I think you're a bit bullish on the young pitchers, but I guess that's preference. I do think we'll see at least one of them really establish himself next year and make a bid for the top ten, but it's pretty hard to rank them before they've pitched in full season ball.

 

 

I'm definitely bullish on these guys. Rookie ball results are a bit hard to quantify. Some guys can put up video game stats there and never go on to do much. However, there's some good correlation between guys who put up those video game stats and do so at an age where they are young for their leagues. These guys were 17 and 18 and flat out dominated a league where the average age is closer to 20. Given that there's no such thing as a pitching prospect, I fully expect there to be some failure in that group. Not sure who that's going to be as of yet, but if the Twins hit big on 2 of them, there's going to be lots of rejoicing in target field towards the end of the decade.

Too high: Pinto, Walker, Vargas (but would all make the top 20).

 

Too low: Kepler, Melotakis, Santana, Harrison, Bard.

 

Liked the write-up though!

Good write up. Buxton's name has more meaning this year than last year but overall I think it's a step back from last year as Arcia, Gibson and Hicks were higher profile than the draft additions of Stewart, Gonsalves and Eades, though I really like Stewart and am intreagued by Gonsalves. I don't care much for Eades though.

 

A side note, Eades is the highest picked college arm that played pro ball this year that didn't pitch in A ball. In fact only 4 college arms from the first 3 rounds exclusively pitched in rookie league, and only 9 in the first 5 rounds hold that distinction (Slegers was another). Most college arms picked in the first 5 rounds actually started in A ball.