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1. The coverage here has been amazing. I doubt there is another site on the web this good (for 1 team). Thank you all.   2. Taking a "soft tossing" SP would really annoy me.   3. I want upside more th

Brock Beauchamp
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Just keep in mind that many Twins fans absolutely skewered the Twins for drafting Mauer over Prior.   Fans know virtually nothing.

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This pick makes me wonder if Falvey is taking the Cubs approach of "avoid pitchers". Not sure a mid-market team can play that game but whatever, we'll all know in a few years. I don't get riled up abo

drivlikejehu First Round Pick

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Yep. It generally raises a guy's floor but after reading that the Twins used Trackman data on Greene and still passed, that raises concerns for me.

 

I still wanted to see them take Greene but, again, what the hell do I know?

 

A lot of posters on here like to play scout (not saying you do), but it's really a strange thing to think that they know more about these players than the Twins do. Irrational, to be frank.

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Lots of fans mock lots of draft picks, even good ones. That means nothing.

The Twins have finished dead last in the division 5 out of 6 years. Traded away the ONE good first round pick they made the last decade not named Buxton (Hicks) and drafted guys like Michael, Wimmers, Gibson, Revere etc in the first round....they deserve all the mocking they get.

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I don't hate Lewis on a personal level. He seems like a great pick but I don't see why we'd take a HS guy in this draft.  And I doubt he'd take a huge discount as a Boras guy. So why do we pass on guys who might be able to help the current core?

There were no true 1-1 pitcher guys this draft. Is that correct?
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This draft is going well. The Rays taking McKay (and not Thompson, whom they might have taken if McKay was off the board) should improve the probability someone falls to 35.

So McKay loses 1.6 Mil or more depending on what he signs for.  If it is true I wonder what the Twins offer was and if he regrets not taking it.

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A lot of posters on here like to play scout (not saying you do), but it's really a strange thing to think that they know more about these players than the Twins do. Irrational, to be frank.

Well the Twins have been the worst overall team in baseball the last 6 years. It's not so much they think they personally are smarter than the Twins....just the other experts who are saying this is a bad pick...are in fact smarter then the Twins.

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The Twins have finished dead last in the division 5 out of 6 years. Traded away the ONE good first round pick they made the last decade not named Buxton (Hicks) and drafted guys like Michael, Wimmers, Gibson, Revere etc in the first round....they deserve all the mocking they get.

Cool story. Again, fans know nothing.

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Cool story. Again, fans know nothing.

So the experts know nothing as well?

 

Also plenty of "fans" know scouts and the like as well fwiw.

 

God forbid someone criticize a pick that nearly every expert said was NOT the right choice for #1 pick.

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drivlikejehu First Round Pick

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Well the Twins have been the worst overall team in baseball the last 6 years. It's not so much they think they personally are smarter than the Twins....just the other experts who are saying this is a bad pick...are in fact smarter then the Twins.

 

The Twins have different management now and I don't see the top experts saying this is a bad pick. John Manuel for one says he likes it.

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