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  1. nicksaviking
    I don't know that Santana's shoulder slowly gave out though. He missed 2011 but in 2012 he had an excellent 2.38 ERA and he was back to striking out over a batter an inning until the Mets let him throw 134 pitches to get that No Hitter on June 1st. That was 25% more pitches than he'd thrown any other time since his initial surgery. It was all downhill after that game. Forty-five ER in his final 49 innings, an 8.27 ERA. Fourty-nine innings seems like a pretty abrupt end to me and it's hard to believe the 134 pitch outing wasn't the primary culprit considering he was back to elite form prior to that start; he looked like he had a lot left in the tank.
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    Having kids is the best. Getting to watch A Charlie Brown Christmas with the family is one of the best things ever. One of the top ten greatest individual TV episodes of all time.
  3. nicksaviking
    Santana and his age and peripherals would be closer to John Lackey on the free agent market than to Cobb and Lynn, neither of whom I want. This team needs to remove high contact arms, not add them.
  4. nicksaviking
    Yup, the Twins need to stop being the team holding the bag on these guys when they go bust. If The Twins signed two superior pitchers and Santana was the #4, I really wouldn't care either way if he's traded. But this team should not be going into 2018 with both title hopes and a blind eye to what has happened to every other veteran starting pitcher this team has acquired.
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    Santana gave up 31 HR last year, and fortunately 20 of them were solo shots. Of the 11 HR he gave up with runners on, 7 of them occurred in the nine games between June 3 and July 21, the stretch where Santana was absolutely brutal and his early season glow had worn off. He gave up tons of HR all through the season last year but got by early and late because his HR were almost exclusively solo. I'm in the minority, but yeah, I do think Santana falls apart next year. He somehow had his best H/9 and WHIP season at the age of 34 so he kept guys off the bases when he gave up the bombs, but his HR totals skyrocketed and his strikeout rate is failing to keep up with the increasing league trends. If he was a free agent with no ties to the Twins we'd all be looking at his peripheral numbers and nobody would want to trust him on a multi year deal.
  6. nicksaviking
    He'll need the narrative to change. Maybe he'll get in once everyone takes a look at his game logs and starts talking about how his career was effectively over after the Mets let him throw 134 pitches so the team could get it's first ever no-hitter. If he's a league-wide sympathetic figure who's downfall was due to the Mets callousness, he might get in. And it's not like the Mets reputation with pitchers won't help the cause, they are well positioned to play the villain, fair or not.
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    It would be more about having his type of players as opposed to Kill/Claeys' types of players. Either you have to field a team of mostly underclassmen that you recruited, or you have to field a team of recruits that don't necessarily posses the skill set and body types you are looking for.
  8. nicksaviking
    I think Rooker deserves all Top 5 spots. My list goes: 1: Brent Rooker 2: Brent Rooker 3: Brent Rooker 4: Brent Rooker 5: Brent Rooker 6: Nick Gordon 7: Brent Rooker
  9. nicksaviking
    Right but last year everyone knew their record had over-performed their true talent based almost solely on an incredibly easy schedule. Add to that that they were having a QB competition between two guys who couldn't beat out one of the most maligned QBs in program history the last several years and I don't see how anyone could have had reasonably optimistic expectations this year.
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    My brother-in-law is a Big 10 official and was assigned to do some late summer Gopher practices. He said at the time that this team looked to have as little talent as it's ever had and it wouldn't surprise him if the team went winless in the conference. I don't know, I don't follow the Gophers like I used to, was this collapse that unexpected considering how bad the offense was expected to be from the onset?
  11. nicksaviking
    Kyle Gibson wasn't getting results because he was pitching like a sinkerball pitcher, however upon his recall in the second half this year he was a pitcher who just so happened to be able to throw a sinker but was missing bats and getting outs with his superior breaking pitches. I would think that if the Twins thought that success was repeatable with Stewart that they would have protected him. So I wonder if at this time they feel he is either incapable or unwilling. To me Stewart looks like one of those top prospects who's going to need to experience a strong dose of failure and a willingness to make changes if he has a shot at reaching his potential; that might not be in the cards as long as he stays with the same team.
  12. nicksaviking
    In Boshers' case it's probably nothing other than a dearth of LH relievers ready to contribute at the MLB level. Also, with four spots available, it's probably not fair to blame anybody who kept their jobs for costing the team any of the younger guys the team exposed. The team had room to do both but for reasons they'll probably never detail, they didn't.
