Jeremy Nygaard

Fourteen members of the 2022 Draft Class have made their professional debuts. We'll take a look at how each of the 14 players are doing. View full video

The draft finished up almost three weeks ago. The signing deadline was last week. All the signed draft picks have reported. So where are they and how are they doing? 1st round pick Brooks Lee has played four games for the FCL Twins and despite starting slow has a .353/.353/.471 (.824) slash line thanks to an impressive game on Monday. Lee has played in the field exclusively at shortstop, starting three games there with his other appearance at DH. There had been rumblings that Lee wouldn't be playing in the Florida Complex League too much longer and those rumblings were confirmed by Darren Wolfson on Monday afternoon. It will be interesting to see how he's integrated into the Kernels lineup. You obviously make way for Brooks Lee, but former bonus baby Wander Javier has made every single one of his starts at shortstop. Make no mistake that Lee is in a different stratosphere as a prospect, but it's possible that both find themselves on the left side of the infield. It's also possible that Lee gets a couple of days off a week as he adjusts to playing a game of baseball every day. Comp Round B pick Tanner Schobel has also played four games for the FCL Twins. He's only 3-for-15 (.200/.250/.267) with a double and a walk and has struck out three times. He's also stolen a base. He has played twice at second base, once at shortstop, and once as a DH. Schobel is in line for more reps at shortstop after Lee's promotion. Once Schobel gets his feet underneath him, it wouldn't be surprising to see him move up a level. The most recent draft pick to make his pro debut is 6th-round pick Jorel Ortega. Ortega has only played in two games, getting a start at both first base and third base. He hasn't started hitting yet, going hitless in his first four at-bats. He's struck out three times and drawn two walks. Other draftees should be joining this trio soon and we'll keep you updated on how they're doing. View full article

Three Twins draft picks have made their professional debuts. One is already being promoted to Cedar Rapids. Who are they? How are they doing? View full video

The Twins made a big splash by sending out four prospects for one of the top relievers left on the market. What does it all mean? View full video

I agree. It's a much better decision for your future to rehab a repaired elbow with professionals than it is to rehab at the local junior college. (No offense to any junior or community colleges!)

There's only a guarantee of a percentage of the slot if players were invited to the Top 300 (I believe) and disclosed their medicals. But anyone drafted outside the Top 10 rounds (or drafted in the Top 10 who wasn't part of that selected group) wasn't guaranteed anything.

The day after he was drafted I was told he was going to JC and would be treated as a draft-and-follow. Something changed over the last week, apparently. So that was kinda surprising, but it could have been as simple as his rep telling the team that his number came down.

Thanks. I'm going to do some things differently next year and the coverage - I promise - will be even better. So raise your bar a little bit! We'll have Jamie more involved and might find another person or two to take on some of the load. And hopefully we find someone to take on a bit of the Brewer Fanatic load so I can focus even more on the Twins. It's a crazy few weeks, that's for sure. Fortunately, my schedule was pretty open.

Appreciate the kind words! I think there is some range on Prielipp's outcomes because he's thrown so little. If you want to get him to 200 innings/year, we have a long way to go. If you want to deploy him as a fastball/slider reliever, you might have a dude by next July. I think the Twins will do everything they can to run him out as a starter and have him throw his change-up as much as possible. If that becomes an average pitch, he's a starter. There are just a lot of questions about him, understandably, due to how little he's thrown. One thing that Sean told me years ago is that after you get out of the second round, there's no consensus. And that their draft board - and this is when it was 40 rounds - has a lot less names than we'd ever imagine. I think he said they'd have 600 or so names on the board when there were over 1200 players drafted. So I'd *guess* that Morris was a guy they absolutely loved (and was much higher on than the rest of the industry). Him and Lewis weren't even big-time money-saving picks. (And I'm super intrigued by Lewis). Now to McMillan... Sean has said on more than a few occasions that they have a really good relationship with the Alabama coach. And that relationship played a big part with being comfortable drafting Prielipp (and that he was also under consideration at #8). I'm guessing that the Alabama coach was really high on McMillan and sold the Twins on him. I'm not sure that he's worth more than $125k and I'm not sure if the Twins have any desire to even pay him that. But having good relationships pay off and this might just be what that is.

Prielipp got $1,825,000 against his slot value which was $1,662,700. What the Twins did this year - which was very smart - is they announced all their deals in one swoop. In the past, deal details would trickle in and agents do the math and know exactly what the team has to spend. If someone else reported a figure this year, I'd go with it. But I stayed away from reporting any deals myself because it may have been suggested in the past that I wasn't helping the situation by putting those numbers out. By getting them all done together, it does create some ability to be flexible now if they want to be with one of their unsigned picks. Also, I appreciate the kinds words!

