Who’s the Minnesota Twins’ No. 2 Prospect Behind Walker Jenkins?

[silverslugger]

Who was the last position-player prospect that actually fulfilled the hype for the Twins at the Major League level?  Brian Dozier?  Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for all of these guys.   I'm just not excited for them to be coached by whomever has been attempting to coach our young batters these last several years.

[glunn]

1 hour ago, silverslugger said:

Who was the last position-player prospect that actually fulfilled the hype for the Twins at the Major League level?  Brian Dozier?  Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for all of these guys.   I'm just not excited for them to be coached by whomever has been attempting to coach our young batters these last several years.

Byron Buxton?

[silverslugger]

1 hour ago, glunn said:

Byron Buxton?

Quite possibly, but he's been hurt so much in his career and is ultimately a product of the previous regime.

[twinstalker]

7 hours ago, Major League Ready said:

A reasonable case can be made for all of them...

No, a naive or ignorant case can be made for Rodriguez.  Extreme walk rate is a negative, not a positive.  Slugging pct means very little if the K rate is high.  It means a guy has power if he can get to it, but the minors K rate will tell you whether he can get to it.

Using avg/obp/slg as a guide to projecting MLB success will lead to disappointment.  It only matters in the correct context.

The Twins have only two prospects who will be quality major leaguers for certain, and those are Jenkins and Keaschall.  Culpepper and Tait are maybe's, EmRod is very much a likely no.

With seemingly no ability to deveolop hitting, the Twins are kind of screwed unless they can pump out pitching to trade a bit more quickly.  But I haven't seen that they understand what hitters to trade for.

[DannySD]

Once Keashall is off the list, I also think it might be Abel. I don't think I would trade Abel 1 for 1 for the others. Tait could be second if he was sure to stick at catcher, but he's likely far away. 

[tarheeltwinsfan]

16 hours ago, Bigfork Twins Guy said:

With the names (new included) being thrown around here I can understand how our farm system recently got ranked 4th I believe.

Thanks Bigfork. I needed that encouragement this morning.

[tarheeltwinsfan]

11 hours ago, glunn said:

Byron Buxton?

Winning teams, not just good coaches, begat successful young players. Which come first, the chicken or the egg?

[LambchoP]

It's hard not to be excited about all the young talent at the top levels of our minor leagues. We just need them all to stay healthy and hope our major league coaches don't screw them up by trying to alter their swings or try to make them all into utility players rather than learn and play one or two positions well...