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  1. nicksaviking
    Archer is cheap financially, getting Darvish or Arrieta should not preclude the Twins from getting him.
  2. nicksaviking
    Clearly the offense would be better with him, I was just suggesting 20-30 games may not be season altering as we saw it wasn't last year. With or without Sano this team's issues are still in the rotation.
  3. nicksaviking
    Sounds more like Alan.
  4. nicksaviking
    Right now all I really care about are the 9 innings that the team will need to fill for game 163.
  5. nicksaviking
    I would have agreed before last year, but the team seemed to play better without Sano. Not saying the team is better off without him, just that the offense still worked quite well with him rehabbing.
  6. nicksaviking
    The Twins seem to overcome 1-4 each year, they should be well practiced and prepared for any of those uncertainties. Number 5 is an issue ONLY if this team goes into the season assuming Santana is going to be one of their top two pitchers. It's starting to look like he might though, so that's alarming. This team really should be looking at Erv as a distant 3rd option, even a 4th if they want to aggressively content.
  7. nicksaviking
    Cobb and Lynn can't get this team out of the WC round, so pass, I'd rather not sign anyone and work on trades instead. This team has to stop taking half measures. And if this team was never going to give $150M for Darvish, what was with all the big talk early on? They had to know that's what it would take.
  8. nicksaviking
    Could really use some good news right about now Twins. It would be a great time to swoop in and tell Minnesota fans that we're not insignificant.
  9. nicksaviking
    Yeah but there's not many of us baseball fans left.
  10. nicksaviking
    Well we can either suck it up and roll with the changes or be content to watch baseball the way WE want to see it and let it die with our generations. If MLB wants to outlive us it can't cater to Twins Daily poster, it already has us. It has to cater to the new generations who at this point have no interest. Sorry, the only way to stop evolution is to cease to exist. I'll take change over killing the sport for good.
  11. nicksaviking
    It was a bit tongue in cheek, mostly because I know how stodgy baseball and baseball fans can be about anything new particularly when it comes to technology, but none of those questions are viable reasons to deny the idea. All of them could be easily ironed out, just like in football.
  12. nicksaviking
    Yeah but unless they're filming it with audio for a live action Bull Durham show the nuance is lost on the fans. Scrap the mound visits by everyone, let players wear ear pieces while they are on the field. That'll speed the game up.
  13. nicksaviking
    Et tu Jim Kaat? https://www.twinkietown.com/2018/1/18/16904626/minnesota-twins-front-office-hire-jim-kaat-as-special-assistant-mlb Man, when they put the band back together there are no generational boundaries. I hope they get him back in the booth even if it's just for an inning or two.
  14. nicksaviking
    Nobody here was screaming to see Haley, the selection of him was nearly as head-scratching as Kinley was this year. The only shiny thing related to Haley people wanted to see was his plan back to Boston.
  15. nicksaviking
    I've heard that one, but I don't know. I didn't hear those concerns about Bryan Shaw when he was signed and if anyone has been overworked it's been him and he got a bigger and longer deal (though to be fair, I don't think the Rockies are a very astute organization). Also seems like everyone has been trying to get their hands on Brad Hand who's seen more work than Reed. Mike Minor threw more innings than Reed last year and Minor was coming off of basically two missed seasons due to arm and shoulder injuries. Unless there are sketchy medicals, which the Twins also surely would have viewed, I'd bet the concern lies more with the fact that the Mets are viewed quite unfavorably in terms of their pitcher usage the last half decade or so.
  16. nicksaviking
    I don't know that Hildenberger improves much, he was pretty dang good last year. I think Busenitz has a shot to do more though; I think he's got the stuff to miss way more bats than he did last year. I'll also jump onto the Gibson bandwagon, his new approach at the end of last year really seemed to pay off. I think his strikeout numbers are going to rise quite a bit making him a much more complete pitcher. Also Brent Rooker of course.
  17. nicksaviking
    I have always been and still am a May-as-a-starter guy. I'm still counting on a free agent to fill out the rotation and am also hopeful for a trade. Though it may be bottom heavy, the rotation could easily get crowded as well with one or two good moves. I guess I thought May would likely end up being a swing man type this year pending his recovery and the state of the pitching staff. Even swing men might have a hard time finding a gig on this team this year though.
  18. nicksaviking
    I hadn't done the math, not much room for the young guys. Everyone else seems to like vets so I guess I'm OK rolling with them for now but most of the velocity will be in Rochester or DFA'd from the looks of it. And it looks like there are going to be some painful casualties. I'm going to be more than disappointed if this team lost a guy like May. Hopefully all this depth just means the vets have little to no leash.
  19. nicksaviking
    Seems like a trade of multiple 40-man players might be good idea. I'd still like to try to grab Danny Duffy to be the rotation's lefty.
  20. nicksaviking
    Lewis and Javier are 18-19 and in the lower minor leagues. What are the odds the both pan out? 15-20% max?
  21. nicksaviking
    Vince Coleman was a base-stealer in an era when that was a much bigger deal, he wasn't a stand out defensive stud. Also, Byron Buxton has already tied Vince Coleman's career HR total. Those two aren't the same kind of player. Coleman is probably a good comp for Billy Hamilton.
  22. nicksaviking
    TJ surgery seems to allow for a fairly quick recovery time for hitters comparatively to the pitchers. It didn't appear to impact Sano in anything other than his call-up date.
  23. nicksaviking
    Well the debate about his Top Ten List is due almost exclusively to the fact that he went quite a long way off course from all the national and local prospect takes.
  24. nicksaviking
    I don't know, I might take Omaha, Warren Buffet would have already closed this deal.
  25. nicksaviking
    I agree they should target more than one, but I'd rather have one good pitcher than two middling pitchers if it comes down to money. Two middling pitchers aren't what this club needs. If they can get the top free agent, they should do it. And if they have to go 5-6 years, so be it, I only care about years 1-4. They can get creative with him in the decline years. Stick him in the pen, trade him and eat nearly all of the salary. Heck, they can DFA him for all I care.
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