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  1. twinsfanstreif
    I have another name to throw out there. Candidate: Eric Streif Role: Twins Fan Eric has been a Twins fan all his life, his qualifications include: being strongly opposed to the drafting of Levi Michael, Carlos Gutierrez, Luke Bard, Matthew Bashore, and Aaron Hicks; good interpersonal skills; experience with real estate contracts and negotiations (therefore dealing with baseball contracts and negotiations will be a breeze, right?). It would be a bold choice but one I personally would approve of! Besides him, I like Ng (can someone please tell me how to pronounce that?) or McLeod. Ng sounds extremely smart and has the experience to back it up, plus being the first Woman GM would probably provide extra motivation to kick ass. I like that McLeod has worked with Epstein for years. While that doesn't automatically qualify him it can't hurt that he's worked along side the best in the business for so long, right? However that didn't really work in Ben Affleck's favor, so......
  2. twinsfanstreif
    Is it too early to think about bringing Kirilloff up? He's killing it at e-town!
  3. twinsfanstreif
    So weird, I would've thought a forced retirement would be in order for a guy who has served this organization for as long as he did. It needed to happen but honestly he never should've came back after Smith was canned, that set us back several years
  4. twinsfanstreif
    That's horrible! Are they at least compensated as far as food/housing/etc?
  5. twinsfanstreif
    Actually he has an advanced bat and prospects like that tend to move quickly in the minors. I'm not saying you're wrong but I wouldn't be surprised if we saw him in like 4 years, at least as a late season call up
  6. twinsfanstreif
    Not sure the answer to this question but scouting has changed so much with technology in the past 25 years, it's a lot easier to hit on picks than it was back in the day. GMs before the 90s wouldn't have even seen most of the 1st rounders before the draft, it was all based on area scouts and hearsay. That being said projectability is super difficult in baseball with limited information. Trout is an example, being a NJ kid his season didn't start until late and he had limited exposure until late in the process. That along with mediocre competition made teams uncomfortable picking him high when it was unclear what he had, there were glimpses but not enough solid assessment at that point. I hope Kirilloff is the same thing being from PA. I do think teams are catching on to northern prospects more than it seemed like in past years
  7. twinsfanstreif
    That seems a bit extreme, that puts his debut at 25 years old. I can't remember an MLB debut at 25 years old where the player wasn't deemed a bust or at the very least a disappointment unless injuries were involved
  8. twinsfanstreif
    I get what you're saying but Fayetteville is actually a really nice town in the mountains with good weather and a pretty good baseball program. He goes to a private catholic school in a very wealthy area of KC so I would assume his parents have a decent amount of money and that wouldn't be the main factor. The decision will probably come down to starting his pro career or furthering his education
  9. twinsfanstreif
    I'm a bit bias but I'm a Houston Alum and I would love to see the Twins pick up Bubba Maxwell, he's still around and is a 5th year senior after having tommy john 2 years ago, he was a very effective reliever for us this past year and has been solid most of his career, his ceiling is probably long relief but at this point in the draft I feel like it could work and he would come cheap
  10. twinsfanstreif
    MLB.com lists him as a junior, are they wrong? I'm too lazy to look it up
  11. twinsfanstreif
    I'm excited about the Benninghoff kid, I hope he signs. I wish I would've caught a few of his games with his school being so close to me had I known we would've drafted him, oh well
  12. twinsfanstreif
    Where are you getting the Benninghoff pick? MLB.com hasn't updated the tracker yet, plus he's also a Missouri kid (his school happens to be like 5 minutes from my house)
  13. twinsfanstreif
    Man rounds 6-10 were rough, BA had all of them ranked in the 400s or not at all?! I know it's kinda a crap shoot at that point but it seems like we were just trying to be the smartest guy in the room. I did like the video of Carrier though
  14. twinsfanstreif
    it doesn't work like that in baseball, guys have to prove it on the big league stage before they really become tradable commodities unless they can establish themselves as a top prospect and at that point very few teams are trading guys like that anymore. For instance we couldn't really get a whole lot in return for guys like Adam Brett Walker or Kepler or even Rosario. In Baseball you really have to either develop a prospect or pay for a free agent, it's not super common for big trades these days. Look at the past few years, there have been little to no blockbuster trades and the trades that do happen are more lateral moves for both sides
  15. twinsfanstreif
    I actually really like the profile of all of these guys as hitters and all should be plus defenders but besides the Catcher we took a bunch of corner guys which is a major plus in our system. I get that all of these guys are young and a lot of our corner players won't be around by time they get to the majors but it seems weird to draft against our weaknesses and just get more of the same. I hope it doesn't backfire on us
  16. twinsfanstreif
    good pick!
  17. twinsfanstreif
    Yay, a power hitting corner outfielder, just what we were missing......
  18. twinsfanstreif
    What about Rutherford?
  19. twinsfanstreif
    and Collins was one of the only guys I wanted, any chance we roll the dice on Groome?
  20. twinsfanstreif
    I spoke too soon, that was his first miss
  21. twinsfanstreif
    Callis hasn't missed a pick yet! that's crazy, I feel like that never happens
  22. twinsfanstreif
    Yea, that's kinda what I was feeling, just no one that I can get excited about, maybe Collins but he might not even catch
  23. twinsfanstreif
    I'm usually super excited about the draft but this year I find myself having trouble getting excited about this crop, does anyone else have that? Maybe it's just because we are drafting a little later than we have in the past several years, not sure
  24. twinsfanstreif
    Can someone explain to me why Pressly exists in our roster?
  25. twinsfanstreif
    You have obviously never been to Houston, TX then. A city that takes 15-20 years to complete projects and as soon as they finish, another project is on the way. My wife and I used to joke that the official mascot of the city is an orange traffic barrel. I lived in Houston from 2003-2013 and one of our major highways was under construction (presumably for some years at that point) when I moved there and was an absolute nightmare. Today it still remains under construction with no foreseeable end and is probably worse than it was 13 years ago......
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