate narrative. I believe that had the Twins gone with an every day player instead of a pitcher with that pick, a majority of us would have been critical, although lots of people now vividly recall how adamant they were about picking Benintendi. As with all drafts, you wish you'd have picked someone else in retrospect, but for now, the jury is still out. It wasn't a bad pick even if in the end there are 10 prospects from that draft that deliver better results. One of the pitchers from that draft that might deliver the best results was passed over twice by a third of the teams, #42 selection Tristan McKenzie. He might be another Berrios.

[Mike Sixel]

Draft experts viewed the pick positively, so describing it as a risky pick is an inaccurate narrative. I believe that had the Twins gone with an every day player instead of a pitcher with that pick, a majority of us would have been critical, although lots of people now vividly recall how adamant they were about picking Benintendi. As with all drafts, you wish you'd have picked someone else in retrospect, but for now, the jury is still out. It wasn't a bad pick even if in the end there are 10 prospects from that draft that deliver better results. One of the pitchers from that draft that might deliver the best results was passed over twice by a third of the teams, #42 selection Tristan McKenzie. He might be another Berrios.

It can be viewed positively, and risky, at the same time. I would argue this one was exactly that. A gamble, but probably the right one at the time.

[ashbury]

One of the pitchers from that draft that might deliver the best results was passed over twice by a third of the teams, #42 selection Tristan McKenzie. He might be another Berrios.

Indians, eh? We should go examine their front office and raid them of a few up-and-coming bright lights.