Monkeypaws

Belisle's ERA is at 6.99. Can we get rid of him when it goes over 7?

You and me on the same page where Wade is concerned. He'd be at worst a better Grossman given his plate control.

Really, what have we lost? Escobar to be sure. Pressly? Opportunity knocks for someone else. Dozier, Lynn, Duke, they can be replaced. Combined 1 WAR between the three of them.

Well, a 41 year old that can still hit 98 on the gun, and is second in active saves, and has an Experience named after him, all for 4.5 million, I'd keep him too. He is tied for the league lead in blown saves at 6, but St. Ryan Pressly, Familia and Duke have 4, Brad Hand has 5, so for a team fighting for a .500 record, Rodney is fine.

If Jose DeLeon was the offer for 40 HR Brian Dozier with another year of team control, this looks like a king's ransom.

Those D2 guys can sneak thru the cracks - anytime you see even a small sample size of BA over .600 and OPS over 1.500, yeah, that's destroying it.

Raley has OPS'ed over .800 the last 2 years despite being about half a year younger than league average. I foresee Twins OF 1B DH spots getting crowded in the near future. If that means a slugger at DH, I am all for it. We haven't had a good one in the longest while.

Liked Dozier, but just looking at the HR numbers you can see the peak is in the rear view mirror at 31. 6, 18, 23, 28, 42, 34, 16+ He never really became that complete hitter - he had a great hit up the middle last night, but those efforts were just too few and far between.

Odd parallel: Logan Forsythe hit 20 homers his last season in Tampa. Logan Morrison hit 38 homers his last season in Tampa. Since leaving TB both Logans have struggled at the plate. Lesson learned: don't pick up guys from TB named Logan.

Falvine doesn't mess around - very glad to see the cycle going around. Dozier certainly has the hair to be a Dodger.

I'd be happy just to see a climb up to .500+ 82-80, and this season will be a success all things considered.

Boston going for Kinsler just leads me to further believe that Dozier ain't going nowhere. Every contender with a need at 2B has gone a different direction.

Dozier's value is sinking to the point that if the Twins do keep him and qualify him, and he opts for free agency, he may find teams reluctant to give up the pick they'd surrender for signing him.

Makes up for the draft pick they lost by signing Lynn.

His minors career BB/9 is 1.0, so yeah.

From Wikipedia: He star has faded somewhat, but he was an exciting prospect once.

15 Home runs in about half a season of ML experience, so he does have some power. 26 isn't quite Hazelbaker territory.

LaVelle mentioned in today's S-Trib that the Twins made an effort to try and extend Escobar during the season, but were unable to generate any momentum. So it's not for lack of trying.

Twins Territory, your top 7 are mine as well, although in slightly different order. Nice job.

I think we can stop saying Kirilloff is on a hot streak - he's just a great hitter.

Mauer would fit nicely in the NL. He could play some first, but I think he would be an ideal pinch hitter. He'll always give you a professional at-bat up there.

You start the season with a group of players, and they determine where you end up - sorry, but this particular group just isn't up to snuff. Losing Buxton, Sano, Castro, Polanco,and Santana was just too big a hole to dig out of. Keeping Pressly and Eduardo was never going to change that.

Agree - be a winning team first. Playoffs for this team, 2018 version, is a laughable proposition.

Yeah, true. However, who on this team is going to rise to the challenge? Rosario is a gamer, and so is Berrios. The rest? Mauer, Dozier, these guys are milque-toast. Watched the great post someone made about the Morris game 7 win in 91. Those guys had winner attitude. We got a bunch of nice guys who lack that "we gonna kick yo ass" attitude.

Nunez is better - why bother.