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  1. Vervehound
    what people need to realize, imo, is that elite high school talent is on a similar time frame to their college counterparts. case in point is dylan bundy beating gerrit cole and danny hultzen to the big leagues. waiting an extra few months for prepster to make his m.l. deubt at age 20 isn't a drastic shift.
  2. Vervehound
    i let my hatred define me so if i stopped hating the yankees i'd be left with an identity crisis.
  3. Vervehound
    i'd say there are more than a few free spending clubs that scoff at the idea of being taxed.
  4. Vervehound
    serioulsy, read that line again: four plus pitches? i don't know if i've ever seen that in print before.
  5. Vervehound
    i like signing local kids but i don't think shore is worth anything north of $600-700k. let the kids go to college and increase the pool at that level - that'll be best for the game.
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    i think benjamin franklin said it best when he said "there are only two certainties in life: death and the twins avoidance of taxes". same guy that said "beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy" so he may be the wisest person who ever lived.
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    twins are $261k under slot with their first few signings - that's a great sign. if we can go shopping for some of our tough signs, I think aj bogucki in the 31st round out of Pennsylvania stands out, though i'm guessing he'd be a very tough sign away from his Carolina scholarship. steven sensley, our 33rd rounder seems to have a solid skill set and could be an easier sign as he's a jc recruit. glad we'll know by mid-july.
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    he's touched it in the past - it seems to be his peak short stint velocity, and with the arm injuries questions abound. that said, there is always a large margin of error for bigger pitchers - the big unit taught me that. most starters show signs at age 24-25 in the big leagues that they're going to make it (hence this being a particularly rough year for liam Hendricks) but Johnson didn't put everything together until later. loek van mil pumped his fastball up 6-8 mph over the course of his time in our minor league system, etc. from ba's scouting report: Slegers is athletic and repeats his sound delivery well for his size. Early in the season he reached 95 mph with his fastball and displayed an average slider
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    the two best college pitchers so far from last year's draft have been pitchability types. melotakis is going sideways while chargois and bard are on the shelf. the one true success among the hard throwers has been zack jones and that's because they've kept him in the pen. the noticeable exception is berrios. it makes you wish the twins would dip their toes in the prep pitching market more often but they're clearly pretty averse to that. oh, and mid-90's heat is always impressive regardless of size. what should slegers be throwing? 110?
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    you're probably thinking of bobby kielty - but that was an undrafted senior sign, I believe. in short, If a kid doesn't get drafted, he goes to jc or college (indy ball would be the route for the undrafted college kid). the former gives him more flexibility but would be more of a crapshoot from a developmental standpoint (although schools like chipola in florida would beg to differ).
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    if a kid goes to a four year college, he'd wouldn't be eligible to be re-drafted until his junior season (or the year he turns 21, whichever is soon). if he goes the jc or indy route, then he'd be eligible again in a year.
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    the last few years the twins have published a list of 8-10 guys that have signed right after the draft - i'm guessing something will be out by end of week. we've got short season ball starting up next week so rosters are driving a certain amount of it. if a guy thinks he got missed and winds up bagging groceries at cub, most teams still offer try out camps.
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    I saw this article the other day and was pretty fascinated - trevor bauer's pitching guru is claiming he can increase velocity while reducing/eliminating injuries. wonder if the twins have bought in to any of this. Ron Wolforth and the Texas Baseball Ranch - MensJournal.com
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    nope. the fsl is the toughest hitting league around and suppresses offensive numbers significantly. although sano's power is rare enough that it could overcome the league, he'll still be more likely to put up arcade numbers in new Britain - case in point would be arcia from last year.
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    how would you define gonsalves and navaretto? I think they did a pretty good job - there is some meh here but even the seniors are semi-intriguing (garver/Demuth) so there's not a lot of guys that'll be relegated as org filler out of the chute. btw, I don't think it's unreasonable that we take a guy with major upside in round 11 - boldt would fit perfectly. if we have savings after the first ten rounds, this is where teams look to apply it.
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    boom! there's your upside with gonsalves. surprised....
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    eades is every bit the prospect that wahl is. if anything, eades has a slightly better arm while wahl is grittier.
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    democrats are in power so unicorns are no longer draftable because they're on the endangered species list.
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    that'd be his peak, then, which is the same for eades. wahl sits 90-94 and wasn't anything near that at the end of the year. he's harder to square up than eades, though, and throws a slider to eades' curve.
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    5% of $14 million would be $700k. twins bonus pool is a bit over $8 mil.
  21. Vervehound
    what "stuff" does wahl have that eades doesn't? he's another mid-rotation starter from the sec. good prospect but to differentiate between a couple of third-tier college starters is going to be scouts' work.
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    i think you'd have to agree that stewart is in a pretty enviable position, though. he's got a ton of leverage and was posturing pretty hard pre-draft, so i'm guessing that's led to the speculation that we may have to go over to get him. even if we do have to go over to get him, we can still manage to build upside into the draft but it'll likely have to come later on.
  23. Vervehound
    i miss the name calling of yore.
  24. Vervehound
    you're the voice of reason, dave. never thought i'd say that. but yeah, i think the crazies are unaware of the value of a mid-rotation starter, of which we currently have none. for all those upset with the eades pick, it's probably a good idea to point out that gibson is projected by most to be exactly that and scott baker fit that mold to a tee. if we had a rotation of true mid-rotation guys, we'd be competitive this year. what is a formula for disappearing in the first round of the playoffs, however, is to have no frontline starters. the org seems to be actively seeking out power arms for the first time i can recall and complementing the rare rare talent with a solid arm like eades makes sense. not to mention one glaring thing: stewart's price. law and crawford both assumed he'd go above slot. if that's the case and we shell out $5million at no. 4, that means we're going to get less sexy at other spots.
  25. Vervehound
    my last harmless attempt at homoerotic humour was deleted so i'm going to have to keep my "scouting reports" to myself.
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