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Even the "old" FO had 1st round College picks like Jay, Michael, and Wimmers start their pro careers with the Miracle. I doubt that Rooker will be an exception here. Michael is the only College position player chosen (30th overall pick; Rooker was 35th) and he is the only real comparable about starting level, but that was ages ago Will be really surprised if he went to CR, or god-forbid, to E-town

I saw Busenitz pitch about a month ago against the IronPigs in a game that the Red Wings lost 0-9 and he was really good. 93-96 mph fastball and he was pounded the strike zone. His secondary stuff is a change up and a curve ball that both sit at 82-84 and they are out pitches. The change has so much movement that really looks like a cutter at some point. I think that he can help the Twins this season, but they need to subtract someone. Belisle and Breslow are the likely candidates for that, but I think that the Twins are giving them a very long leash... On the depth chart, I see him behind Turley and Chargois (when he is ready), so that's that too...

One thing that I have to say: Hearing both Lewis and McKay speak to the press, I like Lewis's demeanor and attitude, and got to say that I am glad that the Twins did not get McKay. Flatline affect.

Just edited that. Based on what I've heard his arm is Revere-like...

Did you catch McKay's reaction after he was drafted by the Rays as a first baseman? It was very telling

Indeed. Plus addition by subtraction of the guy who started the season with Arcia and Sano at the corner OF positions and Plouffe at 3B.

Toolsy High School Shortstop or Outfielder. Very different for the Twins to do something like this I really hope that he can bring in a top pitcher in a trade as soon as he is tradeable. Still long ways, but I don't think that he will be the No 1 prospect in my Twins' prospect list. This speaks tons about how I feel about this 1-1 pick.

Re: breaking the current young core: If the current core (Sano, Berrios, Kepler, Polanco, Buxton) develop to be the players we want them to be, they will required contracts at the $20M/annual value a head. Will the Twins spend $100M+ a season for 5 players only? Highly unlikely. They will have to break that core. Pure math.

Because there were not any good players to loose, to begin with, after TF was built

Drafting 3 preps that are 3-4+ seasons away from the majors, for a team that is competing and has a young core that will likely be broken when those preps are ready, and needs close to MLB-ready pitching really badly, makes zero sense. Especially drafting yet another middle infielder at 1-1, of whom the organization has plenty. They have to draft a close to MLB-ready SP. At this point, I'd go with the one who has the better record, and it looks like they will do that. And I'd rather see them draft Bukauskas or Faedo at 1-1 if that will save them $, than a HS SS. And I'd hope that someone like Romero falls at #35 and they go with a kid like Scherff (19 year old prep, plus FB, plus CH) at 37. But drafting a SS (or CF) at 1-1 makes zero sense

Gee. The "Sports Illustrated profile" was written by their basketball writer. Mercy. Greene is a good story. The fact is that McKay's numbers against major College competition are better than Greene's against Catholic High School competition, this season. Cut it any way you want to, but facts are facts. And if a guy can help the Twins next season or the one after that, when Sano and Kepler and Berrios and Polanco and Buxton etc will still be around, I'd take that over a guy who would need to spend 4 seasons in the minors trying to develop secondary stuff, or not. (*) The best prep pitcher I have ever seen pitching was Doc Gooden and his best pitch was his curveball. And he made it fast, and would had made it further, if not for the drugs... Greene is nowhere near that level by any means.