  13. nicksaviking
    It seems Twins did most of their DFA'ing a week or so ago, looks like most teams waited until today. Perhaps the Twins have kept their multiple 40-man spots to target some of these guys they knew or hoped would become available. Anyone see any interesting arms let go today?
  14. nicksaviking
    I'd hate to lose those guys but I figured with Burdi's injury and Reed's decreased strikeouts and increased walks last year, both looked iffy to stick. Worth a selection in the draft though.
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    But unless they are signed really early in the off season, usually when teams sign free agents prior to the draft the simply hold off on finalizing the deals until after.
  16. nicksaviking
    Is it strange that even with the big(ger) named gues made available, Luke Bard is the one I'd most bet on being chosen?
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    Well I mostly just wanted an excuse to name drop Bradley who's near the top of my xmas list.
  18. nicksaviking
    I'd think that if you're thinking about trading away some top prospects you'd start by getting a feel for your most ideal targets first. I'd have to think top end starters would be the first place the team would want to use their equity. I'd be more interested in using surely some of the same required pieces to get Chris Archer. I'd be willing to do something painful to get him. And if on the off chance the Twins WERE thinking about turning Iglesias back into a starter, I'd hit up the Dbacks about Archie Bradley first.
  19. nicksaviking
    I watched two episodes last night. It's well made but two episodes in and I still can't even tell what genre this is supposed to be; it simply is playing like a grounded period piece, but there's no way that's how it ends up. I can tell there are big twists a-coming but so far the story is so straightforward it's hard to picture how the writers will make any atmosphere change feel organic. I might have been spoiled by Mindhunter though. That was a really smart show. I love a show that lays out every character as a stereotype or trope but then goes about quickly breaking some while pinning down others.
  20. nicksaviking
    Well I'm OK crossing my fingers that Berrios continues to develop into a better pitcher than Santana. Otherwise, yeah, I want two better than Santana. They don't have to be signed though, I'm fine with trades. Also, I don't care if they were better than Santana last year, I care about next year and the year after. I'll be OK if the front office gets young guys they believe in who have yet to peak, even while the fan base struggles to look past what said hypothetical pitcher did last year. And so we're clear, Santana had a 4.77 xFIP and a 2.9 fWAR. Despite his smoke and mirrors first two months, I don't think Santana was all that fantastic, and that's not even taking into account almost certain regression from a 35-year-old pitcher. I know others will disagree, but I don't think the bar is set all that high.
  21. nicksaviking
    I'm not OK with a rotation that can't keep up with Cleveland and Houston come October. It's not good enough now, not even close. Ervin Santana would be the 4th starter on both of those teams.
  22. nicksaviking
    I don't know that I'm ready to commit Kepler to being a platoon player going forward, but perhaps if he's still really tanking against lefties by June and the team is winning you've got to adjust the game plan. I'd probably be more favorable about this plan if the team wasn't signing a 4th OF but instead signing a regular DH who could also play OF and hit lefties. Maybe a guy like Melky Cabrera?
  23. nicksaviking
    The subjectivity and grey area that is determining an individual's personality seems like a good reason to put nearly all the emphasis on what the guy can do on the field instead of off of it. I'd rather use those leadership evaluations for the coaching staff.
  24. nicksaviking
    The guy's 39 though, I'm not putting any weight on what he did when he was 34. If he's a mid season waiver wire deal ala Colon, sure, I'm down for that. However Lackey isn't coming here on a non-guaranteed non-multimillion dollar deal; I don't know how a team that needs two top of the rotation arms could justify using a 25 man spot on him. I guess I'll add the caveat that if the Twins sign a Chatwood and trade for an Archer and Lackey's still sitting out there come February, sure, then go for it.
  25. nicksaviking
    Fine, Austin Jackson as the 4th OF and Tyler Chatwood as the #5 then. Why would anyone intentionally go out and sign a "5th starter" anyway? No team should be intentionally looking for a guy who profiles as a 5th starter, that's typically a pretty poor adjective for a guy and the spot that goes to the weakest performing member of the rotation by default. This team needs front of the rotation help. Signing Lackey is just going to mean there's 5-10M less to go toward getting the #1 and #2 that this team needs.
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