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  1. 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.
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    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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
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    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.
  6. 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.
  7. nicksaviking
    Is this Giminez talk just speculation? Because I was really hoping to see if he'd finish with more IP than Colon.
  8. nicksaviking
    It will also give the player and the agent a lot of leverage to demand where they want to be. The elite HS kids would be demanding to go to their desired markets.
  9. nicksaviking
    I didn't realize that Steve Singleton was the Ft Myers bench coach. I assume that's the same Steve Singleton that played MiLB ball for the Twins last decade?
  10. nicksaviking
    With the long arms creating leverage it would seem like the tall pitchers would fall into the Randy Johnson/Alex Meyer high velocity but wild category, but then you have the Chris Youngs, Mark Hendricksons and Doug Fisters who seemingly defy physics and don't throw hard and do have good command. Slegers definately looks like the Chris Young type.
  11. nicksaviking
    I was and still would be interested if the Cardinals would listen on Michael Wacha. He had a poor year last year and his numbers mid-June also weren't pretty, but he's got good velocity and lots of pitches. He's also still young and controllable. ?(Un)fortunately? He's pitched much better the last month so he might be harder to buy low-ish on.
  12. nicksaviking
    I guess I'm in the minority, but with his record of poor strikeout ability, poor walk rate, poor velocity, an NL only starter going from the worst division in baseball to the AL, I'd actually trust Gibson and Santiago more. And I don't trust them at all. For what it's worth, I've always had an aversion to soft tossing lefties who don't miss bats, not just Garcia. I've also had a strong aversion to NL only starters for quite awhile now. Those wells have been poisoned for me.
  13. nicksaviking
    I suppose my disagreement is with the pitcher himself and not the actual move. They can make a move or two if they want, that's fine by me. It's just that to me Garcia looks like a guy who half the board will be screaming to DFA after a month and the other half will be screaming about losing Prospect X for nothing. If others think Garcia looks like an honest attempt at improving the club I understand why missing out on this trade is frustrating.
  14. nicksaviking
    But trading for Jaime Garcia isn't aggressive, he's not a very good pitcher. He would be more half measures; I'm so tired of these kinds of putzy moves which are more PR than substance. If they aren't going to make serious moves to contend this year, I don't want them to trade for a pig, put makeup on it and try to sell that as an honest to goodness attempt to win.
  15. nicksaviking
    Maybe, but it seemed to me this site has been deriding Santiago since his first start in a Twins uniform.
  16. nicksaviking
    Is a soft tosser with an increasing walk issue going to be average in the AL though? He looks like the kind of guy who will be a liability in short order. I don't have an issue losing Burdi, I just think the odds of this guy actually patching a hole are quite slim. Isn't this basically replacing Hector Santiago with a softer tossing Hector Santiago who's only pitched in the NL.
  17. nicksaviking
    After nearly every sports surgery in all of mankind's history, the team and player call the procedure "a success!!!". I'd guess sometimes they are exaggerating.
  18. nicksaviking
    He could be pitching hurt. What we learned after the Padres shady dealings last year, I believe any issues or discomforts a player mentions to the trainer must be added to his medical file.
  19. nicksaviking
    2nd tier sounds generous. He looks an awful lot like Hector Santiago to me.
  20. nicksaviking
    Sounds like I might be alone, but I'm not expecting a soft tossing career NL'er to do well in a mid season trade to the AL. Particularly one who is barely average when he's at his best and has a walk rate trending in the wrong direction.
  21. nicksaviking
    Twins agree to take on a salary dump is all, I hope. Please don't let the prospect be devisive.
  22. nicksaviking
    This won't be popular, but the Rays released Danny Farguhar, I'm intregued by him. He's had control issues that range from effectively wild to unusable but when he's on he misses a lot of bats and he's controllable until 2021. With the strikeout potential and controllability he looks like a great lotto ticket.
  23. nicksaviking
    To me it makes little sense to have guys drafted out of the SEC, ACC or other power conferences to ever go to rookie leagues except for a wood bat tune up, and even then I don't see the issue with adjusting to wood bats in A ball. I'd also bet lots of GMs feel the same. But most organizational players don't get demotions, they get released and I'd also guess that the rookie leagues are much more likely to be filled with players who appear certain to washout. Meaning there's rosters to fill in the rookie leagues and the higher up you go, the better players you have to cut loose. There probably are teams (maybe this one) that are conservative or hesitant or coddle guys or whatever way we like to describe it. But most teams still do it and we don't view all teams in these terms. So I'd guess it's systematic. Though I'm usually for trying something new.
  24. nicksaviking
    And the fact that a 2016 2nd round draft pick doesn't have "priority" in the Appy League really speaks volumes about how many exciting SS capable prospects there are in the system.
  25. nicksaviking
    I'm willing to compromise for the Kernels. Rooker goes to Ft. Myers, but CR gets a consolation prize in Lewis
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