Puckett's Pond » Twins Minor League System http://puckettspond.com A Minnesota Twins Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Fri, 24 May 2013 22:12:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Farm System Getting Better http://puckettspond.com/2011/10/24/farm-system-getting-better/ http://puckettspond.com/2011/10/24/farm-system-getting-better/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:00:43 +0000 http://puckettspond.com/?p=6376 For a couple of years now, we’ve been hearing that the Twins have a weak farm system, and that there is a major lack of top talent. It’s true that the Twins lack the plethora of prospects they had back in the early 2000s, but things are getting better. Right now, the lower levels of the Twins system are actually quite full of talented young players. It’s just the higher levels that are weak. And time should fix that.

In 2010, the Twins farm teams posted a dismal 298-388 collective record. The worst offenders were AAA Rochester and AA New Britain, who finished 49-95 and 44-98 respectively. Only Low A Beloit (71-65) and Rookie League Elizabethton (41-25) finished above .500. This year the records were better pretty much across the board. New Britain had the biggest improvement, soaring to 72-70 on good years by Joe Benson, Chris Parmelee, Liam Hendriks, and Brian Dozier. Overall, the farm system was still under .500 at 330-361, thanks mostly to Rochester’s second straight 90 loss season. But even Rochester improved a bit, to 53-91. If the Twins hadn’t been dipping into the AAA ranks on a weekly basis to replace injured players, it might have been even better. (more…)

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