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  1. nicksaviking
    Didn't Ryan say that he'll only make a trade if it's not forced? That doesn't sound like an aggressive trade stance. Also, your last sentence makes me think if the trade is say for Fernando Rodney, you're still going to champion Ryan as making a trade to satisfy his "promise".
  2. nicksaviking
    So who had Aaron Hicks improving his batting average by 80 points and his OBP by only 10?
  3. nicksaviking
    I think it was waived without us knowing when the front office let the bullpen lose a dozen games but didn't do anything to fix it.
  4. nicksaviking
    I think at this point it might be wiser to dangle Plouffe, Hunter, Perkins, the SS crew, Milone or any other starting pitchers.
  5. nicksaviking
    The Twins might have blown it. It's going to be hard to tell though as going to Toronto and hitting in that ballpark and among those sluggers is probably the next best thing to Coors Field. Heck, it might be better than Coors Field. I'll definately concede I was wrong though if his offense is passable and he can still play SS the last couple years of that contract.
  6. nicksaviking
    Yes, and the Twins aren't even to that point. The young Royals core players Perez, Cain, Hosmer, Goron, Butler and Moustakas all had more than a few months under their belts and their bullpen wasn't half the disaster the Twins is.
  7. nicksaviking
    I don't get the outrage though. Everyone keeps pointing to the Royals but the Royals didn't start trading the farm until they were ready to win. Does anyone seriously think the Twins are in that position yet? There will be superstars available at next year's deadline, and the deadline after that and after that. Perhaps some won't even have terrible contracts. If the Twins are actually a good and team worthy of contention at that time, then we can all join together in indignation when Ryan once again is too indecisive to act.
  8. nicksaviking
    He's not a good one now. His range factor is negative and that generally doesn't increase with age. If he's a SS in 2017 it's only because Toronto has nowhere else to put him, he's definately on the Hanley Rameriz train to Cornertown.
  9. nicksaviking
    I really doubt Tulowitzki will be a SS in 18-19, maybe not even 17.
  10. nicksaviking
    Offensively? I'm tempted to put them ahead of Suzuki at this time.
  11. nicksaviking
    If Arcia is going to be traded, do it in the off season, the destinations will be greater and you might get a similarly controllable young player at a position of need.
  12. nicksaviking
    But who gets replaced? Unless it's another lefty, O'Rourke is probably staying. May could get sent down, though that seems like a waste. Graham is staying unless they Braves suddenly get generous. To get a new lefty, Boyer has to be released. To get two it absolutely needs to be Fien. I also don't get the hesitation to use the unproven guys late in games. The proven guys are proving not to be able to handle it.
  13. nicksaviking
    I agree that at this point Duensing is the best of the three, but none of them should be in the 7th either. Low velocity and low strikeout pitchers shouldn't be used in any kind of situation other than mop up duty. A bullpen that has one guy with an inability to strikeout a batter should reconsider what they view as the necessary skill set for preventing late-inning runs and the Twins current three most trusted and used arms all have a K/9 under 5.3. It's beyond baffeling how that even happend, and I don't know how the front office could have let this go on for so long, it should have been addressed months ago.
  14. nicksaviking
    Of course the problem here is that the only BP guys on the active roster that can be sent down are May and O'Rourke, and they aren't actually a problem. Graham isn't a problem either, other than the way they use him, but the club's biggest issue with him is his lack of experience, which by now he probably has as much or more of than most of the arms they would call up from AAA. So we're back to the Boyer/Fein/Duensing issue, the guys who for some reason are at the same time the most trusted, and the biggest liabilities in the bullpen. Trades or callups won't be beneficial or perhaps even possible until at least one, and hopefully two, are removed from the situation all together. And I don't say that with any malice, I appreciate what each has done for this club in their time here. It's time though, cords need to be cut. If the Royals have the stones to cut ties with the much more accomplished Jason Frasor, the Twins should be able to do the same.
  15. nicksaviking
    He looks like a pretty solid player at this time, but even if they don't beleive in what they're saying, opposing GM's will still degrade his value due to his profile as a corner bat with little HR power. Kepler is a really weird profile though, his slugging is really helped by his strong triple numbers, which looks legit as he has had success with three baggers in the past. However he isn't exactly a speedster either, this is the first year he's stolen double digit bases. What are we looking at here? I wanted to say Christian Yelich upside but Yelich has more speed but worse strikeout numbers. You can't rightly say Wade Boggs without looking like an idiot. This repertoir just doesn't seem common in today's game.
  16. nicksaviking
    Yes, but then if we are using WAR when considering how helpful he is to the team we can't simply give him an N/A for the times he sits on the bench, we would need to be subtracting Santana's negative WAR from his total. It wouldn't take much of a decline from Tulowitzki for that number to become a Push.
  17. nicksaviking
    No, I just care that much less about defense than I do offense. Besides, Dozier wouldn't be half as helpless as you'd imply. Santana's UZR is -9.7 and the guy that's splitting the site in half, Troy Tulowitzky is at -7.7. Dozier is a better defensive 2B than Stephen Drew and Chris Owings who both player SS last year.
  18. nicksaviking
    Well of course. Those weren't high on my list of favorite things either. The funny thing is, the longer a player is in the league, the more endearing he becomes to me.
  19. nicksaviking
    I understand that side, and I know I am stereotyping a whole age group (me included) but if it's me, I'm making my judgments based on recent trends more so than current results. Only three of the All-Star starters were over 30 this year and these long term contracts have been going belly up since right about the time Kevin Brown got a mega-deal. His strikouts are up, his speed is gone and his range is follwing his speed rigtout the door. Without even considering park or league factors, he looks like he's one step away from becoming a corner player which this team does not need more of. This game is for youngsters now. Aging sucks, but it sucks most for pitchers and shortstops.
  20. nicksaviking
    2015 was not supposed to be a winning season. The long term game plan should not be scrapped chasing something that logic says is still quite unlikely. The experienced veterans aren't talented enough to win it all and the talented rookies aren't experienced enough to win it all. I can handle coming up short again this year. I can't handle coming up short again this year AND losing top prospects AND getting tied down with more albatross contracts. Go ahead and get some rental players or trade some of the prospects for young, controlable long term players even if the trade doesn't quite look fair in the Twins favor. Just no more expensive vets please.
  21. nicksaviking
    Tulo was a Hall of Fame player. Rarely do even Hall of Famers put up numbers in their 30's that would be worthy of consideration, they build their resume based on the work in their 20's and coast in should they be fortunate enough to remain healthy and productive to play into their mid-to-late 30's.
  22. nicksaviking
    This just feels like a mom shopping with her young kid. No you can't have a Tulowitzki. You just begged me to buy you a Nolasco and a Santana and I told you that you wouldn't like them. Now you never want to play with them. Money doesn't grow on trees.
  23. nicksaviking
    Should have been in the second. Or he just should have recused himself as soon as he saw who was behind the plate.
  24. nicksaviking
    I think we're out of luck with West. He's such a diva he has surely planned his on field death for a high profile Yankee/Red Sox playoff game.
  25. nicksaviking
    So what your saying is that you hope it happens tonight on camera, just so his last moments could be document and celebrated throughout history.
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