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Real Time Twins Shadow Draft

THIS IS NOT THE REAL TWINS DRAFT. This is my Shadow Draft.

1) Brett Lawrie, OF, Brookswood SS, Langley BC
1) Jake Odorizzi, RHP, Highland (Illinois) HS
1S) Conor Gillaspie, 3B, Wichita State University
2) Tyler Ladendorf, SS, Howard CC, Texas
3) Eric Thames, OF, Pepperdine University
4) Scott Barnes, LHP, St. John's University
5) Ben Petralli, C, Oral Roberts University
6) Josh Satin, OF-2B, University of California
7) Dan Osterbrock, LHP, University of Cincinnati
8) Brett Moorhouse, RHP, Indian River CC (Fl)
9) Jay Jackson, RHP, Furman University
10) J.J. Hoover, RHP, Calhoun CC (Ala)
11) Dominic de la Osa, OF, Vanderbilt University
12) Kyle Carr, LHP, University of Minnesota
13) Erik Davis, RHP, Stanford University
14) Rob Musgrave, LHP, Wichita State University
15) Luke Anders, 1B, Texas A&M University
16) Matt Nohelty, OF, University of Minnesota
17) Dwayne Bailey, 2B, University of Central Florida
18) Brian Van Kirk, OF, Oral Roberts
19) Pat Venditte, P, Creighton
20) Chris Odegaard, RHP, Mankato State University
21) Erich Diedrich, C, Youngstown State University
22) Nick Kirk, LHP, University of Northern Iowa
23) Zach Pitts, RHP, University of Louisville
24) Phil Schrieber, RHP, Kaukauna (Wisconsin) HS
25) Korby Mintkin, SS, South Dakota State
26) Jake Stewart, OF, University of Houston
27) Blake Murphy, C, Western Carolina University

 With Gillaspie with the first pick in the supplemental round I will list Lawrie as an outfielder, stick him in right field and tell him to worry about his hitting.

I was trying to decide between Ladendorf and Eric Thames in the second round...real Twins pick Ladendorf so I will go with that and hope Thames lasts till the third round....looks like I get Thames in the third. Be interesting to see how far he falls due to the injury. 4th round target....Scott Gorgen. I bet he's gone by then...damn Gorgen is gone. Scott Barnes is fallback as a live armed lefty

FRIDAY MORNING THOUGHTS

I'm happy with this except for the Barnes pick...that was panic as the guys I wanted went off the board right before I picked. I should have gone with long-time favorite Zach Putnam. Barnes is OK but there were better guys available. Not sure what is going to happen with Thames in real life...either the injury is worse than we know or his bonus demands are scaring teams away. Petralli should get called early today. I like Josh Satin...I think he's more of an outfielder than a second baseman but the bat is strong....main risk is his age.

I think I've done enough getting some bats here and need to focus on pitching in the coming rounds. Seventh round target is Brett Moorhead, a junior college pitcher out of Florida with a strong arm.....I will move Moorhead to the 8th round since I like Real Twins pick Osterbrock a lot.

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I don't get it

you have a fake, fake draft?

by Galt on Jun 5, 2025 3:22 PM EDT   0 recs

great pick

he almost made it to my blue jays!

by Wheelhouse on Jun 5, 2025 3:57 PM EDT   0 recs

Pay attention

John has a shadow draft for the Twins every year.

John - would you still have taken Lawrie even if the Cards hadn’t taken Wallace before you?

by DeJay on Jun 5, 2025 3:57 PM EDT   0 recs

Sarcasm? Joke?

I think Galt was playing around. He has been around long enough to know what John was doing I think.

by jfish26101 on Jun 5, 2025 4:05 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

My bad....

..... still trying to get over the disappointing of missing out on Smoak and ending up with Weeks so my head isn’t where it should be at the moment.

by DeJay on Jun 5, 2025 4:07 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I know he does a shadow draft, the "fake" shadow draft confused me

I could have sworn that he wrote “this is not MY real twins draft” whereas it now says “this is not THE real twins draft”. So I was thinking that he had his “shadow draft” and then this thread was for some other thing altogether.

Maybe I just misread him.

by Galt on Jun 5, 2025 4:50 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I think...

it’s because John’s comment says “Fake Shadow Draft”, so he was joking about it being a fake fake draft…maybe not everyone has their sarcasm radar on but I sure do!

by bunner on Jun 5, 2025 4:15 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Wow, did the Twinkies do an Astro?

This is like the 4th closer already in the 1st round. Is a good pick?

by VladiHondo on Jun 5, 2025 4:40 PM EDT   0 recs

Jake O?

Where did that come from? Weird Collier was still on the board and you went somewhere else. I’d think you would have taken the guy you were considering at 14 if he was there at 27. Maybe you expected Collier to drop to 31 though. /me shrugs

by jfish26101 on Jun 5, 2025 4:59 PM EDT   0 recs

Also what changed your mind on Jake O over the last 4-6 weeks or so? I know he wasn’t on your original top HS arms list. Just an interesting decision.

by jfish26101 on Jun 5, 2025 4:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

rankings

my final rankings have Odorizzi and Gillaspie just ahead of Collier.

I decided that Odorizzi’s athleticism and arm strength combination is just too good to ignore.

by John Sickels on Jun 5, 2025 5:05 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Your Twins look a lot like the Brewers

Haha

He's extremely quick and good.

by battlekow on Jun 5, 2025 6:19 PM EDT   0 recs

Ladendorf

I also took Ladendorf in my shadow draft for the Royals (I’ll fight you for him!). I considered Satin, but he’s 24. Too old for my liking.

Royals
1 1B Justin Smoak, U. South Carolina
1s SS Tyler Ladendorf, Howard Junior College
2 P Aaron Shafer, Wichita State U. (I was going to take OF Isaac Galloway, but apparently he’s asking for crazy money demands)
3 C Petey Paramore, Arizona State U.
4 P Scott Gorgen, UC-Irvine (love the Melville pick though)
5 3B Jermaine Curtis, UCLA
6 SS Justin Parker, Wright State U.

Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com

by RoyalsRetro on Jun 6, 2025 12:18 AM EDT   0 recs

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