The Twins Top Prospects in 2024 Will Be...

Miller and Prielipp still have to do some proving in the minors before I would put them top five.  The other three are looking really promising.  

I am bothered by Rodriguez having a knee injury.  We have too many injury prone players - Buxton can't stay in the field, Lewis can't get onto the team, Kiriloff lasts for short stints along with Larnach.  I hope this trend can end soon. 

Rodriguez by a landslide unless injuries become a problem.  Miller would have to have a super incredible year next year to approach number 1--but I do like his long term potential.  Of the other 3, Prielipp would be most likely to approach number 1 as he is more experienced, but Raya is our best pitching prospect long term I think.  

Yasser Mercedes - plays CF, bats .355, 4 home runs, and 30 SB's in 41 games for the DSL Twins. To top it off, he is currently 17 years old.

Lee Isola,, Carmago, and Julien as position players,. Varland is still a prospect as is SWR. There are a few relievers doing well. Of course relievers never rank high as prospects. That is until the major league team’s bullpen gets blown up.

2024…Brooks Lee is #1

Sorry but so don’t think he gets through Aa and AAA and gets enough bats not to qualify in 2023.

Brooks Lee.  He's the real deal.  Not sure if he can stick at SS or if he ends up at 3B or 2B but he's on a fast track to the Big Leagues.

Agree that Brooks Lee will be with the Twins come 2024, so no longer a prospect.  Assume by 2024, you mean the beginning of the 2024 season?

Will disagree with Prielipp.  I believe he is going to be the Twins version of Chris Sale and he joins the Twins late next summer and will no longer be a prospect come 2024.

That's right.  Prielipp is going to be our Chris Sale and Lee will be our Robin Yount.  Yes, my glasses have rose colored lens.

Brooks Lee for sure.  I see no likely scenario in which he’s graduated off the list next year, even with Correa likely to opt out. 

This list would have looked much better if the front office had not succumbed to Twins Daily pressure and traded away Steer, Encarnacion-Strand, Hajjar, Gibson-Long, Povich, and Cano (plus some lower level guys that may turn out to be major league players) in a futile attempt to strengthen a team that had no chance of going anywhere in the postseason (in my humble opinion).  To many of you, the chance to possibly win one playoff game was more important than building a World Series competitive team.

4 hours ago, terrydactyls said:

This list would have looked much better if the front office had not succumbed to Twins Daily pressure and traded away Steer, Encarnacion-Strand, Hajjar, Gibson-Long, Povich, and Cano (plus some lower level guys that may turn out to be major league players) in a futile attempt to strengthen a team that had no chance of going anywhere in the postseason (in my humble opinion).  To many of you, the chance to possibly win one playoff game was more important than building a World Series competitive team.

I can live with ALL these guys going away (okay, maybe not Encarnacio-Strand - but who knows what the Twins first base/third base needs will be in, say, 2023). I'm happy if Tyler Mahle and Jorge Lopez can give us a 2023 and hopefully eturn in 2024. I would like to sign Michael Fulmer over going to arbitration with Pagan. I would welcome the return of Sandy Leon as minor league depth. I would love seeing him work with our young pitchers at St. Paul - considering the Twins now have 10 candidates for the season rotation, at some point, in 2023.

Funny thing about prospect rankings:  They tend to go down as a result of success.  Sure, ours has dropped, but I'm guessing it would be much higher if Miranda, Ryan and Duran were still prospects rather than top 20 MLB rookies.

19 hours ago, terrydactyls said:

This list would have looked much better if the front office had not succumbed to Twins Daily pressure and traded away Steer, Encarnacion-Strand, Hajjar, Gibson-Long, Povich, and Cano (plus some lower level guys that may turn out to be major league players) in a futile attempt to strengthen a team that had no chance of going anywhere in the postseason (in my humble opinion).  To many of you, the chance to possibly win one playoff game was more important than building a World Series competitive team.

The prospect list would look better but the team next year or the year after may be better with the players than the prospects. Cano was addition for the Twins by subtraction

20 hours ago, Seth Stohs said:

If I understand this right, are you saying that you think that Brooks Lee will play in the big leagues in 2023?

No, I personally don’t expect it. 

Rodriguez showed really good talent this year. Another one would be raya or urbina.

.... injured?

I like Lee, Raya, and Rodriguez. The low minors are a time of quick maturation and learning. When I lived in Florida years ago I was at a rookie league game where a pitcher struck out 7 guys and ripped through the first nine guys hitless on 27 pitches. Inning four comes and poof - four home runs and three walks.

Jose Rodriguez