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  1. nicksaviking
    Seeing as batters are the reactionary part of the equation to the pitchers causation, I'm generally more in favor of tossing the pitchers into the pool to see if they can swim, but I'm not at all opposed to doing it with talented young hitters either. Buxton has had hiccups at every level before coming on strong. Last year's struggles seemed natural, and I would have put my money on him coming around somewhat last September had the team not put him on the bench for the playoff push.
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    They've given the starting gig to lesser talent and a safety net that consisted of names like Mastroianni, Schaffer and Presley the last three years. They're used to working crazy by now I'd say.
  3. nicksaviking
    Anything other than weight.
  4. nicksaviking
    Does Klaw think Fulmer will be a reliever due to his size? We know that's been a hang up of his in the past.
  5. nicksaviking
    Buxton has a lower chance of not coming north than Arcia and Santana. And Buxton's odds are very, very high.
  6. nicksaviking
    I'm not worried about Nolasco pitching well. I'm not really worried about him bombing in fact, I'm worried he will be somewhere between OK and Not Awful and the team will be indecisive about replacing him with a young guy. That goes for Hughes as well.
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    I'm not sure of the physics, but some guys just aren't able to spin it right. If it was something you could teach someone, Matt Capps would probably still be in the league and Mike Pelfrey's 94 MPH FB would probably have gotten him a 9 figure deal by now.
  8. nicksaviking
    Tonkin might not be any good and he may need to be DFA'd, but I must not be on the same page as most people, because of all the bullpen woes last year, Tonkin didn't seem to be one of them. He got demoted twice last year, not after a string of rough outings, but both times after a single rough outing. He had no leash.
  9. nicksaviking
    And let's hope the proper course of action is blatantly obvious very early in the year and decision doesn't get dragged out.
  10. nicksaviking
    I think league wide we saw last year that the better physical attributes of young guys trumped the experience of the veterans. Just look at the All Star game, it was almost all made up of guys in their 20s, and if the Twins ranked their pitchers and hitters last year, their performances would line up pretty nearly inverse to their ages. We live in such a technological age that coaches can instruct young players at all levels of the minors much easier. These guys have film, they have detailed scouting reports and they can still watch Tom Emanski videos if need be. Even though they aren't paid like it, minor leaguer's full-time job is baseball, they practice year-round now, it's not like how it used to be. The experience gap has surely been cut from what it was when Nuke LaLoosh got all of his advice from mound visits from Crash and sleeping with his baseball groupie girlfriend.
  11. nicksaviking
    I was also against the Liriano trade saying that it was silly considering that Escobar should be considered the 40th player on the 40 man, meaning he should be first to be DFA'd. And now he's turned into one of my favorites. In the first half of 2016 if he can hit anything close to what he did in the second half the last two years, he might become my favorite.
  12. nicksaviking
    No for me on Dozier. Off the books at 32 sounds exactly right to me.
  13. nicksaviking
    Hunter had a positive UZR and positive UZR/150. Every stat showed a huge improvement over 2014. The guy was 39, he didn't magically get more athletic, it was due to the environment. Even if Sano is not good, it's not going to hurt, he's replacing another poor defender, it's not like the team is significantly downgrading the defense from something that was elite last year.
  14. nicksaviking
    Everyone was making a huge deal about Torii Hunter manning RF this time last year. Every metric said he was among the worst, if not the worst outfielder in the game in 2014, yet he was just fine last year despite having next to no range. Jim Thome could play RF at Target Field relaxing in a lawn chair, it's the size of a Manhatten efficiency.
  15. nicksaviking
    I don't know if Plouffe was shopped or not, but I'd also bet that Ryan would have said Hicks wasn't shopped right up until the final signature was placed on his trade paperwork.
  16. nicksaviking
    Not that I agree with the same kind of move today, but we also shouldn't forget that to replace Morris in 1992, McPhail traded two of his top prospects, Midre Cummings and Denny Neagle for one season of one of the NL's best pitchers the previous year, John Smiley.
  17. nicksaviking
    I'm also not interested in Thornton. His peripheral numbers show he was not nearly as good as his counting stats would suggest. If he can't miss bats anymore, he's not worth it. I don't like that Burdi is tinkering already. He's a fireballing reliever, those guys usually only need two pitches. He was pitching well the second half of last year. After his initial demotion he was giving up 5.4 H/9 the rest of the year, his main problem was free passes, I can't see how adding a new pitch would help with that. Why tinker unless what you're doing isn't working?
  18. nicksaviking
    They both were included in that trade, I regretfully left out Hardy like a mis-treated step child on a family tree.
  19. nicksaviking
    Lot's of fans said they should. Obviously the team didn't want to but that decision wasn't based on long term winning, it was based on putting fans in the seats at all costs. And it still failed.
  20. nicksaviking
    Those flyers aren't so much of a crap shoot though because pitchers on 1-2 year deals are a lot easier to move than guys on 4-year deals. Signing guys like Buehrle wasn't going to put this team over the top. He's barely a step up over the Santana/Nolasco/Hughes kinds of deals. If the Twins were going to go from rock-bottom with no prospect help to contenders, they would have had to go with the big name free agents on mega contracts.
  21. nicksaviking
    I agree that Park was pretty redundant, but his contract is so cheap he's basically being paid like a bench player. He's a lotto ticket and I'm more than willing to gamble with that power upside. I don't like 3-4 year deals either, but if he's as bad as Nishioka, I have no doubt that the Twins would eat the remaining $6M and DFA'ing him after two years. It's not Twins-like, but it's not unheard of, and besides, it'll be a drop in the bucket compared to what they'll have already eaten having already gotten rid of Nolasco by that time.
  22. nicksaviking
    I think the argument really isn't "Is the Twins system broken" so much as it is "Is the Twins system obsolete". It might be, maybe not all of it though, maybe not most of it. After all, things are often cyclical and things that are old often times once again become new. The Astros and Cubs showed again last year that the homegrown method of drafting and acquiring young talent is a very practical way of winning. Again. That used to be in the Twins wheelhouse if it still isn't. Plenty of other areas of the system surely have updates that are long overdue though.
  23. nicksaviking
    Who? Aside from Mark Lowe who we've already discussed as a guy who was underrated, I don't see free agent pitchers in 2015-16 that had markedly better numbers than Stauffer last year. Stauffer had three starts in 2014, other than that he was largely one-inning relief pitcher. His peripherals in 2013-14 were better than Tyler Clippard and Joakim Soria in 2015 and were inline with Ryan Madson.
  24. nicksaviking
    But they don't know where the holes are. Everyone wanted the bullpen upgraded even though there are at least a half dozen young arms who might excel in that role. Or they might not. We don't know yet, I'm OK waiting to find out.
  25. nicksaviking
    You've been asking for bullpen upgrades all off season, how were Stauffer's 2013-14 numbers really much different than the guys you wanted this year? Stauffer wasn't any good last year, that happens all the time with free agent relievers, more so than any other position.
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