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  1. gunnarthor
    Sano's power is amazing. I hope we lock him up long term b/c him playing for another team will bother me. Hopefully, Dozier starts hitting again soon. I want him to start carrying the offense a bit.
  2. gunnarthor
    Shoulder injuries are a real concern. I hope he pitches for us again but I think the rehab will tell us all we need to know. Best of luck to him though.
  3. gunnarthor
    Yeah, Wright and Baz with Rooker for slightly under slot would be a nice little run.
  4. gunnarthor
    Appel was probably in the Strasburg/Price grouping. Wright is probably in the Guasman/Rodon tier, which is just a notch below. Hochevar and Burlington were, IIRC, below that. I like Wright quite a bit and if he pitched all season like he had the last six weeks, he'd be the consensus #1 and probably in the Appel class. Frankly, he's about as safe a pick as a pitcher can be, he should be very good, perhaps great and he should fit in nicely with the core we have forming.
  5. gunnarthor
    Sure, some players lose out but others don't. Tons of HS kids turn down ML teams and get drafted much higher a few years later. And most of these guys can get insurance to cover some of the risks.
  6. gunnarthor
    Ugh, that was bad. That was "The Tick" level bad.
  7. gunnarthor
    I like Schwartz but I think he'll go higher up than that. He had a nice finish to the season, bloodlines and plays catcher. I think he'll go in the top 5 rounds. I'm not completely sold on your picks at 35/37. It might depend on what else is there but I'm hoping another college arm falls (Crowe or Lange?) and if Heilot Ramos is there, I'd love him at 35/37. Enlow is one of the many prep arms that I'd like to have an opportunity to nab, though. Heatherly I'm not as high on. pipeline pointed out that he's 19 and has command issues. Adams and Baumann seem like good college picks.
  8. gunnarthor
    The 1st and supp had only Strasburg and Trout who have surpassed 20 WAR. The 2nd and 3rd had Arenado, Kipnis, Seager who have all topped 20 WAR. Brandon Belt (18 WAR) went in the 5th. Goldy (30WAR) and Dozier (19) went in the 8th round. Keukal went in the 7th round. I think all of those guys would be drafted in the top 10 if the draft was redone today.
  9. gunnarthor
    Some are happy with him but several aren't. They voted for him hoping he'd focus on their economic concerns and not push the anti-immigrant stuff. They're not happy. (I also know several third party voters who are really upset about how the vote turned out).
  10. gunnarthor
    Drafts are hard. Here's the first round of the 09 draft - http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?draft_round=1&year_ID=2009&draft_type=junreg&query_type=year_round Leake was considered a relatively safe but low ceiling college arm and he'd probably go 4th now. The 2nd- 4th rounds combined for more 20+ WAR players than the entire first and supp rounds did.
  11. gunnarthor
    Some of it had to be mental. If he read any article's comment section about him he would read about what a greedy so and so he was. And then he struggled in that Astros launching pad in A+ and the Astros ML manager called him out and then he had some injuries ... just a complete snowballing.
  12. gunnarthor
    Yeah, Gibson was in a different world than Eades and Wimmers. I read one knock - maybe from Klaw - that said some scouts didn't think Gibson had the "meanness" to be a FOR guy but he was definitely a good pick for where the Twins were drafting. That said, I think Wright has the potential to be a true 1/2 type where Gibson was a 2/3 type. I hope Falvey is able to figure out why Gibson isn't as good as we expected. Were our expectations too high? Was i the injury? It is lack of command?
  13. gunnarthor
    Pipeline's best tools article is here ---> http://m.mlb.com/news/article/234394848/2017-draft-prospects-with-the-best-tools/ Lot of the guys you've been reading about are mentioned prominently. Adell seems very toolsy.
  14. gunnarthor
    Who was that?
  15. gunnarthor
    Trump's poll numbers are absolute ****. http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/05/politics/donald-trump-poll-job-approval/index.html And he doubled down on his tweet attack on the London mayor this morning because he's so stupid that he can't understand context. We aren't far away from the GOP just abandoning this guy.
