Stock Watch: 3 Rising Twins Prospects

In terms of stock rising, this makes sense to me with these picks. Miranda was a guy twins staff always rated, but had never reflected that in the performance, so this jumps him up. Varland was an interesting pitcher, but until they ticked his fastball up, it was hard to know if he had a weapon to fall back on. both got much more interesting after last season.

Whose stock rose the most?  I would have to say Miranda as he has been in the system longer and had nowhere near the success in prior years as he did last year.  He was a guy who was pretty much unknown who became one of the best hitters in minor league baseball last year.  What a great story.  Let's hope he carries that success to the bigs this year.

ERod's K rate is downright scary, and it's doubtful he'll be much unless that magically changes.  I'd choose a different 3rd prospect.

Obviously it would be silly to pick guys like Steer or Julien who are just getting their careers started. But there are two guys I ALMOST want to add to this list.

Jordan Gore completed his transition to the mound as a RP and had a pretty great 2021.

Yunior Severino seemed to take a step forward last season, especially after his promotion to CR.

Gore is "old enough" and newly transitioned he will hopefully go undrafted if there is a rule 5 this year. And Severino is "young enough" and still unproven enough to also, hopefully, also go undrafted. I can't include them in the same category as the other 3, but I was impressed by the development of both.

1 hour ago, twinstalker said:

ERod's K rate is downright scary, and it's doubtful he'll be much unless that magically changes.  I'd choose a different 3rd prospect.

Totally get your concern! The BA and SO numbers aren't good. But the BB and OB% and power numbers and OPS are impressive for an 18yo getting his first taste or stateside pro ball. It's those numbers that indicate he has an eye and approach that gives real promise. 

Miranda's 2021 season reminded me of Kirilloff's 2018 season.  Great thing is that Jose's season happened at AA/AAA instead of A/High-A.  Rave reviews on both, but completely different paths and approaches to success.  I'm excited.

Louie?  I love it.  It's fantastic.

Rodriguez?  Maybe I'm jaded, but signing guys at the age of 16 is a COMPLETE AND UTTER CRAP SHOOT!!!  Yes, baseball is culture in the Dominican & Haiti.  Yes, there is such thing as pedigree, but geez.  Look at the amount of players who have made it off of minimal signings vs. max signings.

Miranda hits close 270  in mlb , gets on base and scores runs  ,,, miranda should help excite the twins lineup ,, 

Twins change third base coach and hopefully  that will help twins score more runs also , he was awful  sending players to score , slow runners he sent and out by a mile , fast runners he stopped and we didn't score with no outs ..

Varland I hope pans out but have heard he only right now has 2 pitches