Twins Select Royce Lewis First Overall

With Boras as his agent how does any team pull off getting a discount? Kind of disappointed that they didn't choose Brendan McKay and make him into 1st basemen of the future.

This makes the rest of the night much more exciting. Can´t wait for the supp pick. Wow! A real roll of the dice here.

See you in 5 years, Royce.   We hope.

Ugh.. Greene will haunt us.

Rather taken aback.

I need to see what they do with that extra $$$ before passing too much judgement on the pick....relieved it wasn't McKay though

WTF, we need pitching........

I'm stunned. Shades of ignoring an immediate need for a long term project. Al la Vikings? Treadwell instead of an O-lineman?

Is there something in the Minnesota water?

Wow. Falvey and Levine - soooo disappointed. Give them a team and the number one pick, and they take a # 7 or lower. No guts no glory. Who needs pitching anyway. Better to get a HIGH SCHOOL SHORTSTOP THAT HAS A NOODLE ARM and give him millions to play in the minors. I hate this.

I was hoping for Gore myself.

Good pick. Scouting report shows him as the best position prospect in this years draft.Twins obviously need pitching, but I would rather have the every day player.

This was supposed to be an opportunity to improve our pitching depth. Even with extra money for next pick we cant do as good as taking best pitcher available. Highly disappointing. But we do have a track record with toolsy OF...i mean SS for now...still very disappointing

Need to congratulate the guy who predicted this earlier.  I thought he was crazy.  

I can see passing on Hunter Greene if you want to take a more advanced college arm, start him in AA at the lowest and move him rapidly to the MLB level, even by the end of this season.  

I can even see passing on Greene and taking McKay and rushing him as a positon player to the major leagues.

But a HS SS/OF?   A guy that will start in Rookie + ball at the highest and is at least 4 years out?  

Is this what social media would have looked like when the Twins passed on Prior in 2001?

Argh. He might be going to college. Potentially wasted pick.

Bleacher Report says McKay passed on an offer to be the number one overall pick.  Can't stand when players do this without playing a single professional inning.  If it's entitlement why he turned it down, shame on him.  If it's because we wanted him as a pitcher and he wanted to be 1B, then that's different.  I'm assuming he goes to E-Town to start and bringing him to Cedar Rapids by the end of the season.  That would put him two years behind Gordon.  Please tell me this isn't a justification to possibly trading Gordon.

If they wanted to save money they should have selected Bukauskas.

Argh. He might be going to college. Potentially wasted pick.

I couldn't see a kid passing up a guaranteed $7 million to go to college.  Crazier things have happened though.