Twinkie Town 2010 Top 50...Voting for Prospect Number 37!

by roger13 on Jan 12, 2010 2:13 PM EST

The clear winner of Prospect Number 36 is Kyle Waldrop. With an excellent 159 votes cast, Kyle collected 43 votes (27%) to Jorge Polanco's 29 votes (18%). After battling back from a serious injury, this has been an excellent week for Kyle who was recently invited to spring training. Congratulations Kyle!

I had Steve Hirschfield ranked as having one of the best seasons of any pitcher in the organization this past year, yet, Steve wasn't able to gain much support from the readers of Twinkie Town and will be dropped from the next round. Joining the vote for Prospect Number 37 will be two of the best players from last year's Beloit Snappers.

Brad Tippett had a 9-8 record for a disappointing Snapper team, yet had the fourth best ERA in the league (3.21) with the league's best WHIP (1.07). Tippett also had 107K/25BB in the leagues fifth most innings (146.0). James Beresford was arguably the Snappers top player last season, a year that he began in the WBC and finished in the World Cup. Beresford finished his season with the league's thirteenth best average, .289/.342/.313 in 450 at bats with 15 stolen bases. Considering that Tippett is 21 and Beresford only 20, both of these young Aussies appear to have bright futures in the Twins organization.

I will skip listing each prospect selected until we get to the 40th round. Tomorrow's cut-off will be about 12 noon, cst.

Poll

Who is the THIRTY-SEVENTH best prospect in the Twins system?

James Beresford

6 votes

Brian Dozier

19 votes

Dustin Martin

13 votes

Brock Peterson

5 votes

Jorge Polanco

30 votes

Brad Tippett

9 votes

Steve Tolleson

13 votes

Blayne Weller

19 votes

114 votes | Poll has closed

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Winfree

signed with Yanks, I liked his power and Right handed.

by b1 on Jan 12, 2010 4:58 PM EST reply actions

Polanco, again

"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot

by cmathewson on Jan 12, 2010 8:26 PM EST reply actions

Polanco 2nd time...

"I couldn't do that. Could you do that? Why can they do it? Who are those guys?"

by maxisagod on Jan 12, 2010 8:35 PM EST reply actions

shameless

If anyone wants to learn more about Blayne Weller, he’ll be my first guest at 9:00 tonight (central time) on the SethSpeaks.net Weekly Minnesota Twins Podcast at www.BlogTalkRadio.com/SethSpeaks. If anyone has any questions you’d like me to ask him, leave them here. He’ll be on for about 15 minutes.

by SethSpeaks on Jan 12, 2010 9:25 PM EST reply actions

I know Hermsen and Salcedo were better known...

…but why Weller can’t get more votes is puzzling? His numbers were very similar to the two GCL pitchers who both went in our Top 19!

by roger13 on Jan 12, 2010 9:45 PM EST up reply actions

I'm voting for Weller next

I definitely overlooked him, though. Not only did he have great numbers, but, like Hermsen, his big body and young age project really well.

"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot

by cmathewson on Jan 13, 2010 9:34 AM EST up reply actions

GCL is hard to figure

Every Twin pitcher dominated – the team had a 1.055whip. But it also seems to be a pitchers league; Weller’s .947whip tied for 27th in the GCL. There isn’t much of a track record for us non-baseball guys to see on the net. Weller has 58 professional innings under his belt.

In the GCL, comparing thier Krate, whip, K/BB rate and era
Weller tied for 91st, tied 27th, was 24th and 29th in era
Hermsen krate was below 100 but his whip was 6th and his K/BB rate was 7th, his era was 18th
Salcedo finished 65th, 40th, 4th and 25th. And is a year younger than the other two.

I have no idea how to judge them. So I voted for Tipplett who has better numbers (more or less) at A ball and has pitched about 5x as many innings.

by Gunnarthor on Jan 13, 2010 10:42 AM EST up reply actions

Gunnarthor...

…there are a few numbers that aren’t accurate. According to MiLB, Weller’s 0.95 WHIP was sixth best in the league, not 27th. His 1.58 ERA was 10th best in the league, not 29th as you mentioned. I don’t know where you got your rankings, perhaps MiLB rankings require a certain number of innings and your numbers include guys with only a couple innings. But Weller compared very well with the elite pitchers in the league, including Salcedo and Hermsen.

by roger13 on Jan 13, 2010 11:25 AM EST up reply actions

Simply put, Weller was drafed later

then Hermsen and Salcedo is younger

by b1 on Jan 13, 2010 1:05 PM EST up reply actions

Roger

I just used baseballreference.com (http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/leader.cgi?type=pitch&id=14974). Everyone pitched between 18 and 71 innings. MiLB had a min pitch requirement of .8 per team game.

by Gunnarthor on Jan 13, 2010 11:46 AM EST reply actions

60 innings in rookie ball

Are nothing to draw conclusions about. Players have good 60 innings. They’re pitching to players who have just been handed a wooden bat for the first time. There is little attention paid by batters to scouting reports. The pitcher’s health might be terrific, partly because they only need to throw 60 innings that “season”. All you really get out of those 60 innings is a better scouting report.

by DJL44 on Jan 13, 2010 12:24 PM EST up reply actions