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  1. As far as I know they haven't made any trades. I wouldn't expect a ton in season. As far as the pitchers they add on minor league deals, every club does that. I was never expecting that method of acquiring players to be a big part of putting a team together. Like I said, I'll give them the year to evaluate; come snowfall they better be making the trades and free agent signings needed to put together a contender.
  2. It hasn't but I understand why his track record is appealing to others. I admitted I've been wrong predicting his demise every year but I still don't care much for crafty lefties; not just him.
  3. Ha, it is really difficult to determine if this is a tongue-in-cheek pot-shot at the Twins or not.
  4. As far as the AAA scouting skills, is there someone you're referring to? Or do you just mean the Breslow/Rucinsky/Tepesch/Wilk stuff? Yeah, none of that was impressive. I'm not sure it was supposed to be though; I sure hope not. I always said I'll give them the first year free to evaluate. After that I'm going to expect to be wowed by their moves because I'm not settling for half measures made to desperately try for a .500 record and one-and-done playoff appearances.
  5. I wasn't a fan of Quintana last year either when his name was mentioned as a trade target for teams. I've never been a believer. Perhaps it was always the fact that he was a scrap heap pick up who had been DFA'd by two different teams despite the fact that the teams had never even needed to use an option on him. These kind of guys always seemed to be a flash in the pan who's bubble soon burst. I always thought he was a smoke-and-mirrors lefty though I'll readily admit that for the previous five years my lack of faith was in no way supported by his results. He clearly proved me wrong every year. But he's still a 2 1/2 pitch pitcher with sudden control issues. I'll never trust him. I don't know what's up with him this year, but I'd guess the sudden loss of curve in his curveball isn't helping: http://www.brooksbaseball.net/velo.php?player=500779&b_hand=-1&gFilt=&pFilt=FA|SI|FC|CU|SL|CS|KN|CH|FS|SB&time=year&minmax=ci&var=pfx_z&s_type=2&startDate=03/30/2007&endDate=07/12/2017
  6. I'd like to think the new front office has their teams looking for the undervalued guys. I'd rather look for the upside guys you can buy low on. Get our own Arrieta, or Straily or Scherzer (2009) or Kulber or Robbie Ray. Except for the elite arms, trading for good-not-great pitchers rarely seems to payoff for the buyers. I don't think many of these guys available are elite.
  7. Perhaps, but as we saw with the Dozier situation last winter, demand is more important. It'll probably always be relatively high for pitchers though I concede.
  8. He hasn't been nearly as good this year and he's all of a sudden developed an issue with walks when his success has always been based almost exclusively on good control. Also, he's all but a two-pitch pitcher now as he rarely uses his change-up. I mean if you can get him based on the value of his numbers this year, sure, I'd be interested. I doubt the White Sox would trade him under that pretense though. Also there's the issue of helping the White Sox reload. Yuck.
  9. I agree, that's why I wouldn't bother with any of these mid-season asking prices and would wait until the off season when the selling teams have to also compete with free agents who cost zero prospects.
  10. Of the names bandied around, only Chris Archer really interests me. Nearly everyone else looks like injury or regression candidates. If this team is trading away top prospects, I'd rather they go big and get a guy who would be #1 with a bullet, not a Gray or Straily or Quintana who have big question marks. So I'd wait until the off season because I doubt there's an package the Rays would accept for Archer that didn't either include Sano or Berrios.
  11. Interesting they are calling it Stranger Things 2. Like it's a sequel, not a new season. Until recently, sequels have historically been panned and the 1980's might have been the worst offender when it comes to terrible sequels due to all the bad slasher films. I wonder if they are intentionally playing up that angle to set and then (hopefully) break expectations. The first season wasn't really self-aware though, so I hope the second doesn't come off like it is.
  12. I love Buxton's speed but Glynn's read was fantastic, and he's had quite a few unorthodox reads this year. He's a fantastic 3rd base coach. Being comfortable with the unconventional makes me think he could be a good MLB manager. Somewhere.
  13. I'd rather buy them in the off season if this team just cannot develop their own. Even the most expensive of relievers is still affordable to the Twins. Can't say that about the best starting pitchers or position players. Relievers are so combustible I'd not want to trade off top 5 organizational talent for a guy just as likely to bust as to contribute. I'm about as far away from trusting a pitcher coming from San Diego as I am from trusting one straight out of Junior College.
  14. Camera work at Kaufman is sometimes like watching an old VHS. Really, there was no better angle or zoom function to check the Dozier foul ball? At least they fixed the outfield camera that would get drenched by the waterfall every time there was a gust of wind.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. I always disagreed with Crash, I want my pitchers merciless and tyrannical. I'm cool with Mussolini on the mound.
  22. 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?
  23. 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.
  24. 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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