Seth Stohs

He's a big league hitter, for sure (in my opinion). I think he could handle the offensive side of the game. However until they clear out an infield spot he needs to keep playing every day. It'll clear itself up in the next 6 weeks I'm sure.

He's got four pitches and good control... just hasn't been consistent. I've seen him pitch a few times. Definitely a starter. Just often will have an inning that doesn't go well. But he's got the stuff to be a solid MLB starter, which if you get that from a 2nd rounder, that's great.

Regarding Murray... talking to Jake, he says that Murray is pretty close to what Garver was a couple of years ago. He can hit, but his defense has a ways to go. I could see that just from watching too. But, he does have all the intangibles. Leadership. Hard work, all that. But Garver has worked himself into being a really solid defensive catcher, so I think it's encouraging. The thing is that Murray didn't catch much in college at Georgia Tech, so he's still learning.

The season has passed the two month mark and with All Star games coming in two weeks, we should see more player movement too. Of course, over the next month, the Twins will likely sign 20-25 of their draft picks and place them in the system too. The short-season teams will be starting before the end of the month. It’s a good time of the year. Let’s take a look at the statistical leaders so far in the organization as well as how the teams are situated in their divisions. First, here is how the Twins’ affiliates currently stack up in their leagues. Rochester is 36-22. The Red Wings lead the International League North Division by one game over Scranton/Wilkes Barre (Yankees) and 1.5 games over the Lehigh Valley IronPigs (Phillies). The Red Wings actually have a 3.5 game advantage over the International League South division leader.Chattanooga is 32-30 after a 6-1 week. The Lookouts are eight games back of Jackson (Mariners) and in 2nd place in the Southern League North Division. The “magic number” to be eliminated from a first-half division title is down to just one despite a terrific 8-2 record in their last ten games.Ft. Myers is 30-31. The Miracle are 4.5 games back of Bradenton (Pirates) in the Florida State League South Division. They have gone 5-5 in their last ten games. Their ‘elimination number’ for the first half is down to five..Cedar Rapids is 33-28. A 2-4 week has pushed the Kernels into a tie for second place with Clinton (Mariners), 1.5 games back of Peoria (Cardinals) in the Midwest League Western division. The top two teams in each division in each half get a playoff berth.With that, let’s look at the minor league statistical leaderboard (through games on Saturday, June 11).. THE HITTERS (Rate numbers- minimum 136 plate appearances) Plate Appearances - Leonardo Reginatto (259), Kennys Vargas (257), Zach Granite/Daniel Palka (252), James Beresford (250), Dalton Hicks (249), Zander Wiel (246), Chris Paul (241). Batting Average - Jorge Polanco (.322), Luis Arraez (.316, LaMonte Wade (.309), Leonardo Reginnato (.302), James Beresford (.297), Nick Gordon (.290) On-Base Percentage - LaMonte Wade (.433), Jorge Polanco (.380), Luis Arraez/James Beresford (.378), AJ Murray (.368), Leonardo Reginatto (.363), Travis Harrison (.362), Daniel Palka (.353). Slugging Percentage - Daniel Palka (.545), Jorge Polanco (.512), Adam Brett Walker (.465), AJ Murray (.448), Luis Arraez (.441), LaMonte Wade (.436), Zander Wiel (.411). OPS - Daniel Palka (.899), Jorge Polanco (.892), LaMonte Wade (.869), Luis Arraez (.818), Travis Harrison (.760), Adam Brett Walker (.753), Zander