Summary[]
Ben and Sam talk to Jason Parks about why he thinks the Minnesota Twins have the best minor-league talent in baseball.
Topics[]
- Jason Parks' farm system rankings
- Minnesota Twins' farm system
- International prospects
- What separates the Twins from other farm systems?
- Twins' player development strategy
- Twins' front office stability
- Lewis Thorpe
- Max Kepler
- Twins pitcher model
- Byron Buxton
- What are the expectations for a team with the best farm system?
Notes[]
- Sam's show intro: "Good Morning and welcome to episode 331 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from Baseball Prospectus, it's hard to believe this is still happening."
- Jason thinks the Twins have earned the top system ranking through organizational efforts rather than just accumulating top draft picks year after year.
- The Twins top prospects are largely made up of international prospects.
- Jason says that looking at an organization's top 10 prospects, they should consider it a major success if they can get one top talent and 3-4 consistent MLB players out of them.