Article: GM for a Deadline

[Rosterman]

I someone is willing to trade for Rsario (who probably did have worth in the off-season), they might be more mad that they missed out on grabbing Grossman this season.

 

The next big question: Maybe the Twins need to move their strength in centerfield. Like Buxton? What could he bring? And would we be comfortable with Grossman, of Kepler, or even the future Zach Granite out there?

 

I really don't want to give up on Buxton...and am just amazed at the folks we have sent away: Span, Revere, Gomez, Hicks. Plus what they have really done, so you never really know the potential of a player until they do play it out!

[Bark's Lounge]

I'd be reluctant to trade Rosario. The OBP was sad last year, but he had a nice rookie year. I believe there is some legitimacy with the "sophomore slump" concept.

 

An OBP under .300 is unacceptable, and he will never be a guy that walks a lot, but if he can raise his average into the upper 2 hundreds and can provide power from the three extra-base categories, and coax 30-40 BB's - I am super "curse word" solid with him.

 

I will not give up on Rosario until Brunansky is replaced and Eddie falls flat on his face. I don't think Bruno is a good hitting coach. From my perspective, he has had direct success with Dozier on his approach, and he is good at times, and on a simple stat page his results look okay, that page does not show his prolonged slumps that last half a season or more.

 

I think it is reasonable to require coaching dismissals and bringing in new blood from fresh modern day baseball minded coaching staffs, before we give up on an athletic, multi-talented baseball player.

 

A lot of very, very, very good/great baseball players in the history of this game had a good rookie year, sucked the second, and in the third went of to have a fantastic career.

 

We live in a world of instant gratification these days, it's not gonna happen on the ball field, the players are human beings, not the internet. We can find any information we want with a few clicks on a keyboard or phone, a ball player's development is a crapshoot and they would benefit from having competent teachers surrounding them.

 

Eddie has roughly a year+ service time in the bigs, as fans let's show some more patience before we piss him away.

[AZTwin]

If trade Kurt Suzuki to Dodgers for RHP Chase de Jong, RHP Jacob rhame, and C Keibert Ruiz