Article: Hangout and Talk Twins, October 7, Episode 44

[Jeremy Nygaard]

On this week's Twins Hangouts, Jeremy and Seth were joined by Twins reliever AJ Achter and learned about his incredible journey from high school football star to Spartan to 46th round draft pick to the big leagues. The first half hour is a fun interview with the pitcher.

 

Then the duo discussed the Twins potential managers, the Arizona Fall League and much more.The talk will be mostly about the managerial search and the freshly-started Arizona Fall League. There might even be a special guest...

 

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[nater79a]

Other than Buxton, who piques your interest the most among the six other Twins at the AFL? Also, who has the most to gain?

[GoGonzoJournal]

Dave St. Peter said payroll won't go down significantly, but I just did a little exercise and if no moves are made except reasonable non-tenders and arbitration raises, payroll could fall to $75 million next year – $10 million lower than last year. That would place the Twins 29th in payroll behind the Rays. Tell me it's not going to happen. And if it doesn't, tell me Terry Ryan signed a competitive starter and didn't extend Hughes and Dozier after one good season. At least he waited until the end of the year. Suzuki only needed to play well for half the season.

[lightfoot789]

TheTwins seemed to have placed several players in the AFL who have experienced injuries during this past season.  Is that protocal for most teams in regards to their use of the AFL roster spots? 

[lightfoot789]

Would you trade away prospects for a big OF name (Kemp; Stanton; Crawford; etc;) or roll the dice with your potential future prospects at a lower cost?  Knowing they will be up in a year or two and cost nearly $20,000,000 less?

[lightfoot789]

As Kepler gets placed in the AFL again - Is there any way you see the Twins not putting him on the 40 man roster again this year?  Do AFL results matter? IYO

[Seth Stohs]

Thanks for the great questions everyone. That was a fun show for me. AJ Achter is such a good guy and did a wonderful job answering out questions for a full half-hour. I enjoyed it. Aside from my one long-winded question that was inaudible (and yet somehow AJ was able to interpret and actually answer the question I was asking), it went well.