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  1. Ah, the deadline. I misunderstood your point. I don't see it happening but I suppose it's a remote possibility.
  2. I think it's pretty foolish to deal him if he's going to spend the season in the minors. He only has value if he's pitching against MLB hitters and succeeding. Besides, the Twins have options on Odorizzi, Santana, and Gibson. If you plan to move pitching this offseason, that's probably the place to start if you want any kind of return on the player.
  3. This is my thinking as well. Burning his final option during an injury recovery season likely keeps him in MLB for longer overall and he's getting paid either way.
  4. Lewis is still 18 years old for a couple of weeks. He's fine in CR for another month or so (and it's not as if he's lighting the world on fire offensively). And Kirilloff has a lot of rust to shake off after being out for a full season. I expect he'll see a promotion soon as well. Both guys only have ~40 games played at Cedar Rapids.
  5. I'm not sure why it took so long for Gordon to get this promotion but okay, at least he's where he belongs now.
  6. The difference between Berrios and Duffey is that Jose has more pitches than a curveball and throws them harder.
  7. Rosario snagged a ball that Buxton had pretty easily and it appears Byron called him off but Eddie didn't listen. I don't think it was disrespect, it was merely Eddie being Eddie. I noticed it when it happened and watched the OF whenever they were on camera. Both were laughing and joking shortly thereafter so I don't think it was a respect thing at all, Rosario just plays his own game sometimes.
  8. This is the Lynn we all signed up to see pitch. About damned time he showed up.
  9. Exactly. We’ve seen it plenty of times with guys coming off TJS.
  10. Why doesn't it make sense? Guys coming off TJS recovery often lack command over their breaking stuff. I don't think anyone is saying May gets stashed in Rochester for the season, maybe just a month or two until he has a feel for pitching again. But if May has command over his breaking stuff right off the bat, it's a different situation.
  11. To those saying this move was long overdue... How quickly did you expect the front office to willingly jettison $20m+? The guy didn't pitch his first game until April 22nd. He pitched all of two games out of the rotation before the front office put him in the bullpen. In the three weeks since that move, Hughes pitched in only five games. It was certainly time to move on but the front office gave Hughes a brief shot at the rotation, saw he no longer had the stuff to start, then gave him a brief look at relieving, ultimately coming to the same conclusion. Could they have moved a week earlier? Sure. But one week isn't exactly "long overdue".
  12. None whatsoever. I don't know if I'm ready to jump in on Realmuto - it all depends on the price - but there should be something available better than what the Twins have right now in Wilson.
  13. Well, yes, but he's very likely to spend several years in MLB barring injury. He's the one guy I wouldn't move right now. I think he only continues to gain value.
  14. Realmuto has 2+ seasons left before free agency, not 3+ seasons. And the Twins will almost surely get 6+ seasons out of Lewis so you're passing on four seasons of Lewis.
  15. It was a questionable decision but not an indefensible one. We all figured Pelfrey was in way over his head but the bullpen was in pretty miserable shape at the time. The Twins needed a higher upside arm to pitch late innings and May was their best option. Of course, that meant weakening the rotation at the same time. It wasn't an optimal solution but there was no optimal solution available at the time.
  16. That's good in theory but rarely works in practice. You might go 5-6 days of getting 5+ innings out of your starters. You won't give a single reliever three innings in any of those appearances and May rusts on the bench. The reason you don't give one reliever three innings in that situation is because the game is usually close at that point and you want to use matchups to notch another win. If your starter goes 5+ and the game isn't close, you're probably kicking the other team's ass so it doesn't matter. On the other hand, you might get a couple of three inning starts in a 2-3 day span. You can't use the same guy for three innings that close together, either. And if your starter goes three innings, you're probably getting your ass kicked so, once again, it doesn't matter. The reality is that long men don't get regular work. There's a reason why long men are the back of the bullpen and very rarely a good pitcher. You use them when you need innings en masse and don't want to waste all those days off on a pitcher who can actually get hitters out on a regular basis.
  17. I think we’re just disagreeing that a couple of other good young teams existing makes none of them young. In my mind, I consider the Twins, Yankees, and Red Sox young teams. And it’s likely the Twins continue to be young for awhile because they are going to add more prospects this season.
  18. Why wouldn't anyone think of the Red Sox as young? I sure do. Like you said, they have five regulars 26 or younger. It causes me a lot of pain to see how young the BoSox and Yankees have become over the past couple of years. When Polanco and Sano return, the Twins will have the same number of guys 26 or younger in the lineup.
  19. Look at the scores of those games. If the offense is clicking, they add a couple more wins and are REALLY rolling as a team. The pitching has been *very* good more often than not. Here are the runs scored in those four losses: 5 4 1 0 The offense has stumbled quite often this season. You expect to see that from pretty much any offense over 162 but if the Twins were consistently posting 3+ runs (not exactly a lofty bar to reach), they'd be one of the best teams in the league in the month of May.
  20. Huh. Berrios is back out after a long inning. Didn't expect that.
  21. Honest question: with Buxton on third, do you play with the infield in? I don't think I do.
  22. Rosario would have slid into the dugout there.
  23. He's super young though and he was leaving a ton of balls down the middle of the plate. Those hits weren't lucky or an accident.
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