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  1. Loosey
    I originally posted this in forums but realized this is more of a blog post:
     
    As we have seen over the years when given opportunities to play every day Eduardo Escobar shines.Filling in for Miguel Sano so far this year he has shown he has the bat to be 3rd baseman, posting a .993 OPS while hitting 15 doubles and 7 home runs in 2018.
     
    Over his career Escobar has primarily played the left side of infield playing 322 games at short and 196 at 3rd base.However, he has played a handful of games at 2nd base in his career.The opportunities have been limited in Minnesota over the last 4 or 5 years with Dozier being a fixture there.
     
    However, it has been well publicized Brian Dozier would like to test free agency this winter.And if he finds a new home, there is suddenly a glaring hole on the right side of the infield.Granted, Dozier isn't doing much to increase his value as of now, but Dozier is the type of hitter who can go on absolute tears and make month long slumps disappear, which would likely increase his value again to levels the Twins may not want to pay.
     
    This is where Escobar comes in.Also a free agent at the end of the season, his reputation is not that of Dozier yet.Which means he likely will cost much less on the open market, if he gets there.
     
    In small sample sizes defensively at 2nd base Eduardo's defensive metrics compare relatively close to Dozier.Escobar is nearly two years younger than Dozier as well.
     
    Additionally, Escobar's ability to play multiple positions gives the Twins flexibility into the future.For example if the Twins can sign him for a 3-4 year deal this off-season he can be penciled in to be the 2nd baseman in 2019 and at least the beginning of 2020.But if Royce Lewis comes knocking in 2020 and continues to be the Shortstop everyone hopes he becomes Jorge Polanco can then be slid over to 2nd base and Esco back to 3rd assuming Sano will be a 1st baseman/DH by that time.
     
    I don't think this is outside the realm of possibilities and personally believe this is a great option for the Twins future infield.
     
    * Disclaimer - I am a very big Eduardo Escobar fan and am long Escobar stock.
  2. Loosey
    This blog entry will be sweet and short. The Twins are 14-12 on Cinco De Mayo. Last year on May 5 the team was already eliminated from playoff contention, at least it felt like at 8-20.
     
    But this year baseball is fun because the team is winning. Many of the guys helping the team win are guys who will be part of the future of this team. Miguel Sano, Byron Buxton, Jorge Polanco, Max Kepler and Eddie Rosario.
     
    However, anytime one mistake is made or a move is or isn't made by the front office the complaints come out in full force. A handful of fans don't like the new front office and think these new guys have same philosophies as the old regime and complain, complain, complain.
     
    They want Berrios up even though he might not be ready yet, they wanted Gibson sent to AAA and when he was they complained it took too long. They complain about Nick Tepesch, even though he might be an ok back end starter. Danny Santana . . . . Ok, I understand that complaint.
     
    But my point is, let's enjoy the winning and fun baseball team we are watching right now. I trust the front office even though I too scratch my head on some moves. I think we are watching the beginning of what will become a very good baseball team in the coming years.
  3. Loosey
    Here we sit on January 10th and we are asking ourselves the same questions we have been asking since October 3rd, "Are the Twins going to trade Brian Dozier?"
     
    So far this off season the Twins have hired a Chief Baseball Office and General Manager and signed Jason Castro to a 3 year $24.5M contract.
     
    Since then they have non-tendered Trevor Plouffe and signed a handful borderline replacement level/minor league free agents.
     
    In a normal off-season this would be big changes for the Twins organization. They released a long-time member of the team and signed a player to area of need. Good work!
     
    But this off-season is different.
     
    The Twins are currently in a position to deal a player who is probably at his peak value from an area where they already have a replacement ready to go. In return the expectation has been to receive a massive haul in prospects MLB ready pitchers to build for this team's future. But it hasn't happened that way.
     
    Brian Dozier's perceived value doesn't appear to be as high as many have thought it should be. The only real suitor right now is Los Angeles and they are "low balling" the Twins. Did Falvey and Levine expect to make a Dozier trade sooner? Was this their main off-season priority are question I have to ask especially now with rumors swirling the Twins are ready to start the season with Dozier on the roster, would the off-season activity have been different if everyone knew Dozier was going to stay?
     
    By keeping Dozier the on field product has only changed by adding a catcher. No young pitchers have been added to the future rotation pool of prospects, Jorge Polanco will be forced to play shortstop which is not his natural position causing the left side of the infield to be suspect.
     
