Front Page: Wish List: Circa 2012 and 2020 (Kevin Gausman)

[DocBauer]

Keuchel and Pineda, unless you like Keuchel better than Pineda. After that, my preference is to leave the 5th spot open for the young guys to fight for and roll through as necessary, at some point, they have to be given opportunity.

 

However, depth and competition are good things to have. Opportunity can knock at diffedent times and come in different variations. And sometimes bounce back fliers turn out quite well.

 

Not particularly a fan of Gausmanm but not a hater either. If he, or one of the other similar options available, can be brought in for only $4-5M, preferably with some sort of club option in case you guess right, I don't have a problem with it and can definitely get on board.

[Mike Sixel]

I'd try him in the bullpen, but not as a starter at this point. 

[mikelink45]

Fascinating to hear the arguments.  I am just the basic - sign all possible arms - guy.  Then at the end of ST put the best arms in the rotation (and now games with the call up time).  Win!  Pitch well, let our bats hit like they can, and get to the next round. 

[sweetmusicviola16]

 

Can't they do both? The beauty of a bounce-back guy like Gausman is that he has no impact on their efforts toward Wheeler, Ryu or Bumgarner. 

Yes they can do both. The problem is they haven't been. We needed pitching last season, we got Perez the bounce back candidate. We are in a bad spot of only having 2 SP's now b/c the FO has put us in this situation. Signing bounce back guys is fine, after you have signed the sure things.

[DocBauer]

What about Taijuan Walker?

[sweetmusicviola16]

 

Can't they do both? The beauty of a bounce-back guy like Gausman is that he has no impact on their efforts toward Wheeler, Ryu or Bumgarner. 

Problem too when you sign a guy like Gausman/Perez to a deal like you propose he becomes a guy that is going to make the team instead of a fringe candidate. So we're left with relying on them. I'm for signing bounce back guys, like Anibal Sanchez was. But when a guy is signed for 6 mil inspite of how bad he was he's making the team and we are stuck with him no matter how bad he is and the fallback becomes a AAA player. 

 

If we're not going to bring in front end guys with this team and the needs this team has then when are we? The answer would be, never.

[bobs]

Thanks Seth.  It's articles like this that keep me coming back to Twins Daily.  We're all Twins fans on here, so let's be honest with ourselves...people need to get off the Cole/Strasburg train.  They simply will not come here and it has nothing do with "Cheap Pohlads".  I've always been a huge MadBum fan...ask my sons.  That said, I'm always leery of guys coming from NL to AL.  Plus, he'll have several suitors and I doubt he comes to Minnesota.  Same with Ryu.  

I think a more realistic rotation for this club entering 2020, and one that would immediately make the Twins the favorite in the Central, would be Berrios, Boyd (trade), Odorizzi, Gausman (I for one like Seth's idea of the team option), Pineda.

[Seth Stohs]

Gausman has signed with the Giants... I'm curious how much he got. 

[Seth Stohs]

$9 million with up to a million in incentives. 

[Badsmerf]

Gausman has signed with the Giants... I'm curious how much he got.

Should have signed him yesterday. No brainer imo. Everyone wants Cole (me included), but look at what happened to guys like Arrieta. Find someone with stuff, take them to the next level. This could be the missed opportunity of the off-season we all complain about in a year.

[nicksaviking]

Should have signed him yesterday. No brainer imo. Everyone wants Cole (me included), but look at what happened to guys like Arrieta. Find someone with stuff, take them to the next level. This could be the missed opportunity of the off-season we all complain about in a year.

He doesn’t throw an off speed pitch or even really a breaking pitch, just a four seamer and a splitter. I can’t see that ever having sustained success as a starter.

[Badsmerf]

He doesn’t throw an off speed pitch or even really a breaking pitch, just a four seamer and a splitter. I can’t see that ever having sustained success as a starter.

It is possible to teach a guy something new. RA Dickey agrees with me, he gathered 22.4 of his 23.3 total WAR at 35+ years old. Never give up!