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  1. gunnarthor
    Well, on mlb's list Mauricio is #10, Valera is #21 and Rodriguez is #9. Marte is #3. That's probably closer to the industry consensus. Daniel Flores, #2 on both lists, signed for 3.1m. Franco, #1, got 3.8m. The bigger question, in my mind, is why did Pereira, #4 on both lists, sign with the Yankees for only 1.5m? Are the Yankees doing a Red Sox and funneling him money?
  2. gunnarthor
    Good for both and both are deserving. And, more importantly, my pre-season prediction that Sano would be an all-star was correct!
  3. gunnarthor
    He's getting 3m because that's how much this market has valued him at.
  4. gunnarthor
    Good thing you're not a professional scout. Every single reputable draft scouting place had him as a 1st or 2nd rounder. This crap comes up every year. Buxton started slow in 2012 and people said he was a wasted pick. People wanted Morneau shipped out for Wiggington. People could only focus on Mauer's faults. Back before WAR recalculated his value, people complained about Hunter all the time. Berrios was roughed up last year and people jumped off the bandwagon left and right. Baseball is a game of failure. Rooker's going to have ups and downs before he makes the majors (he will make the majors). I have no idea what the best way to be a fan of a team is. I tend toward trusting professional evaluators that I have been able to read. Making the majors is hard. But utterly nonsense posts like yours - a first round pick is a 30th round - seem unnecessarily mean spirited and puts you in a position of hoping that a major prospect in our system fails so you can "be right."
  5. gunnarthor
    That might be the fastest hot take ever.
  6. gunnarthor
    Nice to see Baddoo and Miranda have strong starts. I really liked those picks last year because of the upside but they are far away.
  7. gunnarthor
    Well, it's official. Nice to see the Twins are loading up on high toolsy guys.
  8. gunnarthor
    I know a few people who do options but they are much better at the market than I am and, over the long run, they've made money but they've had big losses too. It's too much like day trading for me.
  9. gunnarthor
    As for pitchers, Romero, Thorpe, Wells and Jorge were also low money signings the last few years. Ynoa was big money, I believe.
  10. gunnarthor
    The Red Sox also got caught cheating the system last year by giving bonus to lesser players and those players sharing it with guys they wanted to sign.
  11. gunnarthor
    Nice to see Gonsalves and Romero pitching well in AA. I hope they get promoted to AAA this year (or the majors). Blankenhorn is doing well after a mid-season slump as well.
  12. gunnarthor
    I bet Buxton is faster than lint
  13. gunnarthor
    That was a fun series. I missed almost all of it.
  14. gunnarthor
    We did make a purchase of HP in the low 50s. I like the dividend even though it might take a while for it to get back up where it was a few years ago.
  15. gunnarthor
    They drafted a few guys late that they could sign for overslot amounts and use the rest of the money. I'm not smart enough to say player ranked 102 is better than player ranked 152 on BA'd draft board. I just want them to sign the extra guys with the money.
  16. gunnarthor
    I do hope we use all our money plus the 5% over amount. But that would require the Pohlad's to spend money so ...
  17. gunnarthor
    I think this ranking looks pretty good. Both Gordon and Lewis will be top 35ish prospects next year. That's kinda cool. I've warmed up to Lewis. I really wanted a pitcher but Lewis really is the type of guy that the Twins have drafted for so long. Toolsy HS batter. And it's nice to see Gordon hitting well in AA. Now that Trea Turner's OBP is below .300 perhaps we'll have less second guessing of that pick.
  18. gunnarthor
    Maybe. He had options of going back to school. 600k is around #91 pick and BA had him listed as #95. Seems reasonably fair.
  19. gunnarthor
    Fister is probably done but he's not that far removed from being a 4+ WAR pitcher. I'd take a flier on him.
  20. gunnarthor
    Damn it, I suck. Yep, you're right. He came back and made 5 starts in low A and then was promoted up to A+ for 11 more starts.
  21. gunnarthor
    Probably not. Berrios, Buxton, Sano, Kepler etc are all pretty young. Last year, Stewart and Gonsalves were two of the youngest guys in AA. Romero was promoted straight to AA after recovering from surgery. Barring injury, our guys seem to be promoted after a half season or so if their performance dictates it.
  22. gunnarthor
    Other teams rarely release guys that are pitching well.
  23. gunnarthor
    Nah, he'll sign.
  24. gunnarthor
    I'm ok with Gee. It's a cheap low risk move. He might be able to string together a few solid starts for us.
  25. gunnarthor
    That was the logic as I understood it. Didn't say I agreed with it. That draft director has been replaced. I'll also point out that many people outside of the Twins have long had very high opinion of the Twins scouting department, including Keith Law, who has argued that the scouting department just needed an analytical approach to their reports. That's very similar to what Falvey said going into this draft. And the draft gurus have said the Twins had the best draft this year.
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