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I don’t have a list, but I do have an observation. Having just finished listening to the Gleeman & the Geek podcast, the “list” includes most valuable Twins, in light of this week’s trade deadline….not the most valuable players.
The biggest take-away from listening to the podcast and reading Seth’s list, is how little the current list of Twins veterans have value, in terms next year’s team. It becomes even more evident when you remove current players that were prospects as recent as of a year ago.
Of the veterans on the Twins current squad, Dozier, Duffy and May made the top 10 (May fell out of the Top 10 on Gleeman’s list), while Buxton, Sano and Kepler, were all prospects last year (and in the minors). Other veterans (Santana, Rosario and Gibson) fell short of the top 10 list.
Half of everyone’s list -Berrios, Gordon, Jay, Polanco and Gonsalves, fall into the “prospect” list (6 of 10 on Seth’s list), even though this is a most valuable Twin list (in terms of trade value). After reading these lists and thinking about what this means to the team, I now have a clear understanding why so many TD writers and participants have a strong desire to bring up the young prospects and let them play on the major league club.