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StaTuesday: Best Minnesota Twins late-round draft picks

FOX Sports North

Only when you really look at years upon years of MLB drafts do you fully realize how few players make the major leagues.

This is especially the case the deeper you get into the draft. So when a team can find a “hit” with a later selection it is indeed noteworthy.

We’ve compiled some of the best late-round picks for the Minnesota Twins — we’ll consider that the eighth round and beyond for this exercise — and listed them below.

Included are players who had some impact with the Twins, and not players like Jim Eisenreich (16th round in 1980), who had good careers but did so mainly (or fully) with other teams.