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  1. nicksaviking
    That sounds like quite a prognosis from the armchair. Last year the young pitcher clearly started to get worn down in July, this year it looks like it's August. Last year he got a second wind and recovered nicely to finish the season. This year he's also averaging 6 1/3 innings per start as opposed to last years 5 2/3 innings per start. But I'll admit, my take is only a theory.
  2. nicksaviking
    I'd like to see him, but if he only managed 6 innings despite allowing only 5 baserunners and no earned runs, his 99 pitches should have lasted him longer. He's still throwing way too many pitches, he needs to cut that down considerably or he's just going to be a drain on the bullpen in the majors. Despite his excellent numbers, he's only made it past the 6th three times this year. I think at this point Stewart is more of a non-prospect so the team isn't overly concerned with how he shapes out.
  3. nicksaviking
    The Giants didn't elect to put him on their 40-man when they signed him either, nor did the other 28 teams for that matter. I'm sure the Twins would have welcomed him back as a MiLB free agent but he instead did exactly that with SF. The Twins seem to have a pretty high retention rate with MiLB free agents, this one just didn't happen. League-wide there wouldn't have been a GM, a pundit or a fan who would have advocated putting him on the Twins 40-man roster. It's only easy to hang this one over their heads with hindsight and without logic. There are plenty of things the front office has gotten wrong, this isn't one of them. Unnecessary swipes take away from the legit problems.
  4. nicksaviking
    As long as he's still throwing in the upper 90's I'm still excited. So far this front office has been cutting most minor league pitchers with control issues, yet they traded for Alcala as a centerpiece. I'd guess they think they can correct something; I'd also think a change of any significance wouldn't happen until the offseason though.
  5. nicksaviking
    It's easy enough for us to say the decisions are easy, but Morrison, Forsythe and Belisle are the only free agents, with Santana likely joining them. Everybody else is cheaply controlled beyond this year. None of the non-free agents listed above are guaranteed to be gone, and even so, you listed 7 guys, that doesn't leave much room for new internal additions and free agents, they're going to have to whittle it down past 7.
  6. nicksaviking
    I'd love to see Rooker, he's been my guy since before they drafted him, but considering how many tough 40-man decisions the team is going to have this offseason I have a hard time seeing them adding anyone new to the roster that doesn't need to be there. If the team was going to dip down to AA, my money is on Lewis Thorpe getting some bullpen action in September, which would still be exciting. Though, the odds are likely still against it.
  7. nicksaviking
    Seems to me it's only spin if you really want it to be untrue, or as you said, want to believe what you want to believe. Escobar seems like the kind of versatile veteran this front office would like to keep around, and Escobar would have to be naive to accept an extension two months prior to becoming a free agent. On top of that we have a report from La Velle saying there were talks. Yet people are confidently saying it didn't happen when there's much more evidence to support that it did.
  8. nicksaviking
    I agree with the point as we'd be silly to think the front office didn't take the best return for these players that they thought was available to them. However, without speaking for Tom, I think his idea was to grade the difference between the anticipated return and the actual return.
  9. nicksaviking
    While I'd like the Twins to 'win' trades, I don't think it's necessary. In it's true sense, a trade isn't a competition, it's an exchange of goods. The Twins no longer needed Dozier but they could use some more prospects. I can say that I'd rather have the two prospects the Twins got for Dozier who don't need to be added to the 40-man than the two 26-year-olds Boston gave up for Kinsler who did require 40-man spots.
  10. nicksaviking
    Geez, and here I was thinking De La Trinidad was one of my five favorites from this group! Those guys who walk as much as they strikeout always seem to get shot at the big leagues. His draft position sure isn't going to help him in the eyes of evaluators though.
  11. nicksaviking
    And then I hope they don't send them down again every time they give up an earned run.
  12. nicksaviking
    These bats are getting exciting. More hard hitting corner guys than you could shake a stick at. Hopefully they all finish the season strong so as their value is elevated if the Twins happen to be looking to make some trades this off season.
  13. nicksaviking
    Most 35-year-olds don't. Nothing anyone could do about Mauer, he couldn't be traded even if another club wanted him. All cutting him does is give more at bats to Morrison and Grossman. Yawn. He won't be a Twin next year unless he's wearing a tie and sitting behind a desk.
  14. nicksaviking
    They could have gotten a dirty diaper in return for Lynn. This hopefully opens up a rotation spot for Romero or Gonsalves for the rest of the season. Addition by subtraction.
