We've reached the halfway point of the 2022 MLB Draft, which will conclude with 10 more rounds later this afternoon. 

The draft will resume at 1:00 pm this afternoon and figures to be all wrapped up between 4:00 and 5:00. After starting off at a snail's pace on Sunday night, Day 2 moved significantly faster. Here's to hoping for more of the same tomorrow.

One big change in draft coverage at Twins Daily this year is the introduction of the Twins Draft Tracker. If you feel like there's less draft coverage on the front page and in the forums from Twins Daily staff, it's because you're right. The length of Day 1 provided us some time to do other things (like record a video or push out an article after a pick), but the swiftness of the rest of the draft keeps most of the activity over in the Tracker.

That's where new scouting information and signing information will go. It's a neat feature that Brock put together if you haven't checked it out.

Round 11: Andrew Cossetti, C, St. Joseph's

Round 12: Nate Baez, C, Arizona State

Round 13: C.J. Culpepper, RHP, Cal Baptist

Round 14: Omari Daniel, SS, The Walker School (GA)

Round 15: Ben Ethridge, RHP, Southern Mississippi

Round 16: Jankel Ortiz, SS, Academia Presbiteriana HS (PR)

Round 17: Alec Sayre, OF, Wright State

Round 18: Zachary Veen, LHP, Point Loma Nazarene

Round 19: Garrett McMillan, RHP, Alabama

Round 20: Korbyn Dickerson, OF, Trinity HS (KY)

Of course, keep the conversation going in the comments below. It was fun to read through the comments as I was able yesterday and try to interject as much as I could. I hope to do the same tomorrow. 

Here again is the quick recap of the first ten rounds with bonus information. 

Player	Round	Slot
Brooks Lee, SS, Cal Poly	1	$5,439,500
Connor Prielipp, LHP, Alabama	2	$1,621,900
Tanner Schobel, SS, Virginia Tech	CB	$1,001,500
Andrew Morris, RHP, Texas Tech	4	$533,100
Ben Ross, SS, Notre Dame Coll.	5	$398,200
Jorel Ortega, SS, Tennessee	6	$301,000
Kyle Jones, RHP, Toledo	7	$235,400
Zebby Matthews, RHP, W. Carolina	8	$187,700
Cory Lewis, RHP, UC-Santa Barbara	9	$164,000
Dalton Shuffield, SS, Texas State	10	$153,700

What did you think of Day 2 now that the dust settled? 

What do you want to see later today? Shots on guys who might have higher price tags? All pitchers? All catchers!?

 

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Honestly I am not expecting much from day three.  If the Twins can find some more guys like last year: Fedko, Festa, Nowlin, Parades, Perez and Ohl then that would be pretty darn good.

If I had my wish it would be to find some younger guys at the high school level or JC and develop them in the system.  They get a chance to mold them that way and they have the equipment to help them develop faster IMO.  Still finding a few guys that might make difference in those rounds would be good enough for me. 

We all know that unfortunately about 90% of these picks are not going to make it.  Some will get very, very close and more than half will wipe out fairly early.  It is a hard long road to become the best of the best and then get privilege of playing Major league Baseball.  I hope they all make it but will be happy to get two or three good player out of this draft.

Very interested in seeing the bonus $ the top 2 picks require to sign.

 

We either had to save a bunch of money for them, or we're going to make a splash today.  Either way, I love the approach and draft so far.

Yeah, we're kind of in the dark here since we don't know if the Twins needed to save all the money for the top of their draft, or if they saved money for today. I'd imagine we'll know after the next pick.

Agree the draft ultimately comes down to the first couple of picks, and with that in mind, I doubt anyone selected on day 2...or the impending day 3....has been or will be selected for much of an over-sign.

But let's not forget day 2 the past 4 years, (can't really count 2020 draft), has brought in Sands, Winder, Gipson-Long, Hebdrick, Holland, Encarnacion-Strand, just to name a few.

Day 3 has brought in Ober, Helman, Mooney, Julien, Isola, and Festa. Again, just to name a few. Hard to believe that Isola, probably the top catching prospect at the moment,  was selected in a round that doesn't even exist any longer.

