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  1. nicksaviking
    To me, it kind of sounds like the Twins are trying stop-gap measures to make him as serviceable as possible this summer. Perhaps there are plans for wholesale swing changes in the offseason. I can understand how they'd maybe change his feet now hoping at the very least it improves contact and cuts back some on the strikeouts but they may not want to go into any kind of large overhaul in-season.
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    I don't want to take away from the effort and hard work put in by the veteran leaders, but this has to be true. And I can see how guys who may not be graced with superior athletic abilities tend to be better leaders, simply because they DO have to work harder and they DO have to have more attention to fundamentals, and obviously those are the examples most teams want to present to the younger guys. But when it comes to the point that the leadership skills are buoying a career because the on field production isn't there, then you've become a coach with a mitt and I don't think a 25-man roster can support that.
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    I don't agree with needing veterans to be leaders, but I understand the thought. What I don't understand is why veteran leadership for this team is only coming from guys who have been dangerously close to being a DFA candidate from the moment they were signed. Surely there are some veteran leaders that would have been able to provide a better chance of on-field contributions.
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    Why do Hildenberger, Busentiz or any other pitcher have to prove reliable to before they release Breslow or Belisle? Both of them have proven to be unreliable. When your safety net is no better or even worse than what's on the weekly waiver wire, you don't really have much to lose.
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    I'd also pick Romero and then let him learn in the pen if like most other pitchers, he isn't quite ready for the big stage. But I have a hard time seeing any of these guys jumping Aaron Slegers in the pecking order. Slegers has been the team's prototypical college-drafted good soldier. Unspectacular and probably does not have the stuff to be a MLB starter, he still shows good command and is of a more traditional age and level of Twins call ups.
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    Not to mention that even though people seem to like him for his groundball tendencies, his GB% is actually at a career low in 2017. Relievers can go belly up without notice and without much reason. Still need them however.
  7. nicksaviking
    I always disagreed with Crash, I want my pitchers merciless and tyrannical. I'm cool with Mussolini on the mound.
  8. nicksaviking
    Melotakis makes so little sense, he seems to have some value. He seems like a legit fit for this bullpen right now. Any chance the Twins have a trade in place but needed to make the move now to get guys called up?
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    Just looking at scouting reports, Carlson certainly would have interested me. But with how our teams and fans cling to our local guys, I've actually started to go the other way on them. I'd rather the Twins get guys they can be completely objective about. There are always questions about whether there are off field benefits when decisions are made about local guys. Not that the team would necessarily act on ulterior motives.
  10. nicksaviking
    I meant to post here that I'm open to a Rosario replacement as soon as a clearly superior option presents itself, and to point out that Rosario falls to 17th if sorted by WAR on your list. But then I noticed a bit of a trend with those players; of those guys ahead of him, only Michael Conforto is younger. With the rest, there are a lot of guys in their late 20's and some into their 30's on that list and almost all of them toiled for a few years and were late bloomers, coming into their own at or after Rosario's age. Aaron Hicks, Marcell Ozuna, Aaron Alther, Cameron Maybin, Khris Davis, Adam Duvall, Michael Brantley, Melky Cabrera, Eduardo Nunez, Hernan Perez and Alex Gordon. It's like a who's-who of guys who were relatively well regarded prospects but took several years for it to click. Also, nearly every guy on that list is a negative defensively. There also isn't any real superstars in LF anymore.
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    I'll surely hope that Granite, Palka or someone else can provide an upgrade over Rosario at some point, perhaps even soon. But isn't the premise of Rosario and his leash about seeing improvement? His slash lines this year: April/March: .294/.366/.660 May: ..310/.500/.810 June: .344/.536/.880 Isn't he doing what we are asking for? I mean aside from the errant throw.
