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Gleeman and The Geek

Episode 45: Youth and Youther

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

News, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2012

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John talk about the Twins' youth-led turnaround, Byron Buxton and the power arm-filled draft class, Trevor Plouffe's homer binge, Scott Diamond's ace impression, Chris Parmelee's return from Rochester, Ben Revere's long-term upside, Liam Hendriks' impending re-arrival, the wisdom of re-signing Ryan Doumit, Jason Marquis in pitcher heaven, Brian Dozier's struggles, and the exciting life on Aaron's balcony.

Transcript

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0:00.0

KFAN's Baseball Weekly with Gleeman and The Geek, presented by Pick Points, is on the air.

0:15.0

Now, with a look back at this week in baseball and how to win more points this week. Here's NBCSports.com's Aaron Gleeman and Twinsdaily.com's John Bones.

0:33.0

And welcome to KF.A.N.'s Base baseball weekly with Gleeman and the geek presented by pick points

0:43.6

across the table for me is Aaron Gleeman of Aaron Gleeman.com and NBCSports.com back in the window

0:50.1

we keep him caged. It's Ryan Donaldson. He's going to be working the music for us tonight, unveiling some new walk-up music. Exactly. And everybody should be looking forward to this one. We're coming to you from, let's see, right now I'd say that it's a four-in-one week, Aaron. That's the second four-in-one week we've had. Yes, suddenly we're talking about a pretty decent team for the first time all season. We can count the twins losses over the last two weeks on my ears. I thought you were going to say something. I thought you were going to say something else, John. Getting dirty here, yeah. It's been a fantastic week to be a twins fan. Yeah, I mean, as they've done all season when they put together a good stretch, they kind of peter out there at the end.

1:30.9

But yeah, I think they're sort of showing the type of team we thought they were capable of having when we talked all offseason about what are the optimistic end of the expectations here.

1:41.3

I think we both sort of thought around 500 capable of being around 500 at least. And this was why they can hit. And this is a good offensive team. Neither of us thought the rotation was going to be anything special. Neither of us had a ton of confidence in the bullpen, although we certainly thought both the rotation and the bullpen would be better than last year. We've been half right about that. We'll talk about that later maybe.

2:18.2

But I think we both thought looking up and down this lineup, it was a pretty good lineup. They had a lot of patient hitters. They had some good on base guys. Carol hasn't been what I thought, at least, he would be at the top of the lineup. But, you know, Revere now all of a sudden is hitting. And it's just, it's a pretty deep lineup. They've been pretty healthy for the most part.

2:35.8

And, you know, it's nice to not have to talk about next year's draft already to have to go, who are the top picks in the 2013 draft? Instead, we can actually talk about the draft that just happened and not worry about next year's quite yet. Yeah, it's been a great week to be a twin fan, not just short term because they've got some wins that we can, you know, watch on a nightly basis, but also long term.

2:39.9

It was an exciting week, too, because I think the consensus is that even with the number

2:46.0

two overall pick, the twins came away with possibly the, at least, at the very least, the

2:50.6

highest upside talent available in the draft.

2:54.0

Maybe, you know, time will tell, it's the major league baseball draft, and you never know exactly how these guys are going to pan out, especially when you're talking an 18-a-half-year-old, who's probably not going to make it to the majors for several years.

3:04.6

But it was an exciting week.

3:08.0

It was exciting to add that much talent to our farm system.

3:13.0

The twins number two overall selected Byron Buxton.

3:16.4

He is an 18-and-a-half-year-old center fielder from Georgia, and I would say the

3:23.0

consensus was he had as much talent, if not more, and probably more

3:26.8

upside than anybody else in the draft. Absolutely. I mean, he was ranked as the number one

3:31.0

prospect by ESPN, Baseball America, and MLB.com. Now, it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't make

3:37.6

him any more or less likely to have a great career. It just means in a

3:41.0

draft that was viewed as sort of a down year in terms of overall elite level talent and where

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