Twins Daily's Top-20 Prospects Gets a Post-Draft Shakeup

[D.C Twins]

Houston above Rodriguez all day....

[Steve Lein]

1 hour ago, rdehring said:

Add me to those who believe Wachsmann is to low, way to low.  The Twins just told us what they think about him, when they paid him $1,200,000 over slot. 

TD doesn't have all the dollars posted yet, but it sure seems like we may see something I don't recall the Twins ever doing, going over their pool of dollars.  You are reporting all the players have signed without dollars for four of the top 11.  You show they have $1,382,000 remaining, yet, the slots for the four players yet to report bonuses is around $1,800,000.  Maybe they will end up right around budget, but to do so someone is going to have to come in real cheap. 

They won't go over their pool of dollars, at least not into the territory where any penalty happens. They are one of the teams that never has. Multiple selections toward the end of the bonus pool rounds were made to save money so they could fit in Wachsmann's number.

[Fatbat]

2 hours ago, Nashvilletwin said:

Houston and Quick over ERod - at least the first two have a chance to be major leaguers….with the Twins at least.

Wouldn't be surprised if ERod is traded over the next week.

He had surgery 7 weeks ago. Can he even be traded?

[amjgt]

7 minutes ago, Steve Lein said:

They won't go over their pool of dollars, at least not into the territory where any penalty happens. They are one of the teams that never has. Multiple selections toward the end of the bonus pool rounds were made to save money so they could fit in Wachsmann's number.

Not to belabor the frustration of not maxing out the bonus pool all the way to where the penalties switch from financial to draft penalties, but it's just so short sighted.

You've got a mechanism that gives you a long term ROI of 2.5x (I'm making up numbers here) and every year you're told how much you can spend and get that 2.5x return. Then they say... "well, we'll let you spend a bit more, but you can only get a 1.75x long term return on that investment" and the Twins are always just.... "nah, we're good"

 

[Fatbat]

14 minutes ago, Steve Lein said:

They won't go over their pool of dollars, at least not into the territory where any penalty happens. They are one of the teams that never has. Multiple selections toward the end of the bonus pool rounds were made to save money so they could fit in Wachsmann's number.

Isnt there about $100k wiggle room? If, then $350k isn’t that much to short 4/5 guys….

[Mike Sixel]

Which player saw the largest drop in projected WAR for the 2027 season during the first half of the season?

Dan Szymborski

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Eduardo Tait

[amjgt]

4 minutes ago, Fatbat said:

Isnt there about $100k wiggle room? If, then $350k isn’t that much to short 4/5 guys….

5% overage is allowed, but there is a 75% tax on all of those dollars spent, 

So, the Twins could've spent around $850k above their pool money on draft picks, but it would have cost them and additional $640k to do so.

Going beyond the 5% puts you into draft pick penalties which a) is crazy, and b) no team has ever done.

[Fatbat]

32 minutes ago, D.C Twins said:

Houston above Rodriguez all day....

Houston is a solid #4

[Fatbat]

20 minutes ago, amjgt said:

5% overage is allowed, but there is a 75% tax on all of those dollars spent, 

So, the Twins could've spent around $850k above their pool money on draft picks, but it would have cost them and additional $640k to do so.

Going beyond the 5% puts you into draft pick penalties which a) is crazy, and b) no team has ever done.

Good info! Im sure that when all the contracts are disclosed, the penalties will be minimal!!

[bean5302]

Most of the ranking falls within reason to me. Except Emma (who I wouldn't have in the top 10). Gabriel Gonzalez is probably not a top 20 prospect and Young is a non-prospect (not top 40), IMHO.