Twins Prospects Certain To Be 40-Man Roster Adds

all locks. good players here with exciting potential. It'll be interesting to see where Winder and Sand fall in the pecking order for pitching callups; even in a good year where the rotation is generally healthy like 2019 the twins had 9 guys make starts (I'm not counting Stashak popping in as an "opener") so even assuming the twins sign 2 FA to pair with say Ober, Ryan, and Dobnak...we should expect to see at least 5 more guys make starts for the club, possibly as many as 8. The good news is, we have Winder, Duran, Balazovic, Strotman, Canterino, Sands, and Woods Richardson who could/should all be ready to make their debut in the Twins rotation in 2022. I think this may be around what I think is the pecking order, assuming equal health? 

Interesting to think about it: Twins starting pitching was a mess this year, but at the end of the day we still only used 13 starters plus 2 openers and whatever the hell you want to call Beau Burrows' outing. With guys like Winder and Sands coming on to the 40-man I already feel much better about our minor-league pitching depth.

You definitely picked some low hanging fruit in your choices. One comment about last year, many are down on FO for not protecting Baddoo, but Ober was a late add and definitely was a great add by FO. There are a few more prospects on the fence this year whether to protect or not, hopefully FO makes the correct moves.

I'm a little concerned about how all of the Twins pitching prospects seem to have injury issues. Sands, Canterino, Winder, Duran, a bit with Balozovic. The building of inings takes forever and the injuries just push it back further getting me paranoid about if they'll ever get there. If everyone with an injury history goes bullpen, we've got no future as a contender. But whatever, Ober was also like that and just jumped to 108 innings set to springboard to 160, so as long as all those guys hit 100 innings we're good.

Enlow and Vallimont were the current FO's choices on players. They need to be in on a discussion of who to keep.  Even though Enlow might not pitch this season he might be worth the roster spot to some forlorn team. Vallimont was projectable as a middle rotation kind of guy before covid. There are enough rounds and enough bad teams to give him a look. 

11 hours ago, 4twinsJA said:

You definitely picked some low hanging fruit in your choices. One comment about last year, many are down on FO for not protecting Baddoo, but Ober was a late add and definitely was a great add by FO. There are a few more prospects on the fence this year whether to protect or not, hopefully FO makes the correct moves.

Interesting. Baddoo started hot, but the second half of the season he had a .715 OPS. It was still a good number for Detroit but had a Twins prospect done that would there be the love that Baddoo gets

Would be interesting to see Baddoo's numbers against everyone excluding the Twins.  Got a feeling it doesn't jump off the page.

Would be real concerned the Twins would lose Enlow if he isn't protected.  With his high ceiling, expect he may be the 5th player added later next month.  He had his surgery early this year, right?  If so, he could be back pitching by mid-summer?

I am also concerned about Enlow.  A lot of potential there.  

Vallimont is a high risk high reward player, don't expect the Twins to protect h, but he could be the next on the list of why didn't we protect him.

There are others who need to be discussed in more depth, and I for one would like to see more of the AAAA types gone

7 hours ago, old nurse said:

Enlow and Vallimont were the current FO's choices on players. They need to be in on a discussion of who to keep.  Even though Enlow might not pitch this season he might be worth the roster spot to some forlorn team. Vallimont was projectable as a middle rotation kind of guy before covid. There are enough rounds and enough bad teams to give him a look. 

Vallimont is going to be a tough decision. If I've got a bad team I would grab him in the Rule 5 because his stuff plays right now and I can stash him in the bullpen for the season to see what he's got and keep working on his command. But is he worth a 40-man spot for the Twins when he isn't ready to participate at all for them?