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Twins Appear to Trend Towards Pool Savings on Day 2
bunsen82 replied to Jeremy Nygaard's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
Todays pick confirms even more what the twins talent evaluators and front office thought of yesterdays picks, they knocked it out of the park, and today was saving every Penny for the 3 big ticket items they got on day 1. It also tells you they think Lee is a shortstop with an elite bat, and Priellip was a top 15-20 prospect in their eyes and can be a top end starter for the Twins. Schobel was the cherry on top. Based on their actions I think the front office thinks all 3 of these players are going to be key pieces in the future and they were willing to sacrifice day 2 for that. To me day 2 looks like a lot of lottery picks. You have a second baseman that had tommy John and came out of no where to be a key player for Tennesse. We took a couple more shortstops from small schools with excellent bat skills for the levels they played at. As for the pitchers the early picks don’t stand out, but towards the end we ended with their stand by tall pitchers with high K/9. I think these pitchers would have normally been late day 2 to early day 3 picks. I have full confidence that the Twins will find a gem or two out of the day 2 or even day 3 pitchers and or hitters that will be drafted tomorrow. They have earned that right from the 2019 and 2021 drafts. More and more I am disappointed the Twins missed out on a full draft in 2020. We have one more day to fill up on more lotto tickets, while we continue to admire our big purchases we got on day 1. Boy does this draft feel good. -
10th round draft pick to be Minor League fodder with the possibility of being a much better contact hitter than a 10th round batter should be. Its worth the risk. One of these might take off and be decent depth. I think the Twins are starting to build 2 different models, 1 that will work with a dead ball and one that will work with a lively ball. Need almost 2 different players to successfully compete.
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Another contact hitter .378. Definitely a different draft in hitters, going for high contact OBP players.
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Last year we also picked our 2 catchers in the 10th and 11th round, they may have a player or two they are still willing to draft, but it wasn't necessary to spend much draft capital on. We are definitely going pitcher heavy though.
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Corey Lewis another 6' 5" strikeout machine. This is the tried and true method
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Zebby Matthews next pick. Starting to get into their usual draft formula at this point. 6' 5" pitcher K/9 jumped up a lot this last year. This pick looks interesting.
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NM
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Jones was at the combine, had good strikeout totals and K/9. Might be something there to work with. Feels like we have been making more 8th round and later draft picks. Not to say they can't work out but the success of this draft is most likely going to come down to the first 2 picks. If they hit anything else we get from this draft will be gravy.
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Kyle Jones Toledo Pitcher
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Quite a few, mostly high school. There is still Malcolm more, a few others and then more college players rated around the 250 mark.
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These players just seem so so to me. Although it usually ends up being this way until they start playing. I definitely feel like they are putting more of their money resources into the top 2 players, which if they pan out is good. May not hit on as many other players throughout the draft as we have done like last year.
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Ortega blew up this year, becoming the 2nd baseman and one of the better hitters on the Vols team this year. He went from a small college to Tennessee. Basing this off of 1 year of stats but he definitely looks decent. Average at everything but has compact power and did this in the SEC. He has the chance at being a player.
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First thing I though of is someone named their kid off of the Friends show, Ross and his son Ben.
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Toughest team they played this year was Seton hall, otherwise played the likes of Wayne State. So basically played similar competition as Varland did with Concordia St. Paul, maybe slightly better competition. Looks like player of the year in the conference and was in the top 3 for most categories. LOL never mind, it is Seton Hill, not Seton Hall, wow. What the hell with trying to copy larger college names.
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I saw Notre Dame and I was interested, then saw it was Notre Dame college and he likely played extremely poor competition. Maybe something there.
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Anyone know anything about this Ben Ross?
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Birdsell just went to the cubs
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Brandon Birdsell if still available would be a smart pick to save money, he is a senior, can't go back again can he? Never mind only a junior but would probably sign to decent contract.
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Another Texas Tech pitcher, I was wondering if we might take another shot and Birdsell.
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I think we may have had something with Preillip at 8 before Lee fell to us. But Preillip was willing to still work something out with us.
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Why are people thinking Preilipp wouldn't sign? There is nothing to show this is a worry.
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They would do something like they did with Gross in 2019, take a college senior and only offer $10,000 bonus and save all the slot money. I think the Twins are honestly even steven today, and you won't see them trying to save money unless to go over slot on draft picks today.
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Twins Thrilled with Draft's First Night
bunsen82 replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
The odds are low but not that low. The Yankees are going to spend all their money on Judge. They will not pay for a shortstop. Boston does not necessarily need a shortstop as they just got Trevor Story for insurance. The only new team willing to pay for a shortstop is the Cubs, Los Angeles and ?????? There will be Correa, Turner, Swanson, and Bogarts. Someone is going to take a smaller deal than they would like. -
Twins Thrilled with Draft's First Night
bunsen82 replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
Lewis becomes more expendable if we can come to an agreement with Correa in the 3-5-7 year range. -
Twins Thrilled with Draft's First Night
bunsen82 replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
If we are truly the most likely team to get Montas then yes this is going to be painful on the prospect side with 2 to 3 major prospects. It will be more than what we received from Toronto for Berrios.
