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How The Twins Drafts Stack Up
USAFChief replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
A couple things I find interesting. 10 years, 30 teams, five rounds each. 1500 players, plus however many comp picks were added. But we'll just stick with 1500 draftees over 10 years. 299 of them have achieved 2 WAR. 20 percent. 167 have 6 or more WAR. 11 percent. 116 have 10 or more WAR. Less than 8 percent. Fewer than 4 per team since 2003. My take: every team needs talent, but depending on drafting any significant portion of it is asking for failure. You need to bring in talent through other means. International FAs, major and minor league FAs, trades. And of these, trading is the best bet. I would look to sell unproven minor league talent for proven big league talent at virtually every opportunity. If you think a Buxton is next to a lock to reach stardom, hold on to him. Anything less than that level, look to use it to acquire proven players. You can't sell everyone of course, but when offered proven talent, think hard about taking it. You'll win that bet more than you'll lose it. And that's just the first five rounds. There were 9000 players drafted over those 20 years...the numbers don't support "draft and develop" as any kind of reasonable primary strategy.- 73 replies
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- brian dozier
- byron buxton
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Sign Joey Bats and let Rosario and Kepler fight it out for the other spot, with the loser the fourth OFer. I'm tired of "seeing what we have."
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DIY Network already has an option in place for the TV show: "Remodel? PFFT...Take a DOZIER to it!"
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Update: we know about the known knowns. We know about the known unknowns. It's the unknown unknowns we don't know about.
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improve it?
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Honey, I blew up the thread.
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The thread mile.
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You've got thread.
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Threadpalooza
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Threadpool
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Monty Python and the Holy Thread
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Can't believe this is still out there: The mother of all threads.
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Threadnami
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Video games, fantasy football, and pop culture.
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I was with you on everything KFAN related, right up until the Charch thing. Unlistenable.
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I think he has played really, really well. The offensive struggles aren't on him. Quite the opposite.
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Mrs Chief is appalled with me about a thousand times every couple days too!
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In other news, Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
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I took the over.
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Post 1000 was a big letdown, amiright folks?
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50 pages. You're thinking of 50 threads.
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KC spent 20 years in the wilderness amassing prospects. Ditto Pittsburgh. In fact, KC got to the WS immediately AFTER trading some minor league talent for big league talent. Not sure they are strong examples of what you advocate. Every team needs minor league talent. I'm not disputing that. What I don't believe in is thinking that keeping it is somehow preferable to using it to acquire proven MLB talent. Both ways can work, and I would argue history strongly favors the latter.
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Welcome aboard. Jump right in. You've come at an exiting time. Dozier got traded 24 hours ago.
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concur.
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Not buying this until a reliable source confirms. Dave?
