Minnesota Twins April Minor League Standouts: A New Pitching Prospect Emerges at Cedar Rapids

Fun report. I have enjoyed watching (via milb.com) a ton of minor league ball this year. Last year I caught more Wichita games. This year I have tuned into Prielipp pitching but switch to another game when he is lifted or when the Surge are batting. Mostly, I have followed the Saints and Kernels. Agree that Prielipp looks ready for AAA and think Hill can go to A+ in a month if he continues to cruise. Enjoyed your synopsis on the players.

The young high end pitchers are looking very good.  Priellip, Charlee Soto, Questad,  Hill have had fantastic performances in the early going.  

Tanner Hall is still an enigma to me.  He had 14 walks in 109 innings pitched in 2022 in college,  and 33 in 2023.  His calling card was control. 

This year he has 1.6 whip with 12 walks in 18 innings pitched.  He had a very good game yesterday, but he needs to continue working on limiting the hits and walks.   I am hoping he his turning the corner, but it is looking like he was a very good college pitcher and that may be his ceiling.  

Pasqualotto, Bragg and Bengard from 2023 are both looking extremely strong in reliever roles.   

AAA has been rough on pitching so far other than Matthews who has been exceptional, and Morris who has been very good, after that it falls off.  Lewis has  9 era and Raya an 8 ERA (even worse, a 2.78 whip,  woof).   Hopefully as it gets warmer and they can break off some rust they will begin to look stronger as the season goes on.    

Doktorczyk, and Peschl from last years draft,  have performed very well so far.  Kisting, Jones, and Carpenter have been solid as well.  

I didn't know McCusker was drafted by the Brewers. They must have seen Richie Sexson in him. Maybe they were right. 

Didn't know Olivares was throwing 98 but did see his good pitching stats this year. I would have put him in my top 20 though I seem to have way more pitchers ranked highly than hitters.

4 hours ago, Hawkeye Bean Counter said:

The young high end pitchers are looking very good.  Priellip, Charlee Soto, Questad,  Hill have had fantastic performances in the early going.  

Tanner Hall is still an enigma to me.  He had 14 walks in 109 innings pitched in 2022 in college,  and 33 in 2023.  His calling card was control. 

This year he has 1.6 whip with 12 walks in 18 innings pitched.  He had a very good game yesterday, but he needs to continue working on limiting the hits and walks.   I am hoping he his turning the corner, but it is looking like he was a very good college pitcher and that may be his ceiling.  

Pasqualotto, Bragg and Bengard from 2023 are both looking extremely strong in reliever roles.   

AAA has been rough on pitching so far other than Matthews who has been exceptional, and Morris who has been very good, after that it falls off.  Lewis has  9 era and Raya an 8 ERA (even worse, a 2.78 whip,  woof).   Hopefully as it gets warmer and they can break off some rust they will begin to look stronger as the season goes on.    

Doktorczyk, and Peschl from last years draft,  have performed very well so far.  Kisting, Jones, and Carpenter have been solid as well.  

 

adams has looked good in AAA some how everyone forgets him whip under 1 and leads the international league in least amount of walks

30 minutes ago, ryan189 said:

adams has looked good in AAA some how everyone forgets him whip under 1 and leads the international league in least amount of walks

Isn't Adam's being used mostly in relief?

I think that's part of the reason he isn't getting as much hype as other prospects.

2 minutes ago, Seansy said:

Isn't Adam's being used mostly in relief?

I think that's part of the reason he isn't getting as much hype as other prospects.

ya like long relief looks like 4 innings at a time  but is 2nd on the team in innings behind zebby

11 minutes ago, Seansy said:

Isn't Adam's being used mostly in relief?

I think that's part of the reason he isn't getting as much hype as other prospects.

Yes...and no. It seems he’s being ‘paired’ with starters who are making pre-determined short starts for whatever reason (like Raya)…20 inning in 6 appearances. Honestly looks more like a starter than Raya at this point, for whatever that’s worth.

This is a good sample. Fwiw…Questad has been as good as Hill (small samples obviously) at Fort Myers and is only one year older.

A bunch of guys are smacking the ball around at Cedar Rapids.

Among the top 10…I probably would have called out Soto. Nice start to his A+ level…and still won’t turn 20 until the end of the season.

Would’ve liked to see Langenberg in an article like this. He has struggled in the early goings. Hopefully he starts to figure it out soon. 
 

McCusker could be good at 1B. No one could throw it over his head.
 

Amick could be the future of 1B for the Twins. 

11 hours ago, Jamie Cameron said:

Adams I have a hard time with. He's pitched really well. Good strike thrower. However, he really doesn't miss enough bats. Not sure how he's going to carve out a role for himself.

morris k%18 adams 22% morris had one game with more ks then innings pitched  the rest were way under adams had one game with less then innings pitched and Morris gets a pass

15 hours ago, ryan189 said:

adams has looked good in AAA some how everyone forgets him whip under 1 and leads the international league in least amount of walks

He has looked very good.  He is the non sexy pick that will likely produce,  most likely as a reliever.  There is value in that.  I definitely had recency bias of looking at primarily the last 2 drafts.   

Peschl is intriguing.  Looks like his slider is just devastating low-A hitters.  Seems like he might need to improve his fastball to stay competitive at higher levels, but definitely seems like the biggest pop-up so far.