Twins Daily Draft Preview: Chase Dollander

I wouldn't be totally shocked if they reached a bit for Teel, assuming they think he's a mlb catcher. Don't know if that would be smart or not. I'd rather that than Dollander, tbh.

Probably should just take either of the HS kids...I'm higher on Clark than Jenkins fwiw. But it will be tempting when drafting up here to go with someone they think can help sooner.

I wouldn't be upset with Dollander at #5. The Twins staff can certainly develop good breaking balls, so hopefully they would be able to help Dollander regain his. Although the coaching in a big D1 program should be pretty competent too, so the regression this year is still concerning.

With all the good bats at the top of the draft, if they were going to go outside the consensus top 5 I think I would prefer Teel, and I would even hope they would be taking a hard look at guys like Matt Shaw and Tommy Troy.

At our original draft slot #13 I'd say yeah to Dollander. At #5 feels like a reach unless it's an under slot signing. #5 should be a simple take the one that lands in our lap. Although I think it's 50/50 that it goes that way.

At number five you have pick the highest ceiling guy, an impact player. My guess is the Twins will take whomever is left from Clark or Jenkins, assuming that Crews, Skenes, and Langford are gone. Lowder might be a possibility here, or Teel if they see him as a strong two way player, High school pitchers are a crapshoot. I would prefer a college pitcher over a high school pitcher like Meyer when picking this high. 

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I prefer Lowder to Dollander as the 2nd SP off the board.

Jenkins scares me.  I have seen him in person, and he just doesn't ooze overwhelming talent even though he does have a beautiful swing.  I would greatly prefer taking a college player at 5, but of the 2 HS bats I prefer Clark.  I like Clark's interviews; he is very smart, mature and confident.

I don't know if the rumor the Rangers love Jenkins is just smoke, but I truly think the Twins simply need to let the draft come to them and take whichever of the consensus top 5 falls to them at 5 overall.

I don't think that Twins will draft Dollander, nor should they. Yet Skenes was coached by Wes Johnson so he's on top of his game where as Dollander wasn't coached like Skenes. So if a team believes they could correct Dollander, he'll be a steal because of his raw stuff.

Dollander kind of scares me. Is this year an aberration, or is it sign of things to come. This will age me, but reminds me of Ryan Mills. I don't think I'd prefer the best available bat, then grab pitching at 34

21 hours ago, saviking said:

Not evaluating talent but from a pure positional need, I think our system could use a starting pitcher or catcher prospect the most. 

I'm still hoping for a quality pitcher too, plus we obviously need more catching prospects. But if some young talent like Clark is still available at the 5 pick, you gotta grab him. 

If Dollander and Skenes’ last two seasons were reversed, we would be talking about how we hoped Dollander would somehow fall to the Twins at five.

Another time a player was at the top of the board heading into the spring and fell after a middling college season was Trea Turner.  Twins didn’t take him when they had a chance to get him at #5, but instead took Nick Gordon.  Turner fell to #13.  

I think Dollander is the right call this year.  I think there is a good chance he winds up considerably better than Skenes.

Has anyone on the consensus board researched why Dollander had the season he had this year? He has a new pitching coach. He has been trying to develop his 4th pitch as a way to not be just a flamethrower. He is also been trying to overthrow just to hit triple digits. Im hoping Langford, Clarke or Skenes gets to us at 5 but Dollander is a great pick at 5 provided those guys are gone.  (Zero chance at Crews and I’m not high on Jenkins.)

I see Pittsburgh taking Crews, then Washington taking Skenes.  Clark is the helium pick at 3; then we're down to Langford or Jenkins, and 4 won't let Langford slide any lower.  I think this is the pick we get, unless we have eyes on something other than pba.

20 hours ago, Mike Sixel said:

Have any scouts tried to scout him?

Absolutely, most of the write ups on Dollander just reiterate how he wasn’t effective in spring ball like he was expected to be…. and then they finish the report with. “ Still has upside potential to be an Ace.” Im sure there is a team just waiting to snipe him….