clutterheart

If Duffey doesn't make the team as a starter, why did Moliter quickly move May to the bullpen?

Graham & Pressly - both rule 5 draft guys who stayed on the 25 man roster at the expense of the MLBt eam are now considered as bullpen only guys? Yeesh. If thats right, that seems pretty poor. Hopefully they will keep Graham at least as a Starter in AAA.

After glancing through baseball reference, the 2016 starting OF looks to be the youngest Twins OF ever. (By ave age)

Generally its pointless to worry about velocity numbers in spring. If Mid April rolls around and those numbers maintain, THEN the FO should be concerned. Since his velocity numbers were decent last year, your comment is only relevant if you have his velocity numbers from past springs. Do you have those?

That sounds very Twinsie to me

Are box scores for these games published anywhere?

Well....To get those picks Ryan tanked the last 3 years, Twins fans had to suffer through 3 years of bad baseball, and the FO threw the excitement the new stadium generated into the the incinerator. But at least they did a good job on who they picked and developing them, now just have to take these youngsters and put them on the team.

I had to google the Moldavian - Vadim Balan. Good luck to that 22 year old in EST this year

No Randy Rosario. I am surprised how little steam he has. A young lefty with a good arm should get some mentions. Twins added him to the 40 man but the national guys aren't talking about him.

That's the first positive report I have read on Polancos SS defense in a long time. Odd. But ill take it.

Last year Escobar had a career year, he out hit his best minor league stats & major league stats. I don't know if he hits as well as he did last year, he might be a one year wonder. But even if he falls back offensively, if he keeps playing solid D and isn't a black hole he remains the best Twins SS since JJ Hardy.

Bloodlines = Genetics + better coaching opportunities. Its an advantage most other prospects don't have. But lots of ballplaye'sr kids don't get drafted at such a high slot. And lots of ballplayer's kids don't draw the rave reviews from scouts. Scouts see Gordon and say he can play SS at the MLB level, they like his makeup and they like his bat. He'll be 20 years old playing at high A. He might struggle a bit, but as long as he keeps playing good Defense, and keeps getting on base we should be patient with his bat.

This is why fans have 0 right to expect any kind of home town discount when its time to resign him. If the Twins play service time games with Berrios he should bleed the Pohlads dry.

You would think so. But Ryan doesn't trade prospects often, so....it would be a new wrinkle to the Twins standard MO.

Javier!

So you think the twins are going to try to keep Rosario as a starter? I didn't know that. I thought they were going to leave both in the 'pen.

Why is R. Rosario ranked 19 but Landa is an honorable mention? I would think both should be in the upper teens/early 20s

The scuttlebutt seems to be that the three best starting pitchers in the Twins camp might be Santana, Berrios, and May. But only one of those guys has a legitimate shot at breaking camp as a starter. I understand why that is, but I don't like it.

TNSTAAPP refers more to the fact pitchers get injured and predicting how they come back from injury seems to be tougher than hitters. So if you reference TNSTAAPP the floor for each of these guys becomes: Injured never regains form.

Braves have an odd progression. '13 - 21 '14 - 26 '15 - 29 '16 - 3 BA must have loved the Miller trade

Sure. But unfortunately Minor League Fielding stats are really REALLY unreliable. And they are even more unreliable in the low minors. - Especially Fielding %. To my knowledge the only "advanced" fielding minor stat is Total Zone and thats not great for Minor League guys too. So in cases such as this, we must rely on eyeballs, bias, and other traditional scouting activities. And the traditional scouts don't like what the see from Garver. But love what the see from Turner.

What? Statements like this...All reports I have seen have raved about Turner's D and for Garver the comment is "He has work to do" and "he might have the bat to switch positions" Turner's bat is a liability that might keep him out of the majors and Garver might put in the work to become better defensively than Brian Harper. But to say Turner and Garver are "close defensively" is like saying Andrelton Simmons and Brian Dozier’s SS defense is close.

Yeah me too, scouting reports are the only reason why nobody is writing him off. I do think #53 is aggressive but.K-Law knows his stuff so I am willing to trust his judgement. Once he starts hitting AA & AAA statistics become much more predictive. But by any measure his stats-to-date are not all that impressive

Its not just his SO total, He has average stats, and average peripheral stats (average is being generous). Based on his results so far there is very little to hang your hat on. Most concerning is he seems really hittable despite the reported quality of his pitches. So far he seems like just another guy. But...Law is good at his job so it does make me more hopeful that Stewart can turn it around.

My takeaway - Jeremy Nygaard claims Ryand Boldt is the collegiate version of Mike Trout Got it (In seriousness, Im looking forward to your draft coverage as now the armchair scouts will have to work a bit harder instead of focusing on just the top 5 guys)