Article: 2015 Twins Adopt-A-Prospect (Starts 9am CT Thursday)

[Seth Stohs]

As we have done here at Twins Daily each of the last three years, we will be hosting the Twins minor league Adopt-A-Prospect. The goal of this special forum is to highlight players throughout the Twins farm system. It’s a way to get to know them while recording their successes through the 2015 season.

 

Starting at 9:00 a.m. Central Time on Thursday (April 9), minor league Opening Day, you will be able to “adopt” any Twins minor leaguer ( hasn't already been adopted). Those players can come from any of the four Twins full-season affiliates: Rochester, Chattanooga, Ft. Myers and Cedar Rapids. You can also adopt players who begin the season at extended spring training.

 

Then at 9:00 a.m. Central Time on Friday, people can “adopt” a second Twins minor leaguer. Again, only those available.Here are the Rules of Adopt-A-Prospect 2015:

 

(Note, the actual player adoption will be conducted in another thread, "SIGN UP FOR ADOPT A PROSPECT 2015", which will be located in this "Adopt a Prospect 2015" Forum.)

 

Rules of Adopt-A-Prospect 2015:

 

1) Each Twins prospect can only be adopted once. It will be first-come, first-serve in a new thread here that will be opened at 9:00 a.m. CST on Thursday morning. On Friday morning at 9:00 a.m. CST, Twins Daily readers can “adopt” a second prospect.

 

2) Once you have confirmed that you have that player, you can post a thread. The title of the thread you start should just be that player's name, hyphen - 2015 (example - Miguel Sano - 2015). The first post must be an introduction of the player. The format of the post is up to the individual, but please be sure to get all the important information needed on the player. For example, Name, Position, Handedness, Drafted/Signed/Acquired (out of where/what round), Previous Stats, etc. Feel free to make it as detailed as you want and feel free to find video. (There are a lot of websites you could link to such as their Baseball-Reference, The Baseball Cube, First Inning, Fan Graphs, MiLB.com, affiliate’s websites, etc.)

 

3) After the initial post (and throughout the season), you MUST update the thread AT LEAST once every other week. If you fail to do this, the prospect can be taken away from you. [if a player is inactive due to injury or suspension, this requirement is waived.]

 

If you would like to update more often, we certainly encourage that. Updates should, at least, include year-to-date numbers for the player. The more information given, however, the better. Brag up your prospect!

4) Do internet searches of your player to find newspaper articles from their hometown paper, or YouTube video or anything else you can find.

 

5) Any major event (i.e. promotion/demotion/trade/perfect game/multi- hit or HRs in a game...) must be reflected in the thread within a day of the event. Failure to update for this purpose may result in losing your adoptee.

 

6) If a player is placed on the 25-man roster, this is wonderful news and you can continue that player’s thread. Reward for your player getting to the big leagues is that you can adopt another prospect at that point. Even if the first player is eventually sent back to the minor leagues, you can maintain both prospect threads.

 

7) All other rules which are enforced on the main board will be enforced here.

 

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask here.

 

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[Shane Wahl]

I have no idea who I want this year.

[Seth Stohs]

You've got nearly 36 hours to think about it... and about getting a second player on Day 2!

[Mill1634]

How do you confirm your player?

[ashbury]

 

How do you confirm your player?

Since you'll see your post right here in the thread, as can everyone else, it will serve as your confirmation, until Seth comes around at some point to post a master list of who-has-whom.

[Seth Stohs]

 

How do you confirm your player?

 

Scroll through the forum timeline. It's first-come, first-serve, so to speak. I just say that in case a couple of people are claiming a player at the same time.

[lightfoot789]

For the record - I'm staying away from AB Walker this year and moving on to a younger prospect. TBD

[Mill1634]

Hopefully I get polanco

[Shane Wahl]

Actually, lightfoot, that is nice to know. I certainly don't want to steal players from other people who have a history with them just because I could be on the internet earlier in the day. I know if is first come, first serve, but I would understand someone being angry. 

 

I will probably still wait a bit and see who is left after an hour or two. Last year I was still rolling with Herrmann and JD Williams, and added Aderling Mejia and Danny Ortiz a bit later. And then even the great Lance Ray, who I thought was getting his groove back as he as actually promoted to AA. So, I might try to eventually top that and go for six by July.

[curt1965]

Will we know who is already taken before the 9am time, or is everyone starting from scratch this year?