Wiel (.751), Edgar Corcino (.749). Hits - Leonardo Reginatto (70), James Beresford (65), Zach Granite (64), Daniel Palka (60), Dalton Hicks (59), LaMonte Wade (58), Travis Harrison (57), five with 56. Doubles - AJ Murray/Luis Arraez (14), Dalton Hicks/JJ Fernandez (13), Travis Harrison/Zander Wiel/Chris Paul/Joe Maloney (12), Leonardo Reginatto/Mitch Garver (11), three with 10. Triples - Max Kepler (6), Jorge Polanco (5), Zander Wiel/Rafael Valera/Edgar Corcino/Logan Wade/Ryan Walker (4), Eight with 3. Home Runs - Daniel Palka (15), Adam Brett Walker (13), Kennys Vargas (8), Byron Buxton/AJ Murray (6), Trey Vavra/Alex Real (5), Seven with 4. Runs Scored - James Beresford (39), Zach Granite (35), Daniel Palka/LaMonte Wade/Luis Arraez (32), Five with 30. RBI - Daniel Palka (48), Kennys Vargas (41), Zander Wiel/AJ Murray (32), Adam Brett Walker (30), Mitch Garver (29), Dalton Hicks/Travis Harrison (28), LaMonte Wade (27). SB - Zach Granite (27), Wilfredo Tovar (18), Nick Gordon (9), TJ White (7), Travis Harrison/Edgar Corcino/Ryan Walker/Chad Christensen/Darin Mastroianni (6), Seven with 5. THE STARTING PITCHERS (Rate number - minimum 47.0 innings) Innings Pitched: Jason Wheeler (82.2), DJ Baxendale (78.0), Aaron Slegers (70.1), Logan Darnell/David Hurlbut (66.2), Randy LeBlanc/Felix Jorge (66.0). ERA: Randy LeBlanc (1.23), Felix Jorge (1.64), Stephen Gonsalves (1.93), Jason Wheeler (2.07), Tyler Jay (2.18), Sam Clay (2.43) Kohl Stewart (2.88). WHIP: Randy LeBlanc (0.89), Stephen Gonsalves (0.923), Felix Jorge (0.924), Jason Wheeler (1.00), Cody Stashak (1.107),Tyler Jay (1.110), DJ Baxendale (1.13), Kohl Stewart (1.15). K/9: Jose Berrios (9.6), Sam Clay (9.4), Tyler Jay (9.2), Stephen Gonsalves (8.6), Miles Nordgren (8.3),Kohl Stewart (7.9), Jason Wheeler (7.6), Cody Stashak (7.4). BB/9: Felix Jorge (1.4),Jason Wheeler (1.6), DJ Baxendale (1.7), David Hurlbut (1.8), Randy LeBlanc/Cody Stashak (1.9), Andrew Albers (2.2), Miles Nordgren (2.4). K: Jason Wheeler (70), Tyler Jay (59), Stephen Gonsalves/Tyler Jay/Sam Clay (58), Felix Jorge (55), Kohl Stewart (52), Jose Berrios (51), Aaron Slegers (48), Cody Stashak/Miles Nordgren (46). Wins: Randy LeBlanc (6-3), Logan Darnell (6-5), DJ Baxendale (6-6), Five with 5. THE RELIEF PITCHERS (Rate numbers - minimum 24 inning, less than 2 starts) Innings Pitched: Marcus Walden (34.2), Jake Reed (34.1),Trevor Hildenberger (30.1), Raul Fernandez (30.0), Luke Bard (29.1), Mike Theofanopoulos (29.0), Todd Van Steensel (28.2), Alex Wimmers (28.1), Corey Williams (28.0). ERA: Trevor Hildenberger (0.89), Kuo Hua Lo (1.04), Nick Anderson (1.08), JT Chargois (1.12), Luke Westphal (1.75), Mike Theofanopoulos (1.86).. WHIP: Nick Anderson (0.60), Trevor Hildenberger (0.82), JT Chargois (0.96), Mike Theofanopoulos (1.069), Brandon Peterson (1.074), John Curtiss (1.12). K/9: JT Chargois (12.8), Mike Theofanopoulos (12.7), Luke Westphal (12.3), Nick Anderson (12.2), John Curtiss (12.1), CK Irby (10.1), Brandon Peterson (9.7). BB/9: Trevor Hildenberger (0.9), Nick Anderson (1.4), Brandon Peterson/Raul Fernandez (2.7), Alex Wimmers (2.9). K: Mike Theofanopoulos (41), Jake Reed/John Curtiss/Luke Westphal (35), Nick Anderson/JT Chargois (34), Jake Reed (31), Brandon Peterson/Trevor Hildenberger (29), Luke Bard (28). Saves: JT Chargois/Trevor Hildenberger (11), Nick Anderson/Alex Wimmers/Marcus Walden (4), Four with 3. Click here to view the article

However neither of them had any experience above Low A ball, so I don't really think that the Twins shouldn't get some of the credit at least for Liriano, but I'd also say for Santana.