    If a Dozier deal was always known to be a long-shot, should the front office have been adding players through other means? Should Santana have been shopped more?
     
    I don't like to give out grades before everything comes to fruition but this off-season could have a very large variance depending on what happens with Dozier. Keep him and do nothing else, this off-season would be a sub-par one, call it a C-. Trade him and receive the future players and it could swing into A grade territory.
  4. Loosey
    Do you ever get a strange feeling, and you can't put your finger on what it is? Well lately I've had a strange feeling every time on I turn on the Twins game. It's a feeling I haven't had in a while, what is that feeling you ask? Well, it started on Friday night. I turned on the game and I thought to myself, I think the Twins are going to win. Then it happened again on Saturday, then Sunday and then once again tonight. I don't know why, and it is an unfamiliar feeling. Maybe it has to do with the fact that during the summer months the Twins have a winning record. Maybe it's because I think the Twins actually believe they are going to win everytime they step onto the field. Whatever it is I like it. It's a feeling I haven't felt in two years. I actually think the Twins are going to win.
     
    After tonight's game I have a renewed faith in this team. No, I don't think they are going to go on to some magical run and make the playoffs, but I think the future is beginning to look a little bit brighter for this team. The offense which was touted as being able to score runs going into the season is coming around and actually starting to look stronger heading into the last third of the season. The entire lineup is under the team's control going into next season and some salaries are coming off the books next season. I hope the Front Office is starting to feel this same feeling I am having and are beginning to butter up the Pohlad's for some extra cash to spend this offseason. Assuming no major trades are made involving the lineup this offseason, I believe this lineup along with some quality starting pitching can contend in the Central. One top of the rotation starter and middle of the rotation guy instantly brings respectability back to this club. Two new arms, Diamond, Gibson, and rounding out the 5th starter spot with Blackburn or Deduno doesn't looks that bad. Yeah, something definately feels different.
  5. Loosey
    With the Twins pitching staff seemingly dwindling by the day I started to think about what the Twins could do to bolster it or what could they have done to prevent this. Then I remembered reading a rumor about a trade the Twins were looking at after the 2007 season. If you recall this is the off-season Johan Santana was traded for Carlos Gomez, Philip Humber, Kevin Mulvey and Deolis Guerra. The rumored trade that Bill Smith supposedly turned down because there weren't enough pieces was Johan Santana to the Dodgers for rookie Matt Kemp and 19 year old phenom Clayton Kershaw. Here are some of the articles I looked up confirming I wasn't imagining I read these things 5 years ago. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/clayton_kershaw/page/5/ and http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/newsstand/discussion/rumor_twins_ace_johan_santana_to_dodgers/ . Now these were only rumors but if you remember the steam Johan had back then it isn't unreasonable to think this was true. Additionally, there were also the Clay Bucholz and Jacoby Ellsbury rumors and the Melky Cabrera Phil Hughes rumors. Either way all of them would have been better than the actual trade that happened.
     
    This was all 5 years ago and no one can see into the future and we can't go back and change things now, but just this one trade would have this team in a completely different situation today. My timeline shows the Twins turned Johan Santana into the following:
     
    Johan Santana >Carlos Gomez, Philip Humber, Kevin Mulvey and Deolis Guerra | Carlos Gomez > JJ Hardy | > JJ Hardy for Jim Hoey | >Mulvey, Humber and Hoey all left the Twins for nothing in return. So using the baseball version of the discounted cash flow method 1 Johan Santana in 2007 = 1 Deolis Guerra in 2012 if you use Bill Smith's trade investment logic. Oy!
  6. Loosey
    Recently JJ Hardy came out and mentioned that some of his success at the plate last season was due to going back to what he does naturally, which is pulling the ball. The Twins wanted Hardy to go to the opposite field. Hardy mentioned his first BP session with the Twins back in 2010, "My first round of BP with the Twins, I was trying to (pull the ball), and Rod Carew and those guys call me over and say, `That's not we want. We want line drives the other way,"' Hardy said. "So that was my approach for the Twins." In 2011 he changed his approach at the plate and instead of hitting line drives to right field, he was allowed to pull and drive the ball all over the field. Hardy hit 30 homeruns along with 80 RBI last season with the Orioles. Some might say that his success was due to being healthy after dealing with a problematic wrist in his 1 year stint with the Twins, but the jump in production sticks out.
     
