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  1. nicksaviking
    I'm sure we'll never know much more. This is probably not all that big of a deal, but even if it was, the team would downplay it. Maybe Donaldson was upset that Arraez wasn't paying attention, or maybe he was upset that Arraez wasn't trying to steal signs for him. I'm ready for a new manager, but in this case it seems like Watkins was the right guy for the job anyway. Part of the reason he was hired was that he is bilingual. I'd guess this situation was likely implicitly listed as one of his job duties long ago.
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    Whatever it is, I hope it's nowhere near Minnesota's radar. This team can replace the manager without doing a complete 180. Meintkiewicz seems like going backwards to the Gardy/Ryan kind of team building.
  3. nicksaviking
    I'm glad the Twins are starting to bring up the prospects, and I'm thrilled for Barnes. However, I'm still twiddling my thumbs waiting for the guys who might miss a bunch of bats though. High contact pitchers and lots of sinkers don't really get my juices flowing too much.
  4. nicksaviking
    Right, but those pitchers are homegrown somewhere, just never in Minnesota for some reason. We need the homegrown top end starting pitchers. Not just because of the money, but because by the time they hit free agency, most of the top end starting pitchers have already peaked.
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    Baddoo would have been behind Kirilloff, Larnach, Rooker and Celestino. His last stop before injury and COVID was Ft. Myers; even Aaron Whitefiled was in AA prior to the shut down. There's next to no chance he'd be anywhere outside of Wichita right now if Detroit hadn't selected him. Call me crazy, but I'm happy for him.
  6. nicksaviking
    Nice quote! But I counted 34 HS players taken in rounds 3-10 and 51 taken on day 3. They may not have excited the Twins terribly much, but there were plenty available to draft, and you'd think most if not all of the guys taken prior to round 10 were signable. Surely many of the early drafted day 3 guys will be too. I kind of think with this being a crazy past year or so, the Twins likely just decided to do their scouting in the more accessible places. After the first two picks, the players chosen were almost exclusively from the big time programs and/or cities. The JUCO guy they picked in round 19 looks like the only one that would be considered "off the beaten path".
  7. nicksaviking
    Wow, and only one was a HS pitcher. Well, like the Twins, that's another club that is terrible at developing pitchers. Have to give them a hand for throwing everything at the wall to see what (if anything) will stick. Not that I wanted the Twins to do that.
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    I could be mistaken, but don't they usually send even the seasoned college arms to the Rookie Leagues? Seems like a couple of guys who were known for their command, like Cole Sands, were sent to A ball. I'm trying to recall others, but it would be nice to see some of these guys move up.
  9. nicksaviking
    Which is fine, but doesn't exactly lead to a quick call up. If anyone was hoping for a fast rising college arm to debut in a couple of years, that's probably not happening if they aren't going to pitch again until next summer. Though considering Ober was drafted in 2017 and he's the first pitcher the current front office drafted and got to the majors, I suppose hoping for a 2-3 year turn time was probably already unreasonable.
  10. nicksaviking
    That's certainly true, but other teams are doing one of two things that the Twins seem unable to do. They are either taking their Jorge Alcalas and improving their command, or they are finding guys who have ++velocity but still have enough command to be a good pitcher.
  11. nicksaviking
    Those pitchers are hard to find, but for some reason it's harder for the Twins; most other teams aren't year in and year out struggling with this. It seems pretty unlikely that there's no correlation between the fact that the Twins have only called up two usable starting pitchers in the last 15 years and the fact that the Twins also struggle to develop velocity.
  12. nicksaviking
    I might be missing the strategy, but I struggle to understand why you wouldn't grab that guy in round 11, maybe 12 if that's what a team intended to do.
  13. nicksaviking
    I'm kind of bummed they weren't saving some of their pool to try to grab another HS athlete.
  14. nicksaviking
    I couldn't disagree more. The other teams aren't lacking control just because they are throwing harder, the other teams have found a balance. This is a Twins problem, not a MLB problem. Missing bats is the most effective way to keep batters from reaching base and missing bats tends to rely on velocity and movement. If the Twins solely rely on movement because they don't have the velocity, they're tying one hand behind their back trying to prevent runs. I mean I get it, I remember baseball more fondly from when I grew up watching it in the 80's and early 90's when a 15.0 K% was just fine and dandy, but if the other 29 teams aren't going to play baseball games out of sentimental fondness, the Twins are going to find themselves losing a lot of games.
  15. nicksaviking
    We got any more wiggle room for another HS athlete or arm here in the top ten rounds? I know it's likely going to be all college players the rest of the way for the Twins, but I always like the HS wild cards.
  16. nicksaviking
    SEC, now we're talking!
  17. nicksaviking
    Yeah sorry, meant no offense. The new one here advertises good wages and everyone's excited for it. Just snarkily pointing out those guys didn't make it in professional baseball.
  18. nicksaviking
    Yeah, but not as a starter; I made that distinction on purpose. There are a couple other guys who found decent work in the bullpen. Brian Duensing was another.
  19. nicksaviking
    Hopefully he's not saying it to Tyler Jay, Alex Wimmers and Matt Bashore while they're loading boxes at an Amzon fulfillment center.
  20. nicksaviking
    This is probably somewhat accurate. But if so, it really makes me wonder here in 2021, if scouts in the stands is still actually a significant advantage to video review.
  21. nicksaviking
    OK, I'm calling it a wrap on my research. Rich Hill in 2002 and JA Happ in 2004 are the only Big Ten pitchers drafted this century who stayed as a starter and amassed more than 2 WAR.
  22. nicksaviking
    Ok, it was half a joke last time, (less than half) but two Big Ten pitchers? Seriously, I've been looking back, who is the last decent Big Ten pitcher to get drafted and stick as a starter? I'm back to 2006 in my search and haven't found anyone yet.
  23. nicksaviking
    The A's appeared to have an agreement with Kyler Murray. Maybe they do have something worked out, but Pittsburgh had about a four year window where they looked like they knew what they were doing and could build a sustainable small market team, like the Rays and A's. However, they've looked utterly lost and confused for most of the last half decade since that time and make mind boggling poor decisions. So I don't have a ton of faith they have a good handle on this situation.
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    I thought the only universal truth in baseball was never draft a Big 10 pitcher.
  25. nicksaviking
    No I want trades. I just want more of them. I don't typically hold the team's feet to the fire unless it's clear from the start it was a dumb idea (Seriously, Matt Capps?!? He can't strike out his grandma). I think the team can improve more with trades than free agents in fact. Except for the few folks around here who think the Twins might some day shop in the Harper/Machado aisle, the free agents affordable to the Twins, were almost certainly also affordable to the team that let them walk. In pretty much every case, these guys have multiple red flags. Make trades. Give up something that hurts enough to get another team to give you players who are good/controllable/fill a position of need. And make a habit of doing it. Our prospects aren't likely any more magical than other teams prospects and in need of being hoarded. And our vets aren't likely any more essential to team building than other teams vets.
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