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Minnesota Twins 2018 minor league awards

By Benjamin Chase

MINNEAPOLIS, MN-SEPTEMBER 07: Mitch Garver #23 of the Minnesota Twins looks on against the Kansas City Royals on September 7, 2018 at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Twins defeated the Royals 10-6. (Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images)
MINNEAPOLIS, MN-SEPTEMBER 07: Mitch Garver #23 of the Minnesota Twins looks on against the Kansas City Royals on September 7, 2018 at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Twins defeated the Royals 10-6. (Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images) /
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OAKLAND, CA – SEPTEMBER 22: Willians Astudilllo #64 of the Minnesota Twins at bat against the Oakland Athletics during the seventh inning at the Oakland Coliseum on September 22, 2018 in Oakland, California. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Minnesota Twins 3-2. (Photo by Jason O. Watson/Getty Images) /

The Minnesota Twins didn’t have the season they hoped for at the major league level in 2018. The minor leagues, on the other hand, could not have gone much better collectively.

As part of our continuing coverage at Call to the Pen of the minor leagues, we will be covering each organization’s top players for 2018. The coverage will go in reverse order of record. Today, we will look at the Minnesota Twins.

We are going to review the system’s leaders for each organization statistically, then choose one hitter and one pitcher to honor for every team. This will be primarily based on statistical performance, though some “age relative to level” could come into play, so a very impressive season from a 28-year-old in AA will rank below a nearly as impressive season from a 20-year-old at the same level.

After we review each organization’s hitter and pitcher of the year, we will close out October with Call To The Pen’s Minor League team of the year. That will lead into November starting our team top 10 prospect lists. In other words, there will be plenty of minor league content on the way at CTTP, so keep coming back for more each day this offseason!!

Minnesota Twins minor leagues

The Minnesota Twins entered the season with as many as a dozen players on various top 100 lists, but none really in the class of elite prospects. They end the 2018 season with a pair of players considered among the top 10-15 prospects in the entire game.

There were other impressive performances throughout the season in the Minnesota Twins system, from the lower levels all the way up to AAA.

Before we offer up awards on the season, let’s take a look at the system’s statistical leaders:

Organization Leaders (min. 150 PA, 50 IP)

BA: Michael Helman .361
OBP: Jeferson Morales .466
SLG: Alex Kirilloff .578
OPS: Alex Kirilloff .970
R: Akol Baddoo, Royce Lewis 83
H: Alex Kirilloff 178
2B: Alex Kirilloff 44
3B: Jean Carlos Arias 12
HR: Brent Rooker 22
RBI: Alex Kirilloff 101
SB: Royce Lewis 28
TB: Alex Kirilloff 296

W: Stephen Gonsalves 12
G: Andrew Vasquez 40
GS: Lewis Thorpe 25
IP: Omar Bencomo 133
SV: John Curtiss 10
K: Lewis Thorpe 157
ERA: Anthony Escobar 1.10
WHIP: Anthony Escobar 0.75
K/9: Andrew Vasquez 14.0
K/BB: Bailey Ober 9.78

Let’s look at the award winners…

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