A Comprehensive Review of the Twins International Free Agent Class

[tony&rodney]

On 1/18/2025 at 1:23 PM, AlwaysinModeration said:

Excellent point, but isn’t it more that the minor league coach was related to Mauer?

Baseball is littered with nepotism.  Players’ kids get way more opportunities than many of their peers.

Can I suggest that baseball has way, way (1K ways) less nepotism than any other major business, including politics. 

I can't think of a single player in MLB who gets to play in the 162 game season that has my talent, but this is not true for a large number of other businesses. Just saying. 

Mauer's brothers both played minor league baseball after college. One of them went into coaching for a bit. Is that the reference?

This report by Jamie Cameron is outstanding and I thank him for this work. The time to compile all of this information had to be 

Each team signs enough players to field a team in the Dominican Summer League. It is heavy on development. From there the better players go to the rookie camps and league hoping to get a shot with the A teams (Ft. Myers), and advance up the ladder. In some ways many of these Latin players are taking the place of guys once signed in the draft rounds #25-50. The setup is cost efficient for MLB teams because the entire bonus pool and cost to run the team is less than Walker Jenkins signing bonus. 

[gman]

The roster so far seems to include 25 players. Not all of them will fit on a single DSL team counting some players left from last years team. The Twins haven't had multiple DSL teams, at least not in recent years. Will some of them play in Florida this year? 16 seems kind of young for that league.