With the current roster, how many wins will the Twins have this season?

[wsnydes]

With Spring Training opening, how many wins do you think the Twins will have this season with the current roster?

[wsnydes]

I still think that this team will be heavily reliant on how far the younger players coming up will take them.  Even moreso now than if you asked me before the lockout.  

[Charles Koller]

Tough poll. Get Story, Montas/Manea and a solid bullpen piece (Trivino to make it easy?) and they could go from 75 to 85 wins real quick. 2nd place in the ALC will be a .500 team. The Twins are not far off being the second best team in this division and with those 3 additions and some good luck from an injury standpoint why not us?!

[gil4]

I'm hoping the number of games they play with the current roster is zero.

 

[cHawk]

I said 70-79.

I think that could go way up if they land Story and another SP.

[Richie the Rally Goat]

10 hours ago, cHawk said:

I said 70-79.

I think that could go way up if they land Story and another SP.

I think 65-70 is about where they’ll land if the roster doesn’t change.

there’s 1 MLB starting pitcher, 2 guys who show a lot of promise but aren’t stretched out to give you enough innings and then absolutely no one you can trust every 5th game.

Either August/September should see 4 Andrew Albers’ in the rotation or all season we have 3 Andrew Albers’ piggy backed. 700 innings pitched by quad A pitchers is not a recipe for success.

 

As you said, a couple moves could swing the team 10+ wins and good outcomes from some current question marks like Ryan and Ober, Jax and Thorpe could swing it another 5 into the 80-85 which could compete for a post season birth

[Rosterman]

Gray - 13-15 wins. Bundy 9 wins. Joe Ryan 12 wins. Bailey Ober 10 wins. All the other starters - 8 wins. The Twins will lose 100 games with Sanchez catching, no shortstop, and Sano as DH.

[USAFChief]

65-97. 

 

I realize that's pretty optimistic, but what can you say, I'm a homer through and through. 

[Mike Sixel]

2 hours ago, Sconnie said:

I think 65-70 is about where they’ll land if the roster doesn’t change.

there’s 1 MLB starting pitcher, 2 guys who show a lot of promise but aren’t stretched out to give you enough innings and then absolutely no one you can trust every 5th game.

Either August/September should see 4 Andrew Albers’ in the rotation or all season we have 3 Andrew Albers’ piggy backed. 700 innings pitched by quad A pitchers is not a recipe for success.

 

As you said, a couple moves could swing the team 10+ wins and good outcomes from some current question marks like Ryan and Ober, Jax and Thorpe could swing it another 5 into the 80-85 which could compete for a post season birth

If you think every minor league pitcher is that bad, they have bigger problems......

I said 70 to 79. They were nearly .500 after getting rid of Colome, and have Gray for the whole year, rather than sixty percent like Berrios. Also, everything went wrong last year. That isn't likely to happen again.

[Richie the Rally Goat]

5 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

If you think every minor league pitcher is that bad, they have bigger problems......

I said 70 to 79. They were nearly .500 after getting rid of Colome, and have Gray for the whole year, rather than sixty percent like Berrios. Also, everything went wrong last year. That isn't likely to happen again.

Counting on Donaldson and Garver to carry the hitters?

[twinssporto]

Someone had to vote for 90+ wins and so I did. I've picked the correct number of wins twice now on TD.

Here's my method to my madness. I think a lot of the younger players and pitchers step up and provide an exciting "where did they come from" moment.

Please don't ruin my optimism yet. It's still spring training where hope rings eternal. Reality will be tough enough to endure in June.

92-70

Go Twins!!

 

[LastOnePicked]

11 minutes ago, twinssporto said:

Please don't ruin my optimism yet. It's still spring training where hope rings eternal. Reality will be tough enough to endure in June.

Bless your optimistic heart. I will gladly support your right to gloat and post a "Told Ya So" thread if the team somehow rises to your hopes. Go get 'em, Twins.

But 73-89 again is my vote. The headline writes itself: "Plenty of Things Changed for the 2022 Twins ... But Their Results Didn't."

[Number3]

Depends on how good the competition is. Last year everyone in the less than great Central leapfrogged them and they went from first to worst. Not mentioned in the discussions so far is the manager "Rocco pass the pasta Baldelli". This should be his final exam as the Twins' leader. Will the MOY award jinx him after it did the same to Molitor? My guess is yes and my answer to the poll is 70-79 only because everyone wins at least 60 just by suiting up.

[RpR]

3 hours ago, Mike Sixel said:

 Also, everything went wrong last year. That isn't likely to happen again.

With the trades it already has.

[Twins33]

I think 69 wins as is. They lost three of their top 5 hitters (Donaldson, Cruz, Garver). I expect Urshela to pick up some of that slack but he’s no Donaldson. Haven’t replaced Cruz’s production, which is hard to do anyway. I like Jeffers and believe his bat is much better than he’s shown but he’s no Garver. 
 

Starters: I don’t see Ober and Ryan being worse than Happ and Shoemaker. Gray and Berrios should cancel each other out. Bundy is another Shoemaker to me. And we don’t know who gets the other rotation spot. 
 

BP: I have no idea. So all of that is why I say 69 right now.