The draft is complete, 40 rounds in the books. The Twins selected 42 players, and now over the next month (by July 15), they will attempt to sign anywhere from 20 to 30 of them and put them into the minor league system. There was plenty of action in the system as all four full-season affiliates played on Saturday night. On Saturday morning, the DSL Twins played and lost 16-11 in ten innings. Antonio Tovar went 3-6 with his first professional home run. Wander Javier went 2-5 with a walk and his second home run (two games in a row). Check out the Day 3 Draft Picks with some notes on most of them.Here is Saturday night’s Minor League update. RED WINGS REPORT Rochester 6, Toledo 5 Box Score Jose Berrios was back on the mound on Saturday and started out great. Through six innings he gave up just one run on three hits and a walk. However, after getting the first two outs of the seventh inning, he gave up a single, walked a batter, another single and back-to-back doubles before Sean Burnett came in to get out of the inning. Berrios’s final line? In 6.2 innings, he gave up five runs on seven hits. He walked two and struck out five. Burnett got out of the seventh and then pitched a perfect eighth inning as well. Alex Wimmers came on for the ninth inning to protect a one-run lead. He struck out one in a perfect inning to record his fourth save of the year. Adam Brett Walker got things going in style in the second inning. His thirteenth home run of the year gave the Red Wings a 3-0 lead. He went 2-4 in the game. Logan Schafer was also 2-4. Kennys Vargas (10), Jorge Polanco (7) and John Ryan Murphy (5) each added a double for the Red Wings. CHATTANOOGA CHATTER Chattanooga 8, Tennessee 1 Box Score It was a collective effort by the Lookouts in this win on Saturday night. It started with a strong start. Ryan Eades threw six shutout innings. He gave up just three hits, walked none and struck out five to improve to 3-2. Luke Westphal threw two scoreless innings. He gave up one hit, walked one and struck out one. Mike Strong gave up a run in the ninth. Ryan Walker was the Twins 18th-round draft pick in 2013 out of Texas-Arlington. He hit one home run for Elizabethton after signing. One Saturday night he hit his second professional home run. He went 2-4 with his first double and first home run. Travis Harrison was 3-5 with his 12th double and sixth home run. Mitch Garver went 2-3 with two walks. Zach Granite went 2-5 and stole his 27th base. Leonardo Reginnato went 2-5 with his 11th double. Engelb Vielma went 1-3 and is now hitting .323 with the Lookouts. MIRACLE MATTERS Ft. Myers 1, Brevard County 2 Box Score Randy Rosario was on the hill for the Miracle on Saturday night and put together a very strong outing. The left-hander gave up one run on seven hits over 6.2 innings. He walked one and struck out four. Brian Gilbert struck out three in 1.1 scoreless innings. He gave up one hit and walked one. Nick Gordon went 2-4 and stole his ninth base of the year. TJ White was also 2-4. The Miracle had just five hits in the game. Chris Paul added two walks. Todd Van Steensel pitched a scoreless ninth inning. However, in the tenth inning, he walked two and had a throwing error and the winning (or for the Miracle, the losing) run scored on a passed ball. KERNELS NUGGETS Cedar Rapids 6, Peoria 7 Box Score For the Kernels, it was all about the top of the first inning. Sean MIller led off with a double. Later, AJ Murray hit a two-run double. Then JJ Fernandez and Kevin Garcia each had an RBI double. Finally, Jermaine Palacios drove in two runs with a double. The Kernels had a 6-0 lead before even going out to play some defense. Unfortunately, they weren’t able to do much the rest of the game. Brad Hartong went 2-4. Eduardo Del Rosario started. He gave up three runs on six hits in 4.1 innings. He walked two, hit one and struck out three. Williams Ramirez came in and struggled some. In 2.2 innings he gave up four runs on two hits, two walks and a hit batter. Mike Theofanopoulos gave up a hit, but struck out two in a scoreless eighth inning. TWINS DAILY PLAYERS OF THE DAY Twins Daily Minor League Pitcher of the Day – Ryan Eades, Chattanooga Lookouts Twins Daily Minor League Hitter of the Day – Ryan Walker, Chattanooga Lookouts SUNDAY’S PROBABLE STARTERS Toledo @ Rochester (12:35 p.m. CST) - LHP Logan Darnell Chattanooga @ Tennessee (1:05 CST) - LHP David Hurlbut Ft. Myers @ Lakeland (3:00 CST) – LHP Stephen Gonsalves Cedar Rapids @ Peoria (5:00 CST) – RHP Dereck Rodriguez Please feel free to ask any questions and discuss Saturday games. Click here to view the article

See the first sentence of today's article.

