CBtwinsfan

Don't forget about Winder, he looked very good when he was healthy and has bullpen experience.

Everyone is so enamored with power and slugging percentages is baseball right now. You need a guy to lead off, get on base for the guys behind you to hit and bat you in. The one thing the game is missing is the Ricky Henderson's of the world. There not much more exciting than having a base stealer who can steal you 50 bases a year, that's like turning a single into 50 doubles, it just revs that crowd up and you can feel the excitement. It puts a lot of pressure on the pitcher and catcher and gives the batter a lot of good balls to hit out of the park. Can you imagine have Martin one first base 40% of the time with Donaldson, Buxton, Karilloff, Sano or Garver hitting with him on. They will see some good pitches because the pitcher is afraid Martin is going to steal second, then third. I hope he starts in left field, can you imagine the defensive outfield with Martin, Buxton, Kepler. Best defensive outfield in baseball right there, and all of them can potentially hit.

I'm thinking there done with starting pitchers, if they get a pitcher it will be the relief variety. Simmons will help Dobnak immensely.

Romo - gone conzalez - gone Avila - gone Cipllard - keep, valuable in any role in bullpen

Keep Cruz for dug out continuity Odorizzi - keep, cant find a better # 4 pitcher who can pitch like a #2 Rosario - gone Rogers - gone, has lost what ever he had previous years May - keep, our most dominant relief pitcher Hill - gone

To me the Twins are between a rock and a hard place with their roster. What happens if Buxton, Sano, Berrios, or even Kepler lives up to their potential. Buxton hits for a 290 average with his usual defense, Sano hits over 40 bombs and has a 270 batting average, Berrios wins 20 games with over 200 strike outs and Kepler hits 30 bombs with at 270 batting average. You spend 20 plus million dollars over 7 years on someone like Manny Machado and what do you do with our own if the switch flips and they produce like everyone thinks they should. Unfortunately the Twins are not able to have the payroll of the the Yankees, Red Sox or Dodgers have and would have to get rid of a couple of them. What happens if Gibson all of a sudden figures it out and wins 20 games. its all possible and it could all happen next year if the stars align. The problem is the Twins have too many young players with high ceilings, and high ceilings means big payroll in the near future and Falvey and Levine have to keep that in mind when they put this years roster together.