17 signings. 17 bonuses included. That leaves three players unsigned. Keep reading to learn all you need to know about this year's draft class. You can go more in-depth on any specific player in the Twins Daily Draft Tracker. I'll give you the class overview here. All of the Top 10 round selections and seven of the Day 3 selections are signed, sealed and delivered. We'll keep you updated at Twins Daily as they all embark soon on their professional careers. Only Brooks Lee (first round) and Connor Prielipp (second round) came in over slot. Surprisingly enough, Lee's bonus was more over slot than Prielipp's. Both figure to enter the Twins Top 10 prospects and it isn't out of the question to consider Lee and Prielipp the organization's top hitting and pitching prospect, respectively. In order to get both players signed to over slot deals, the Twins had to shave money off their Day 2 picks. Each one of those players came in under slot - between $24,100 and $178,500 - to guarantee the Twins could make that happen. Now that the dust has settled and figures are public, there are a few interesting tidbits. The Twins spent $9,933,700 of their $10,081,500 bonus pool, meaning they still have $147,800 remaining to spend. Additionally, they could spend 105% of their bonus pool without any penalty. That means the Twins could spend up to $651,875 more. Omari Daniel has not signed yet, but he will be reporting to Fort Myers this weekend and is likely to forego his college eligibility to begin his professional career. Sources have indicated that Daniel's bonus will not exceed $125,000, which would require the signing team to dip into their bonus pool. So that leaves Garrett McMillan (Alabama) and Korbyn Dickerson (Kentucky prep committed to Louisville). Both have said publicly they will not be signing and that would be the expected outcome. The Twins could offer either one $272,800 (sixth round money) to sign. That would put them right at the limit of their bonus pool. If they wanted to use the 5% extra, they could sign either to $776,875 (which is basically third round money) or they could offer each $450,937 (late fourth round money). A late signing after professing publicly that a player is returning isn't unprecedented. The Twins signed Edouard Julien for $493,000 in 2019 after he stated he was going back to Auburn As the signing deadline approaches next week, the only question remains... will either McMillan or Dickerson change their mind? MINNESOTA TWINS $651,875 Player Round Slot Bonus $147,800 Brooks Lee, SS, Cal Poly 1 $5,442,400 $5,675,000 -$232,600 Connor Prielipp, LHP, Alabama 2 $1,662,700 $1,825,000 -$162,300 Tanner Schobel, SS, Virginia Tech"}" style="font-size:9pt; padding:2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align:bottom">Tanner Schobel, SS, Virginia Tech CB $1,002,000 $1,002,000 $0 Andrew Morris, RHP, Texas Tech"}" style="font-size:9pt; padding:2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align:bottom">Andrew Morris, RHP, Texas Tech 4 $533,300 $500,000 $33,300 Ben Ross, SS, Notre Dame Coll."}" style="font-size:9pt; padding:2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align:bottom">Ben Ross, SS, Notre Dame Coll. 5 $398,500 $220,000 $178,500 Jorel Ortega, 2B, Tennessee"}" style="font-size:9pt; padding:2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align:bottom">Jorel Ortega, 2B, Tennessee 6 $301,200 $250,000 $51,200 Kyle Jones, RHP, Toledo"}" style="font-size:9pt; padding:2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align:bottom">Kyle Jones, RHP, Toledo 7 $235,600 $176,700 $58,900 Zebby Matthews, RHP, W. Carolina"}" style="font-size:9pt; padding:2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align:bottom">Zebby Matthews, RHP, W. Carolina 8 $187,900 $125,000 $62,900 Cory Lewis, RHP, UC-Santa Barbara"}" style="font-size:8pt; padding:2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align:bottom">Cory Lewis, RHP, UC-Santa Barbara 9 $164,100 $140,000 $24,100 Dalton Shuffield, SS, Texas State"}" style="font-size:9pt; padding:2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align:bottom">Dalton Shuffield, SS, Texas State 10 $153,800 $20,000 $133,800 Andrew Cossetti, C, St. Joseph's"}" style="font-size:9pt; padding:2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align:bottom">Andrew Cossetti, C, St. Joseph's 11 - $125,000 Nate Baez, C, Arizona State"}" style="font-size:9pt; padding:2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align:bottom">Nate Baez, C, Arizona State 12 - $125,000 C.J. Culpepper, RHP, Cal Baptist"}" style="font-size:9pt; padding:2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align:bottom">C.J. Culpepper, RHP, Cal Baptist 13 - $125,000 Omari Daniel, SS, The Walker School 14 - Agreed Ben Ethridge, RHP, So. Miss."}" style="font-size:9pt; padding:2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align:bottom">Ben Ethridge, RHP, So. Miss. 15 - $125,000 Jankel Ortiz, SS, Ac. Pres. HS (PR) 16 - $125,000 Alec Sayre, OF, Wright State"}" style="font-size:9pt; padding:2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align:bottom">Alec Sayre, OF, Wright State 17 - $100,000 Zachary Veen, LHP, Point Loma 18 - $80,000 Garrett McMillan, RHP, Alabama 19 - intends to return to Alabama Korbyn Dickerson, OF, Trinity HS (KY) 20 - intends to go to Louisville View full article

Take a look at what we know so far about the Twins 2022 Draft Class. Has anyone signed yet? Who isn't likely to sign? How does their overall pool look? View full video

I felt my streak would be in danger as soon as Prielipp got drafted and Day 2 became an underslot day. But that's ok... it sets the bar low for next year.

