Arm-ageddon: Twins Announce Injuries to Jhoan Durán, Anthony DeSclafani, Caleb Thielbar, Others

[Linus]

1 hour ago, arby58 said:

Maybe wait to see how the trade works out, at least until they actually start playing real games?  The 'needed to add a starter' relies on tunnel vision about how a team roster can be made up to win. They went deeper on relief pitchers, and teams with really good relief pitching can win a lot of games. It still feels like they have at least 5 decent starting pitchers - more than a lot of teams that are considered contenders.

Needed to add a starter was pretty much agreed upon by anybody seriously following the team. But hey you are entitled to your opinion so that’s fine by me. 

[RpR]

1 minute ago, Linus said:

Needed to add a starter was pretty much agreed upon by anybody seriously following the team. But hey you are entitled to your opinion so that’s fine by me. 

The first two weeks of the regular season should be very interesting and very revealing.

[arby58]

14 hours ago, bighat said:

Well now it looks like he won't see the field until he's 35. Put up a big fat zero for the Twins. 

It just isn't that big or that fat a zero. No team hits on every acquisition, and he was third of four players that matter in the trade for Polanco. It's akin to counting paperclips.

[Riverbrian]

14 hours ago, Linus said:

Needed to add a starter was pretty much agreed upon by anybody seriously following the team. But hey you are entitled to your opinion so that’s fine by me. 

I felt we needed to add a hitter not subtract one.

Don't get me wrong... I would have liked a starter but would have chosen a hitter over a starter if forced to add just one in the off-season. 

I felt that our pitching wasn't going to stay as healthy as it was last season and therefore will not be as good as last season NO MATTER who is added to the starting pitching staff. Adding an innings eater instead of decent starter was the very last thing that I would have wished for. 

I felt that OFFENSE could make up for the step back that we are going to take on the mound. Offense was where we could improve over last season. Offense was where we accumulated the necessary depth to remain offensively talented throughout the season. Adding a talented bat to Royce Lewis along with a return to form from Correa and Buxton plus POLANCO who has been one of our most consistently good hitters and we have a real good 5 instead of a good 3. Add to that the potential of Jeffers, Kirilloff, Julien, Wallner and whatever Kepler will show up and you had a chance to put together an offense that performs like the Rangers performed last year.

The Rangers won a world series last year with a very very very talented offense that overcame below average pitching that was decimated by injury. 

If anybody still believes that we had to move Polanco because Julien is on the roster. I'll remind them to look at the title of this discussion, look at the calendar and then consider that Polanco was replaced in the roster by Carlos Santana. If there is room for Santana... there was room for Polanco. 

I believe the Twins won the trade when you look at the value between the clubs because of Gonzalez alone. However... I believe we lost the trade for 2024 because we didn't add a hitter we subtracted one. 

I believe that I follow the Twins. I'm serious about it. Others may feel differently.