Happy Minor League Opening Day!! Starting at 9 (central time), the 2015 Adopt-a-Prospect sign-up begins.

 

It’s been a rough start to the Minnesota Twins season, with two losses at the hands of the Detroit Tigers by a combined score of 15-0. However, today, Alex Meyer will take the mound for the Rochester Red Wings. JO Berrios is expected to start for Chattanooga, and Miguel Sano and Byron Buxton are expected to be in the lineup behind him. Kohl Stewart is starting for Ft. Myers. Nick Gordon is making his full-season debut with Cedar Rapids.Today, Twins Daily’s Adopt-A-Prospect 2015 will start... at 9:00 a.m. CST. It is simple to adopt a Twins prospect. Just put the player’s name in this forum. If no one has already adopted that player, he's yours. 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.

 

(As a reminder, on Friday at 9:00 a.m. CST, Twins Daily members can adopt a second player. A note will be made on this forum when that can happen.)

 

Shortly before 9:00 a.m. CST this morning, I will post a message saying "Let the adoptions begin." Once that is there, you can start. I will try to post an update from time to time of who has been adopted by whom. Remember, any Twins minor leaguer can be drafted, players at Rochester, Chattanooga, Ft. Myers, Cedar Rapids, or at Extended Spring Training.

Here are the Rules of Twins Daily Adopt-a-Prospect. I suppose for the literal out there, I should put out that you don't really get to Adopt them, like, legally. You just get to write about them on Twins Daily.

 

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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Less than ONE hour until the players can be adopted. It will open up about 5-7 minutes early, so have your list of guys ready!

Have fun everyone! I wish I could partake in the draft but I will not have the time to dedicate to a prospect. I look forward to reading up on everyones prospect?

Is it this thread we use or the pinned one?

Let the Adoptions Begin!!

 

(listed alphabetically by player)

 

curt1965 - JO Berrios

Steve Lein - Nick Burdi

Hrbowski - Byron Buxton

JunkWaxTwins - Ryan Eades

tyomoth - Mitch Garver

MinnFan4Life - Stephen Gonsalves

lightfoot789 - Niko Goodrum

gunnarthor - Travis Harrison

markos - Alex Meyer

teekz - Levi Michael

milldaddy35 - Jorge Polanco

bulldozier14 - Eddie Rosario

nytwinsfan - Miguel Sano

Dance with Disco Dan - Kohl Stewart

nate10s - Stuart Turner

Shane Wahl - Adam Brett Walker

Edited April 9, 201511 yr by Jeremy Nygaard

Jorge Polanco

Kohl Stewart

Travis Harrison

Since I'm in Tampa, I want a Fort Myer's guy...Big Swingin' Mitch Garver.

Stuart Turner

Alex Meyer

Nick Burdi!!!

 

Adam Brett Walker III

JO Berrios

JO Berrios

Niko Goodrum

Ryan Eades.

Miguel Sano

I'll take Levi Michael

I would like to request P Stephen Gonsalves, please.

Press Passes all around!

 

Stephen Gonsalves please!

Shoot I really wanted Gonsalves, but if he is taken Eddie Rosario would be a nice consolation...

Can I have Byron Buxton?

All of the confirmed Adopt-a-Prospects are listed near the top of this thread in one of Seth's posts. That way you don't have to scroll all the way through.

Alex Swim please

Could I get Greg Peavey?

Chih-Wei Hu

Update:

 

curt1965 - JO Berrios
Steve Lein - Nick Burdi
Hrbowski - Byron Buxton
JunkWaxTwins - Ryan Eades
tyomoth - Mitch Garver
MinnFan4Life - Stephen Gonsalves
lightfoot789 - Niko Goodrum
gunnarthor - Travis Harrison

JaleelWhiteFanClub - Chih-Wei Hu
markos - Alex Meyer
teekz - Levi Michael

scottz - Greg Peavey 
milldaddy35 - Jorge Polanco
bulldozier14 - Eddie Rosario
nytwinsfan - Miguel Sano
Dance with Disco Dan - Kohl Stewart

Stringer Bell - Alex Swim
nate10s - Stuart Turner
Shane Wahl - Adam Brett Walker

Nick Gordon still available?