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  1. sdangus
    I think if you ran the same analysis on any major league team, you would find the same hit and miss track record on their high picks. By only picking out the failures, you fail to see the picks that turned out to be quite good, given where they were picked and what the other options were around them.Scott Baker, Denard Span, Ben Revere, Aaron Hicks, Kyle Gibson(if he hadn't been picked in front of Mike Trout). And you have to consider that a great number of the picks failure was due to health reasons I saw Matt Bashore mentioned here. He, too, could not stay healthy and was eventually released. But years later, I saw him pitch for either the Sioux Falls Canaries or the team they were playing that night. He was fabulous. And not long after the Yankees signed him to a new minor league deal. He pitched quite well for them in 2012, then he was gone again. Probably injured again. As someone else said, this is a lot of times a shot in the dark. Mookie Betts was definitely a shot in the dark. And many others as well. I personally would have picked someone other than Nick Gordon or Tyler Jay. But people with far more expertise than I made those picks. And of course, they too have been felled by the injury bug.
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    I think Javier or Rijo could be gone if not protected.
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    Is this a joke? If not, give me a break. If the media can't do their job without carrying out personal vendettas, they need to find a different job. Whaaaaa. Whaaaaa. Whaaaa.
  4. sdangus
    The Twins kept Ryne Harper and traded Anerson to the Marlins for a C-level 3B.
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    I still remember his MLB debut. Guess that makes me kind of old. But Bert has been one of my favorites since day one. Maybe his time has run out, but I never stopped enjoying him on the air.
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    I agree with someone earlier that said his location doesn't seem to be good right now, but what I am noticing, at least the last few times out, is that his pitches don't seem to have the same zip on them that they used to. His slider looks more like a slurvy curveball and he leaves it over the plate too much, and it seems to me like he is using it more and the fastball less. He also seems to have less confidence.
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    Sell them one. Or better yet, give them one. Best advertisement ever.
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    We blew that

    sdangus commented on mikelink45's blog entry in mikelink45's Blog

    I think he is out of options. Optioned in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
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    While I think these guys do all have potential for turnaround seasons and could maybe trap lightning in a bottle, all 3 would also require major league contracts and roster spots. who are you going to jetison to take a chance on 3 guys? Keep in mind Donaldson is still on the docket.
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    he may want a major league contract and the Twins can't give him a spot.
  11. sdangus
    Sorry, I misspoke. I meant to say teams can only carry 13 pitchers.
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    Don't forget, even with a 26th man, teams can only carry 26 pitchers. And it is going to be more difficult to rotate players back and forth to Rochester because of a change in rules for how long a player has to stay down before they can return.
  13. sdangus
    Jake Odorizzi was acquired in a trade with Tampa Bay.
  14. sdangus
    I thought about Buchter, too. But it appears he can't get right handers out, and the new 3 batter minimum would work against him. Probably why he was non-tendered. Alex Claudio of the Reds the same thing.
  15. sdangus
    I have been a Twins fan for well over 50 years, and even in some of the bleakest years of the 70's and the 90's, there was still something to cheer about. If you didn't follow the Twins during those 70's, you missed prime years of Rod Carew and Bert Blyleven, the early years of Roy Smalley, the best days of one of the Twins better pitchers, Dave Goltz. Or Larry Hisle's entire time with the Twins. And Butch Wynegar, maybe the best Twins catcher not named Joe Mauer. Gave up on the Twins in the 90's? You missed most of Brad Radke's better years. And Chuck Knoblauch before he imploded. You missed the 3000th hits of Dave Winfield and Paul Molitor. The final years of Kent Hrbek and Kirby Puckett. And you missed the early days of the 2000's teams, back when you could see the talent budding even if it hadn't clicked yet. Torii Hunter, Dougie Alphabet (Mientkiewicz), Corey Koskie, Jacque Jones, Christian Guzman, Johan Santana, Eric Milton and lest we forget David Ortiz. I know most of the people reading these pages are fans year in and year out, but a good many fans are fair weather only. Every year has it's special moments, and many games in every year have memorable moments. I've missed very few games over the last 50 years, and I'm glad I followed through good and bad.
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    Seriously. They gave up Taylor Trammel to get this guy. They are not giving him up for the Twins expendable pieces.
  19. sdangus
    I do not understand why everybody thinks the twins have $70 million to spend. on 1 year contracts, sure, but we are not talking about one year contracts. The FO has to take into account that almost everybody already on the roster will be more expensive next year, eating into next year's budget. Not to mention trying to tie guys up on long term contracts, which will also consume more of this year's budget, as well as maybe extra money next year. You can't just look aat one year.
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    I ordered the book and didn't get it. What do I do?
  21. sdangus
    I did not get my handbook that I ordered. What do I do?
  22. sdangus
    Didn't Rogers have a couple of back to back games that were total meltdowns. A couple of bad outings could really skew the numbers on such small sample sizes. He might have been perfectly fine on the other 12 outings. I seem to remember a good number of sucessful back to back outings he made.
  23. sdangus
    Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel are two pitchers traded togrther, but that was more two starters than one of each. Sean Doolittle and Ryan Madson from Oakland to Washington is a 2 reliever trade (that cost Washington dearly). Cleveland got Adam Cimber and Brad Hand together, but again 2 relievers.
  24. sdangus
    It looks like they drafted a lot of guys who may have had down years that they have high hopes. Along with a long line of pitchers that have some building blocks to work with. In every draft, if you can get a couple of pieces from lower in the draft, it's a success. So if just a couple of these college pitcher turn out, that would be normal. I was disappointed, too, that there were not many high upside high school kids. But it takes 2 to get a deal done. If they could not find kids that were willing to sign for what they could pay, then why draft them. If the college pitcher is willing to sign, take a shot on him. Just thinking.
  25. sdangus
    What about Mychal Givens from Baltimore or Rasiel Iglesias from Cincinnati or Keone Kela from Pittsburg?
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