Minnesota Twins: Track Twins Top Prospect Rankings!
Minnesota Twins prospects have dotted the top 100 prospect lists. We at Puckett’s Pond have a tool for you to track how Twins prospects rank throughout this prospect season!
The Minnesota Twins saw six different prospects appear on one of the three major top overall prospects in baseball lists this week, and will likely see more of that going forward. Who made what list, and how can you keep track of it all?
Around here at Puckett’s Pond, we are big, big fans of prospects, Minnesota Twins prospects especially. To that end, we’ve put together a spreadsheet for you to track the team top prospect rankings along with follow the national top prospect rankings. You can click on this link and then bookmark it and check back for future updates here on Puckett’s Pond when more rankings come out!
Let’s look at the prospects who have received note this winter so far…
Team top lists
In the spreadsheet, we have eleven team lists that have been released mentioned, along with a couple more that will be tracked once they are released for sure.
The points are assigned in reverse order of the length of the top prospect list – a top 10 list would have 10 points for the #1 prospect and 1 point for the #10 prospect, a top 20 list would have 20 points for the #1 prospect and 1 point for the #20 prospect.
We have the team prospect lists maxed at 25 as there just gets too many players to track if it goes too far, so a limit has to be somewhere. The guys with the Twins Prospect Handbook each had a top 30, Prospects1500 had a top 50, and we had a top 100 here at Puckett’s Pond in the early fall (soon to be updated, so look for that coming soon). With those diverse lengths, 25 was set as the length.
With the eleven we’ve had come in so far, the top ten Twins prospects (with their accumulated point totals thus far) are:
- 1) Royce Lewis 204
- 2) Nick Gordon 191
- 3) Stephen Gonsalves 186
- 4) Fernando Romero 178
- 5) Wander Javier 157
- 6) Alex Kirilloff 151
- 7) Brent Rooker 149
- 8) Brusdar Graterol 108
- 9) Lewin Diaz 99
- 10) Lewis Thorpe 98
Top 100 lists
Over the last week three major sources released their top 100 prospect lists. Royce Lewis finished highest in all three, and Nick Gordon was the only Minnesota Twins prospect other than Lewis to appear on all three lists released last week.
Baseball America had the most Twins prospects listed, with 5. So far, they are also the only list with Brent Rooker or Wander Javier, and they’re also the only list without Fernando Romero.
Keith Law had just three Twins on his list, but all three were top 50 prospects. MLB Pipeline had four Twins and had the highest ranking of a Twin, with Lewis at #20 overall.
Positional Lists
MLB Pipeline released their top 10 prospects at each position over the last two weeks before releasing the top 100 on Saturday. Four Twins made those top 10 lists.
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First baseman Lewin Diaz was ranked 9th among first base prospects. A lefty with a sweet swing, many have struck up the comparison to a young David Ortiz when referencing Diaz.
Stephen Gonsalves made the top 10 left-handed pitching prospects, ranking #9 on the list. This is a pretty prestigious spot, considering the high regard each member of the top 10 was held in as far as their ceiling as a pitcher. Gonsalves has been typically regarded lightly in his ceiling, but he continually outpitches expectations, and he’s shown a cerebral approach on the mound that outweighs raw stuff.
The Twins placed two on the shortstop top 10 for Pipeline, with Lewis ranking #5 and Gordon ranking #10. Really, the Twins could also place Wander Javier on a top 10 as well, which says plenty of the team’s depth at the shortstop position.
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If there is a list that you would like to see covered in the spreadsheet, comment below!