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  1. Jeremy Nygaard
    It’s hard to believe we’re nearing the 10 year anniversary of the Twins selecting Byron Buxton with the #2 overall pick in the 2012 draft. But, at the same time, considering the journey of Buxton’s career and the crazy times we’ve lived through recently, it also seems like it was forever ago....
  2. Jeremy Nygaard
    More information about "10 Years Ago: Drafting Byron Buxton"
    With the draft season just starting to get going, we’re going to take a week to look back to 2012 (and before) and pull back the covers on what all went into making Byron Buxton a Minnesota Twin. Twins Daily had a chance to talk recently with Jack Powell, the area scout responsible for signing Buxto...
  3. Lucas Seehafer PT
    More information about "Johnson & Johnson: How Deron and Sean Rose Up the Ranks in the Twins' Front Office"
    Growing up in Vallejo, California, now a bustling metropolis just south of Napa Valley and across the bay from San Francisco, Deron Johnson always thought of himself as more of a basketball guy. That is until he got to high school. “My basketball skills weren’t where I thought they would be,”...
  4. Lucas Seehafer PT
    Deron (Twins Scouting Director, 2007-16) and Sean (Scouting Director, 2016-Present) are not related by blood, but their similar histories in baseball and with the Twins serve not only as ties that bind them but also as beacons for the Black community. Growing up in Vallejo, California, now a b...
  5. Seth Stohs
    More information about "Looking Back: Twins Take Four Prep Hitters Atop 2016 Draft"
    “I don’t know about other organizations, but it’s unprecedented in our history of the way we’ve drafted over the course of years. To take four high school position players with consecutive picks, I don’t think a lot of teams have done that.” Deron Johnson, Twins Senior Advisor to Scouting, continued...
  6. Seth Stohs
    In 2015, first-year manager Paul Molitor led the Minnesota Twins to an 83-79 win, the team’s first .500 season since 2010. Because of that, they did not make their first draft pick in 2016 until pick #15. However, they had four of the first 74 picks in that 2016 MLB draft. It is very early in their...
  7. Cody Christie
    More information about "TD Top Prospects: #9 Travis Blankenhorn"
    Age: 20 (DOB: 8/3/96) 2016 Stats (RK/Low-A): .293/.348/.502 (.850), 12 doubles, three triples, 10 home runs ETA: 2020 2016 Ranking: NR National Top 100 Rankings BA: NR | MLB: NR | ESPN: NR | BP: NR What's To Like Blankenhorn has been at least a year and a half younger than the competition at every...
  8. Thrylos
    As the Minnesota Twins are evaluating their front office, I would like to take the opportunity to evaluate the performance of certain parts of their front office for which there might be appropriate objective evaluation criteria. Deron Johnson, the Twins scouting director since 2008, has been primar...
  9. Thrylos
    More information about "Evaluating Deron Johnson's Drafts"
    ----------- Here is the data: I looked at the overall WAR for each team for each draft for all players selected by that team in the first 10 rounds of that draft. Calculated the average WAR for each draft and the better teams are indicated with green. The teams are listed alphabetically and the Twin...
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