I would be disappointed if the Twins select someone because he plays ball in Minnesota. And it really has not panned out. Here is a list of the players that played in MN were drafted by the Twins and signed from 2000 on: 2000 - Andy Persby - 18th Round - out of affiliated baseball after 3 seasons 2000 - TJ Prunty - 21st Round - out of affiliated baseball after 3 seasons 2001 - Joe Mauer - 1st Round - MLB 2001 - Jake Mauer - 23rd Round - out of affiliated baseball after 5 seasons 2003 - Elit Tintor - 18th Round - out of affiliated baseball after 6 seasons 2004 - Glen Perkins - 1st Round - MLB 2004 - Joe Abellera - 21st Round - out of affiliated baseball after 2 seasons 2004 - Aaron Craig - 28th Round - out of affiliated baseball after 4 seasons 2006 - Mark Dolenc - 15th Round - out of affiliated baseball after 7 seasons 2008 - Kyle Carr - 12th Round - out of affiliated baseball after 3 seasons 2008 - Nate Hanson - 28th Round - out of affiliated baseball after 8 seasons 2009 - Derek McCallum - 4th Round - out of affiliated baseball after 3 seasons 2010 - Kyle Knudson - 10th Round - out of affiliated baseball after 5 seasons 2010 - David Deminsky - 44th Round - out of affiliated baseball after 1 season 2011 - Austin Malinowski - 16th Round - out of affiliated baseball after 2 seasons 2011 - A.J Pettersen - 25th Round - out of affiliated baseball after 4 seasons 2014 - Onas Farfan- 21st Round - out of affiliated baseball after 2 seasons So after 2004 nobody made it to the bigs, and in the last Millennium only 2 (and those were first round picks) did. Just the competition in the upper Midwest is not there. I don't want to see them waste picks on players like McCallum & Knudson & Carr any more. If Sam Carlson is there with the Twins second & third picks, I would not mind if they draft him, unless there are better pitchers like Seth Romero available. (*) Neshek was drafted in 2002 (6th round,) out of Butler in Indianapolis, so he is not on the list

If I were to compare Kepler to a player he reminds me of both in style of play, power and speed combination, glove, and demeanor (albeit Kepler is very soft spoken in his young age,) it will be Paul O'Neil. Check out the OBP difference between Kepler and Yelitch, Burks, Green etc. And check O'Neil's career numbers, esp in an early age.

The Twins used 7 different starters this season. The league leading Astros used 8. just sayin'...

You trade him, but you trade him for someone who you can plug in the rotation right away and potentially be an improvement over Santana the next couple seasons plus. And you get another piece. For example: The Yankees are unexpected contenders and I think a great target team and with Tanaka faltering and Sabathia and Pineda over-performing but far from a sure thing, they'd love to have some veteran presence along with Severino; and they are the Yankees and used to those trades. So you trade Santana for Jordan Montgomery who gets in the Twins rotation right away (and is a lefty and can compliment Berrios for a while) and grab an MLB-ready reliever who is blocked by several in the Yankees' system, like Tyler Webb, who will help the Twins right away. Win-win. You can get better in 2017 and you can trade Santana. Not mutually exclusive.

That's highly unlikely. The last month Santiago's numbers: 9.93 ERA and 1.941 WHIP (.292 BABIP) That's barely warm body numbers...

Not even close. Twins' ERA by catcher: Castro: 3.80 (327 IP) Gimenez: 6.76 (157 IP) #FreeMitchGarver

I think that we have seen enough of Santiago, Wimmers, and Rosario. Santiago can be the long man and replaced in the rotation by Turley; Melotakis can replace Rosario and Busenitz, Wimmers.

with the bases empty. 2017 Dozier's splits: with men on: .145/.258/.224, 1 HR (89 PA) with bases empty: .290/.376/.527, 8 HRs (149 PA)

The best thing about the Chattanooga game that needs to be noted more is that Jake Reed made his first real appearance (he faced a single batter in a previous game) this season, going 2 full innings with 2K and 1H. Reed can help the Twins more this season than Gonsalves can.

Cannot compare late first round picks to an 1-1 pick. Period.

I really want to see them make a play for Seth Romero and Alex Scherff with their second and third picks (supplementary and 2nd round) if they are there. I know I do have Scherff ranked higher than most (BA thinks he is a late 2nd rounder or so) but I do like his stuff

Indeed. College Catchers with .850 OPS do not last that long.

That is objective. What is not objective is that he is the most talked about player in the draft, but most of his talk is about: a. his fastball b. him being a two-way player and his athleticism c. his family d. his art and other unrelated stuff very little talk is about: a. his secondary stuff (or lack of) b. how he projects in the majors. c. the fact that he has struck out fewer high school kids per nine (100 mph fastball and all) in a private church school than McKay did in a major University conference That's the problem with Greene...

He used to be bigger but lost a lot of weight this spring. Already at 6'3", he is closer to 220 lbs. Solid core, his body type is more like Sano's than Vargas's. This is a video of him hitting a home run for the Kernels this season.