Daniel Ernesto Santana

Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: November 7, 1990 in Monte Plata, DO

• 5/13 Puckett's Pond: Minnesota Twins Prospect Octopus: Week 6: It dawned on me the other day that I never properly introduced everyone to the Prospect Octopus.  I just went on and on about...

• 4/22 Puckett's Pond: Minnesota Twins Prospect Octopus – Week 3: Welcome to Prospect Octopus week three.  As you may or may not know, the Prospect Octopus shares his knowledge of the Minor League...
• 4/14 Puckett's Pond: Hot Twins Action: Goodrum, Arcia, Santana, Buxton and Sano: I was able to put together a combined cycle from Twins prospects at three different levels over the past week. We’ve got...

• 3/14 Puckett's Pond: Twins Spring Training Competition: Shortstop: Going into camp… Pedro Florimon came in as the clear front-runner of a pedestrian crop of shortstop options. The 26 year...
• 3/13 Puckett's Pond: Minnesota Twins 2016 Team: Baseball America, one of the best organizations in the Prospect game, puts out their top 10 lists each Winter.  This is not all...
• 3/11 Puckett's Pond: Minnesota Twins Announce More Cuts: The Twins announced earlier today that catcher/outfielder Chris Herrmann has been optioned to AAA Rochester, and that B.J. Hermsen, Trevor...
• 3/10 Puckett's Pond: Minnesota Twins Make First Spring Training Cuts: The Twins reassigned five players to minor league camp today, the first cuts of spring training. The players are Bryan Augenstein,...

• 2/17 Motor City Bengals: MLB Farm System Rankings: #7 Minnesota Twins: It’s that time of year again. Time to give this prospect junkie his fix. Last year, I did farm system rankings for all of baseball,...
• 2/15 Puckett's Pond: Minnesota Twins Spring Training Preview: Shortstop: Over the course of the next few weeks, I’ll be providing a rundown on who the Twins will have in Spring Training camp at each...

• 1/9 Puckett's Pond: Minnesota Twins Top 25 Prospects – 15 to 11: Hello again and welcome back to my top 25 Prospect list.  This has been quite a journey.  Over the last few weeks, we have learned...
• 1/2 Puckett's Pond: Minnesota Twins Top 25 Prospects – 20 To 16: Heyo!!!!! Sorry.  Welcome back to my top 25 prospect list.  Last week, I profiled numbers 25-21.  You can read it here.  To...

• 12/27 Puckett's Pond: Down on the Pond: Top Prospects 10-15: Last week I began my series on the top 20 prospects in the Twins organization, and along with fellow Puckett’s Pond writers...
• 12/26 Puckett's Pond: Minnesota Twins Top 25 Prospects – 25 to 21: Welcome back to my Minnesota Twins Top 25 prospects list.  Much like children, prospects are our future.  The Twins have a suddenly...
• 12/20 Puckett's Pond: Down on the Pond: Twins Top Prospects, 16 through 20.: Bad teams often have a lot of room for talented prospects to move quickly through the farm system and get a chance to play with...
• 12/1 Puckett's Pond: Twin of the Future – Levi Michael: I enjoy the prospect world.  The prospect world is filled with unknown quantities.  However, the unknown is exciting to me. ...

• 9/1 Rays Colored Glasses: The Undercards: Mark Thomas Falls Just Short Of Cycle In Victory:   Mark Thomas and Richie Shaffer each had excellent nights with the bat, as the farm system went 3-2 on Friday. Here is a...

• 8/31 Rays Colored Glasses: The Undercards: Hudson Valley Renegades Clinch First Playoff Birth Since 1999: It is always a pleasure to make the postseason. For the Hudson Valley Renegades, that hasn’t happened in quite a while....

• 7/13 Bus League Baseball: Bus Leagues Express: July 13: Top stories Castellanos heads out to right field: For the first time in his pro career, Nick Castellanos took the field somewhere...

• 5/13 Twinstrivia.com: Twins Minor League Player of the Week: Ft. Myers infielder Daniel Santana is the Twins Minor League Player of the Week for May 5-11. Santana, 21, appeared in six games...

• 4/25 Bus League Baseball: Bus Leagues Express: April 25: Top stories D-Train’s agent destroys Duquette: Last week, Dontrelle Willis left Norfolk, Baltimore’s AAA affiliate,...