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These aren't maybe, maybe not questions. These are yes and yes. No doubt if Sano gets in better shape it would lengthen his career, ceteris parabis. And obviously no matter what he does he's going to be a big guy, but there's a difference between 290 and 250 lbs. Even if that keeps him a little quicker or more agile for a year so he can be a 3rd baseman through age 28 instead of age 26. I like Sano and I know he'll end up at 1B/DH, but no doubt he should be busting his butt every day to be at 3B because his value becomes a lot greater to the Twins.

They were gassed tonight. Thibs has gotta use his bench more this is ridiculous. There's no excuse's for him not using it enough. Taj Gibson played 39 minutes tonight and 40+ last night. Seriously TAJ GIBSON played over 80 minutes in the last two days. Our starters play way too much Thibs has gotta be smarter.

My thought would still be hope we sign Darvish and wait till the deadline. If we're contenders then ship out some of the farm for a starter or reliever. But if we can get Darvish then let's hope we get to July with a good record then go hunting for a good pitcher. I like this post tho. We have a lot of prospects that could be major leaguers some day and there's won't be room for all of em on our roster. Hope we contend this year and the prospects take another step then move some for a pitcher.

Yes exactly what I was thinking. Even as a starter to begin the year. One year deal would be a great fit. Say we get Darvish and we have Darvish, Santana, Berrios, Liriano, Gibson. Then we can start Mejia in AAA or in the pen. When Liriano struggles a little bit or Mejia lights up AAA move him to the pen.

Kanley, Duffy, Pressley, Busenitz, Rogers, Hildenberger, Rodney This our bullpen when we head Minnesota in late March? Little underwhelming for what everyone was saying they thought they would do. But if Kanley is OK, and guys like Curtis, Jay, Reed, Eades, Moya step up and just one can have the impact Hildy did it'll look a lot better. Also if Pineda joins the pen in September he could maybe be an impact arm. I really hope we're all in on Darvish though...

I'm obviously still assuming we'll sign/trade for another starter this offseason. If we can do that and acquire one reliever I think it's been a good offseason. If we get one of Archer, Stroman, or Cole for a reasonable trade or sign one of the top 4 starters and are able to get kintzler, Rodney, Cishek or a guy like that I'll be happy.

Just a thought I had for a long time. Worth the risk and I'm glad Twins did it!

Is this sixers team that much worse w/o covington? they're making the wolves look great defensively

I'd like to see us maybe get McGee assuming he is not too expensive. I like the three guys above too tho. Also would anyone take a risk on Pineda? Maybe he comes back this year and could help the pen at the end of the year then next year slides in as a starter. I see an injured Smyly got 2 years $10 mil with $6 mil in incentives. I wouldn't mind a similar deal for Pineda and we sign Rodney to a 1 year deal or another guy to a 2 year deal.

I have no idea the cost of it but if the Marlins are just giving away players it would be interesting for the Twins to make Kepler/Rosario available in a trade for a pitcher then use prospects to acquire Ozuna or Yelich. Not saying I would do it but in the right scenario if we had to give up one of those guys to acquire a top pitcher we could easily turn around and look into what they would cost us.

Great in-depth post here. I love the plan drawn out. As I was reading this I was thinking about how I am expecting the twins will add one pitcher but I am really hoping they're able to add two. One signing and one via trade w/o giving up pitching prospects. Then heading into the year if they have Santana, Berrios, Mejia, Gibson, Romero, Gonsalves, Jorge and two outsider players. Obviously I don't plan on the last three getting a lot of starts, but I feel confident if they need to make a few cuz someone is on the DL.

That's HUGE for this team. If only he woulda got it done tonight. But yes Tyus looks good. I was worried he wouldn't be a serviceable backup but I was way wrong he looks good. Defensively he plays really well for his size/athleticism

Real terrible loss. KAT playing as bad offensively as he did tonight doesn't help because of how bad he is defensively.

Richard (Rick) Pitino. Seems up his alley for some reason

How much would it costs us to get Nick Saban, Coach K, John Calipari, and Urban Meyer to help us recruit him??