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  1. Connor Gould
    I'm a little concerned about how all of the Twins pitching prospects seem to have injury issues. Sands, Canterino, Winder, Duran, a bit with Balozovic. The building of inings takes forever and the injuries just push it back further getting me paranoid about if they'll ever get there. If everyone with an injury history goes bullpen, we've got no future as a contender. But whatever, Ober was also like that and just jumped to 108 innings set to springboard to 160, so as long as all those guys hit 100 innings we're good.
  2. Connor Gould
    Positionless team in 2023, with everyone being capable of a bunch of positions allowing you to send out any 8 non catchers you want on a given day. Unrealistic and potentially stupid, but fun idea.
  3. Connor Gould
    I don't see it as all that easy to make a 2022 winner with the current situation, so I'd make it all about 2023. So that means you get a stopgap at SS and hope that Lewis is ready for a callup around June or July. And get stopgap starters who are just there until the SP prospects get up and see who's ready for the 2023 rotation. Rogers is a tender and use as the closer and see if he's worth extending or trading or neither. I don't really care too much about the bullpen, whether we use last year's OK guys or a new group of OK guys. Buxton is an extend or trade, playing out the year is the worst since it's a longshot year anyways, so extend or trade. He's shown enough that some teams may trade a big package for him and ignore the injuries hoping for a jackpot, which is what an extension is. I'd prefer extension, but if there's an offer comparable to our Berrios return the I'd be down to take it. As for DH, I love Cruz and would sign him, but I'd also completely understand if he'd rather go to a more promising team next year. Having an open DH spot would be useful with so many similar level guys we need to audition at different spots. It's the most complex offseason I can remember going in.
  4. Connor Gould
    The Giants rotation is good inspiration. Obviously, we would need to develop our own Logan Webb and that's tough, maybe it could be Ryan, maybe Balazovic. But Gausman, Wood, and Descalfani are 3 historically average starters who were former high rated prospects from so long ago that post hype sleeper is an understatement and all went on to have great years. Unfortunately, that's even harder since identifying 1 is hard, let alone 3. We could live with 2. Our front office found those guys in Odorizzi and Pineda and that's part of why we won 101, but there's also the misses in Perez and Shoemaker and an NA in Bailey since he got hurt. I don't count Happ or Hill since at that age it's an attempt at stability not upside. So yeah, shows that our mission this offseason of making an entire rotation does have a good ceiling if you hit an absolute jackpot. And if it fails, we just DFA them and kick off the prospect rotation debuts a little sooner with an eye towards 2023.
  5. Connor Gould
    I think it's that the Yankees feel like they need to win so they're in denial that the Twins have any chance. Meanwhile Twins fans are realistic about the odds and are just going with a relaxed "whatever happens, happens" attitude.
  6. Connor Gould
    Most Improved: Buxton Rookie: Hildenberger Pitcher: Santana MVP: Mauer
  7. Connor Gould
    I say that the Twins need to be patient and drive up Severino's pitch count. The Twins have taken the 6th most walks in the league and they need to get the bullpen in early. The Yankees have a lot of good relievers, so we need to make them use them all up. The most important thing is that Santana needs to be on. I don't like our chances in a slug fest.
  8. Connor Gould
    We're finally back to the playoffs. That probably means that Garver, Vargas, Goodrum, Adrianza, Granite, and Gimenez will all play tomorrow. I'm predicting a 5-0 loss. But who cares, we got a shot at knocking out the Yankees.
  9. Connor Gould
    That was a fun game even if it wasn't that important. So close to clinching.
  10. Connor Gould
    Maybe they can skip Berrios in his next start and start Slegers so that Berrios can get some rest and then he can start game 1 fresh and Gibson has an extra day of rest to start game 2. We can get away with this because our magic number is 2 so we might not need Berrios the rest of the regular season to clinch and we would get to see more of Slegers.
  11. Connor Gould
    That 2.5 game lead is a lot more comfortable. Obviously there's still a lot of time left, but it's a nice cushion.
  12. Connor Gould
    That's cool that Buxton is up to hitting .258 on the season after such a bad start. If he keeps this up next year across a full season, he could hit around .310 with 25 homers and 40 steals which would be great. Plus his defense is obviously elite.
  13. Connor Gould
    It's definitely been fun how everyone has done their part. There isn't an easy out anywhere in the lineup. It's also got great balance because every starter has an OBP above .310 except for Polanco and every starter a SLG above .400 except for Grossman and Castro.
  14. Connor Gould
    Yeah, I phrased that wrong. I meant that Stewart is a good prospect but I wouldn't mind giving him up in this trade assuming another prospect comes back. He'd be bad to give up 1 for 1 and it would be selling low.
  15. Connor Gould
    The tweet said a good prospect and Kohl Stewart would suck to lose but not too bad. Sounds rough, but I still like the idea of a solid #3 rental. Won't cost an elite prospect and gives a nice little boost. My money's on Lamonte Wade.
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