Exciting Future for Minnesota Twins: Key Young Talents

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00:00What is your silver lining for Minnesota Twins fans?

00:03Luke Kishol, great young player.

00:05In the second half, he's slashing 307, 376, 450 with four home runs and eight stolen bases.

00:13But the reason I love him so much, besides everything I just talked about,

00:17only striking out 13.4% of the time.

00:20You just rarely see that with young guys thrust into a big league role.

00:25And he just turned 23 a month ago.

00:28You know, he's had some defensive miscues, which happened with these really young players.

00:32But he is a solid defender.

00:33This is just a young player that the Twins can build around.

00:38And, of course, now they're pretty much in a rebuild.

00:41They need him.

00:42Luke Kishol is a really good shout.

00:44I like that one.

00:45There's enough here to also get moderately excited for next season.

00:50Unfortunately, some of it is on the farm.

00:52I do like the idea of another year where Walker Jenkins should be making his major league debut.

00:57And Emmanuel Rodriguez should be in the fold pretty much full time, assuming help for Minnesota.

01:02So they've got young, exciting bats to compliment Luke Kishol.

01:06Kishol just happened to be the first one to get to the big leagues.

01:09And, oh, by the way, Byron Buxton wants to be there.

01:12So you got Buxton here as well.

01:14Buxton is experiencing the best year that he's had in a very long time, maybe in the entirety of his career.

01:20Byron Buxton in 114 games this season, hitting .270 with 31 jacks.

01:26He's 22 for 22 in the stolen base department.

01:29And he's got an .888 OPS.

01:31The other thing that really excites me, you get Mick Abel.

01:35I know he's really, really struggled in his first two appearances with Minnesota.

01:39But Abel is into the fold.

01:41Eduardo Taite immediately became your top flight catching prospect.

01:44And, of course, Joe Ryan is still here as well.

01:47He's thrown 160 innings at a .335 ERA.

01:50This one is the easiest good picture for me to paint personally.