6 pitchers, 2 position players taken by Twins on Day 2 of MLB Draft
The Minnesota Twins selected eight more players on Day 2 of the MLB Draft.
Of the eight players drafted by the Twins, six were pitchers, five righties and one lefty, and two were position players.
With pick No. 82 in third round, the Twins selected Brandon Winokur, a center fielder from Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California. The 18-year-old slashed .365/.486/.753 in his senior season. The 6-foot-5, 210-pound outfielder came in as the 74th best product on MLB.com's big board.
The Twins selected Jay Harry, 20, in the sixth round, pick No. 177, as their other position player. Harry slashed .299/.376/.463 in 50 games for Penn State. The 6-foot, 190-pound shortstop had the third best strikeout-to-at-bat ratio in the Big Ten at 9.6.
In the fourth round, pick No. 114, Minnesota selected right handed pitcher Tanner Hall out of Sourthern Miss. The 21-year-old went 12-4 with a 2.48 ERA with 124 strikeouts and 33 walks in 18 starts in 2023. Hall was the Sun Belt Conference Pitcher of the Year in 2023 and earned First-Team All-America honors.
With pick No. 150 in the fifth round, the Twins took Dylan Questad from Waterford High School in Waterford, Wisconsin. Questad, 18, recorded a 0.48 ERA with 89 strikeouts and 14 walks in his senior season. The 2022-23 Gatorade Wisconsin Baseball Player of the Year has a fastball recorded at 97 mph.
The Twins followed up with additional right handed pitching with picks in the seventh, eighth and ninth rounds, taking Nolan Santos, Jace Stoffal and Jack Dougherty, respectively.
Santos, 22, went 7-5 with a 3.51 ERA for Bethune-Cookman this season and tossed one scoreless inning in the inaugural HBCU Swingman Classic with one walk and one strikeout.
Stoffal, 20, went 6-2 with a 2.83 ERA for Oregon in 2023, earning All-Pac-12 First Team honors. Dougherty, 21, went 3-4 with a 6.27 ERA for Ole Miss as a junior in 2023. Doughterty started game one of the 2022 College World Series for Ole Miss.
The Twins ended Day 2 selecting left handed pitcher Ross Dunn out of Arizona State. Dunn, 21, had a 4.27 ERA with 84 strikeouts, 44 walks and a 4-6 record for Arizona State in the 2023 season.
