Recently they have changed to McKay from Louisville. I'm not super excited about him. Not a ton of upside from everything I've read.The Twin Cities media are making it sound like the Twins are leaning toward Wright over Greene for the No. 1 pick. Who ever they take, I just hope they make it to the bigs and contribute.
Recently they have changed to McKay from Louisville. I'm not super excited about him. Not a ton of upside from everything I've read.
Curse of the pine trees!Was Target Field built on some cursed land or something?
That's it. Ever since they removed those damn trees they've been in the crapper.Curse of the pine trees!
I like baseball and the Twins are probably my favorite sports team of all time. Getting interested in the MLB draft is next to impossible though. Just the nature of the thing. Probably wont see this guy for 4-5 years now.Lots of excitement here from the Twins fans on the #1 draft choice. Okay, or not? Come on , man, you guys had the #1 ******* pick! Or maybe everyone in Iowa went Cubs?
Twins pick Royce Lewis SS from high school. Think this is going to surprise the talking head back in Minnesota.
And the Reds take Hunter Green as #2.
I was hoping for Hunter Green and was very surprised at the pick given that the Twins always need pitching. .......
Agree. Sounds like they wanted to go with McKay at no. 1 but he balked at the offer. With the money they have supposedly banked, we should see a good offer going to a kid in the third round who might not have ordinarily signed.
Generally speaking, the best picks at the very top of the first round are high school position players and standout college pitchers. For that reason I don't mind the pick. I was sold on not taking Greene when I read in scouting profiles that he was a mid first round talent as a position player, just too much risk in taking a high school pitcher #1 overall.
I was hoping for Hunter Green and was very surprised at the pick given that the Twins always need pitching. Lewis plays SS or CF and we already have Buxton for CF. Let's hope they are looking at Lewis as the SS of the future and that they know what they are doing.
MLB network did have Lewis as the "the best position player" in the draft. so there's that.......
If that's the case, then I don't want McKay..... I wonder what the issue was with Green? ....
I was thinking they were going to pick Green after his trips here and him hitting it off a little with Tori Hunter and all. Hopefully they will be able to sign Lewis. You really want a #1 to be in your lineup in 3-4 years and as a starter. Hopefully another Correa or Jeter who will do that in three years.
I watched the first five picks or so out of curiosity because the top three got a lot of pre-draft coverage here with Twins having the #1. Man, the Green kid was an impressive interview. Hard to believe he is just 17. If he were coming here to play hoops or something I would be totally psyched to have him. On the totally unimpressive interview was McKay. And by unimpressive I mean UNIMPRESSIVE. At first he seemed pissed at his draft and then just sounded dumb. Guess I am spoiled by Georges and Naz and such.