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Agree I always hated to see Hicks bat 5th / clean-up.

If they trade Liriano, the FO not only gives up on '12 but also '13 There is no way to field a professional pitching staff next year without Liriano. - this is the sorry state of the Rotation. So if he goes, might as well try to trade Willingham, Span, and both of the M&M brothers

Boer really has an 8.4 ERA??? I knew he was struggling but wow. The Miracle are a very bad baseball team. Is Fort Meyers the place MN prospects go to die? I hope that Sano can just skip there altogether...

Of course the Medical Staff Messed up. Why do you want your closer to Rest a week when you are going through the interleague schedule? Does that make any sense at all? Gardy had to manage with a 24 man roster and the team went on a bit of a slide. An extra bat/arm during this time might have helped...

Would love to know who they were scouting

Looking forward to July promotions. Would love to see Goodrum end the year at Beliot. Now that Rosario is hurt Niko is my favorite prospect to watch. I really hope he becomes a star for the Twins. The promotions based off his last name will be fantastic.

Can we bring up this Burris kid to start on Sat instead of Duensing?

Would be interesting to see this with HS pitchers. From memory i dont remember any HS pitchers make the club.

Everything I read says Gardy and Anderson like him a lot and i think he has not worn out his welcome. He is rumored to be a stand up guy and very liked by the team. Its just he is not very good right now. I fear he goes to a team like the white sox and gets put on track by some other team.

I hope like hell the team has a plan for 2013 to get a top line starting pitcher that doesn't involve trading their "core"guys. If they had a competent rotation Twins would be in the hunt for a play-off spot. The Offense is good The Bullpen is above replacement level The defense is not bad The Starting pitching has been horrible. Add 1 or 2 decent Starters and this team is .500 and just 4-5 games out from first. I would be disappointed if they blew it all up for some prospects unless they could get guys who could be Top-Line pitchers or All stars. And nobody on the MLB Team is going to give them that kind of return. So I would be against these moves because the type of return probably won't be there. If there is one thing I hope they learned from the Bill Smith Era is the only way to get better is to Fleece the other team (See Baltimore and Tampa Bay) and they don't have the assets to be the Fleecer.

Seth The amount of work it must take to find this info and transcribe it is mind boggling. Thanks!

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Where do you get your arbitration estimate from? I think Their finial arbitration number could be under 6 million not 20. I doubt they tender Casilla No way Butera gets more than minimum Duensing Burton and Burnett will get raises but not much more than 1 -2 mil a year.

Hirschfeld Could he be an option for the Twins? He pitched yesterday. He has been up and down from AAA to AA. He is not young and is doing well this year. He has not been overmatched at AAA. Hermsen would be a disaster at this point. He needs to learn how to limit his hits and learn how to pitch against better competition.

Since the Strib went to the article limit, I have stopped reading him. Before I might read a few of his articles 1-2 times a month to see what a baboon might say about a current topic. But Now I go to the Strib less than once a week and only to Read the Metro section, LenIII and Joe C's.

What about Santana at FM? He should be moved up. Does he have a chance to force Gardy to put Dozier at 2b?

Dozier is not so young and scouts always questioned his ability to make plays at SS. If he makes errors AND can't hit Gardy will struggle to find excuses to leave him at SS. But I wouldn't mind seeing him at 2B and see if he can't play there now and again.

This is why I am glad Ryan is the GM. He won't get focused on one team / scenario and he has the balls to walk away from a deal if its not good.

Sickels: http://www.minorleagueball.com/ He doesn't have his shadow draft up yet. - For those of you interested in prospects, poke around his site. In my opinion one of the best prospect guys out there...and he is a Twins fan...so I am biased.

Why would anyone blame Vavra for Plouffe? He didn't hit very well over his minor career. And overall he is not hitting very well in his major league career. - But at least now he has some power in his swing. Seems like Vavra should get some credit for getting something where there was nothing.

Hermsen met some good hitters and the ball flew around on him. He seems to give up a lot of base runners. He needs to get on the 40 man, earn some more more money and start eating steak so he can get some extra mph on that fastball

I would not call this pick a gamble. A gamble would have been taking one of the three high profile pitchers and guessing which one will be good. If they took Appel and Zimmer proved to better, than they look like fools. This is taking a kid with a lot talent that could be great but its not really a gamble.

Here are some IFs: If Bard signs for under slot and If they draft HS arms tomorrow and If they sign for over slot Then we can say that Ryan was smart for picking Bard If Bard does not sign for underslot and If they only pick other college type guys that also sign for slot Then we can scratch our heads and hope Twins Scouts see something in Bard others do not.

I think the title should be [h=4]Catching up with 2011 Draftees[/h]not 2010

Mitch Brown! Lets call this this the UberYouth movement 2018 Here WE COME