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As far as the options goes, the options have already been used on Kirilloff and Rooker just by sending them down, unless they are down for less than 20 days total for the year. I think that is the rule.

I am excited to eventually see Rooker and Kirilloff play for the Twins, but I think Garlick is better than what anybody is giving him credit for. He has tremendous power and destroys left handed pitching. I saw him play once. I think it was the Arizona Fall League. And remember, he came up in the Dodger organization, so he didn't get many MLB opportunities.

Kirby. At one point he was a great CF, too.

I think Jose Miranda has an above average hit tool projection, and also Misael Urbina and Emmanuel Rodriquez.

And don't forget that Kyle Garlick kills left handers. Why do you think the FO held on to him so tight? in case they need the platoon and Rooker needs more seasoning maybe.

I just think they need to let him find that third pitch and fine tune it and the others before they rush him to the big leagues. Rushing him will ruin him.Give him a chance to be a finished product.

Sad to see someone say they don't expect to see their team back to the World Series in their lifetime.

I think he is Joe Musgrove without giving up prospects.

Current Pirates prospect Oneil Cruz is 6' 7" and still a shortstop.

I couldn't believe it at the time. Brunansky was a favorite of mine as well. Really stupid move as far as I could see.

I can see him being the shortstop, but if Donaldson goes down, maybe Polanco goes back to short and Semein to 3B. I think he might be a better fit at 3B than Polanco.

2 things. Maybe Palanco is the one we should be trading. I don't really think Kike Hernandez is more than a short term fill in at shortstop. He is pretty good defensively at 2B, and the outfield corners. He looks less than adequate at 3B, and stretched at shortstop. And he doesn't hit much. In other words, maybe the same as Gonzalez. And if I remember right, he showed some less than stellar defense in last year's World Series at 2B.

Twins aren't done with their offseason so this is pretty premature. I think bot the Twins and White Sox will add more pieces. Maybe even KC and Detroit.

If he's going to pitch in Japan, my guess is he couldn't get a visa to come back into this country.

I like the 3rd plan, but if you choose one of Villar or LaStella, you could get a better pitcher for the #4 spot.

I think there is plenty of greed to go around. The owners for the most part are business men who made their living by buying at the lowest price possible and selling for the highest price possible. It's just what they do. They aren't going to operate any different just because the business is baseball. Capitalism is sort of all about greed. For the most part, employees are always trying to improve so that they can get the highest salary possible. It's no different whether you are aiming to be the CEO or the best pitcher in baseball, we all dream about reaching that pinnacle. Representing someone to help them get a job is no different whether it's the employment agency trying to get a job for an accountant, a corporate recruiter trying to land their guy that CEO job, or Boras getting Cole $324M. The thing that has changed is the intense jealousy that everybody has towards everybody that has more than they do. It used to be that we celebrated and respected success, and dreamed about how we could make it happen for ourselves. Now we just condem the success and call them evil. Think about it. Having said all that, it's a shame that the escalating amounts of money going to owners, players, agents, advertisers and cable networks has basically made a baseball game unaffordable to the average fan. That is what is destroying the game's popularity.

I'm thinking that perhaps his visa issues may now be resolved to the point they had to activate him, and they didn't want to tie up a 40 man spot on a guy that has an uncertain future going forward.

Yes, Weiss was released I believe. What about Zander Wiel? He spent the summer in St. Paul.

The use of the disabled list to limit the time players need to stay on the 40 man roster should be a highly frowned upon practice, if it is not legitimate. These 2 Twins prospects have already missed the last 2 seasons of their careers, so being stashed on a roster or heaven forbid bogged down on a disabled list will be crippling to their careers.

I don't think Cruz's bat was as consistant at the end of the season. Was it an injury issue or time catching up? And that was just on a short season. Would a long season look even worse as the season wears on? Pitchers also seemed to start throwing him more sliders and at times he looked kind of helpless against them. Is the aging process causing him to cheat a little on the fastballs and leaving him more vulnerable to the sliders. I don't claim to be an expert on any of that, just throwing out those possibilities and wondering if the Twins see the same things. That would definitely cause them to rule out a 2 year contract.

I think it might all be about the fact that he wouldn't sign a contract in front of the deadline and the Twins didn't want to take a chance on his salary. Given that, I think it might also be about flexibility. If they do sign someone in free agency as the closer, and do sign a starter or 2 to bring in as well, there is going to be a lot of potential pitchers pushed into bullpen duty. Thorpe is out of options. Romero, should he work himself into the picture, is out of options. Dobnak probably deserves a roster spot. Alcala seems like he belongs. Stashak seems like he might belong. And there needs to be opportunities for guys like Colina, Chalmers, and probably Duran. Smeltzer is still around as well. I know that a lot of these guys are not proven commodities, but they need opportunities to prove it. And if the front office choses to take advantage of the vast amount of relievers available on the open market, it gets even tighter.

How about 6 years for $80 million. I see salaries of 8, 10, 12, 14,16,18 and an $2 M buyout on a $20 salary for the 7th year.

I can't see the Twins spending big bucks when there's no guarantee a season will even happen. I think they would have to spend a lot of prospect capital to get a starting pitcher that would make a difference. I would like to keep our prospects that may be the future of this team for a long time to come. Maybe next year at this time we will be talking about adding supplemental players that can compliment those new stars. Just my thoughts.

I think if the Twins believe they are not going to be able to sign Cruz, they are more likely to cut a pre-arbitration deal with Rosario. I doubt the Twins will let it go to the uncertainty of arbitration.