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La Velle E. Neal III has covered baseball for the Star Tribune since 1998 (the post-Knoblauch era). Born and raised in Chicago, he grew up following the White Sox and hating the Cubs. He attended both the University of Illinois and Illinois-Chicago and began his baseball writing career at the Kansas City Star. He can be heard occasionally on KFAN radio, lending his great baseball mind to Paul Allen and other hosts. Mark Rosen borrows him occasionally for WCCO-TV.
More accolades for the Twins' farm system in latest rankings
Posted by: La Velle E. Neal III under Twins Farm System, Twins prospects Updated: February 5, 2013 - 12:28 PM
On Monday, ESPN's Keith Law ranked the Twins' farm system the second best in baseball, trailing only the Cardinals. On Tuesday, he showed why.
In his annual top 100 prospect list, Law included seven Twins minor leaguers. I haven't seen every list out there but that number of Twins are the most I've seen in a top 100. The Twins super seven are as follows:
11. Miguel Sano, 3B
22. Byron Buxton, OF
41. Kyle Gibson, RHP
49. Aaron Hicks, OF
59. Oswaldo Arcia, OF
61. Alex Meyer, RHP
65. Eddie Rosario, 2B/OF
So not just seven of the top 100, but seven of the top 65. It's another reason why the Twins future looks so promising. And six of the seven players are homegrown, with Meyer joining the organization in an offseason trade in exchange for Denard Span.
Law has scouting reports on every member of his top ten list, but a subscription is required to read them. Here's a link to his list of the top farm systems.
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| Seattle - H. Iwakuma | 11:05 AM |
| Cleveland - S. Kazmir |
| Tampa Bay - J. Odorizzi | 12:07 PM |
| Toronto - R. Dickey |
| NY Yankees - C. Sabathia | 6:05 PM |
| Baltimore - F. Garcia |
| Cincinnati - J. Cueto | 6:10 PM |
| NY Mets - S. Marcum |
| Philadelphia - C. Hamels | 6:10 PM |
| Miami - A. Sanabia |
| Minnesota - K. Correia | 6:10 PM |
| Atlanta - J. Teheran |
| Oakland - B. Colon | 7:05 PM |
| Texas - J. Lindblom |
| Los Angeles - C. Kershaw | 7:10 PM |
| Milwaukee - Y. Gallardo |
| Boston - J. Lester | 7:10 PM |
| Chicago WSox - D. Axelrod |
| Kansas City - J. Guthrie | 7:10 PM |
| Houston - D. Keuchel |
| Arizona - P. Corbin | 7:40 PM |
| Colorado - J. Garland |
| St. Louis - S. Miller | 9:10 PM |
| San Diego - J. Marquis |
| Washington - Z. Duke | 9:15 PM |
| San Francisco - R. Vogelsong |
| Chicago | 6:30 PM |
| Detroit |
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