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I always love draft day! 

On the one hand, this class is not nearly as deep as last season and the Twins are picking much later than the past couple of years so that's a bit of a downer. On the other hand, we have 4 of the top 69 picks and a larger $ pool than normal based on the supplemental picks. Additionally, the draft is interesting as college bats are in short supply, HS arms seem to go through the first 2 rounds, and there's an interesting group of talent HS SS through the first 40 picks or so. 

Based on how drafts normally seem to work, and with this one rather deep in HS prospects, I can see a surprise or two, including a team or two playing the over/under slot game, and a college bat sliding down to 21 that's not supposed to be there. Wouldn't surprise me a bit.

I think this draft is the perfect scenario based on available talent and $ to play with for the Twins to go a little heavy early on with HS talent. I can see a scenario where the Twins end up with 2 or 3 prep kids today, say a SS and a couple of arms. After that, of course, we're going to see a ton of college arms from  all over and a sprinkling of college position players, including a couple of mid round catchers I'd wager.

I'm excited to see how today goes!

2 hours ago, Dman said:

It will be BPA for the Twins, but I agree going HS makes a lot of sense right now.  They have some young players in Doncon, De Andrade, Gonzalez that are only 20 years old  then add in Jenkins, Soto, Winoker, Mercedes, Dameury Pena and Daniel Pena who are only 19 and then add in some 18 year olds this draft and the Twins would would be setup for another wave of talent in 4 to 5 years. Adding to what you said if some of those players don't work out they could go with faster moving college players in future drafts.  So I think HS players make a lot of sense, but we'll see what they decide to do.

I'm kinda with you and @Brandonhere. In THEORY, you could see the Twins grab someone like Slade Caldwell at #1, then grab a SS like Sanford or Lewis with the first comp pick, and then a couple HS arms in the next round. Now, it probably doesn't play out that way exactly. And who knows, the Twins might grab ONLY college kids, LOL. But opportunity and system depth just makes the early part of this draft a prime opportunity to focus on the prep options to help build up the lower portion of the minor league system, knowing there's enough depth in the system to bring those prospects along slowly, with high upside potential, and hit the college guys late on.