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  1. drivlikejehu
    Yeah, if the Twins had passed on Rooker he would have been gone shortly thereafter.
  2. drivlikejehu
    Most Cubs picks are below their mlb.com rankings. Are the Cubs dumb too?
  3. drivlikejehu
    Your ability to predict the future output of the drafted players - and even the players yet to be drafted - is astounding. Presumably you are leveraging that talent to make billions in securities trading.
  4. drivlikejehu
    The Twins could still take other guys that fell, but there's not necessarily a reason to do so immediately.
  5. drivlikejehu
    The Twins had Leach high on their boards. They would never have drafted him otherwise - plenty of slot options were available.
  6. drivlikejehu
    I'm not saying you shouldn't criticize it, I'm just pointing out that you aren't actually giving Falvey a chance to show results. If you think that's fair, by all means, continue to do so.
  7. drivlikejehu
    Rooker was a really popular pick on here before the Twins actually, you know, picked him.
  8. drivlikejehu
    What matters is how good he is. If he can really hit, the Twins are not going to just lock him in the low minors for years. They have been somewhat conservative with promoting minor league relievers, but other than that I don't see who they are holding back?
  9. drivlikejehu
    Board sentiment was overwhelmingly against McKay, so it's not really convincing now for posters to come back lamenting the fact that the Twins didn't pick him.
  10. drivlikejehu
    Unlike every person on this board, Falvey and Levine's job depends on acquiring pitching. So I very, very seriously doubt it's something they are disinterested in.
  11. drivlikejehu
    I just don't see who they were expecting to fall . . . The draft hewed closely to expectations overall.
  12. drivlikejehu
    Well a bunch of teams passed on Carlson, but then Seattle took him pretty late despite not appearing to have much extra draft pool money. So it seems like there's more to the story there. I'm not sure it's even possible to spread out the Twins' extra money in the way you are suggesting they might . . . it would definitely be unprecedented in draft history. I don't think it's a real possibility. It's pretty much a certainty that the savings will be allocated to a small number of players, or even 1 player.
  13. drivlikejehu
    Those are top 50 caliber prospects; where they are drafted is irrelevant. To say Enlow is an equal prospect to every other remaining player is clearly false.
  14. drivlikejehu
    There are plenty of prep arms that are well above "fifth round quality" left. Enlow, Burns, Heatherly, Scherff, etc. Not mid 1st round guys, clearly, but not filler.
  15. drivlikejehu
    How do you know they don't have a plan?
  16. drivlikejehu
    Stewart and Jay weren't drafted ahead of their consensus rankings. You can't have it both ways. The Twins have had a lot of failures on "consensus" picks. And until the draft is over, it's obviously impossible to answer that question. If they leave a bunch of money unspent, I will be very displeased, and so I think will everyone on here. But it hasn't happened.
  17. drivlikejehu
    But none of the picks ahead of them were surprising at all, and Carlson actually fell. They presumably already knew what his bonus demands were. I don't see what scenario was torpedoed here . . . there are still plenty of guys they can go over-slot on, but Radcliff's quote is just bizarre given what happened.
  18. drivlikejehu
    The Twins drafts in those years basically aligned with third-party rankings.
  19. drivlikejehu
    That is a tough quote to reconcile, I don't think there's any way around it.
  20. drivlikejehu
    Once certain HS players start dropping, it continues for a long time because the presumption is that they won't sign (for the money teams are willing and/or able to pay). So plenty of HS arms will be sitting around indefinitely.
  21. drivlikejehu
    Canning dropped for medical reasons. It's not clear why Carlson did yet, but its probably not just a Twins thing.
  22. drivlikejehu
    The Twins could pick up someone who fell in the 11th round or even later. Most late picks are filler, but until the draft is over we simply won't know the full picture.
  23. drivlikejehu
    I've disagreed with Twins' management many times, when publicly available information allowed me to do so. Posters here simply lack the information needed to make fine distinctions between similar draft picks. I've criticized one draft pick ever - Nick Burdi - because I didn't think his profile fit with where he was taken, and understated the volatility of relievers.
  24. drivlikejehu
    Not really . . . one draft is just not a way to magically repair an organization-wide dearth of pitching.
  25. drivlikejehu
    If Falvey is worse at drafting than the average TD poster, that means he doesn't know what he's doing by the standards of an MLB executive.
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