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  1. So you give up a borderline elite player for a hope and a prayer? There are more reliable pitching prospects out there, go find one of those. It's not as if the Twins were getting De Leon for fifty cents on the dollar. They were asked to pay a premium price and it appears they made the right decision.
  2. To frame it differently: At this point, what's the difference between De Leon and Alex Meyer? And while I wasn't a big fan of the Meyer trade, he was almost an afterthought in the system when he was traded because he had crossed age 25 and couldn't pitch more than 130 innings a season. Talent only matters if you're on the field and an oft-injured stellar player can actually be a detriment to a team if his replacement is way below average (which is usually the case with starting pitchers).
  3. Yes, this. As I said at the time of the trade discussions, maybe De Leon isn't an injury risk... or maybe he is. But he gets a knock for never pitching more than 115 innings in a season and this season was even worse. If he was in the Twins org right now, people would be screaming bloody murder, and rightly so. All pitching prospects are questions marks. Pitching prospects who have barely crossed a half season of MLB innings at age 25, even moreso. Remember that De Leon is one year older than Berrios except the Minnesota Jose has pitched more than 115 innings four times in his career (and came close a fifth year).
  4. How I feel about this is very complex. I'll just leave it at that.
  5. While it's possible Grossman needed work with routes, what's more likely is that his 2016 was simply inexplicably bad. His 2017 numbers align with his pre-2016 numbers: mostly meh, maybe a touch on the subpar side. But if you look at the statcast data posted, what killed Grossman last season was the strange botching of 1- and 2-star plays on a regular basis.
  6. Except for the part where Ortiz was better in the minors and had a breakout season at age 26, sure.
  7. Putting Jose into the second inning of a postseason tie game is a good way to see how many Yankees fans in the 18th row you can kill with a 103mph fastball.
  8. I disagree. Put him out there for one, maybe two, batters. Let him catch his breath and see if the yips are gone.
  9. Seriously, everybody, I’m on the verge of tears.
  10. THIS ISN’T ****ING HAPPENING OH MY GOD I MIGHT DIE
  11. OH MY ****ING GOD I’M GOING TO HAVE A CARDIAC ARREST
  12. One beer for each Yankee batter through three innings. You may want to run to the store.
  13. I assume no one is posting in this thread because everyone is currently throwing up in their toilet.
  14. I’m twitchy and slightly nauseous. It’s official. Postseason baseball is back in Minnesota.
  15. I don't know if it's about scoring against their bullpen as much as it's about coming back from a deficit against their bullpen. Here's hoping Severino has the yips. After all, he's only 23 years old and there's a reason the Twins aren't putting Berrios on the mound tonight.
  16. I honestly don't get this take. Watching more teams vie for a postseason spot keeps me engaged for longer, even more so when it's a team I care about. Of course, there's a line to walk, one I think the NBA crosses with over half its teams reaching the playoffs (and many of them not very good). I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying I don't understand.
  17. BP has Castro 9 fielding runs above average on the season, good for 11th in baseball. So they certainly believe he had something to do with the improved pitching staff. FTR, Suzuki was at -1.0 FRAA, 67th in baseball.
  18. Roll the dice. If Sano can stand at the plate and run to first without serious danger of injury, you put him at DH. Sure, he might be terrible. But all you need is for the big man to make contact once in the game for it to make all the difference in the world.
  19. They got just shy of 100 innings of 124 ERA+ ball from Gray. That's a better per-inning value than any Twins starter by a healthy margin.
  20. I remember it well. Mainly because 11 years later, you still won't shut up about it.
  21. No group was forecast to have great success based on what we knew July 29th or so but here is what we did know: 1. The Twins' peripherals were of a team 8-10 games under .500, not a .500 team. 2. The Twins had one of the worst pitching staffs in the AL. 3. The Twins had dropped like a rock in the standings in the two weeks leading to the deadline. 4. Other teams, such as KC, were coming on strong (whether it would last or not is certainly debatable). 5. The Twins front office had to assume at least one of the teams in front of the Twins would buy, improving their chances. 6. If you did every single thing right, you'd earn a single play-in game, likely on the road. To me, that looks like a selling situation. It did at the time and it still does now. I can see some frustration over the Kintzler move but I would have done the same thing (and advocated it) so I'm certainly not going to complain about it now.
  22. And if there was another option available, literally ANY option at all, it’s hard to see Molitor taking Gibby back at any point. The distaste Paul had for Kyle was obvious.
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