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  1. nicksaviking
    I don't agree with but understand the argument about not DFA'ing Grossman for Wade, but I really think it's about LaMarre. Even if Wade struggles hitting, his best skills are drawing walks and avoiding strikeouts. The Twins lineup, the bottom part in particular, have been killing this club by hacking at the first pitch and weakly putting the ball in play as soon as the game gets turned over to the other team's bullpen. Even if Wade doesn't hit, he should at least be able to give better at bats than what we're seeing.
  2. nicksaviking
    So far it's seemed like Mauer, Dozier, Escobar, Kepler and Rosario have taken turns carrying the team. We have over a month to go and Dozier or Sano are a .950 OPS/10HR month away from taking the lead in the race for the Twins All Star representative. I'm putting my money on two Twins, Berrios and Dozier. Dozier mostly because the AL's going to have more than one 2B and currently the second best guy right now is Jed Lowrie. It's not going to take too much of a hot streak to vault him back to his usual spot behind Altuve.
  3. nicksaviking
    Luck or bad luck, I say he should just play it safe and start working at just reducing that HR total. 12 is kind of an ugly number when it's not even June.
  4. nicksaviking
    The success of Berrios and Romero are the best thing that could happen for this club. They aren't able to get the kind of potential and electric stuff those two poses on the free agent market. One of these guys hitting their peak potential is the team's best shot at lining up against Kluber, Verlander, Sale or Severino in the playoffs. But perhaps more importantly, the more success these guys have, hopefully the more comfortable the front office is rolling with the young guys with the excellent stuff at the expense of the struggling vets. Hughes got a pretty quick hook. Hopefully they'd not give Santana too long of a leash if it's clear that it's just not going to work. Or if Gibson or Odorizzi revert back to their former selves.
  5. nicksaviking
    Hmmm....
  6. nicksaviking
    Gene Glynn is really good at his job.
  7. nicksaviking
    Yes, we are directing all of that nonsense out of the game threads. Discuss that stuff in the regular forums.
  8. nicksaviking
    You better tally one for each column with that post. Should be 4-5 now. Put me down for the HR, I'll even it out.
  9. nicksaviking
    I mean, oof, this matchup, can you blame them?
  10. nicksaviking
    I wouldn't expect him to say anything else. Even if the team comes in at a $90M payroll, they can still say that the Hughes savings was earmarked for whatever free agent they end up signing. I'm not one looking for them to break the bank necessarily and I'm not asking for a record payroll each year. I just ask that they do their best to put themselves in the best spot to win now or soon in the future. Giving away a top draft pick for salary relief next year when it's next to mathematically impossible for them to increase payroll beyond their natural capabilities anyway isn't an attempt to put the team in the best spot to win.
  11. nicksaviking
    To get back to this year's payroll they'll have to spend about $60M in 2019 money. They'd have to actually get Machado or Harper for that to happen.
  12. nicksaviking
    They have 26M in committed payroll next year. Even with the arbitration guys they'll struggle to make 60M. That 7.5M will have no impact on free agency.
  13. nicksaviking
    If the Padres organizational #8 catcher's value is that of or greater than 74th overall pick, they must have the most talented crop of backstops the league has ever seen.
  14. nicksaviking
    This is great news, the Twins payroll is going to be around that of one of the mid level regional auto-dealers next year. There's no logical reason to be concerned about getting payroll so low unless they plan on signing both Machado AND Harper! Hopefully there's a little left over for Keeshaw!
  15. nicksaviking
    I'm think Graver might benefit from a first baseman's mitt.
  16. nicksaviking
    Yeah, my off-season doubts about Kepler not being able to hit lefties is approaching my take after the Liriano trade that Eduardo Escobar was a terrible return because he was instantly the worst player on the entire 40-man roster, but at least Pedro Hernandez looked like a nice long term lefty.
  17. nicksaviking
    Sorry, both good answers but we were looking for "Keith Law hates the Twins"
  18. nicksaviking
    And to the left of the lingerie ad.
  19. nicksaviking
    I might kindly point to tonight's intro if by chance anyone didn't read it.
  20. nicksaviking
    I told my 8-year-old at bed time about the cat/dog debate. He said maybe it's worth giving a shot to breed a cat and a dog to make everyone happy. My five-year-old chimed in and said "Or even better, combine two different dogs then you don't have to have the cat!"
  21. nicksaviking
    I agree, but there would be room if Buxton were to go to Rochester for a confidence boost. This team could use Wade's on-base skills at in the bottom 1/3 of the line up. Going Buxton-Adrianza-Wilson will kill any kind of extended rally.
  22. nicksaviking
    If the team assessed is defense as average or better, he should have been catching 4-5 times a week prior to Castro getting injured.
  23. nicksaviking
    Johnny Bench had him beat.
  24. nicksaviking
    I doubt the front office is going to be too interested in dealing controllable starters when Santana and Lynn are going to be free agents.
  25. nicksaviking
    I guess I wouldn't try to rate it anywhere on the likely - unlikely scale, but I'd say the fact that plenty of us at the age of 24 thought we knew way more than we actually did only to look back at those years with quite a bit of chagrin and resentment. Most of us turn out OK in the long run.
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