87 thoughts on “2013 MLB Rule 4 Draft (or Twins at Royals)”

  1. And this year Appel goes first. Cubs pick Kris Bryant and the Rockies select Jonathan Gray.

    1. One of the talking heads on MLBAM says, "a lot of people might not realize it, but the Twins have a good farm system." Uh, I think a lot of people realize that.

      1. Sounds like one of those things where an announcer goes "You never hear about Joe Nathan, but he's been every bit as good as Rivera," and what they mean is "I haven't done any research on Nathan so I don't mention him as often as I mention Rivera."

        1. And it's not like he's on ESPN. This is MLBN. The people watching are all interested in the MLB draft and maybe know a thing or two about the farm system rankings.

    2. Is Kohl going to be allowed at Target Field, or will he have to change his name?

        1. That ERA looks backwards to me, but I have been looking at the Twins' starting staff numbers a lot lately.

          1. he's a Mauer wannabee
            from the Houston Chronicle:

            Stewart, who grew up in Tomball, was a two-sport star at St. Pius High School and signed a football scholarship agreement in February with Texas A&M, where he also hopes to play baseball.

            Stewart has played for the Banditos Baseball select team program since age 7 and was part of an under-13 team that won 155 consecutive games. He was named this month as Gatorade’s Texas high school player of the year for his 5-1 record, 0.18 ERA and 10 homers for St. Pius.

            In football, he won the Touchdown Club of Houston’s private school player of the year award and in three years as a starter threw for 8,803 yards and 87 touchdowns at St. Pius.

            1. Stewart has played for the Banditos Baseball select team program since age 7 and was part of an under-13 team that won 155 consecutive games.
              I wonder how many he started. I'm predicting Tommy John before he plays for the Twins.

              1. doesn't he have to get on the 25-man roster, get shelved for a couple of weeks with a sore arm, THEN be put on the DL, before he can get to the surgery?

        2. Come to think of it, i probably shouldn't ask if a high school pitcher strikes guys out. If they didn't, I'd be scared that they drink like a Milwaukee resident.

      2. I'd been reading "high upside, but HS arm, so... you won't really know until forever." This is also the guy playing football for Clemson, right?

        1. I did learn from the email the Twins just sent me that his dual sports paying makes him enigmatic.

          1. That's such an electronic-sounding analysis. It's about as telling as Vance Worley has plenty of gas left in the tank, as he has been consistent in giving up exactly two runs every inning or whatever Gameday says.

        2. Texas A&M. Which might help with signing him as the current A&M QB just won the Heisman, as a freshman.

        3. Texas A&M I think.

          Keith Law's scouting report said he has higher potential upside than Appel or Gray... but he has a funky delivery so he might take an extra year or so of development time. Hm. Hopefully they can sign him quick and get him into the system.

        4. Berrios was a high school arm drafted in the supplemental round last year. I feel pretty confident that he's going to be a good one, so we'll see about Stewart. Throws 95 right now and his slider is considered by at least some to be his best pitch.

  3. The Royals just drafted Hunter Dozier. I'll admit to being a bit confused reading that name.

    1. Yahoo Game channel reads:
      - E. Escobar safe at first on third baseman M. Moustakas' throwing error, J. Carroll to second
      - J. Mauer grounded out to shortstop, J. Carroll to third
      - J. Willingham struck out, reached on wild pitch
      - J. Morneau struck out looking
      - R. Doumit homered to deep right, J. Willingham scored

      I'm so confused.

  7. g-d mlb.com won't load the radio app (and crashed the Gameday) here at work. So I missed all the TWINS BASEBALL! in the first.

  14. Anthony LaPanta filling in for Dick Bremer

    I missed the opening, but did we have a 'well, we live!' moment?

    httpv://youtu.be/c84V486jzYY

    1. Record for consecutive games with a HBP is 6, by Carlos Quentin (duh). Apparently Plouffe! set the Twins record earlier this year on April 5 through 7.

      Edit: Wait, that was since 1993. Checking earlier years...

      Edit2: He tied the record.

  26. LaPanta sticking with the Flori-MAHN pronunciation, despite Bert saying it differently. To be fair, it's not like Bert is the best authority.

  45. The Twins were clearly distracted by the draft last night. The draft is over until next year. Therefore, we'll just have to settle for 131-31!

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