So even day 3 can be very important. It's not like the Twins are just drawing names out of a hat to just take their turn and move on.

I think you'll see college seniors, smaller school kids with athletic talent that just didn't attend a major conference for whatever reason, and very likely a couple guys who's last year was hurt or wiped out due to injury. 

Are there any decent players left that the Twins could draft and sign with higher bonuses

6 minutes ago, SGL said:

Are there any decent players left that the Twins could draft and sign with higher bonuses

Well there are still plenty of 'ranked' prep players but most of them wouldn't take any reasonable bonus at this point; college is their landing spot with the hope of getting the big bucks in a couple of years. Most will probably still get drafted just in case they change their minds, and some even may sign, but that seems to be knowledge that's kept between the teams and the players themselves.

I just hope that the Twins get their guy. 

Gavin Turley would be great

I think we take a prep player in 11. We saved money on day 2, two sign our top two of one of them doesn't sign then while we lose that bonus money we can take our day 2 savings and use it for prep player. 

If I were the Twins, I would pick the good players and not pick the bad players.

For those wanting a catcher, Nate Baez of Arizona State is still available.

We got a catcher! 

Andrew Cossetti - St. Joseph's (PA)

And we all can be happy as they finally picked a catcher.  Another player with a good eye at the plate and good power.  Looks like a smaller school though.  Still I like the hitters they have been selecting.  They all seem to have a good eye to start with so that should help them early on.  Just not sure how well those small school players translate though.

 

Awesome looking numbers too! Put him on the 26-man!

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=cosset000and

Not only a catcher but he sounds pretty good.  Looks like a good hit tool, decent power.  Best Player in the A10.  

Senior sign, so it seems they are still in the mode of taking guys they definitely expect to sign.

I do think it's pretty likely that at some point they will take someone who will likely demand above slot, maybe a couple hundred thousand dollars.  Jaylen Nowlin was sort of that guy last year in the 19th round out of Junior College.

I think the money saved yesterday was pretty much just to sign their top two picks, but it makes sense to take a shot at one or two slightly tougher signs on day 3 in case they do end up with a little extra money saved up.

1 hour ago, Monkeypaws said:

For those wanting a catcher, Nate Baez of Arizona State is still available.

Two catchers in a row!  Twins just drafted this guy in the 12th.

Two catchers!!!!!! 

Pretty good numbers for Nate Baez.  12 picks and every single one an up the middle defender or pitcher.  

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=baez--000nat

Two rounds today, two catchers!

 

The Twins doubling down on catchers.  When are they gonna pick some toolsy outfielders?  Baez looks like a good pick here as well.  Has some power but might need some work on the eye at the plate.  Still a very nice pick at 12 if you ask me.  Keep'em coming Draft team.

1 hour ago, Monkeypaws said:

For those wanting a catcher, Nate Baez of Arizona State is still available.

Looks like you called it!  Nice job! Maybe the Twins should include you in their scouting group.

2 years in a row doubled up on catchers in the general same range.   

1 hour ago, Monkeypaws said:

For those wanting a catcher, Nate Baez of Arizona State is still available.

Now let's see if they can sign him.

Just now, James said:

Now let's see if they can sign him.

Pretty sure they can,  but will wait to see.  They were saving every penny they could yesterday.  Probably firmed up a couple numbers last night this morning.   Should be in pretty good shape to take a few more gambles.  

So, uhh... there are some catchers. 

I'm glad to see they got catchers.  Otherwise there would be a lot of passed balls at Ft Myers this season.

1 minute ago, bunsen82 said:

Pretty sure they can,  but will wait to see.  They were saving every penny they could yesterday.  Probably firmed up a couple numbers last night this morning.   Should be in pretty good shape to take a few more gambles.  

I'm just glad that we're not going to have to wait a month to find out which picks they sign anymore. 

Culpepper - currently SP FB 90-92,  high spin rate on pitches nice sweeping curveball   6'3"  good body type to add some velocity.  Most likely a RP down the road.