The first year the draft pools existed, there was almost no difference between the last pick of the 10th round and the first pick of the 11th. (I think it was like 106k vs 100k.) As the pools increased each year (or almost every year), the gap got bigger and bigger. Eventually they bumped the 100k up to 125k. My guess is that in the next couple year, when the 10th round gets to 155 or 160, the 125 will bump to 150.

Since there has been a lot of chatter about Daniel, I got a bunch of information on him that I'll be plugging in on the tracker in the next 30 minutes or so. Stay tuned...

I think some of these points are accurate. I think others are not. I've been told it's on the area scouts to be able to put a number next to the their guys names on the draft board. I don't think it's an exact number. But if you put $50K next to a guys name and then draft him with a $200K slot value pick, his number better not all of the sudden be $200K. But I think that's much harder with guys at the top of the draft. There was a chance that Lee was going #1 at a discount. The Twins didn't think he'd fall, so I'm guessing discussions with him were more brief and the Twins probably just considered him a "full slot" guy when they took him. As Prielipp fell, I'd be shocked if the Twins weren't doing work on him. They probably had some intel on him at #8... but #48 is a huge tumble. If they weren't in directs talk with him, it was likely the hung a price on his name - let's say $3m - and that only leaves about $80k per pick after that. That's pretty significant information that a team is going to need going into yesterday. And I'd be really surprised if the Twins don't take someone today - just in case - that might have have $1m+ demand, just in case Prielipp doesn't get done.

We've reached the halfway point of the 2022 MLB Draft, which will conclude with 10 more rounds later this afternoon. The draft will resume at 1:00 pm this afternoon and figures to be all wrapped up between 4:00 and 5:00. After starting off at a snail's pace on Sunday night, Day 2 moved significantly faster. Here's to hoping for more of the same tomorrow. One big change in draft coverage at Twins Daily this year is the introduction of the Twins Draft Tracker. If you feel like there's less draft coverage on the front page and in the forums from Twins Daily staff, it's because you're right. The length of Day 1 provided us some time to do other things (like record a video or push out an article after a pick), but the swiftness of the rest of the draft keeps most of the activity over in the Tracker. That's where new scouting information and signing information will go. It's a neat feature that Brock put together if you haven't checked it out. Round 11: Andrew Cossetti, C, St. Joseph's Round 12: Nate Baez, C, Arizona State Round 13: C.J. Culpepper, RHP, Cal Baptist Round 14: Omari Daniel, SS, The Walker School (GA) Round 15: Ben Ethridge, RHP, Southern Mississippi Round 16: Jankel Ortiz, SS, Academia Presbiteriana HS (PR) Round 17: Alec Sayre, OF, Wright State Round 18: Zachary Veen, LHP, Point Loma Nazarene Round 19: Garrett McMillan, RHP, Alabama Round 20: Korbyn Dickerson, OF, Trinity HS (KY) Of course, keep the conversation going in the comments below. It was fun to read through the comments as I was able yesterday and try to interject as much as I could. I hope to do the same tomorrow. Here again is the quick recap of the first ten rounds with bonus information. Player Round Slot Brooks Lee, SS, Cal Poly 1 $5,439,500 Connor Prielipp, LHP, Alabama 2 $1,621,900 Tanner Schobel, SS, Virginia Tech CB $1,001,500 Andrew Morris, RHP, Texas Tech 4 $533,100 Ben Ross, SS, Notre Dame Coll. 5 $398,200 Jorel Ortega, SS, Tennessee 6 $301,000 Kyle Jones, RHP, Toledo 7 $235,400 Zebby Matthews, RHP, W. Carolina 8 $187,700 Cory Lewis, RHP, UC-Santa Barbara 9 $164,000 Dalton Shuffield, SS, Texas State 10 $153,700 What did you think of Day 2 now that the dust settled? What do you want to see later today? Shots on guys who might have higher price tags? All pitchers? All catchers!? View full article

Jeremy Nygaard recaps the first two days of the Minnesota Twins draft, noting that it's likely after Brooks Lee and Connor Prielipp fell to them, they had to cut costs later in the draft by targeting college seniors and several players that are likely to sign well underslot. View full video