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  1. Yoke
    I think he'll be good insurance to have at AAA for if Sano gets hurt. Miguel is usually good for an injury or two during the season, so having Rooker around to come up would be nice. If he comes up, he can find some things to work on when he goes back down. Later in the season he could be a good 26th man, then, and it hurts me on the inside to say this, Astudillo can go to AAA.
  2. Yoke
    It will be interesting to see how all of the prospects move up and into the majors over the next few years, with the way all of the starters are signed to contracts for a couple more years. Either the guys on the team now will be moved for more pieces and these guys end up on the Twins, or the guys in the prospect pool could be traded for stronger pieces. Good problem to have, I suppose.
  3. Yoke
    It's like reading the previews for the next five Sportive podcasts, including the dates.
  4. Yoke
    Should be good enough as the backup catcher. Let him play vs. right hand pitchers and it'll be alright. If Garver gets hurt and Avila is the starter for a while, I won't be real jazzed up.
  5. Yoke
    ....oh goodness, no.
  6. Yoke
    Maybe I didn't explain the whole thing properly. You can call up the whole 40 man roster, like you've been able to do every year for lord knows how long. So you've got 40 guys in the locker room that day, and a couple hours before the game you have to hand in the 26 that are going to be on the game roster for that given night. So your question "how do you keep the minor league players game ready?", the answer is that you put them on the game roster a few times between the end of the AAA season and the end of the MLB regular season, and they play in the game. Hopefully that makes more sense.
  7. Yoke
    I would have preferred September stayed the same way as the regular season (with the 26 it'll be for next season), but you can call up anyone from your 40 man roster. Before the game you have to set your 26 man roster, and some guys are healthy scratches (like hockey does). Mostly what'd happen is they'd healthy scratch the 4 SP's that wouldn't pitch for 4 RP, but you could call up 6 RP and rotate them in and out. You could also do the same with hitters. If you need more lefty hitters one day, you healthy scratch a couple righty hitters, and so on.
  8. Yoke
    Suzuki was my pick for catcher when I saw the headline and started thinking about my own version of the team. I couldn't remember off the top of my head how much time Mauer had spent at catcher. There's not much to argue about with it, really. There have only been one or two guys at each position for the last 10 years that you'd put on a good baseball team, and they're all listed.
  9. Yoke
    I'd keep him at SS for the future, but sprinkle in some games at 3B and in the OF to keep him fresh with it. The more position flexibility a player can have the better. I do think that he makes his MLB debut as a 3B, unless Polanco is injured.
  10. Yoke
    My plan would be to sign one high level starter and a strong RP, trade an OF for a starter, and re-sign Romo and Odorizzi. That leaves the 5th starter spot open, and the OF spot that can be filled in-house. You could talk me into signing two RP, too. You wouldn't have to try hard, either.
  11. Yoke
    Really ran the gamut there, eh? F word...alright...oh damn...OH DAMN...happy F word.
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  13. Yoke
    With his situation that allows him to pitch in the minors, is he somebody that is allowed to get promoted to the MLB, or does he have to stay in the minors until after the Olympics? I guess he could go to the MLB, then leave for the Olympics, but that doesn't seem like something that would actually happen.
  14. Yoke
    Kiriloff, Grzelakowski, Lewis, Rortvedt and De La Trinidad are all on the roster and above .700. Then there are two guys between .690 and .700, too (Blankenhorn and Costello).
  15. Yoke
    I think this would be the way to go for September. Get the younger starters some more experience, and really see what you've got. It would also help with offseason plans, and maybe with trades, too.
  16. Yoke
    I think Austin could turn out to have value in the long run. The other two fill their current role nicely, but I don't see them bringing much to the table in the future.
  17. Yoke
    If you can get Buxton to be a .240 or .250 hitter, I’m fine with him out there every day. He brings so much to the table defensively. My plan would be to sign Forsythe to a cheap deal to bridge you to 2020. Also, if he’s cheap and goes down the tubes, you can release him without much of a hit to the pocketbook, and hope that he’s gotten you far enough that Gordon is stepping up or Arraez can come up and give it a shot for a couple months. 2019 infield is Sano, Polanco, Forsythe, Mauer/Austin. OF is Rosario, Buxton, Kepler. 2020 infield is Sano, Lewis, Polanco, Rooker. OF is Rosario, Buxton, Kiriloff.
  18. Yoke
    I wouldn’t be mad if the Twins signed him for another season at a super cheap number, especially if they can’t get Escobar back. Gordon isn’t ready. There isn’t anyone at AA that’s ready to play 2B in the majors. Might as well let Forsythe be a placeholder until somebody shows that they can take the job and run with it. Really, you give him one more year and Lewis could be ready for 2020, especially if he keeps playing this well in AA and AAA. Then Polanco can switch to 2B.
  19. Yoke
    Hopefully somebody claims Morrison on waivers. The trade could be for just about anything, and I'd be happy. Couple buckets of gum, maybe a half eaten bag of Skittles....really, the options are unlimited.
  20. Yoke
    I think he'd fit in really well as the 4th OF. Seems like he has a little pop, and he plays solid defense.
  21. Yoke
    The only thing I would do is DFA Adrianza and call up Gordon. It would have been the move to make when Sano went down, and I hope that it's what they would have done had they known Sano was going to be out for more than 10 days. Sending down Buxton will get him crushing AAA pitching, but hasn't he done that before, then came up and done nothing? Let him figure it out.
  22. Yoke
    They're on a bus
  23. Yoke
    Thank you for doing these. I look forward to listening tonight or tomorrow.
  24. Yoke
    Gotcha. Basically weighted towards guys at the higher levels. That makes sense. I lean towards potential a bit more, but use levels/age as more of a tiebreaker.
  25. Yoke
    With the idea of looking at prospect rankings as who is closest to MLB vs. potential, wouldn't that make somebody like Royce Lewis rank outside the top 10, maybe top 20 in a prospect ranking? I think looking at it that way would bump AAAA type players a lot higher on a list than potential impact players. It's also possible that I'm misunderstanding, but it seems like ranking on how close they are to the MLB is more of a depth chart than a prospect ranking.
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