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  1. dxpavelka
    Polanco won't be "blocked by Dozier" for long if Dozier doesn't learn to hit after recess.
  2. dxpavelka
    Maybe we could throw in Berrios, Buxton & Sano as well. Seems like a lot to give up for a 30 year old catcher & a set up guy whose numbers would most likely suffer going from the NL to the AL.
  3. dxpavelka
    Those chances are also far less than 50/50 that he even gets in.
  4. dxpavelka
    Why rank Lewin Diaz as the # 2 overall prospect and not even mention him in the article?
  5. dxpavelka
    Would love to see how this stacks up against other teams, especially the Cubs & Astros, the two teams the Twins prospects have been most compared to since 2011.
  6. dxpavelka
    ALL of these guys are unknowns. That's why they're on THIS list.
  7. dxpavelka
    Move Joe down from 3. Been hearing it for years. What I have not heard is a realistic alternative to put in that 3 spot. Sano belongs at 4. Put him there and leave him there. Gonna put guy with ZERO big league at bats like Park there? NOT. Start him at 6 and hopes he earns the 5 spot and then leave him there for years. Sorry folks, Joe's the 3 until someone else earns it. We're not there yet.
  8. dxpavelka
    I was one of the few people who a year ago thought Milone would / should be the 5th starter. That view was based, at least in part, on uncertainty surrounding May. A year removed from that, I believe most of the uncertainty around May has been laid to rest and I have yet to be compelled by any argument as to why a team with contending aspirations would be better served by starting a guy with 4th or 5th starter potential rather than a guy with 2nd or 3rd starter potential. Contributions to the bullpen are fine and dandy but if your starters have given up 4-6 runs before you get to that bullpen guy you're looking at a 4th or 5th place finish.
  9. dxpavelka
    Opinions are like..... Research could fairly easily prove or disprove this theory.. Not that I have the time or inclination to do said research.
  10. dxpavelka
    That's a pretty underwhelming starting rotation to leave Duffy, May & Berrios in either the pen or Rochester.
  11. dxpavelka
    The difference is that a young player that struggles playing a foreign defensive position could very easily let those struggles get into his head and take that with him to the plate. Not many players struggle with the defensive aspect of being a DH.
  12. dxpavelka
    My point is that if he is comfortable at 3B I would do nothing that could even remotely make him uncomfortable. Think there's no chance that if he goes to a position he's never played and struggles that it might affect him at the plate. There are many guys who have suffered such a fate. See Cuddyer, Michael in the first half of his Twins career.
  13. dxpavelka
    Putting him in the OF is also a way of making a potentially once in a generation type of hitter overthink the defensive part of the game at the potential expense of his offensive game. Leave him at the spot he's comfortable at. If somebody needs to move let it be Plouffe. It would only increase his eventual trade value.
  14. dxpavelka
    EVERYBODY has questions at this point in the off-season. The key is to have potential answers by April. We're a lot closer to that than we have been most of the last half decade.
  15. dxpavelka
    (And for the record, the source also said Lawrie is "considered the better bet to be traded" which implies Valencia's trade return would be lower, another opinion that is difficult to dispute.) Hence the crux of my initial contention that the thought of Valencia having had some sort of "career" type year is/was a bit overblown.
  16. dxpavelka
    The caption on the cover of Time magazine says it all. Funny thing is he wasn't terribly dissimilar as a hitter from a certain current Twin who also moved to 1st base from a more physically demanding defensive position late in his career and never quite lived up to the fans' expectations of what a first baseman should be.
  17. dxpavelka
    If you believe MLB Trade Rumors EVERYBODY draws interest. Kind of how MLB Trade Rumors justifies their existance. If 60% of what they speculated on actually happened I could make a living betting on it. I'm still at my regular job.
  18. dxpavelka
    Worth noting that in the midst of the "career" year you tout Valencia for he was DFA'd and picked up by another team that seems to have made replacing him a cornerstone of their offseason plan.
  19. dxpavelka
    That formula was helped immensely by having a multiple time Cy Young award winner in the rotation.
  20. dxpavelka
    Interesting that the two are grouped together. Especially after Vargas gets sent down on the heels of a 2 and a half week stretch of hitting .366 and Arcia goes down with a 19 game batting average that ultimately ends up higher than anyone with more than 12 plate appearances not named Eduardo Nunez. This on a team that seemingly doesn't care that Joe can't hit for power & Dozier can't hit for average. Can't make up their minds?
  21. dxpavelka
    The fact that "Escobar wrapped up the SS position" made this list shows how much work remains undone.
  22. dxpavelka
    The biggest advantage Murphy has over Pinto is that he hasn't spent 10 years in our organization without learning to play defense. An outfield of Rosario, Buxton & Hicks may have been far above average defensively but would have been just as far below average power wise.
  23. dxpavelka
    That was either A. A long time ago at a point when moving Hicks would have been foolhardy or B. Not going to happen without a hell of a lot more than Hicks in the pot AND Greinke never would have stayed here either.
  24. dxpavelka
    Who in 2015 had the highest batting average of any Twin with more than 10 plate appearances. Just sayin.
  25. dxpavelka
    How about best guy plays-regardless of whether it's Santana of Polanco? Seems reasonable to me. Let it be decided in camp.
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