Twinkie Town 2012 Top 50...Round 6!

by roger13 on Dec 15, 2011 1:51 PM EST in Minor Leagues

Joe Benson has been holding a four to five vote lead all morning. With voting down to only a few votes an hour, I am going to move on to the next round. Thus, Benson takes the fifth spot in this year's poll with 105 votes (28%). Kyle Gibson was second (101) in the closest voting this year. Chris Parmelee was third with 55 votes, Liam Hendriks fourth (30) and Brian Dozier fifth with 28 votes. We now have our top five in the books, Miguel Sano, Eddie Rosario, Oswaldo Arcia, Aaron Hicks and Benson. What a change that is for the Twins as there isn't a single pitcher in our Top Five.

B. J. Hermsen just missed getting two percent and will be dropped from the next round. Added will be David Bromberg and Levi Michael. Bromberg is a two time Twins Pitcher of the Year and also the leader of all minor league baseball in strikeouts when at Beloit. He was pitching great last year at New Britain when he sustained a broken arm when hit by a line drive. After missing several months, he never got back to the level he was pitching at when injured. Michael is last year's top pick who played through several injuries while with UNC in the College World Series.

Please continue to provide names of those players you believe should be added to future rounds. Tommorrow is movie day, so I will be posting the next round early tommorrow afternoon.

Poll

Who is the Sixth best prospect in the 2012 Twinkie Town Top 50?

David Bromberg

17 votes

Brian Dozier

34 votes

Kyle Gibson

202 votes

Liam Hendriks

46 votes

Max Kepler

28 votes

Levi Michael

25 votes

Angel Morales

12 votes

Chris Parmelee

82 votes

Adrian Salcedo

15 votes

Alex Wimmers

9 votes

470 votes | Poll has closed

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voted for Kyle Gibson

Danoo

by Danoo on Dec 15, 2011 3:28 PM EST reply actions

Gibson

Obviously, his injury is a real shame…

"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all."
~ Earl Weaver
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by AdamOnFirst on Dec 15, 2011 4:00 PM EST reply actions

Hendriks

Moves ahead of Gibson, the clear number 7 then. Parmelee is good, but come on.

by shanewahl on Dec 15, 2011 5:38 PM EST reply actions

+1

went w/ Hendriks

# 4 starters still hold tremendous value, especially for Minn. ; after 2012 when all of Slowey, Pavano, Liriano will all likely be gone, and Duensing probably still in the BP..

2012 opening day could look like: #1SP Baker, 2SPFA?/Frankie, 3SP Hendriks, 4SP Blackburn, 5SP Gibson/ Wimmers/ Bromberg/ Lanigan/ other

Yoenis Cespedes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW9ge8l3jY8

by SteveHoffmanSlowey on Dec 15, 2011 7:48 PM EST up reply actions

damn formatting that should say #3 or #4 type of starting pitcher

Yoenis Cespedes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW9ge8l3jY8

by SteveHoffmanSlowey on Dec 15, 2011 7:51 PM EST up reply actions

also the 2013 rotation, not 2012

Yoenis Cespedes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW9ge8l3jY8

by SteveHoffmanSlowey on Dec 15, 2011 7:52 PM EST up reply actions

How could Bromberg get more votes than Wimmers

You do realize that the Twins offered him to every other team and they took a pass, right?

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

by cmathewson on Dec 15, 2011 6:29 PM EST reply actions

i agree Wimmers has to be top 10 or 12 overall Bromberg closer to 15-25

Yoenis Cespedes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW9ge8l3jY8

by SteveHoffmanSlowey on Dec 15, 2011 7:48 PM EST up reply actions

I voted for Maximilian Kepler.

I would vote for Kyle Gibson, but I have a policy of not voting for players who are going to miss most/all or have missed most/all of a season.

by benhertz on Dec 15, 2011 6:55 PM EST reply actions

thats not a bad vote.

He deserves some consideration here, for me

Hendriks, #2 Gibson, #3 Levi Michael #4 -7 Salcedo, Dozier, Kepler, Wimmers

Yoenis Cespedes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW9ge8l3jY8

by SteveHoffmanSlowey on Dec 15, 2011 7:50 PM EST up reply actions

Is Gibson going to miss that much time?

by b1 on Dec 16, 2011 9:07 AM EST up reply actions

Will miss all of 2012...

…will be back in 2013, but how he does could be all over the place. Look back at Matt Bashore this year, pitched about 16 innings. Others have come back strong in their first.

by roger13 on Dec 16, 2011 9:19 AM EST up reply actions

Went with Hendriks

If Gibson didn’t have TJ, I might have picked him.

Baseball reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again.-Terence Mann/James Earl Jones in FoD

by Twins33 on Dec 15, 2011 9:15 PM EST reply actions

If

he hadn’t had TJ then he would have been picked much soonder.

Will the Real Thor Please Stand Up ... ?

by the Real Thor on Dec 15, 2011 10:55 PM EST up reply actions

sooner

Will the Real Thor Please Stand Up ... ?

by the Real Thor on Dec 15, 2011 10:55 PM EST up reply actions

First or second

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

by cmathewson on Dec 15, 2011 11:02 PM EST up reply actions

If he hadn't had TJ

He would have been up in the majors and probably in this year’s rotation.

by DJL44 on Dec 16, 2011 11:05 AM EST up reply actions

Yeah, he'd be off the list, 'cause he would have started instead of Slowey

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

by cmathewson on Dec 16, 2011 11:26 AM EST up reply actions

Agreed on that, but I wasn't thinking that way

I was thinking, he’s still up there but he’s missing all of next season so I’d rather go with someone else.

Baseball reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again.-Terence Mann/James Earl Jones in FoD

by Twins33 on Dec 16, 2011 11:00 PM EST up reply actions

Probably would have voted for the person

the Twins take #2 overall next summer.

by Han Joelo on Dec 15, 2011 11:08 PM EST reply actions

Levi!

by b1 on Dec 16, 2011 9:07 AM EST reply actions

Liam

I went with Liam. I have personally met Liam, thru James Beresford (my family hosted James when he was 12 and we’ve kept in contact/visited since), and Liam is an extremly humble down to earth dude. So of course out of bias, I voted for Liam! I’m hoping the Twins keep him up with the big club for the whole season. Hoping James makes his way up as well! Although, visiting him in Ft. Meyers, Florida isn’t so damn terrible either!! lol

This being said, I’ve had a chance to see Liam, Angel, Hicks, and listen to games when Dozier was in Fort Meyers…..Out of that bunch, I think Angel has the most realistic upside. Dozier never impressed me, but the announcers were really high on him. Hicks has never impressed me. I think out of the 3 years or so I’ve been following James’s team (same team as Hicks every year), I’ve saw/heard/read of Hicks striking out more than anything else. The dude is a free swinging freak, and rarely makes contact. His defense is shitty as well. He has a great arm, I will give him that. However, his “awesome” catches are because he is late on reading the ball. This is coming from a former outfielder myself, so I pay attention to the little details…like breaking back instead of running in (unless you have a great lead), which should you turn with, where you throw the ball, etc. Hicks just doesn’t impress me and IDK why scouts rave about his “skills.”

I’m a newly converted Twins fan (obvious reasons above).

by Jared Maier on Dec 18, 2011 8:07 PM EST reply actions