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  1. jkcarew
    I’ll take slightly less pretty numbers...in exchange for about 40 more innings pitched. Occasionally get past the 5th inning (more than once a blue moon) and match Berrios with 190-200 innings pitched this season. Makes the bullpen that much more effective. Now THAT would be impact.
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    Win a playoff series.
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    Gonzalez is the definition of a bench guy on a team that expects to compete for a championship. Veteran who can provide near-average offense from either side of plate, and good defense at multiple positions. Adrianza was a revelation offensively in 2019, but, we don't know if he can sustain that. Cave has been even better offensively. Like virtually every bench player on every major-league roster, all of these guys likely suffer if exposed to extended periods of every-day action. For that reason, their redundancy is a good thing, not a bad thing. Meanwhile, if Adrianza can sustain the offense, and one or more of the prospects actually 'arrive', then in 2021 it will probably make sense to let Marwin walk.
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    Love this stuff. It does remind me that it would (hopefully will) be great to see these guys compensated a bit better while they pursue their dream. Some mentioned in this article got big signing bonuses, but that's not the case for most that Seth is watching on these back fields. And yet they show up early. Just goes to show you how much most of these guys love the game and what they're willing to go through to stay in it.
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    Yep. Informative, but still balanced. Thanks. Eddie's got his issues, but it's not unreasonable to expect an uptick in performance in 2020. Could be important. As good as it looks, the lineup becomes very right-handed, especially in terms of power, if Rosario isn't functioning.
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    In such disarray that Vegas still gives them shorter odds than the Twins to win the AL pennant. Maybe you meant SHOULD be in 'complete disarray'....which most (or at least many) here would agree with. Will there be distractions? Yes. But, Altuve, Correa, Springer...these are guys that were 5-8 WAR guys in 2016. Newer guys like Bregman and Alvarez are legit whether we like it or not. Meanwhile, getting awarded a ton of free based on HBP (as many here predict) won't exactly make them worse. (Although, losing Cole will leave a mark.) I can 100% guarantee that Verlander fully expects to compete for pennants over these remaining years in Houston.
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    Emergency? The team won 101 games last year with Kepler (mainly) and Cave playing 83 games in center field. They finished 35-19 (.648, 105 win pace) without Buxton. Why? Because hitting is way more important than the delta between average and great defense....and the guy that got his at-bats (Cave) was good offensively. (Cave provided a much better OBP than Buxton; Buxton a much higher SLG.) That's over 500 major-league PA now for Cave, with results that are pretty hard to find in a reserve player. If the FO thinks Celestino, or Lewis....or Kirilloff (actually more likely) are ready, then fine...bring one of those boys up. But it will likely take more than just a hurt Buxton to convince them to do that...at least until relatively late in the season.
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    ?? Well, it doesn't seem to be the Twins beat writers. He's a first-round draft pick, still assumed to be on track for at least a utility (or depth) role in the major leagues....probably worthy of note explaining what's going on, no?
  9. jkcarew
    Trying to find any news on Gordon that explains his complete absence from any grapefruit action to this point. The obvious suspicion is that there's an injury...but can't for the life of me find anything of that sort that's been reported. What did I miss?
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    At least we know our 2017 first-round draft pick is alive and kicking...(emphasis on the kicking, right?) Meanwhile, our 2014 first-round draft pick is nowhere to be found. Is he hurt? Traded? Released? Are the Twins looking for him to back up Drew Maggi in Rochester this year?...or is there some other reason Maggi is going to lead the organization in 2020 spring training plate appearances? We don't know.
  11. jkcarew
    Did this thing swallow Nick Gordon? Someone needs to open it up and look, because nobody seems to have seen him since the day this photo was taken.
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    I'll pile on. Worse idea ever to change approach. He's a a high contact and a high BABiP guy that waits and uses his hands. And it's worked all through his professional career. Is it a formula for having elite value? No. But it's still good and it's a perfect fit for the current Twins lineup.
  13. jkcarew
    "Bumgarner is going to fall off a cliff..." What exactly in Bumgarner's 2019 performance/numbers are you seeing that suggests this...heading into his age 30 season? Or is it just a feeling you have? Decent arguments are out there for Maeda instead of Bumgarner, both performance-wise and certainly contract-wise. But falling off a cliff?
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    Wallner unstoppable with runners in scoring position
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    So, where does that leave us?...service providers unwilling to pay increasing prices for the content...and networks themselves treating MLB as second-tier content. Oh...and average game attendance slightly below where it was in 1993. You know what this calls for, right? Expansion.
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    Nothing wrong with being a devil's advocate, IMO...and, at least in my mind, especially when done with civility and when relevant to the topic at hand. And, in my experience, even devil's advocates are seldom completely alone on their islands here at TD.
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    Eliminate or inhibit shifting and further encourage/reward batters for trying to pull and launch every pitch, in every count, against every pitcher, and in every game situation? If you don't exact the maximum price for that approach, we're going to see even more of it. Ever more of the 3-true-outcome offensive approach. Diversity of offensive style/skill will go from dying to completely dead. No thanks. Back to the new rule... I think you'll see managers start to do some other non-traditional things. For instance, in your scenario...I would expect we will start seeing some instances where the left-handed batter is intentionally walked even if it means putting the go-ahead run in scoring position. I also think, in some scenarios, we will see intentional walks as the play for the 3rd batter. I think it will prove to be a drop in the bucket for impacting the length-of-game issue. Too many other things are contributing to that.
  18. jkcarew
    Just eliminate inter-league games....which serve no purpose in 2020, other than to create unfair/unbalanced scheduling quirks. You automatically have a game both fans and players are more interested in.
  19. jkcarew
    The Twins moved from Washington in 1961...not 2001 . The guy with two world series rings was pretty good out there.
  20. jkcarew
    "Turns out the key is making all the easy plays." Yes. And it's an amusing circle. We start with errors awarded by inconsistent (and biased) humans...because it's all we had. And then, the more data we collect, the more it points back to errors, the concept...if not, the statistic. Especially on the infield this is true. Extra range and even arm strength don't have nearly the value of simply making fewer mistakes on routine plays. If only we had data to award errors against an accurate, objective, and consistent standard.
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    Being the good Twins rube that I am...I was bummed when I saw the title for the thread because I thought the subject was Yunior Severino. I mean, after realizing we're talking about Luis Severino and TJ...I'm still bummed. But it's a different kind of bummed.
  22. jkcarew
    They'd be the same team that demolished the Twins in 3 straight last October...except with a (presumably) healthier outfield. I do think the Severino thing leaves a mark, particularly if it's season-ending.
  23. jkcarew
    The guy next to Sano...looks more like Antman than Batman. Need to get Cruz a different shirt if he's going to roam with Sano.
  24. jkcarew
    My sense without looking at numbers is that every time the Twins have experienced a multi-season stretch of being good, they've had a trio as good or better than this trio. Maybe I'll feel differently if Maeda surprises.
  25. jkcarew
    Having a hand-full of low-ceiling prospects, with one or two high-ceiling guys just getting their feet wet in AA ball, doesn't make you "famously strong" in starting pitching. In the meantime, if the FO is that worried about Buxton's health and/or performance that they're tempted to trade for a bench player...who isn't very good... they'd be better off simply trading Buxton for a good player.
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