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From the article "Minnesota now has a couple of days to decide whether or not to add Keuchel to the active roster, or else release the veteran southpaw." If the article is correct the Twins may be able to add him today.

I thought the Twins had couple days to call up Keuchel

Lucky the HR came bases empty

EJ moves to DH, Polanco to 2nd & Farmer in at 3rd

Logic would have also told you that the Twins would have won 1, 2 or 3 games in the KC series.

I look at putting Keuchel on the active roster as an extremely low risk/high reward situation. As Dman stated he could revert into a pumpkin and is DFAd after 1 or 2 starts. Many posters believe that will be the case and I respect their opinions. Since they can make room on the 40 man roster by putting people on the 60 day IL, the Twins wouldn't be losing anyone. Keuchel has made some mechanical changes in his delivery that have improved his velocity from his 2022 disaster. This is the high reward part of the equation. If he can become close to the 2020 Keuchel 6-2 with 1.99 ERA he would be an asset to the Twins (or any other team that signs him). I look at Keuchel as being similar to Don Baylor in 1987. Baylor (38 years old) was hitting .239 for Boston when the Twins acquired him on August 31st. In limited duty he hit .286 (.703 OPS) during the remainder of the regular season .400 (.900 OPS) against Detroit and .385 (1.082 OPS) against St. Louis. I am hoping that I remember Keuchel in the same way I remember Baylor.

I think he started out with an innings or pitch limit. He worked up to 6 innings. Could he work longer, I don't know?

I reacted before reading the article as it sounds like the Twins have a couple of days to add him. I hope they do add him. How many AAA pitchers have an ERA 1.13?

I think this is worse than not making any trades. You could have DFAd Gallo to make room on the 40 man. His veteran presence would have been helpful to the younger pitchers. The starters are showing signs of fatigue. The FO will look like idoits if a starter goes down and Keuchel is effective for some other team. I don't know what his MLB contract would have been, but this late in the season it would have been a good addition. Much like the '87 Twins getting Don Baylor.

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Duran gets the save, but his ERA in August is 9

Who's injured?

The advantage of not striking out

Not anymore

What's the status of Keuchel?

If the Twins win the division, wouldn't they face the 6 seed (i.e. last wild card team). The last wild card team can either be on a roll to make the playoff or just managed to hang on to the last slot.

I think a playoff team is any team that qualifies, either by winning their division or a wild card spot. I'm old enough to remember the '87 Twins who I am sure were long odds to win the World Series over Detroit and St. Louis. But they did. It only takes a team getting hot at the right time. I concur that Gray won't be here next year, but I'm not sure the Twins would get back more the what they would get if the made a QO. It wouldn't surprise me if Maeda came back next year, or if he keeps pitching like he has since coming off the IL he could receive a QO. Cleveland just traded a starter, but they seem to be much better than the Twins at drafting and developing good starters. I don't think the Twins have that luxury. I would like to see them call Keuchel up to allow SP to skip a start rather the a 6 man rotation. Getting back to the playoffs, if Lewis, Krilloff and Buxton can be heathy I believe a line up of Correa SS, Polanco 2B, Jullien DH, Krilloff 1B, Lewis 3B, Kepler RF, Buxton CF, Wallner or RH trade LF, Jeffer C would match up well against any other playoff team. Maeda, Gray, Lopez, and the hot hand of Ryan, Ober or Keuchel as starters. Duran, Jax, Thilbar, LH trade, Stewart, and Pagan as relivers.

What is a good BABIP? For the season Duran is at .286, Jax .272 and Pagan .246.

I believe that the Lopez family and both teams will be winners in this trade. I believe that Floro will perform as well or better than Lopez would have performed as a Twin. I also believe that Lopez will perform better for the Marlins than he would have for Twins since he will be closer to his family. A lot of comments regarding the Mahle trade failure, which necessitated the Arraez/ Lopez trade. If the Arraez trade hadn't been made, where is Julien today? I doubt that he would be on the Twins roster. Maybe the league will figure out Julien, but to date he shown the willingness to hit the pitch where its at (i.e. an outside pitch hit to left field) the same as Arraez. Only with a lot more power. Sometimes trades work out just not in the way you expected. My dream end of the year lineup would be: Correa SS, EJ DH, Polanco 2B, AK 1B, Lewis 3B, Kep RF, Buxton CF, Wallner LF, Jeffers C. I am happy for all X Twins to do well (just not against the Twins). So who do you remove to make room for Arraez, Steer and CES?

What are they going to do with Keuchel? 1) Bring him as a starter to allow starts to be skipped by top 5 as needed or as 6th starter? 2) Bring him as a LH reliever? 3) Let him walk? In 5 starts with the Saints he has an ERA of .69 over 26 innings.

I agree, I would rather have the bad appearances grouped in one bad loss than spread over 3 potential losses, Including last night Ortega, Moran and Pagan have allowed earned runs in 33.3%, 32.5% and 19.5%, respectively of the games they appear in. Jax and Duran have allowed earned runs in 22.2% and 21.6% of their appearances. It appears last nights game has cost Ortega his spot on the 26 man roster. Actually its more of 6 of 10. Has come in when the Twins are leading by 3 runs or less 5 times and has 2 holds and 3 BS. I don't believe we lose if Pagan starts the inning. Just my opinion The bullpen was bad, and even though the Twins scored 7 runs I'm disappointed in the their at bats after Wallner's homerun. It's like each of them was trying to paid their HR stat line. Following the HR there were 20 outs until the end of 7th inning (before BP blowup). Of the 20 outs one was a SF and one was a CS, leaving 18 outs. Of the 18 outs 14 were strikeouts. What if there were only 7 (over 9 per 9 innings) that would leave 7 outs on balls in play. Assuming a .300 BABIP that means there would have been 3 more hits (assuming no HRs). The Twins had 6 runs on 7 hits through 7. If those 3 hits had generated one more run, even with the blowup, Duran would have had a 1 run lead into the 9th. This was a bad loss that I blame on a combination of factors. 12th game in 12 days, 2 extra inning games the previous 2 days and baseball luck. The Twins had 2 9th inning comeback games in a row and this was the baseball gods evening things out.

You are correct. I had $50,000 instead of $500,000 for pick 150.

I doubt they have been offered $150,000. The lower unsigned picks are draft picks 567 and 597. The Twins have signed draft picks 417, 447, 477 and 507 for $100,000 each and 537 for $50,000. They are both HS picks, so the amount offered may no be worth the value of going to JC or college and hoping to to substantially increase their future payoff.

I can understand why Boras wants over slot value. From what I read any of the top 5 would have been a top pick (or 2nd) in any other year. So the 4th and 5th picks are probably worth more than their slot value. The 4th pick went $302,000 over slot, I would expect Jenkins to want at least $300,000 over the slot value.

I think the first 10 rounds count against the slot values and on the signings other than Jenkins are about $450,000 below slot value. So the Twins could go over slot by $450,000 and not pay the 5% penalty. Boras was probably waiting for the others to sign to know how much slot money was available. I think I read somewhere on TD if he doesn't sign the Twins get additional picks in next years draft.