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  1. RaoulDuke
    May, Gonsalvez, Romero, Littel, Slegers all need to be in the AAA rotation. It will be interesting to watch how the crop turns out. Mejia/ May/ Romero/ Littel have all had the is his best future in the bullpen question posed of them as prospects. Stewart and Slegers seem to be of the Brian Duensing/ Anthony Swarzak 6th starter or long guy mold.
  2. RaoulDuke
    http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1573943/i3SXAH4AAxtWS_medium.gif Yes please.
  3. RaoulDuke
    Im on board with Darvish or Otani or both. Pitching seems to make the jump better than hitting and Otani's bat is much less important to me than his arm. Darvish sucked in the world series but was really good the rest of the playoffs. The whole controversy with the slick world series balls seems like it could be a major factor there as he relies on his slider a lot. Spend the money to get a top of the line pitcher period.
  4. RaoulDuke
    I would much rather he not hit and just focus on being a stud pitcher, but if that is the price to land him I say do it. Maybe/ probably when he doesn't set the MLB aflame hitting he just focuses on pitching.
  5. RaoulDuke
    The people can prolly afford to sacrifice one.
  6. RaoulDuke
    Agree 100%. Build the team like May/ Chargois/ rookies that should break out don't exist. If/when they push there way onto the roster you only get stronger.
  7. RaoulDuke
    There are plenty of middle relief options and possibilities but this team is still severely lacking dominate bull pen arms. Sign at least one big arm, if not two. It was straight up embarrassing to compare the pens in the wild card game, and the Twins would have only gotten exposed more had they advanced.
  8. RaoulDuke
    Did Rick Anderson change his first name so somebody would hire him again?
  9. RaoulDuke
    Twins need big arms for the pen, I like Mcgee and Morrow spend some money on the top end. They don't need a closer to pigeon hole into the 9th inning but they do need guys with closer stuff.
  10. RaoulDuke
    I mean we traded Nunez for him, and he didn't set the world on fire this year rarely getting out of the 5th. His value has increased but not by a ton. He has profiled more as a 4/ fringe 3.
  11. RaoulDuke
    Its going to cost a lot to get more pitching either way. Sign/ trade for a 2 or 3 type, Cobb seems the best bet to me, and go all in on the bullpen. Get at least 2 big arms for the pen. CL FA SU FA SU Hildenberger MR May MR Buesenitz MR Rookie LR Rookie
  12. RaoulDuke
    Disappointing but not that surprising result. It was awesome to see them come right out of the gate firing, and then the fact that we are still a pitching staff away from competing showed up.
  13. RaoulDuke
    I would replace Duffey with Vargas due to the fact that they won't need a medicore long reliever and I guess could use a mediocre RH pinch hitter, but other than that looks good to me. If Sano can pinch hit bring him, get him a bunch of bp and make it happen if at all possible.
  14. RaoulDuke
    Saber isn't the only part of it. Their approach in Cleveland included newer age training/ thinking along targeting players based on what they see as a market inefficiency to be capitalized on. Look at Trevor Bauer for example. The analytics in the minors just helps to show a deeper picture of a players strengths and weaknesses, they can identify things like spin rate and say hey we should focus on this kids curve, hey this catcher is a good pitch framer, ect. Its not the manager sitting there reading charts to the player before he steps into the box. What is super old school Dougie Baseball going to do/ add to when the organization is focusing on things he has no grasp or affinity for.
  15. RaoulDuke
    I think they are going to clean the organization of the purely old school mentality guys, so they can install the kind of system that led to the development of the Indians pitching staff. This is what they were brought in for and I am happy to see it begin to happen. Dougie Baseball was a good minor league manager and has some real Twins nostalgia tied to him but I am ok with them moving on from guys in the Ron Gardenhire mold. It sounds mean but I am also very excited to see the pitching coordinator (and anyone else who had anything to do with the development of Twins pitchers in the last decade) go. Bring on the new school analytic approach!
  16. RaoulDuke
    I think Polanco is an early version of Escobar. Ok MLB bat with some occasional pop, passable defense multiple places in short spurts. Great utility mediocre starter. If he could fetch pitching in a trade return they would be wise to do it. Escobar netted the White Sox Liriano in a bad state, Polanco is a better return so should command at least a decent pitcher if not one with real wildcard upside plus some flags.
  17. RaoulDuke
    But they haven't really, TR was jettisoned but many of the scouts/ minors guys were not. Which scares me.
  18. RaoulDuke
    Excited for Curtiss eventual call up, Busenitz stuff looks playable, haven't seen Hildenberger yet but his minors resume is promising. Its crazy how deep they are having to reach. The pen was still going to be a major issue even if everything went right but nothing has. May was a huge loss, of their "steady vet pickups" Belisle has been terrible and Breslow has been forced into way to big a roll. on top of that Chargois/ Burdi/ Jay were supposed to be the high end depth. Thats 5/6 of the best pen arms, in an already weak pen, either failing or hurt.
  19. RaoulDuke
    That is a sad list
  20. RaoulDuke
    Did Blaine Boyer shave and lose some weight?
  21. RaoulDuke
    Lol bullpen fail with one pitch
  22. RaoulDuke
    He seems to have lost some touch on his slider, the back to back homeruns last night were both meatball sliders. He is just evening out as season goes on, Santana is never going to be anything but a Twins "ace" (good #3 starter). He has been awesome up to this last couple starts, hopefully he gets back on track soon.
  23. RaoulDuke
    Sano doing "athletic" things lol
  24. RaoulDuke
    Bringing Rogers in to face 5 righties is less than ideal
  25. RaoulDuke
    Is there anywhere that sells the funny Twins tshirts anymore? Is that project dead or am I just missing it online?
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