clutterheart

You're blaming the players for the treatment of the minor leaguers and the commercial breaks? Thats an odd take. Owners have always and will always squeeze the revenue orange as tightly as they can. Commercial breaks, ticket prices, concessions and the like will increase no matter what CBA they agree to. Look at the NFL, owners get it all yet continue to destroy their game to chase another million while the fringe players who get hurt and destroy their bodies for the owners get very little.

Clearly this was written before the Murphy trade as no way he is not in the Twins 2018 plans.

This is the mantra that all Twins fans must live by every year

I hope Berrios gets a real shot to make the team

ohhhh goodness.... Vielma's ceiling looks to be Pedro Florimon while Gordon is a potentially elite.

Its not fun to think about May in the bullpen Its more fun to think of a Rotation that looks like: Santana Hughes Duffey May Berrios

The problem with drafting relievers from college is they have high effort deliveries and the wear and tear they go through is excessive. So its no surprise that injuries got in the way of development and Twins should've expected that when drafting. Its seems that if you draft a reliever you should keep him in the bullpen and push him quickly through - like they are doing with Burdi. Twins are not the only team drafting a lot of relievers.

Sano and Arcia in the corners would be a horrible defensive OF. Those two would have to really mash to make that OF worthwhile.

Last year Twins chose Wheeler over Gilmartin. Gilmartin had a nice year in the pen as a LOOGY for the Mets while the Twins struggled to find a LH bullpen guy all year. Wheeler was DFA'ed. This year the Twisn Chose Dean over Jones Dean is a lefty who does poorly vs LH hitters. Jones is a question mark.

The only guy I am worried about losing is Jorge. Thankfully I don't see any national writers talking about him potentially being picked. In fact I see 0 Twins being discussed as potential picks.

Sigh. Another SS prospect changes position because he isn't a shortstop. But this is different than Nishioka, Plouffe, Dozier, Michael & Polanco (probably). Santana has all the tools, his arm is good, nice speed, and nice range so...what happened here?

1st - That does not make him well grounded. I am sure lots of insane talk this way and say similar things. 2nd- Do they coach players to say this kind of nonsense? Virtually every prospect interview they say something similar.

I would be curious to see if this is also true of david ortiz

Yup. Just like when they added Wheeler last year. They should have kept Gilmartin over him. I would bet 7 US dollars Dean is outrighted before September2016.

That tells me that once again, Twins do not excell at self scouting. Gillmartin is a lefyt who did well vs LH hitters and he had a fine stint in the bullpen for the Mets as a left handed pitcher - something the Twins could've used in 2015. Dean is a lefty who doesn't dominate left handed batters - therefore not suited to a bullpen role and therefore not so valuable.

The myth of Levi Michael's abilities continues. He hasnt played anything but 2B in the last 2 years. He turns 25 in 3 months, he hasn’t played above AA. There is no need to add him to the 40 man and lose someone else.

I want to know how to pronounce that first name. LOCK-lan? That was my assumption. But I was told it was la-chlan by my pal who spent time in FM

#6 Mike Pelfrey pitched his last inning as a Twin (hopefully)

Dan Palka is in the AFL and on the Twins.

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Scouts like his tools and measurables, sometimes it takes a while, sometimes it never clicks. But the fact he is on this list despite his poor performance tells you scouts still like what the see.

The bad news is he is playing 2B and not SS.

If Polanco could just play average SS he would be a top 50 prospect in all of baseball. Its too bad his glove isn't advanced enough to push him into the majors. If Ryan had to trade a prospect for a catcher, I would imagine Polanco and Walker might be trade chips.

Maybe his D is good enough to make him a replacement if Gordon gets hurt, but at this point I am having a hard time seeing it. However, if his D is really that elite then you probably ranked him in the right spot.

Man..people here are really high on Vielma...There are lots of light hitting good glove/no bat guys in the minors and I see him being organizational filler. Hopefully you are right and I am wrong