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  1. nicksaviking
    The Twins have had some rotten luck over the years come the trade deadline as they never seem to have anyone who is peaking, but they need to start getting the right kind of players if they want to start flipping them. Dozier's production has come during a 2B Renaissance, nearly every team has a pretty good one. Kintzler was a fantastic pick up, but he had little value for the same reason most of us derided the team for giving him the closer role in the first place, he can't miss bats. We've known for a decade now that other teams value that ability more than our club does. To me it didn't seem like Twinsnation even embraced this guy until about June, getting next to nothing for him would have sounded accurate last fall, even this spring. Unfortunately, for a year Santana's warts didn't impact his production, they only started hurting his performances about a month before the trade deadline. However, unlike a decade ago, the other teams do evaluate the warts not just the production, so even had he not tripped up he still may not have brought back the return we hoped he would. Maybe he can find his leprechaun again in the second half and pitch over his head. Or even better, maybe he can start missing more bats and issuing fewer walks and actually improve his peripherals. He seemingly still has the velocity and command to do both should he get locked in.
  2. nicksaviking
    I would suspect a couple of those guys may be used to acquire better quality MLB pitchers. I'd also hope that Curtis and Reed are givens, but prior to his DFA, I would have guessed Melotakis was above them in the pecking order. Hard to read how the new guys feel about the minor league relievers.
  3. nicksaviking
    This front office made their bed in March. Everyone knew the rotation and bullpen in place weren't capable of making the playoffs and any reasonable mind could see there were too many holes to fix in season to make them worthy. And that speaks nothing of a lineup that can't adjust when the other team's bullpen enters the game. This was always a trial and error evaluation year. Glass half full: the Twins made it fun to watch for four months. Glass half empty: they teased us with unsustainable hope for four months. Frankly, if they start calling up some of the young pitchers, I'm going to enjoy watching even if they get their clocks cleaned.
  4. nicksaviking
    We're really not going to be able to do the comp thing with the Gray/Yankee deal because we have no idea how either team values injured players with high ceilings. That's surely not something measurable like statistics or comparable like position.
  5. nicksaviking
    Watson? Or the odds of Kintzler's return? Better than zero for both.
  6. nicksaviking
    Nice call Van. As long as it's Washington's 20-year-old and not Seattle's 24-year-old.
  7. nicksaviking
    I think it would be hard to extend him. He and his agent are probably going to be looking at his numbers while the Twins brass would be looking at the glut of middle infielders not only in the league but in the system. I would think on the open market, Dozier would probably be vastly underpaid based on his production, I'd hate for the Twins to have to more than market value to keep one of their own. A reverse hometown discount?
  8. nicksaviking
    OK, there are just way too many Tyler Watson's in the minors right now. I vote the younger guy has to change his name to Bubba to stop the confusion.
  9. nicksaviking
    I like both players, but I think Kepler has the easier corner spot at Target Field. 39-year-old Torii Hunter went from being the worst corner outfielder in the game with Detroit to above average at TF.
  10. nicksaviking
    Starting to look like I'll have to walk back from this one. It's probably going to be hard to trade Santana if Gray and Darvish are going to go down to the wire. Damn A's, just make a deal already! I wonder if it's possible that Santana can be moved in August.
  11. nicksaviking
    Geez, what a tough problem to have. I'd like the Twins to be in that position soon. Of the Astros starters all but McCullers and Musgrove were of the "Hey, look at what I found here!" variety. There's definitely a knack to finding diamonds in the rough, or at the very least seeing their flaws and turning them into diamonds. I have to think there's a way to quantify and identify.
  12. nicksaviking
    I agree, partly because most teams are willing to give up those types of players which are so far away, and partly because the front office probably is already going to have their hands full with 40-man decisions next year.
  13. nicksaviking
    I bet Santana gets moved but for a return most folks here are underwhelmed by. The front office surely sees his peripheral stats indicate he's much closer to being a liability than he is a front of the rotation guy. If he pitches to his stats the 2nd half, this is likely the last chance to deal him.
  14. nicksaviking
    Good, both could pass through waivers and perhaps moved prior to September.
  15. nicksaviking
    At the very least he's at the Swarzak, Duensing, Manship threshold where the time has come to toss him into the fire to see what he's got.
  16. nicksaviking
    I like the players this team is getting but they are starting to take on quite a few 2018 40-man responsibilities. With the ensuing trades ( if there are any) I hope they consider "sweetening" the offer with guys like Vargas, Park or Vielma.
  17. nicksaviking
    Litell looks like Tyler Duffey with a change up.
  18. nicksaviking
    Littell's 11th round draft selection should be of note as well. Since the bonus pools are all based on the first 10 rounds, the 11th round pick is very often the HS kid with signability concerns meaning he almost certainly was much more highly regarded as a draft pick than his round would suggest.
  19. nicksaviking
    I disagree as no one has asked to make this strategy continuous, only when you have a bad team.
  20. nicksaviking
    But that's not the point of a tear down. You don't hold on to veterans who have just had a career year, you move them to restock the system. No one has to agree with a rebuild, but to do so entails trading vets at their peak.
  21. nicksaviking
    For what it's worth, if the Twins do sell I really don't think it will have a huge impact on the W/L record. Heck, it's possible the young guys will loosen up feeling less pressure to win now.
  22. nicksaviking
    Lots of people are excited to flip vets for prospects; I too am quite curious as to who may go and who may come. However I hope everyone can recognize that it pains other folks to throw in the towel on the 2017 season regardless of how one sees the Twins odds at this point. It might be helpful if we treat whatever transpires more like a glass-half-full situation and not like a gigantic celebration. Just throwing it out there as the trade deadline is dividing us a bit even though the big picture is the same for us all: World Series trophies.
  23. nicksaviking
    He's a lefty with four good pitches, I'd guess the only reason he hasn't been given another shot at starting since Rookie League is because of his size. I wonder if the Twins will consider this. Not that I don't love his numbers as a reliever. I like this guy already. Also if memory serves, the trade of Chris Herrmann for Daniel Palka originally had us a bit perplexed because we didn't the Murphy/Hicks deal hadn't been publicly disclosed. The time the trade for Recker was perplexing because this one hadn't been leaked.
  24. nicksaviking
    Or that what Molitor's lineup card said was different than what he was telling the umpire. Or that Molitor didn't understand that his lineup card was marked wrong. The umpire could have blown it, we don't really know what happened. But it seems like a huge coincidence that a screwup of this magnitude occurred with an AL team. Not that this is something that I'd put any weight on when deciding Molitor's future, I don't care about an honest mistake. It happens.
  25. nicksaviking
    When a double switch screw up happens in the uncommon instance of an AL manager playing by NL rules, and the AL manager was a player who never played in the NL, it's a struggle to think it was the umpires fault.
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