Matt Jones went to the same secondary school as Red Wings infielder Stephen Wickens.

Makes it much more difficult to track when the MLB Draft Tracker isn't working, especially for me who is kind of a stickler on spelling names correctly.

I'm not sure that the two have anything to do with each other, but when the Herrmann/Palka deal was made, we only needed to look at Palka's 2015 numbers to think that he had a chance.

How about these June numbers for Daniel Palka?

Wander Javier went just 1-5 in the Dominican on Friday, but that one hit was his first professional home run. The Miracle got back to .500 and in one of their two games, they had a tremendous pitching performance. Another day… Yes… Another Daniel Palka home run, but how did the Lookouts do? And it was a very special night in Rochester thanks to the efforts of one of their starting pitchers. Day 2 of the draft is complete. Be sure to read Jeremy’s thoughts on all eight Twins picks between rounds three and ten. Check back and we’ll update you on Saturday as the Twins make their 11th through 40th round draft picks. Jeremy joined John Bonnes for a special draft edition of Twins Weekly on Friday night. They discussed the first ten rounds of Twins picks and were able to spend a segment chatting with top pick Alex Kirilloff.With that, let’s get to Friday night’s minor league update. Please be sure to read the entire Rochester report, at least. The big news came mid-Friday afternoon when Mike Berardino tweeted that JT Chargois was on his way to Minneapolis to join the Twins. With Phil Hughes and Trevor May going on the DL, Chargois was summoned (and Kyle Gibson reinstated from the DL). RED WINGS REPORT Rochester 7, Toledo 9 Box Score Looking at the final score, you probably wouldn’t assume that the Red Wings got a quality start in this game. They did. Jason Wheeler continues his impressive season. He went the first six innings and gave up two runs on six hits. He walked two and struck out three. Marcus Walden came in and gave up three runs on two walks and two hits over just one inning. Sean Burnett started the eighth. He gave up two runs on two hits and got just one out. Alex Wimmers returned to the team and made his first appearance since becoming a first-time father. He got the next two outs, but not before giving up two more runs on three hits. Ryan O’Rourke struck out one in a perfect ninth. James Beresford was the Red Wings catalyst at the top of the order. He went 3-5 with his ninth double. Kennys Vargas was 1-3 with a walk. He drove in two runs in with a triple. Eddie Rosario went 2-3 with a WALK (this is not an error). He added his fourth home run. John Ryan Murphy went 1-2 with two walks. ------------------------------------------------------ It was a very special night in Rochester. For the second straight year Logan Darnell organized an Alzheimer’s Awareness Night. He personally ordered (and designed) new game jerseys for the Red Wings players that were auctioned off and handed over to the fans with the winning bids after the game. The Twins and others helped contribute other items that were auctioned off. Proceeds from the evening will go to the Alzheimer’s Association in Rochester and Alzheimer’s Research. If you would like to donate, you can do so here. June 10th is the birthday of Darnell’s mother. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2012. Darnell, who has received a Harmon Killebrew Award for Community Service each of the last two years wanted to do something in her honor. The Red Wing and the Twins have been very supportive. Congratulations to Darnell on another successful, special event. First report from Rochester indicates that they made about $3800 just on the game-used jerseys and other collectibles. photo by Rochester Red Wings CHATTANOOGA CHATTER Chattanooga 6, Tennessee 2 Box Score Daniel Palka’s remarkable June continued on this night. He went 2-4 in this game with his third triple, and his 15th home run. In 10 games in June, Palka has hit eight home runs. Mitch Garver hit his fourth home run and it was a big one. Up 3-1 in the eighth, Garver hit a three run homer to put the game out of reach. Zach Granite and Stuart Turner each hit their seventh doubles of the season. DJ Baxendale put together another strong start, a quality start. He gave up one run on five hits over six innings. He walked two and struck out five.Jake Reed came on and struck out two over two perfect innings. Raul Fernandez gave up one run on three hits in his inning. He struck out one. Travis Harrison was 0-1 with three walks. MIRACLE MATTERS Game 1 - Ft. Myers 4, Brevard County 1 Box Score The Miracle got four runs in the first inning, all with two outs. Chris Paul drove in two with a single. Then Alex Perez and Logan Wade each added an RBI with singles. The team was able to hold that lead. Perez and Wade were each 2-4. Wade stole his fourth base of the year. Nick Gordon was 2-4 and stole his eighth base. Brian Olson hit his first Miracle double. Keaton Steele has struggled of late, but he was good on Friday night. The right-hander gave up just one run over the first five innings. He gave up six hits, walked two and struck out five. John Curtiss struck out two in a perfect sixth inning. Nick Anderson struck out one in a perfect seventh to record his first save with the Miracle. Game 2 - Ft. Myers 2, Brevard County 0 Box Score Fresh of finding out he was in my midseason Top Ten Twins Prospect rankings, Felix Jorge put in a tremendous outing. He went all seven innings. He gave up no runs on three hits. He walked one and struck out eight batters. He improved to 5-3 and dropped his ERA to 1.64. Trey Vavra went 2-3 with his fifth stolen base. Edgar Corcino walked twice. However, the big hit came in the top of the first inning when Joe Maloney knocked in Corcino and TJ White with a double, his first with the Miracle. The sweep pushed the Miracle record back to .500 at 30-30. KERNELS NUGGETS Cedar Rapids 2, Peoria 5 Box Score Cody Stashak started for the Kernels. The righthander from St. Johns gave up three runs on seven hits over 6.1 innings. He walked two and struck out two. Anthony McIver came in and gave up two runs on three hits, including a home run. Nelson Molina went 2-3 and drove in a run. Daniel Kihle was 2-4. Zander Wiel walked twice. TWINS DAILY PLAYERS OF THE DAY Twins Daily Minor League Pitcher of the Day – Felix Jorge, Ft. Myers Miracle Twins Daily Minor League Hitter of the Day – Daniel Palka, Chattanooga Lookouts SATURDAY’S PROBABLE STARTERS Rochester @ Buffalo (6:05 p.m. CST) - RHP Jose Berrios Jacksonville @ Tennessee(6:05 CST) - RHP Ryan Eades Ft. Myers @ Brevard County (5:35 CST) – LHP Randy Rosario Cedar Rapids @ Peoria (6:35 CST) – RHP Eduardo Del Rosario Please feel free to ask any questions and discuss Friday games. Click here to view the article

