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Twins Hot Stove Mystery Solved by Columbo...or is it Coulombe

tvagle

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Dman Wichita Wind Surge

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I get the impression that any more pen adds will be along this line. I also sense that payroll will be down, I'm thinking under 120mil.

 

Yeah I think you are right.  They only have two 40 man spots left and they need a veteran starter of some kind whether bounce back or whatever and then they have to decide if they want a 1st or 3rd baseman with decent defensive skills.  The pen adds will be like this one.

 

The FO doesn't seem like they like to invest a lot of dollars on the pen and if spots are needed for the 40  man the pen guys are the first to be sacrificed.  I think they view the pen as their lowest priority IMO.  They have put together a decent pen via the farm system so it appears to be working OK.

 

In their defense if you look at it we have a lot of good prospects in the upper levels especially at the AA level with some pitchers that could be fast movers in High A as well.  If they want to move our own farm guys up they will need 40 man room later this year for maybe Kirilloff or Larnach or Rooker or maybe Colina who needs to be added next year anyway. 

 

Granted there are still guys that can come off the 40 man and if you can upgrade your roster you should but this FO will only do it if they perceive it be a value move.  I think they are looking at the farm to provide what they need once again.

Squirrel GOAT

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Since this is a minor league signing, this thread was moved to the Minor League forum. It also received a mention in Seth's 'Minor League Signings' thread. :)

tvagle FCL Twins

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Since this is a minor league signing, this thread was moved to the Minor League forum. It also received a mention in Seth's 'Minor League Signings' thread. :)

 

Thanks Squarol...I must have missed Seth's post through all the breaking news from One Twins Way ;)

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Don't know what he throws or how hard. I have looked at numbers but haven't taken time to look for a scouting report. As is often the case, he is a flier type that all teams look for.

 

However, he has had some success with Oakland the past few years and has had double digit SO per 9 IP in the minors several times.

bighat Cedar Rapids Kernels

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The Twins were busy getting this guy, meanwhile the Angels just signed Teheran.

 

Edit: and the White Sox grabbed Gio Gonzalez.

ashbury GOAT

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Thanks Squarol...I must have missed Seth's post through all the breaking news from One Twins Way ;)

I think you need an 'e' at the end to really make this work. :)

Thrylos St Paul Saints

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Don't know what he throws or how hard. I have looked at numbers but haven't taken time to look for a scouting report. As is often the case, he is a flier type that all teams look for.

However, he has had some success with Oakland the past few years and has had double digit SO per 9 IP in the minors several times.

Below average FB (88-91), plus SL (mid 80s), above average CU (~80ish).  Throws each pitch with equal frequency. 

 

Will get AAA hitters out with the breaking stuff.

tvagle FCL Twins

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I think you need an 'e' at the end to really make this work. :)

Duly noted...but didn't want to confuse anyone  :confused:

 

Yu spell it you're way and I'll spell it mine :)

 

edit...three tries to get the confused emoji to work and I'm out

sampleSizeOfOne MVP

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Duly noted...but didn't want to confuse anyone. :confused:

 

Yu spell it you're way and I'll spell it mine :)

 

edit...three tries to get the confused emoji to work and I'm out

Maybe if you only leave one space?

 

This site has an established feature of condensing double spaces after periods (and other punctuation) to no spaces. Maybe that happens before the emojis get populated.

 

Or pick your other favorite white space character. Been a while since i have cared too much about asci. Also i am not wise in the ways of emoji. Someone recently enlightened me about the significance of eggplants and peaches. Which i suppose i was doing okay not knowing, but still, one likes to know what one did wrong...

tvagle FCL Twins

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Maybe if you only leave one space?

This site has an established feature of condensing double spaces after periods (and other punctuation) to no spaces. Maybe that happens before the emojis get populated.

Or pick your other favorite white space character. Been a while since i have cared too much about asci. Also i am not wise in the ways of emoji. Someone recently enlightened me about the significance of eggplants and peaches. Which i suppose i was doing okay not knowing, but still, one likes to know what one did wrong...

Thanks sSOO...I was over it before i posted it :)

 

Most likely I selected 3 different emoji's (or is it emoji?) in a row and when deleting them confused the WYSIWYG editor

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Attention to detail is fun for its own sake.

 

I think i came to this thread two fold: to find out more about the pitcher, and to see who brought up Coulomb's law first.

 

I am still wondering if leaving the e off of Squarole counts as just such an intentional convoluted (not to mention oblique) reference* or not...

 

Which is perhaps again a detail no one else may care about.

 

But thanks. That's one mystery cleared up...

 

*the best kind, of course. Nothing but the best on TD.

jkcarew Ft Myers Mighty Mussels

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Below average FB (88-91), plus SL (mid 80s), above average CU (~80ish).  Throws each pitch with equal frequency. 

 

Will get AAA hitters out with the breaking stuff.

Unless that AAA hitter happens to be right-handed. 1.050 OPS allowed against right-handed batter is AAA last year. Yikes.

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