OSFM 2016: Minnesota Twins

[MauerMorneau09]

How's it going fellas? The snow is starting to melt in the great state of Minnesota, so it can only mean one thing........ baseball season! I've been doing some work on the skeleton of the roster for the past month or so, getting it ready for MLB 16. Obviously last year was a huge one for the Twins, nearly becoming contenders for the first time in 5 years, with the debuts of two of the most highly touted prospects in recent memory in Sano and Buxton (Luckily they're in SCEA's hands to make them now and not me ). Otherwise, I'm waiting on Aaron Gleeman to release the rest of his prospect rankings so I have an idea how to finish out the rest of my base roster. Hopefully should be up in the next few days, but I'm excited to see the new additions for CAPs, among other things in MLB 16.

I'll keep you guys posted as new things come up.



MM09

[MauerMorneau09]

Just giving a quick recap as to who I plan on putting in the roster this year.

As was the case last year, I want to have all ST invitees and players with service on the roster. Some of them might end up getting cut, but I plan on keeping Knight and co. up to date with transactions once I submit the roster. AAA roster will be 100% accurate, considering those players have the best shot at earning a call-up. At the very least, the Top 20 prospects will be included. I will definitely try to get as many prospects in there, so long as there is space available. The Twins have about 70 players in camp this year, which seems somewhat high to me, unless I wasn't ever paying attention to how many they invited in past seasons. I definitely like the roster this year, still plenty of young talent in our system even with Sano graduating and Buxton almost graduating from rookie status.

[MauerMorneau09]

Bold means they are default players in MLB 16
Red = players I project to be on the OD ML Roster
* = Player who previously has MLB service time
Italicized & Orange = Top 100 MLB.com Prospect

Starting Pitchers (21)
Ervin Santana
Phil Hughes
Kyle Gibson
Tyler Duffey
Tommy Milone
Ricky Nolasco
Jose Berrios
Taylor Rogers
Pat Dean
Randy Rosario
Stephen Gonsalves
Kohl Stewart
Lewis Thorpe
Aaron Slegers
Michael Cederoth
Marcus Walden
Tyler Jay
Felix Jorge
Fernando Romero
Ryan Eades
Lachlan Wells

Relief Pitchers (25)
Trevor May
Kevin Jepsen
Casey Fien
Alex Meyer
Fernando Abad
Ryan Pressly
J.R. Graham
Ryan O'Rourke
Michael Tonkin
Aaron Thomspon
Brandon Kintzler
Mason Melotakis
Jake Reed
JT Chargois
Dan Runzler *
Yorman Landa
Nick Burdi
Buddy Boshers *
Mike Strong
Logan Darnell *
Luke Bard
Cole Johnson
Loek Van Mil
Tim Shibuya
Brandon Peterson

Closing Pitchers (2)
Glen Perkins
Trevor Hildenberger

Catchers (8)
Kurt Suzuki
John Ryan Murphy
John Hicks
Juan Centeno
Stuart Turner
Carlos Paulino
Mitch Garver
Alex Swim

First Basemen (5)
Joe Mauer
Byung Ho Park
Kennys Vargas
Reynaldo Rodriguez
Lewin Diaz

Second Basemen (3)
Brian Dozier
James Beresford
Heiker Meneses

Third Basemen (3)
Trevor Plouffe
Buck Britton
Travis Blankenhorn

Shortstops (8)
Eduardo Escobar
Eduardo Nunez
Jorge Polanco
Wilfredo Tovar *
Engelb Vielma
Nick Gordon
Jermaine Palacios
Wander Javier

Left Fielders (4)
Miguel Sano
Oswaldo Arcia
Adam Walker
Carlos Quentin *

Center Fielders (5)
Byron Buxton - #2 MLB.com Prospect
Danny Santana
Darin Mastroianni *
Tanner English
LaMonte Wade

Right Fielders (6)
Eddie Rosario
Max Kepler
Joe Benson *
Ryan Sweeney *
Travis Harrison
Daniel Palka

Extras/Just Missed
Chris Paul, LF
Trey Cabbage, 3B
Amaurys Minier, 1B
Johan Quezeda, RP
Sam Gibbons, SP
Huascar Ynoa, SP
Alex Wimmers, RP
Levi Michael, INF

If you have any suggestions, feel free to lemme know! This is not final, I'd expect it to change multiple times as players are cut/signed/moved and the MLB & AAA rosters become final.

[LCimm7]

Saw this in the stream today. At the 37:57 mark, looks like the Twins away pants finally got the piping down the leg! This excites me quite a bit!

[MauerMorneau09]

Quote: Originally Posted by LCimm7

Saw this in the stream today. At the 37:57 mark, looks like the Twins away pants finally got the piping down the leg! This excites me quite a bit!

Nice catch! I'm glad to see it's finally in the game, SCEA always doing the little things for us.

[MCGREGOR__]

I'm sure you've already heard by now, but Sano will actually be our starting right fielder on opening day.

[SenorStirrups]

What's up guys! I'm in an online franchise this year and we've already picked teams. And guess who I got. Twins! You could say I'm pretty stoked with all the young studs I will have. A couple questions I got! Do you solely create player ratings for the prospects that won't be in the game? Also, I noticed on a stream that Sano was a B potential. If that's the case, do you think you'll bump him up to A potential? or change anything to players already on the game? Would love to hear your reply! Thanks!!

[DingersOnDeck]

Twins are 5th overall farm system in the league!!