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  1. nicksaviking
    Archer and Colome probably.
  2. nicksaviking
    I agree. One of the castoffs has to be pretty dang good though. I'm not thinking 3-4ish, more like 2-3ish. It'd have to be peak Sanchez or Hughes or Gibson hitting his long lost potential. I would be putting my money on Trevor May to most likely be the guy if he wasn't starting off the year in his current condition and likely way behind these guys in pecking order.
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    I've always been on the platform that 95% of the players are going to have to adjust to the MLB the hard way and you'll never be able to prep these guys at AAA enough to avoid it, so I'd like them to take their lumps early in the season (or in a season where taking lumps won't matter). I also think the adjustment for hitters and pitchers is completely different. The pitchers are the causation to the batters reaction. Therefore it's the batters that have to FIRST learn to adjust to the pitchers. Sometimes the batter does it in two pitches, sometimes it's two batters or two innings or two starts. However we see it an awful lot where a young pitcher comes up and he's rolling for two months, heck maybe his entire rookie year until the batters figure out the pitcher and make their adjustments. So it often isn't until that point where the pitcher actually has to learn to adjust to MLB hitting. Of course this speaks nothing of being able to throw strikes. You have to be able to get them over right away.
  4. nicksaviking
    So this quote: “It’s not a matter of not appreciating advancements in the game. It’s not that,” says Clark. “As it relates to a pitch clock or not a pitch clock, the guys - on its most fundamental basis – just don’t believe that a pace of game violation should potentially change ... the outcome of a game.” Yeah, I'm guessing the players don't want a pace of play violation to impact the outcome of the game. Isn't that the motivation being wielded to get these guys to pitch/bat faster?
  5. nicksaviking
    Oscar Meyer. And yes, I am suggesting it be a Weinermobilecart.
  6. nicksaviking
    I think I've seen that movie, the bet was one dollar. It'll all work out though. Chargois and LoMo are going to band together and stick it to Falvine with the help of Jamie Lee Curtis and the dean from Indiana Jones' university.
  7. nicksaviking
    I like the move a lot. One year deals with options are really nice. I would have preferred a RH bat but there's not a lot available and Morrison did hit lefties pretty well last year. The fact that he bought into and succeded with the new flyball/launch angle phrnomenon is very encouraging. We'll have to mark down 2018 as the year the Twins signed a guy to a low dollar/no commitment deal who hit 38 HR the prior year, and it was largely met with "Eh" from the league and the fan base.
  8. nicksaviking
    Both of Hughes' off speed pitches are emphatically his worst. He only picked up his change again last year after shelving it for half a decade to try to work in more off speed stuff. If he doesn't get his velocity back he's cooked, which is too bad.
  9. nicksaviking
    What year is it again?
  10. nicksaviking
    The Cape seems to be the showcase league for amateurs looking to put a mark on their draft forecast.
  11. nicksaviking
    That doesn't seem to be uncommon with 24-year-olds. I've been saying for a couple of years that hopefully he sees the light if he struggles, fails and finds that life isn't going to be quite as easy as it appeared with youthful eyes. I took awhile to learn that lesson, I'm guessing many other young folks have too. I was hoping this off season would be the year for him, but with the off field stuff and the injury, it may not be.
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    Moderator note: Let's keep this on topic. Leave out the prognosticating acumen of other posters and of ourselves.
  13. nicksaviking
    Right, but I was refuting that the current moves have anything to do with judging their "enlightenment". I'd think failure to get better pitchers more likely stems from tentativeness, frugality, an unfavorable destination for free agents or other reasons. I don't know that it has much to do with enlightenment:
  14. nicksaviking
    But it doesn't mean they were their top choices.
  15. nicksaviking
    Man, go get Archer too before the Rays sober up.
  16. nicksaviking
    Zero WAR is still better than -2 WAR. I'm just baffled how this conversation even started. Was the front office really brainstorming and thought, how about Anibal Sanchez? Let's give him a call!
  17. nicksaviking
    You mean Falvey, Levine and Jim Pohlad were fooling themselves. The fans optimism stemmed from repeated comments from all of them that they were trying to get Darvish.
  18. nicksaviking
    I know many don't agree, but I find this all very exciting. Back in the day I could have recited every member of the 3000 hit club, the 500 HR club and the 300 win club and rank them in order; I have always loved the history of baseball. But change isn't good or bad, it's just inevitable and I'm thrilled that the Twins are now emphatically and without reluctance jumping on board with the game's evolutions. The next step is to not just get on board but be pioneers of whatever is coming next. You don't have to like the team's on field moves to appreciate the behind the scenes progress this organization is seeing.
  19. nicksaviking
    I thought he was talking about Kyle Schwarber who can't play any position. Rooker's going to play RF or 1B, it's not like either are demanding positions. His ascension would/should have no relation to his defense.
  20. nicksaviking
    That #1 in the title of this thread looks a little crooked, it could almost be viewed as a #7. Want me to edit that for you Seth? Rooooookerrrrrr!!!!!!
  21. nicksaviking
    But if you get an actual #1 than that fixes the hole at the top and beefs up the bottom by pushing Santana/Berrios/Gibson/et al down. I don't know why finding a #5 for the short term would be a priority over finding a #1 for any length of time.
  22. nicksaviking
    I can predict that if the WC game is Chris Sale or Corey Kluber or Justin Verlander or Luis Severino vs Colin McHugh, that the Twins are once again going to find themselves as gigantic underdogs.
  23. nicksaviking
    I'd rather have a team that's capable of winning it all but could miss the post season than a team that will make the post season but isn't capable of winning it all. There's no rule that the Twins have to go into the playoffs as the plucky, try-hard underdogs. That chip-chair-and-a-chance bit is so damn old and those long odds have yet to pay out for the Twins. This organization has to stop this business of hoping for the best. They need to PLAN for the best. Don't rely on luck and good fortune, make it yourself by stacking the odds in your favor.
  24. nicksaviking
    But he doesn't make them better where they actually need to improve. The Twins already have middle of the rotation arms. Their deficiency is the top of the rotation. If they have a hole they need to fill at shortstop it's not going to get filled by signing a third baseman even if he makes the team better.
  25. nicksaviking
    He only got a minor league deal though and the Twins don't currently have a 3rd catcher. I'd think re-upping him would have been just fine even had he not swung Darvish in their favor. But possibly swinging Darvish in their favor would have definitely been a reason to do it.
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