    What exactly is the "Twins Way"? Here's my take on it in good old fashioned dictionary form!
     
    The Twins Way
    Noun
    1. "Producing" runs without the need of homeruns
    2. Getting on base by any means
    3. Using fundamentals at the plate and on the base paths. - Taking the extra base, hitting the ball to the opposite field to advance runners
    4. Playing as a team and not being afraid to sacrifice yourself for the better good of the team
     
    In theory this is an excellent approach to scoring runs. It sounds simple enough, get on base move the guy over and find another base hit in there somewhere and you have yourself a run. A fatal flaw in this theory was exposed last year. If you do not have players to get on base consistently at the top of the order a slap single to right field from the middle of the order will be just a 2 out single rendered meaningless.
     
    From reading posts this weekend it seems the issue that most people have with the Twins Way is coaching staff's insistence on driving the ball the opposite way. If the Twins truly are having hitters with the ability to drive the ball over the fence instead push the ball to the opposite way I too have a problem with it. However, I don't think that is entirely the case. To be a complete hitter, driving the outside pitch the other way is key to be being a successfull hitter. I also have a firm belief in letting power hitters swing away and not worry about going the other way. It is harder to hit the ball out of the park going oppo and the Twins have little power as it is right now. By making it even more difficult and forcing the Twins Way issue on it's power hitters the Twins could be looking at another power outage similar to last year.
     
    My changes to the Twins Way:
    I'm sure you all are excited to hear some guy you don't know who has no coaching experience or blogging experience tell you how I would fix the Twins Way. But hear goes nothing:
     
    1) As bad as it sounds I would tell Rod Carew he is no longer the "special hitting assistant" or whatever his title is. The approaches he seems to be teaching would work wonderful for every hitter if they had the bat control and limited power that he had in his prime. That being said, I don't know if any player besides Ichiro has the bat control of Rod Carew. He could put the ball where he wanted it when he wanted it whenever he wanted to. That was a skill you just can't teach and his teaching methods are tailored to having that type of ability.
     
    2) Continue to teach "driving the ball" to the opposite field. But ease up on it. Some players should be doing more of it, while some less of it in my honest opinion. According to Hardy it sounds as if the coaching staff was so into going the other way that if a player rolls over an outside pitch they get an earful. That sort of "nagging" can lead to a loss of confidence and eventually a player being afraid to pull the pitches he should.
     
    3) Continue to play small ball with small ball players. Each player on the team needs a role. Span and Carroll need to be table setters. Get on base by any means. Span and Carroll know they are limited in the power department so they should be driving the ball to the opposite field any way to get on base for the middle of the lineup. Mauer, Morneau, Willingham and Valencia need to be the power. Let them grip it and rip it. Mauer will do his thing regardless but a healthy Morneau and Willingham should be able to hammer the ball to all fields and hit it out of the park hopefully with runners on base. (If I remember correctly I don't think the Twins had a 3-run homer until late May last season.) The back side of the order again should be in small ball Twins Way mode. Doumit has some power and should be allowed to roll over a pitch from time to time while the Casilla and Revere should be leadoff hitters at the bottom of the order and use their speed to get on base and create chaos on the basepaths.
     
    I believe in the Twins Way as a template, not as an end all be all way to run an offense. Let me know if you agree or have your own opinions on this.
  7. Loosey
    Recently JJ Hardy came out and mentioned that some of his success at the plate last season was due to going back to what he does naturally, which is pulling the ball. The Twins wanted Hardy to go to the opposite field. Hardy mentioned his first BP session with the Twins back in 2010, "My first round of BP with the Twins, I was trying to (pull the ball), and Rod Carew and those guys call me over and say, `That's not we want. We want line drives the other way,"' Hardy said. "So that was my approach for the Twins." In 2011 he changed his approach at the plate and instead of hitting line drives to right field, he was allowed to pull and drive the ball all over the field. Hardy hit 30 homeruns along with 80 RBI last season with the Orioles. Some might say that his success was due to being healthy after dealing with a problematic wrist in his 1 year stint with the Twins, but the jump in production sticks out.
     
    What exactly is the "Twins Way"? Here's my take on it in good old fashioned dictionary form!
     
