Berrios Comes Full Circle

Good luck Jose Berrios! \m/

I hope he does well - except against us, of course - as I can't blame Berrios for wanting to "cash in" when he has the chance.

It's distressing that we can't draw interest from the better free agents. 

IMO, it isn't "just" a matter of "What's management willing to pay?"  IMO, the "market" - the Twin Cities - has something to do with it, too, because there's more money available "off the field" in New York, Boston, LA, Chicago, etc. than there is "here." 

IMO, we'd have to pay more than the "big boys" to overcome the "off field opportunities" they have in the "big boys" market . . . and, again IMO, expecting ownership to do THAT just isn't reasonable. 

Another x-Twin to root for.  If only the Twins had more reasons for us to keep rooting this year. 

I wish him all the best, but I will miss him! Class act guy from day one!!!!

José Berríos is a hard-working, well-prepared pitcher who will be missed in Minnesota.  He's a true gentleman, and I wish him well.  

As for the pitching outlook for the Twins, we won't compete with Chicago now or in the foreseeable future.  There's a lot of money in the White Sox organization and they will spend it.  The Twins' wallet was emptied on Josh Donaldson.  Oops.

3 hours ago, Nancy Murphy said:

José Berríos is a hard-working, well-prepared pitcher who will be missed in Minnesota.  He's a true gentleman, and I wish him well.  

As for the pitching outlook for the Twins, we won't compete with Chicago now or in the foreseeable future.  There's a lot of money in the White Sox organization and they will spend it.  The Twins' wallet was emptied on Josh Donaldson.  Oops.

It'd be good for us to move Donaldson if we can.  We're obviously looking at a "rebuild," which means we need "kids to come up & get good" . . . which isn't likely to happen during the remaining term of his contract.

See if we can get some more "kids" for him ....

Berrios Time. 

The starting pitcher names I most remember are the oldtimers...Perry, Blyleven, Pascual, Kaat. We had shortimers like Grant and Chance.

Then we get into Goltz, Radke, Tapani, Viola, Santana and shortimers Erickson and Lirano.

Santana, Perry, Viola had better WHIPS. All the oldtimers had better ERAs. Everyone else started more games in their career for the Twins (except Chance and Grant).

A homegrown talent who got away (hey, Matt Garza was another that left too soon). 

Goodbye, Jose! Will be interesting to see how well you pitch heading into free agency and how the money will flow in your direction. 

I've said more than once that when I see Berrios' pitches on the center field camera I don't understand how anyone hits the ball. It doesn't seem like any pitcher gets more movement than he does. Yet he has never had a consistent stretch of dominance. I don't know what the problem is, but it seems to me that it was way too often that he would pitch only just well enough to lose a close game. Some players have great physical ability but simply don't succeed in certain roles. In the same way that LaTroy Hawkins was an excellent set-up reliever but an unsuccessful closer I don't think Berrios can ever be counted on to be a true stopper in any rotation.