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  1. nicksaviking
    Maybe the Twins don't see him as fatigued, maybe they see him with the same energy but he had a couple of bad outings and the team wants to see if they can wrap up his season with a better taste in his mouth. Do we have any velocity readings? From during his peak performances and during the two recent outings? I'd think his velocity would give us a better clue as to his current fatigue level.
  2. nicksaviking
    ***Moderator Note*** Let's discuss the minor leaguers without making it personal by rubbing previously stated positions in other's faces.
  3. nicksaviking
    I thought we did. Who un-banned him?
  4. nicksaviking
    Speak for yourself, I'm money in those situations.
  5. nicksaviking
    Nope spoke just in time. The ol' reverse psychology bit.
  6. nicksaviking
    Get the kids to bed and this is what I come downstairs to? I need to start letting my kids stay up later. Bed time is bad luck.
  7. nicksaviking
    Why was Stewart promoted? Poor stats aside, if Heston and Pino are now rejoining the rotation along with Gonsalves, Hurlbert and Melville who's the odd man out? Or are they going with six the rest of the way? Even if they do go with six, Slegers is the 26th man on the MLB roster so I'd assume he'd be rejoining the Rochester rotation immediately (until September).
  8. nicksaviking
    So if the team ever gets behind they should just waive the white flag and quit? Game over, no need to continue?
  9. nicksaviking
    When you do the good news/bad news bit, always go with the bad news first so we end up with the sweet taste of triumph at the end!
  10. nicksaviking
    He'll point them out to you, but be cool dude, don't be that creepy old guy at the party.
  11. nicksaviking
    I agree with drjim as I too have always considered the "high minors" as AA and AAA. I disagree with drjim that he won't get out of Ft Myers. Opening Day SS 2018 baby!
  12. nicksaviking
    I don't know how you couldn't be the #1 prospect in the game if your floor is Tom Goodwin and your ceiling is Rickey Henderson with a mean of Lopes/Knoblauch.
  13. nicksaviking
    And I don't know that there's anyone pitching over their head right now. Pressly and Belisle are pitching like they did last year finally. Weren't we all just hoping that guys like Duffey, Rogers, Hildenberger and Busenitz could be serviceable rotation pieces? Aside from an early-season stretch by Duffey and a mid-season stretch by Rogers, I don't know that any of them have really been lights out, just simply average to above average. I also like that almost all of these guys have options, if someone does go into a funk, you can easily dip down and give someone else a chance. You don't have to roster-or-lose-em like they did Breslow and Haley.
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    This isn't going to be popular, but is it possible that the bullpen might be better without Kintzler? Even if it's only because Molitor is using his bullpen in better ways? With Kintzler gone there's room for Gee, who is probably the long man this team desperately needed. Pressly and maybe even Duffey can go back to being one inning or even being one batter pitchers if that's whats needed and Molitor is forced to use a young guy like Hildenberger more. Now Belisle slides into Kintzler's 9th inning role, almost always starting a clean inning where there's rarely anyone on base. I never previously would have thought I'd say this, but perhaps the closer is the least necessary arm to strike guys out. Now Belisle and his high contact repertoire is unavailable for the spots when there ARE runners on base, something that his poor 62.5% LOB% suggests he should not be doing but Molitor did anyway.
  15. nicksaviking
    Seems to me perhaps the best predictor of MLB success is if a guy in the minors can avoid strikeouts and draw some walks. Though obviously there's not a hard and fast rule about taking good at bats in the minors, these are the types of players I tend to worry about the least. I'd certainly be disappointed if he didn't get another shot to redeem himself next year particularly considering even in this down year, he's somehow improved both his BB% and K% by a significant margin.
  16. nicksaviking
    They can and have won with inferior players at those positions. But would winning be easier if those two were replaced by cheap young players and their earmarked dollars were reallocated to drastically improve the pitching staff?
  17. nicksaviking
    Why do teams use innings to measure a pitchers workload when individual games are measured in pitches? It goes without saying that all innings are not equal. They do not create the same amount of stress on a pitcher, physical or mental.
  18. nicksaviking
    What do you mean negatively affect his market, that sounds positive to me! Oh, from Santana's perspective, yeah sucks for him.
  19. nicksaviking
    I like the thought, and I like the defense, but I don't think I like the player. He has a career .303 OBP which is only slightly better than his .305 this year in his career year. I'd think he's going to get paid really well for a guy who is really bad at getting on base.
  20. nicksaviking
    I'm going to predict that Falvey will try to sign Carlos Santana to play DH next year. He's a former player of Falvey's, has the veteran leadership the front office craves and takes professional at bats. It's hard to slump when you take 90+ walks each year.
  21. nicksaviking
    I heard Rome's team stinks. I hope the goal is CLE/CHI/LAD.
  22. nicksaviking
    Chief has no magic powers except to make disappear those who derail threads
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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