Article: Twins Sign Veteran OF David Murphy To Minor League Deal

[twinsnorth49]

 

In fairness, they turned Fuld into Milone. That's a pretty good deal.

Agreed, just a comment on the OF in the last 4-5 years.

[tobi0040]

 

Mastro

Thomas

Presley

Schafer

Fuld

Kubel

Ramirez

Murphy

 

 

Make it stop......

 

Jason Bartlett, LF says hi!

[SydneyTwinsFan]

Arcia has 5 PA on a team sliding to 0-9 with just 14 runs in those 9 games. 5. I just don't get it. And now this? Crazy

[h2oface]

Is this part of the rebuild?

[h2oface]

 

Mastro

Thomas

Presley

Schafer

Fuld

Kubel

Ramirez

Murphy

 

 

Make it stop......

 

But Span, Revere, Gomez, and Hicks....... they were all traded from a position of surplus and strength, right? I mean, they had to go to make room for the above, right?

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Arcia has 5 PA on a team sliding to 0-9 with just 14 runs in those 9 games. 5. I just don't get it. And now this? Crazy

He clearly has done or said something offensive or personal against Molitor or Ryan. That's what I'm going with. Because the excuse in the past for not playing him was he struck out too much. His defense isn't great but it's not as bad as people portray it to be. I wish someone would explain it to the rest of us rubes.

[twinsnorth49]

Jason Bartlett, LF says hi!

Thank you, how could I forget....

[nicksaviking]

 

 

Per Wolfson he gets a pro-rated $1.15M if he makes the MLB club.

 

I hope that's incentive enough for him not to make the club. I'm worried he won't be riding pine allowing young players to develop if he makes the team.

 

I think I'm mostly frustrated because there doesn't seem to be a plan for developing the young guys and building the team. Maybe they're not, but it really seems like they're just winging it at this point and they've been winging it since last year. It worked for awhile, but hasn't since about last June.

 

Edit: well I can't copy the link for some reason, but it's probably not even worth figuring out why.

[Brandon]

While the Twins have been bad the combined records of the teams they played so far is 19-5 or 10-5 when not playing the Twins.  The Twins could have won 1 or 2 of those games and most of the games they were in.  I think the Twins aren't as bad as their record but any hopes of competing and being above .500 this year are becoming less likely by the day. 

[nicksaviking]

 

While the Twins have been bad the combined records of the teams they played so far is 19-5 or 10-5 when not playing the Twins.  The Twins could have won 1 or 2 of those games and most of the games they were in.  I think the Twins aren't as bad as their record but any hopes of competing and being above .500 this year are becoming less likely by the day. 

 

The Twins losses may be able to be explained away, but their lack of hitting and making contact really can't. They haven't been facing elite pitching. Pretty sub-elite in fact. If they were losing games 10-9, that would be one thing.

[DocBauer]

Hip....hip............................... (yawn)

[Jgcarew]

7 games back b4 tax day. Where's my refund? Too late to wish upon Aaron hicks or Carlos Quentin. Can't send the whole outfield down. Can't teach top prospect to protect his hands. Kid's a loser.

[h2oface]

 

7 games back b4 tax day. Where's my refund? Too late to wish upon Aaron hicks or Carlos Quentin. Can't send the whole outfield down. Can't teach top prospect to protect his hands. Kid's a loser.

 

In Hicks' small sample of this year... he was 1/11 so far just now when I checked. He would have fit right in!

 

[diehardtwinsfan]

 

Good god. I mean, really?

 

Just. Go. With. Youth. Now. And. Take. The. Bumps.

Two years two late, but it still needs to happen. This is a silly signing (in that they clearly want him to do well quickly in AAA to join the Twins). What a joke.

Don't trade your CF for a backup catcher.

 

That CF is hitting worse than the Twins right now:

 

.091 .167 .091 .258

 

Now that's impressive... 

[Pardon My Dinger]

So, basically what's going down is like when your family is driving to Noah's Ark and the kids are being little a-holes and dad says he's going to turn this damn car around if you can't just sit there and be quiet.