  12. nicksaviking
    I'd take Feliz, he's basically free. His velocity and most of his peripherals are the same. It looks to me like his biggest change is he's giving up more flyballs this year than he did with Pittsburgh, which obviously didn't translate well in homer friendly Miller Park. His flyball rate is still in line with what he was doing in Texas though. Since he's so inexpensive I'd gladly give him a shot and see if his issues were due to bad luck and his home park.
  13. nicksaviking
    Does anyone else feel kind of dirty accepting this win?
  14. nicksaviking
    Sano might have rifled one like that to Mauer a time or two.
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    25 or 6 to 4.
  16. nicksaviking
    I think you're mixing up their pitch count and their ERA.
  17. nicksaviking
    This analogy is completely unfair to professional dart throwers.
  18. nicksaviking
    Between bull riding and replays of poker tournaments, FSN does have leverage with their extrodinary content available to them!
  19. nicksaviking
    I was really close to congratulating HOC for departing from the format of the last two seasons which was basically just a long lead up to elections. It looked like that was going to be another drawn out election process once again but then it surprised me and got through it in just a couple of episodes followed by multiple historically rare constitutional explorations of what could happen in our government. It seemed interesting even if quite implausible. But then they took the implausibility to a new level with the last couple episodes. The reveal of the final scheme just made no damn sense. I watch OitNB with my wife because it's one of the few shows we watch together anymore. This season's premise is different which is good. Still, it falls victim just as so many shows before it of softening the edges of previously unlikable characters. Racists are now not racist, bratty rich girls are now not bratty, oblivious and dumb characters gain societal insight, violent characters are now cuddly teddy bears. It's OK to have characters the audience doesn't like or identify with, not everyone has to transform for the better.
  20. nicksaviking
    I'm much less of a fan of calling up the batters straight from AA, I'd like to see Gordon get some AAA pitching first; it hasn't worked out terrible well for the Twins when the batters have had no or minimal AAA experience. I think they need to continue to figure out how to adjust and react to the pitchers. I'm just fine calling pitchers up from AA though, particularly relievers. They are the causation to the batters reaction, the things they tend to have to work on like mechanics and control are completely independent of the batters they face.
  21. nicksaviking
    So the Kernals have clinched and the AS game is tomorrow, does that mean Palacios gets to head to Ft. Myers on Wednesday?
  22. nicksaviking
    I'm all for the evaluation, and I wanted Tonkin, Wheeler, Haley and Wimmers to get a(nother) shot. But you'd think that you'd work your way through the evaluation process with the guys with the lowest probability of being a future contributor only if your team is losing. You'd think you'd start out with the guys with the highest probability of contributing if the team is contending.
  23. nicksaviking
    If Rooker goes anywhere below Ft. Myers, it better be because the team has decided that he's going to be a player-coach. All reports indicate that his success this year was because he is studious, mature and self-propelling even above his skill level which is extremely high. The Twins had to get permission to re-draft Rooker. If I was him, I would have told the team, only if you agree to start me at Chattanooga.
  24. nicksaviking
    Gordon is hitting better in AA than Machado or Lindor did and by a wide margin. He's hitting better than those two did at any level in fact. He might also be looking at a call up right now if the team wasn't getting competent SS play from three capable players in Escobar, Polanco and Adrianza. I'm not saying Gordon or Lewis will be in their tier of shortstop, but it's far from a foregone conclusion that they won't. Also, of those guys, only Correa was a #1 pick. The odds of any #1 pick actually turning into an All-Star let alone a Super Star are low and always are.
  25. nicksaviking
    I agree that "we all" doesn't include me. It has nothing to do with my expectations for Lewis though, and everything to do with the fact that Nick Gordon is tearing it up and might be the best position player in AA right now. If that's what Lewis is in a few years, that seems pretty awesome to me. Nick Gordon might really surprise us with how high he finds himself on mid-season prospect rankings. He's hitting better than J.P. Crawford and Gleyber Torres ever have and he should be about two minutes away from joining them at the AAA level. And personally, I had never thought too highly of Gordon, even when drafted. He's starting to look like a find now
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