  15. nicksaviking
    Yawn. Let's do another one! Yeah De Jong looks like an easy DFA. I see he does have a slider though. Maybe he gets moved to the pen, drops everything but the FB and slider, gains a couple MPH and figures it out. In today's game there's no room for a guy who can't miss bats even in AA.
  16. nicksaviking
    I could see a scenario where the offer for Dozier is so pitiful that the Twins keep him and cross their fingers that he turns things around and is quasi-worth a QO. Unfortunately if that happens, the fans almost surely will not know the internal decision making process of that one. A Dozier/Duke pairing or something similar might help hide the low worth of the team's former best player.
  17. nicksaviking
    Out of five prospects where three or so are organizational top 30 guys? I'd expect one to turn into a decent contributor, two of them to make it to the show. If none of them pan out it is on the front office, they picked these players themselves. I won't criticize them for making the decision to trade, but yeah, it's on them. And I fully supported them for doing it. It's just part of the job, Molitor has to make a decision whether to use Addison Reed for the third day in a row and Berrios has to decide if he trusts his curveball on a 3-2 count.
  18. nicksaviking
    Either way, if Dozier is still a Twins once the deadline passes, TD is really going to need the front office to differentiate between whether they couldn't or wouldn't trade Dozier. It'll get ugly around here with people making their preferred assumptions.
  19. nicksaviking
    8% was only the odds of winning the division. Winning the AL Central doesn't mean you're good and it doesn't mean you're a contender. I'd resent it if they skipped out on a chance to win the WS, not on the chance to get their teeth kicked in in the playoffs.
  20. nicksaviking
    But the odds that Escobar was going to contribute on a good team this year was already next to zero. Well until he got traded anyway.
  21. nicksaviking
    I don't care about winning the division. They can take all of their division crowns from early this century and trade them to the Royals or the White Sox for their World Series trophy. I'm not at all saying you're disingenuous, but we clearly want different things from this team. If they keep Escobar, sure their odds of winning a division are minimal but still better than without him. However, their odds of winning the World Series goes from what, .5% to .2%? By making these unpopular moves now, it may give them a better shot in the coming years, and that's what I want, a shot at taking the big prize. And yes, I think these five (and counting) prospects have a better chance of turning into a good player, or more likely, being traded for a good player than Escobar and Pressly did of winning the division for the Twins.
  22. nicksaviking
    Houston, Boston, New York, Cleveland, Seattle and Oakland are all between us and our goal.
  23. nicksaviking
    My assumption is they will unless no one wants them. I can't see anyone wanting Morrison, Rodney and Lynn are probably borderline and might need the Twins to eat their salary; possibly August trade guys. But Dozier and Duke should be moved by tomorrow at the very least to avoid fence straddling.
  24. nicksaviking
    But I don't think they are re-blowing it up. Cashing out your rental players in a losing season is what all teams do. Pressly is a bit of a different story, but the Twins are looking at about $80M in available free agent money with Kimbrel, Familia, Herrera, Britton, Allen and Matt Belisle available on the free agent market. The players they got back are lotto tickets, they can keep them and see if the multitude of them produce some good players in the future, or they might use them to go get JT Realmuto in the off season. Or a starting pitcher. Or a shortstop. They're just giving themselves so many more avenues to make the team better in the next couple of years. And for what it's worth, La Velle has reported that the Twins tried to extend Escobar prior to trading him.
  25. nicksaviking
    This team has been doing things wrong for so long they've put themselves behind the 8 ball. Most of these poor decisions were made by men who were trying to get every futile win they could despite having terrible teams, and they almost surely did it because they thought if they could get 75 wins instead of 65 wins they might keep their jobs. This organization's ceiling has been ALDS runner up, not WS champion because the goal has only been to simply make the playoffs. The team's odds of making the playoffs are crap and the energy coming off of 80% of the players and the manager are crap. They have tons of expiring contracts and they are going to have more payroll flexibility than even most of the big market teams next year. I know it sucks, another season of watching losing baseball, which likely wasn't going to change with or without Escobar. However, there is a real chance to stock the system like the best clubs have been doing and then go crush it in free agency or via trades to fill the holes over the next couple of years. This really only sucks because they should have done this in 2011 and/or again in 2014-15 but they didn't, they wasted damn near a decade because they were too afraid to rip off the band aid.
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