Twins Daily Draft Preview: Wyatt Langford

I'm hoping he makes it to the Twins. Seems like a perfect fit from what the past drafts seem to show and real upside, After him it seems like a few players in the HS upside area, That we haven't seen this FO take the plunge for. I'm hoping picks 1-4 make it ez for the Twins to take him at #5.

Seems extremely unlikely he last until 5.  If there, no-brainer, nothing else to discuss.

Twins won't get him. He looks too much like Mike Trout. Quick, powerful swing. Thighs like a power lifter. The guy is all muscle.

It will take 4 really dumb decisions to have him available to pick at 5.

Twins will end up with dollander from Tennessee 

A polished college player from the top five is my first choice and hopefully one of them will be available. 

I've been tracking mock drafts over the last month or two and Langford lasts to the Twins in about 20%.  This feels about right for the odds; I might have put it a little lower on first thought, but the draft usually is a lot less predictable than it feels in the leadup.

Not sure how many times they can get lucky in the draft process in two years, but if he's there I'm sure they'll be ecstatic and I will be too.

16 minutes ago, terrydactyls said:

For what it's worth, Keith Law released his latest mock draft.  He has the Twins selecting Jacob Gonzales, a shortstop from the University of Mississippi who he says is a "very solid player for what he is, but with limited potential for more".  That sounds like a waste of a #5 draft pick.

Reading Law's writeup, specifically on his not using his lower half to generate power, I wonder if the thought process might be them thinking they know how to add power specifically to a player like Gonzalez, in the same way they did with Spencer Steer, where the adjustments included adding a leg kick which unlocked the power.

I trust the consensus for a large part, but I think it's foolish to believe that I have any clue on a proper order.  I feel very confident that the consensus top 5 will not be the 5 best players taken in the draft.  It'll probably be very unlikely that even the top 3 players from the draft come from that group. 

I also feel very confident that there will be a lot of teeth gnashing from fans who have spent about 1 minute researching a couple players for whichever team breaks with consensus.

If it is Gonzalez, I will be disappointed in the moment.  And if they decide to break with consensus and they are wrong, they will deserve all the blame.  But I won't pretend that I know better, or even that the public industry definitely knows better.

38 minutes ago, terrydactyls said:

For what it's worth, Keith Law released his latest mock draft.  He has the Twins selecting Jacob Gonzales, a shortstop from the University of Mississippi who he says is a "very solid player for what he is, but with limited potential for more".  That sounds like a waste of a #5 draft pick.

Also, while on the topic, I find it interesting that Law believes they would take Clark if available but not necessarily Jenkins.

Most of the assumptions around here have been that they would prefer Jenkins due to his 80 grade makeup, but it seems that is not true.

7 hours ago, 2wins87 said:

And if they decide to break with consensus and they are wrong, they will deserve all the blame.

Doesn’t matter.  This FO is epic at deflecting blame. 

4 hours ago, Cory Engelhardt said:

If you were to tell me they were getting him at 34, I'd be ecstatic. At 5, not so much.

Actually, it’s not likely, but not impossible. 

11 hours ago, 2wins87 said:

Reading Law's writeup, specifically on his not using his lower half to generate power, I wonder if the thought process might be them thinking they know how to add power specifically to a player like Gonzalez, in the same way they did with Spencer Steer, where the adjustments included adding a leg kick which unlocked the power.

I trust the consensus for a large part, but I think it's foolish to believe that I have any clue on a proper order.  I feel very confident that the consensus top 5 will not be the 5 best players taken in the draft.  It'll probably be very unlikely that even the top 3 players from the draft come from that group. 

I also feel very confident that there will be a lot of teeth gnashing from fans who have spent about 1 minute researching a couple players for whichever team breaks with consensus.

If it is Gonzalez, I will be disappointed in the moment.  And if they decide to break with consensus and they are wrong, they will deserve all the blame.  But I won't pretend that I know better, or even that the public industry definitely knows better.

I shoot from the hip because Shakira said hips don't lie. However, sometimes they guess wrong.

On 6/29/2023 at 6:49 PM, Nashvilletwin said:

Actually, it’s not likely, but not impossible. 

The scenario where they get Dollander at 34 involves saving a LOT of money from the first pick…which might happen if it’s Wilson or González?

Is it possible that a team would try to develop Clarke as a two way player?