 

But, you're already in Eau Claire, so, like whatever dad.

[DocBauer]

Seriously, aren't we just better off bringing Mastro up for a while if the intent is to send Buxton down? He appears healthy, had a great spring, and us a natural CF so you don't have to do an entire OF shuffle. Or cut Arcia.

[Thrylos]

Typical Ryan dumpster diving half baked move that means nothing for the Twins, other than blocking youth.

 

They will move Perkins to the 60-day DL for the spot.

[Darius]

All you can do is laugh at this point. TR is just an awful GM (I'm sure this will be censored...because heaven forbid you talk straight about TR around here).

 

Do people honestly think the Twins still have a chance to win anything this year? Then, if so, honestly think that Murphy will contribute to that in any way? I'm sorry, but he's not fixing a darn thing.

 

They're 7 games out for the division, and the season isn't even two weeks old yet. It'll likely be 9 by the time the Angels leave town. Three teams in the division look pretty darn good (Royals, Sox, Indians). Let's get real here, folks. It's over.

[Deduno Abides]

Way too early to give up on 2016.. 

 

Murphy is better than Quentin or Sweeney.

 

 

That's like saying Pelfrey is better than Correia.

 

No team plays the 2015-16 version of David Murphy unless it has given up on 2016 AND thinks it's younger players would be better off in the minors instead of learning and auditioning in the majors. There's no future with David Murphy and it's unlikely there's more than a replacement level present.

 

(Thinking about my last comment - we should call him the "Candlestick;" he's what you get when you can't think of anything else.)

[Thrylos]

 

That's like saying Pelfrey is better than Correia.

 

Nope.  This is like saying that Jason Marquis is better than Sidney Ponson...

 

[wickedslider]

Maybe Murphy knows how to throw a clubhouse dance party, ala Torii Hunter?

[Dr. Evil]

Ryan shows signs of panic and migrates to his native habitat........the dumpster.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Seriously though.

 

Why?

[jorgenswest]

Murphy doesn't shake up the roster. Trading Plouffe or Dozier would shake up the roster. Trading top young players or prospects for an established player with some years of team control would shake up the roster. Firing Molitor would shake up the roster. I am not advocating for a shake up but those moves would do it.

 

Signing a replacement level aging outfielder to a AAA contract is a meaningless move. If management thinks otherwise, they are clueless. If they compound it by exposing a young player to waivers they are beyond clueless.

[h2oface]

David Murphy..... because he is a real game changer!

[Seth Stohs]

 

That's like saying Pelfrey is better than Correia.

No team plays the 2015-16 version of David Murphy unless it has given up on 2016 AND thinks it's younger players would be better off in the minors instead of learning and auditioning in the majors. There's no future with David Murphy and it's unlikely there's more than a replacement level present.

(Thinking about my last comment - we should call him the "Candlestick;" he's what you get when you can't think of anything else.)

 

I'll stand by them not giving up on this year, but I will say that they absolutely should care about what is best for the young players' development. 

[curt1965]

Seriously, when I saw this, I had to check the date to see if it was April 1.

I'd much rather have the Twins finish 0-162 than have something like this happen. It sends a terrible message to the fan base, who right now are more than a little frustrated!

[USAFChief]

I'll stand by them not giving up on this year, but I will say that they absolutely should care about what is best for the young players' development.

 

I hate giving up on seasons. I fully endorse not giving up on this year, but I think the time to strengthen the team was over the winter. And the way to do that wasn't and isn't by giving a starting job to this type of player.

 

Now that we're in April, and the plan was to go with the OF they have, I'd prefer they just have the courage to let it play out, at least for longer than April.

 

It would be hard to read major changes now as anything other than an admission they didnt really have faith in their opening day plan on opening day. That's not an encouraging thought.

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

 

 

You mean the guy hitting .091 for the Yankees?

 

With fewer plate appearances than games played by the Yankees, I might add. Hey, I did just add.

[PopRiveter]

Every one of my feelings is already represented by others' previous comments. Nice work.

 

If they lose Arcia in any part due to this...

 

Can't really finish that threat. Just a powerless fan like eveyone else.