    The Twins Way
    Noun
    1. "Producing" runs without the need of homeruns
    2. Getting on base by any means
    3. Using fundamentals at the plate and on the base paths. - Taking the extra base, hitting the ball to the opposite field to advance runners
    4. Playing as a team and not being afraid to sacrifice yourself for the better good of the team
     
    In theory this is an excellent approach to scoring runs. It sounds simple enough, get on base move the guy over and find another base hit in there somewhere and you have yourself a run. A fatal flaw in this theory was exposed last year. If you do not have players to get on base consistently at the top of the order a slap single to right field from the middle of the order will be just a 2 out single rendered meaningless.
     
    From reading posts this weekend it seems the issue that most people have with the Twins Way is coaching staff's insistence on driving the ball the opposite way. If the Twins truly are having hitters with the ability to drive the ball over the fence instead push the ball to the opposite way I too have a problem with it. However, I don't think that is entirely the case. To be a complete hitter, driving the outside pitch the other way is key to be being a successfull hitter. I also have a firm belief in letting power hitters swing away and not worry about going the other way. It is harder to hit the ball out of the park going oppo and the Twins have little power as it is right now. By making it even more difficult and forcing the Twins Way issue on it's power hitters the Twins could be looking at another power outage similar to last year.
     
    My changes to the Twins Way:
    I'm sure you all are excited to hear some guy you don't know who has no coaching experience or blogging experience tell you how I would fix the Twins Way. But hear goes nothing:
     
    1) As bad as it sounds I would tell Rod Carew he is no longer the "special hitting assistant" or whatever his title is. The approaches he seems to be teaching would work wonderful for every hitter if they had the bat control and limited power that he had in his prime. That being said, I don't know if any player besides Ichiro has the bat control of Rod Carew. He could put the ball where he wanted it when he wanted it whenever he wanted to. That was a skill you just can't teach and his teaching methods are tailored to having that type of ability.
     
    2) Continue to teach "driving the ball" to the opposite field. But ease up on it. Some players should be doing more of it, while some less of it in my honest opinion. According to Hardy it sounds as if the coaching staff was so into going the other way that if a player rolls over an outside pitch they get an earful. That sort of "nagging" can lead to a loss of confidence and eventually a player being afraid to pull the pitches he should.
     
    3) Continue to play small ball with small ball players. Each player on the team needs a role. Span and Carroll need to be table setters. Get on base by any means. Span and Carroll know they are limited in the power department so they should be driving the ball to the opposite field any way to get on base for the middle of the lineup. Mauer, Morneau, Willingham and Valencia need to be the power. Let them grip it and rip it. Mauer will do his thing regardless but a healthy Morneau and Willingham should be able to hammer the ball to all fields and hit it out of the park hopefully with runners on base. (If I remember correctly I don't think the Twins had a 3-run homer until late May last season.) The back side of the order again should be in small ball Twins Way mode. Doumit has some power and should be allowed to roll over a pitch from time to time while the Casilla and Revere should be leadoff hitters at the bottom of the order and use their speed to get on base and create chaos on the basepaths.
     
    I believe in the Twins Way as a template, not as an end all be all way to run an offense. Let me know if you agree or have your own opinions on this.
  9. Loosey
    Last Saturday pitchers and catchers reported and today the rest of the Minnesota Twins are down in Fort Myers for Spring Training. If you haven't had a chance to experience spring training I highly recommend it. Imagine going to a relaxing baseball game at Target Field, now imagine adding a vacation and an extra layer of "laid backness". For the younger kids there is plenty of opportunities to meet their favorite players and even get an autograph or two. For the older kids you get a chance to sit in the sun, drink a few beers and know that the summer back in Minnesota is just around the corner. During the course of the regular season negativity begins to creep in when the team is playing bad, during a spring training game they might as well not keep score because the games are really just very professional scrimmages. Most of all though spring training brings out hope. Hope that the Twins will compete again, hope that when you get back to Minnesota all the snow will be gone and hope that life can really be as great as is during spring training in Fort Myers. It really is the most wonderful time of the year.
  10. Loosey
    This morning the Wall Street Journal decided to talk a little baseball (yay!). They dove into each teams offseason activities and ranked them based on their collective expected WAR (from Fangraphs.com) from acquisitions and losses. They didn't include promotions from within the organizations or demotions within the organizations expected or otherwise except in the case of the Mariner's Montero.
     
