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Colabello will DH some, fill in for Morneau at first for a Morneau day off or a Morneau day at DH. He will also pinch hit. Escobar and Carroll are likely in the lineup now and that is good. He is not...

Hell yeah!!!!!

Well that was a strangely stupid decision by the Rays!

(thanks for pointing that out, so nevermind)

A problem with this is if they keep it at 130, isn't about 165 the "proper" percentage increase for next season? That's why I was hoping for 150ish, to get that closer to 200.

However, they DID do that with Delmon. And the rest is history . . .

I don't really feel like going game-by-game to see the nature of the Sano errors. I think it's a mix. I understand that he has the athleticism to play third. So do a lot of people.

Fort Myers double header today. Sano with one bomb in the first game and one in the first inning of the second game.

The Bollinger article mentions that limit as an expectation. He also mentions that he "could" start out slowly in AAA. Yes, he could have. And damn it, my crazy idea was to go very slow (he would be...

TP beat me to it. 130-140 innings. I was optimistic at 150.

I want to say it was Terry Ryan. I saw it somewhere on this site, I thought. I don't know if it was 130. I thought it might have been 140-150. And honestly, given how things are going, he absolutely...

I like the Pujols defensive 1B comp for Sano. Dear lord that would be nice.

About "skill" positions, see my second base analysis on my blog (I apparently need to advertise it). There are a lot of...

Gibson has 100 innings left max. Are they really just going to burn through them now as fast as they can in AAA?

I am not a fan of continuing to ruin Chris Parmelee, so I would send Arcia down for a bit.

By the way, Sano's defense at third is returning to form after an OK start. I would be in favor of a move to first base (I know that "wastes" his arm, but there is no hole in the OF by 2014).

With regard to promotions and whatnot, I get the sense that many people ignore the various contingencies in promoting players and just assume that X player is going to be a bit worse after a...

An absurdity. It's very clear what to do: Send Hicks and Arcia down. Promote Colabello and Richardson (figure out the 40-man issue easily). Give Hicks and Arcia the near max plate appearances in AAA...

Yeah, I was wondering about the Mauer move down to CDR. I mean, maybe doesn't mean anything other than the assessment of working with certain talent and that everyone is just getting a bump up next...

Well, I was wrong about Buxton vs. Gausman. But now that it happened last year, I seem to be more justified in finding A PITCHER instead of AN OUTFIELDER for this pick. The context is now different....

Just as an addendum because I don't want actually start a dumb thread of speculation and other bull****, but I have to wonder if the addition of both Terry and Dougie was not a short-term and...

I saw only those early innings and not the Pressly-Thielbar innings, nor the Gardy comments.

I am NOT one for calling for a job, but for the past month this guy has driven me crazy. Making...

On stuff and an address to B Richard (you have a cool as hell avatar so I am not going to be mean):

Colabello is in his prime RIGHT NOW. There's maybe a two-three year window of this production,...

An extra year of control for a potential MLB-record improvement over three weeks is ok. Hicks would bat leadoff for Rochester for three weeks and Arcia could bat third (with Herrmann batting second...

Boom. Exactly.

Here, here, Jim H. Good point. And besides, the Twins simply need big league-caliber pitchers right now anyway!

This is a decent post, though the "headcase" situations are different. Manaea was just a lazy student, there is nothing about his work as a baseball player since joining ISU to suggest that this is...