MINORS: Examining the 2020 Draft

The appropriate timeline to hand out report grades on a team’s draft is roughly seven to 10 years after the specific year’s draft is completed. For example, the Twins' 2015 draft was terrible. Their first-round pick, LHP Tyler Jay, who was a pop-up guy at the University of Illinois, never made it to the big leagues and is currently pitching in the unaffiliated Frontier League. The Twins weren’t the only team who liked Jay, they just snatched him up at No. 6. The rest of the draft, outside of the ninth-round selection of LaMonte Wade, has not produced a positive WAR combined in the major leagues. Truth be told, after year 3, the hopes of the 2015 Twins draft rested on Wade’s ability to develop from a tweener-type to someone who could be...

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