    According to WSJ the Twins came in 6th place this off-season with net WAR increase of 4.4. Unsurprisingly the Angels came ranked best with a WAR increase of 13.3.
     
    I don't believe in WAR being the end all be all of a players value, however, this is a nice little rating system to show how each team fared this off-season using some quick and dirty evaluations.
     
    Here is the Article:
     
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204909104577237303623692324.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLE_Video_Third
  11. Loosey

    Free Agents From Within?

    By Loosey,

    This offseason it seemed as though the Twins were losing free agents and not replacing them. Cuddyer, Kubel and Nathan come to mind right away. But in reality were the Twins picking up a different kind of free agent? These free agents I speak of are the guys already on the roster that can make significant impacts simply by returning to form and staying healthy. During the dismal 99 loss campaign of 2011 the Twins lost two former MVP's (Mauer and Morneau), their spark plug lead off hitter (Span) as well as a starting pitcher (Baker) to injuries.
     
    What looked like your average "guy getting thrown out at home trying to stretch a triple into an inside the park homerun" turn into a mess for Denard Span. Span's head whiplashed back causing a concussion with symptoms that just wouldn't subside. The Twin's leadoff hitter and centerfielder missed 92 games in 2011 mostly due to "concussion-like symptoms" (a phrase all too familiar with Twins fans). When healthy, Span patrols the Target Field outfield providing surprisingly good range. On offense while his numbers have been down compared to his first two years in the league, Span provides speed on the basepaths as well as a guy who can put the ball in play and when playing at his best reaching base at a high rate. The Twins missed his consistency last year and will welcome his addition to the lineup with open arms.
     
    When Scott Baker went down last season he was on his way to best season as a big leaguer. The intangibles that he always seemed to be lacking, such as confidence and persistence seemed to be very present. When Baker took the mound the Twins could expect a quality start at the very least and a lights out performance when everything was clicking. Then came the elbow troubles and the steam he had built up was gone. Coming into 2012 Baker claims everything is feeling great and his arm is ready for the season. Having a healthy Baker in the middle of the rotation will do wonders for a staff that was anything but consistent last season. If his elbow is healty and holds up I look for him to regain the confidence he brought to the mound last season providing the Twins with a guy who can be counted on to every 5th day.
     
    While it would be nice to pick up splashy free agents such as the in-division foe Tigers did with Prince Fielder, that really isn't the Twins' way of doing business. However, when healthy, Justin Morneau is just as qualified at manning first base as Prince Fielder is. Defensively Morneau has the edge, while offensively Morneau can produce nearly as well. Back behind the plate Joe Mauer playing catcher is automatically an improvement over what was behind the plate last year. Drew Butera is a fine defensive replacement but is no where near being a competent major league hitter. Mauer, who had a plethora of issues last season ranging from bilateral leg weakness to walking pneumonia appears to be in shape coming into camp and hopefully ready to return to form. Expecting the Mauer from his 2009 MVP season is asking quite a bit playing in the pitcher friendly Target Field, but a return to the guy with the +.400 on base percentage and WAR in the 6-7 range isn't out of the realm of possibilities. That being said, these are big 'if's'. There is no way to know if an awkward slide will trigger another Justin Morneau concussion or if Joe Mauer's body can stand up to the demands of catching in a 162 game season.
     
    I for one am an optimist when it comes to this ball club and if these players can play to their abilities I expect them to be competitive in 2012. If they don't and the injuries continue to haunt them it could be a long season for this ball club. But just like every other team starting spring training, they are 0-0 and have high hopes for this season. Here's hoping this offseason strategy pays off.
  12. Loosey

