Minnesota Twins: Top 10 Rookie-Eligible Prospects for 2018
We have reached the point of the offseason where prospect lists abound. We continue our top 10 prospects for every team with the Minnesota Twins!
Our team top 10 prospect lists at Call to the Pen are spearheaded by Benjamin Chase. Today, he gives us the top ten prospects for the Minnesota Twins.
This season, we will be going through teams by division, in order of 2017 record. The AL East will be first, followed by the AL Central and AL West. Then the focus will shift to the National League in the same order.
The format will be as it was last season for the same lists, with a system review, which will include last season’s list. The top 10 will follow in reverse order, two players per page in order to give adequate space to each player. Major trades or international signings will lead to an updated top 10!
Finally, don’t go away after #1 is revealed as each list will also contain a player either signed in the 2017 international free agent class or drafted in 2017 that isn’t part of the top 10 and should be tracked. Last season’s mentions in that area made over half of the top 10s this season, so this is a great way to get to know a player who could be making a big splash in the organization.
System overview
The Minnesota Twins saw a top-rated farm system graduate such top prospects as Byron Buxton, Miguel Sano, and Jose Berrios (among others) to the major leagues over the last few years, which left the system understandably more in the middle of the pack, but the new Twins front office has done an excellent job of bringing that system forward.
While there’s not a top-25 prospect in this system, there could be legit argument for as many as 9 in the top 100, and that’s an impressive amount of depth. By the end of the summer, it would surprise few if the Twins had multiple in that top 25 among prospects in all of baseball.
With the major league club working its way back to the playoffs in 2017 with a young team, the Twins’ future is very bright with an up-and-coming system as well that very well could be considered a top-5 system at this point next year and certainly is a top-10 system right now.
Ben did a top 100 list in October. This is an update on the top 10 for that list, as more information has come in since.
Let’s take a look at that system….
Next: #9 and #10