1978 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

4 Major Leaguer(s) were drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 1978 draft: Faedo (1), Hrbek (17), Orosco (2), Lozado (3)

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1978 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Rnd	Overall	Player	Pos	Drafted From	HiLvl	AB	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	Avg	W-L	GS	SV	IP	SO	ERA
June-Reg
1	16	Lenny Faedo	SS	Jefferson HS (FL)	MLB	529	17	1	5	52	1	.251
2	42	Mike Riley	P	Agawam HS (MA)	AA
3	68	Dave Leeper	P-OF	Villa Park HS (CA)	MLB
4	94	Wade Adamson	P	South Dakota State	AA
5	120	Frank Vilorio	SS	Cal State Fullerton	AAA
6	146	Nattie George	OF	Overfelt HS (CA)	-
7	172	Mark Maher	OF	Tulane	AA
8	198	Les Pearsey	2B	Arizona	AAA
9	224	Tony Fossas	P	South Florida	MLB
10	250	Tom Morris	P	Brigham Young	-
11	276	Don Smith	OF	Istrouma HS (LA)	Rk
12	302	Scott Bradley	C	West Essex HS (NJ)	MLB
13	328	Ron Grout	1B	Wingate	AA
14	354	Craig Shumock	3B	Chestnut Hill A HS (PA)	A-
15	380	Robert Jones	p	Archbishop Curl HS (MD)	A+
16	406	Michael Williams	C	Wingate	Rk
17	432	Kent Hrbek	1B	Kennedy HS (MN)	MLB	6192	312	18	293	1086	37	.282
18	457	Alex Dovalis	3B	Long Beach City Coll	A
19	482	Gene Ransom	IF	California	A+
20	506	Kevin Sevcik	p	St. Olaf College	Rk
21	529	Tom Lounibos	IF	San Francisco	-
22	551	Chris Geason	p	Augsburg College	Rk
23	570	William Guinn	p	Beaverton HS (OR)	-
24	589	Edward Castro	p	Maryland	-
25	607	Robert Holden	C	Rowan	Rk
26	624	Rufus Thompson	OF	Cal Poly Pomona	A
27	640	Al Mejia	OF	Fullerton College	-
28	656	Randy Ramirez	p	Katella HS (CA)	AA
29	672	Steven Houlberg	SS	Alabama	A+
30	687	Randy Filkins	OF	West Hills College	A+
31	702	Robert Waldusly	OF	La Verne	Rk
32	714	Ron Dearth	3B	Lakewood HS (CA)	A
33	724	Paul Mancuso	p	Archbishop Shaw HS (LA)	AA
June-Sec
1	24	Bruce Kastelic	SS	Ranger College	AA
Jan-Reg
1	15	Ralph Citarella	P	Brevard CC	MLB
2	41	Jesse Orosco	P	Santa Barbara City C	MLB	59	0	0	0	4	0	.169	87-80	4	144	1295	1179	3.16
3	67	Harold Rowe	SS	Grossmont College	A+
4	92	Timothy Madera	OF	College of Marin	-
5	115	Steven Green	P	Modesto JC	AA
6	137	Richard Austin	C	Cerritos College	AAA
7	156	David Dodson	P	San Joaquin Delta Co	-
8	172	Larry Navilhon	P	College of San Mateo	-
9	186	Ronnie Mears	SS-2B	Barstow College	A+
10	199	Art Piccolotti	OF	Skyline College	A
11	206	Tom Paul	OF	Treasure Valley CC	-
12	209	Gary Forillo	SS	Citrus College	-
13	210	John Minarcin	p	Citrus College	A
Jan-Sec
1	1	Joe Isaacs	P	Eastern Oklahoma Sta	AA
2	27	Mike Couchee	P	San Jose City Colleg	MLB
3	51	Willie Lozado	SS	Miami-Dade College	MLB	107	8	2	1	20	0	.271
4	64	Harold Washington	OF-P	Southwestern CC	A
5	69	Steve McQueen	SS	Gulf Coast CC	A+

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