    Starting Over

    By Loosey,

    Let’s start over. Way over. If you were GM of the Twins and you could go back to last October 5th (the day after the final game of the season) what would you do differently know what you know now?
    Here is a list of offseason moves the Twins made from October 5th to the beginning of the season:
    1) Torii Hunter Retires
    2) Signed Dan Runzler to Minor League Deal
    3) Traded Aaron Hicks for John Ryan Murphy
    4) Signed Joe Benson to Minor League Deal – Released in spring
    5) Signed Aaron Thompson to Minor League Deal – Released in spring
    6) Signed Juan Centeno to Minor League Deal
    7) Signed Byung Ho Park
    8) Acquired John Hicks (waivers)
    9) Signed Buddy Boshers to Minor League Deal
    10) Signed Darin Mastroianni to Minor League Deal
    11) Signed Brandon Kintzler to Minor League Deal
    12) Signed Fernando Abad to Minor League Deal
    13) Signed Ryan Sweeney to Minor League Deal – Released in spring
    14) Arbitration signing – Tommy Milone
    15) Arbitration signing – Eduardo Escobar
    16) Arbitration signing – Eduardo Nunez
    17) Arbitration signing – Casey Fien
    18) Signed – Kevin Jepson
    19) Signed – Trevor Plouffe
    20) Signed Carlos Quentin to Minor League Deal – Released in spring
    Wow! When you look at the list of signings and re-signings done in the offseason as a whole, it is really pathetic. I mean what on that list would have made this team better? Byung Ho Park was an incremental gain and the Aaron Hicks trade was meant to be a lift to the Catcher position. Outside of that everything else was status quo and minor league signings. Not one major league free agent outside of Park. No real backup plans in case the youngsters didn’t work out.
    Now what could have been done differently?
    First of all the Joe Benson, Ryan Sweeney, Carlos Quentin signings were extremely worthless in my opinion. They had no shot of making the major league roster and took spring training at bats away from guys like Buxton and Kepler.
    1) Trade Trevor Plouffe. I know the market was not great, and was actually pretty bad in terms of returns for 3rd basemen. But if the Twins could look at it as more than just trading Plouffe, instead getting incremental gains by being able to put players in correct positions as well as whatever the return for Plouffe would be. (Plouffe Skywalker day is over so they can trade him now)
     
    2) Do not re-sign Jepsen and Fien let Milone walk. Opens up two other RP roles and a SP opening. There were lots of options out there and they didn’t appear interested in exploring any. I get they don’t want to block younger arms, but we have yet to see one of those arms up here. I like the Fernando Abad deal so far so that is a good one but then they should have added ML arms. Steve Cishek would have been nice for starters and maybe a 2nd veteran arm like Neftali Feliz. Both are shorter term deal (2 years and 1 year with current team) Also, its like the Twins forget they can trade players they recently signed if they build up value and have younger replacements ready to backfill. . .
     
    3) Trevor May is now a starter.
     
    4) Don’t trade Aaron Hicks. I get the thought here, but don’t do it. Having his defense in the outfield while Buxton is in AAA would be nice. Also, would have given the Twins flexibility to keep Buxton at AAA to start the season and not sign Benson, Sweeney, Quentin, and Mastro + Grossman later on.
     
    5) Actually go out and sign a catcher. The White Sox signed 3 of them in the offseason. The guy I thought the Twins could have gone and got was Giovani Soto.
     
    6) Sign Byung Ho Park. This has worked out so far. Compare him to the DH’s the Twins have had hitting the last few years.
     
    7) Sign another Veteran Outfielder like Rajai Davis.
    I know this is all hindsight. But many of these suggestions were mentioned on TD during the offseason. So it isn’t like I just cherry picking players who are performing well. Also, this would not change the team to playoff team, but would hopefully make them respectable.
     
    The Opening Day Roster would have looked like this:
     
    Outfield
    Aaron Hicks
    Rajai Davis
    Oswaldo Arcia
    Eddie Rosario
     
    Infield
    Joe Mauer
    Brian Dozier
    Miguel Sano
    Eduardo Escobar
    Eduardo Nunez
     
    Super Utility
    Danny Santana
     
    DH
    Byung Ho Park
     
    Catcher
    Kurt Suzuki
    Giovani Soto
     
    Starting Pitchers
    Phil Hughes
    Ervin Santana
    Ricky Nolasco
    Kyle Gibson
    Trevor May
     
    Relief Pitchers
    Glen Perkins
    Fernando Abad
    Steve Cishek
    Neftali Feliz
    Ryan Pressly
    Michael Tonkin
    Tyler Duffey
     
    In this scenario the Twins would have left most of the youngsters in AAA but there would be flexibility to promote or replace opening roster players who became injured.
     
    This flies in the face of everything Terry Ryan and the Twins said their plan was during the offseason, but clearly the youth movement didn’t work in reality and giving them AAA time is probably what would have been best from the start of the season. They are all in AAA now in reality. So this roster construction would have been of great benefit for the Twins in my opinion. Hindsight is 20/20.
     
    What would everyone else have done differently?
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