  16. gunnarthor
    Baddoo looks a bit bigger than I remembered. He was a HS kid so probably not a surprise he's grown but he looks like he's filled out a bit. I hope Cabbage has a big year for us. I thought he was a nice pick but he needs a good year. Agree that Javier is a stud in the making.
  17. gunnarthor
    And this of course is the quote - "Twins’ owner Carl Pohlad felt an obligation, he told his employees, to hold the line against rapid salary inflation, that he owed it to the industry not to be part of what he considered an increasing threat to the game. It’s also true that the Twins were busy lobbying the state legislature and local government for a new stadium, and though they denied that it was a consideration, headlines announcing a $10 million contract to an amateur player may have derailed the Twins’ position that they were a frugal, if underfunded, organization." Pohlad was cheap. Very important to remember how cheap and how that made things harder for his staff.
  18. gunnarthor
    Yeah, I think McKay, the pitcher, has probably slipped behind Wright. But his bat might be the best college bat in the draft so he could go ahead of Wright on some boards because of that.
  19. gunnarthor
    Yeah, I'd like to see them take a shot on him. Lavine obviously knows the guy so, we'll see.
  20. gunnarthor
    Is anyone bothered if we start a new draft thread? If so, a mod can merge this into the other one but at 70+ pages it's getting a bit long. mlbpipeline has posted their top 200 here - http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2017?list=draft And they have a list also of the biggest risers and fallers here - http://m.mlb.com/news/article/234300364/top-200-draft-prospects-list-unveiled/ They have JJ Schwartz at 172, Sam Carlson at 15 and Wright moved up to #3.
  21. gunnarthor
    I made mention of this briefly in a different post but the guys at minorleagueball did a four round draft. Obviously, they don't have the insight that real drafts have but they are probably slightly better informed draft junkies with focus on where their team is drafting so it's interesting, in my opinion, to see who was falling in these mock drafts. The Twins took Wright #1 and at 35 they could have taken college arms like Tanner Houck, Wil Crowe, Tillo or Clarke Schmidt (I'm not sure all would actually fall past 35 in a real draft) or HS players like Danner and Crouse. Again, I have real doubts about whether those names would actually be available at 35/37 but some would. The top of this draft is about 5 deep. And there's another tier about 10 deep. But after that, I think between say 15-55, the order could go in multiple directions. Like last year when we saw Dakota Hudson fall into the 30s or the year before when Buehler fell into the 30s, some players are just going to drop as teams didn't expect them to drop and/or had other deals lined up. I'd much rather the Twins aim for Wright (or Gore if they think he's BPA) and then be prepared to punt 37 if need be to nab a falling player at 35.
  22. gunnarthor
    It'll be interesting to see what happens. It's also worth pointing out that the Astros strategy isn't a complete lock. It worked well in 2012 when they got McCullers at 41 but the 2014 gamble bit them hard and in 2015 they had two top 5 picks to use but Daz Cameron might not be the player we all thought he'd be. So I don't want to see the Twins move too far off of BPA. Gore and Baz might be worth it, but I'm not sure. I probably want Wright and see what falls to 35/37 b/c there's some deep talent in this draft.
  23. gunnarthor
    Great story, Bob.
  24. gunnarthor
    This is just for fun, obviously. Every year Sickels and readers at minorleagueball to a long mock draft for the first four rounds. Sickels always does the Twins. He drafted: 1-1) Kyle Wright, RHP, Vanderbilt 1C-35) Jeter Downs, SS, Florida HS 2-37) M.J. Melendez, C, Florida HS 3-76) Morgan Cooper, RHP, University of Texas 4-106) Austin Wade, OF, Texas Christian http://www.minorleagueball.com/2017/6/3/15735390/2017-minor-league-ball-community-mock-draft-after-action-discussion I don't really know any of those names other than Wright because they aren't pitchers.
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