We should be like the Dodger's and sell high on players that are overachieving like Gordon.

 

Dangle Danny Santana or Eduardo Escobar for someone? 

Edited December 11, 201411 yr by drock2190

Would anyone have made this trade with the Marlins, sending Dozier to them for  Healy? If we are going to dangle players, should Dozier be one of them?

Brian Dozier is much better than Gordon.  I would have sent Danny Santana for Heaney.

I would too but by the way they've drafted the last three years, that looks to be perhaps the only area of the game where they were ahead of the curve.  I'm not interested in free agent bullpen arms as I'd prefer to let the organization's fireballers get up to the MLB level ASAP.

 

Still the reason these guys are in the pen is because they aren't reliable enough to be in the rotaion.  I don't know that there is any area of the game that is more volitile than the year-to-year performance of the players in the bullpen.

 

There's no reason you can't do both.  The Twins bullpen is awful.  Perkins and Fien are the only RP'ers actually worth their roster spot.  A few others fill a role but offer very little long term.  They could easily find room for a guy like Gregerson as a setup guy and promote any of the prospects that have upside.

We should be like the Dodger's and sell high on players that are overachieving like Gordon.

 

Dangle Danny Santana or Eduardo Escobar for someone? 

 

Well they either sold high on him, or he matured as a 26 year old and is turning into a young, cheap, useful player.  There's really no way to tell right now.

Overachieving or finding his place, either way the Dodgers got a hell of a prospect in Heaney.  I probably would have been talked into trading Dozier for that haul, those are some pretty good looking pieces.

Kiley McDainel just tweeted that he's hearing the Twins are "very interested" in Atlanta pitcher J.R. Graham in tomorrow's Rule 5 draft. Graham is a smallish righty who throws gas (up to 97). He came into the season as Atlanta's #3 prospect, but had a down year. 

 

Intriguing if he can get it right.

A perfectly healthy Graham would be the Twins... 7th best prospect. Even as a question mark, he'd be in the top 20. Not a bad target, no guarantee he'd be there when the Twins pick, especially with pick trading. 

So why weren't the Twins able to turn Burton, Duensing, Swarzak, Fein, Thielbar or any of their bullpen into gold at the last trade deadline.

 

Speakers of Duensing, the Mets want a lefty out of the bullpen, and the Twins also have Escobar (who the Mets aren't excited about -- maybe Nunez is a better fit) for Gee-whiz!

 

So much crap coming out of tweets. Ryan and Beane went into the men's room together, major deal happening. Ryan left a cab that Cashman entered shortly after. Maybe passing secret notes. 

 

Why is no one reporting the Twins three-ear $30-million offer they made to Lester?

Of the relievers you wondered why the Twins did not trade, which one is the flamethrowing out machine?