Depends on the definition of "prospect" and each individual's criteria. I think that in terms of ceiling, it's Rortvedt and it's not particularly close. But I think that, at least to some degree, proximity to MLB is a factor too. I'd probably have Garver ahead of him for now, though by the end of the year, I'd guess Rortvedt would be higher. Garver and Turner will (probably) be big leaguers... Rortvedt may never get to AA. Nature of Propsects and prospect lists.

Jeff Smith does during spring training.

That is a great book!

Correct... he's Organizational Filler whereas Hildenberger has a chance so they're going to move him appropriately.

Haha... of course!

I like college arms like Dunn but frankly, the thing the Twins have been good at for a couple of decades is developing toolsy outfieielders. If they had Kirilloff ahead of Dunn on their BPA board (and clearly they did), then it's absolutely the right pick... Of course, we won't really know if it was the "right" pick for 10 years.

Yup... Yup... that is a bit outrageous... I think they're being aggressive in pushing him to Elizabethton right away. Ha!

To me, plate approach/discipline is more important to me than arm strength. Kepler's arm is fine, but not a plus tool.

I'll be going on 740 The Fan in Fargo talking about the MLB draft, and maybe some Twins things. Basically, I'm going to try to sound as smart as Jeremy. If anyone's interested, listen here about 12:15 (central time): http://player.listenlive.co/28991

That's what I'm here for!