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  1. twinsfansd
    Minor league baseball players are no different than aspiring artists, musical performers, actors/actresses and many other professions. Or for that matter insurance salesmen or real estate agents. You get payed for your performance, pure and simple. The better you perform, the more opportunities you get, and the more earning power you achieve. In the long run, it isn't a whole lot different than most jobs. You start out at the bottom and work your way up. I realize that most minor league ball players don't earn enough to live on. But that is the reason most of them work in the off season. Most can't make it on talent alone. They have to WANT it.
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    You have to put all this money stuff in perspective. Jealousy clouds the vision when it comes to seeing what a rich person is actually getting as a return. Most of us have retirement plans or other investments that we follow. Whether we have $1000 invested or $100,000 or $1,000,000, we are disappointed if our return is less than 10%. Yet if a baseball team's value increases by 8% a year, that makes the team owner evil. Get over it people. These people are in business just like any other business, to make money, not to give you free entertainment. And by the way, when was the last time you saw a baseball player starve to death?
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    I don't think anybody would draft Anderson because of his age. Tyler Jay did not look like anybody that could help another team last year. Some team could pick Reed if they see him different than the Twins do, but I think control seems to still be his issue. I would protect all three bats. What about Johan Quezada? Saw where he is getting some press for his big arm.
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    I've heard that he likes to use the off season to concentrate on making music, Not to put that down, but I think his time would be well spent trying to build his body up in preparation for the next season. If he wants to advance to the next level, he needs to dedicate all of his resources to it.
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    What about Michael Helman?
  9. twinsfansd
    Tyler Jay did not have TOS surgery. At one point they believed that was the problem, but further diagnosis determined it wasn't necessary.
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    I think we are going to see the Twins trade for several pieces and not go the free agent route so much. They have a lot of prospects and can't protect them all, so they need to spend some of that capital. I like the Castro idea, especially since he might come cheaper in prospect capital due to his salary requirements for the Marlins. Sonny Gray might be a target for pitching. I think he just needs out of New York. And don't forget they will need somebody to pair with Austin at 1B in case he needs a platoon. There may be some relief pitchers to target via trade as well. Mychal Givens comes to mind. And some of the young starter candidates may end up in the bullpen as well.
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    Yes, finally some signs of life in the dugout.
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    There's no way the Twins should touch this situation. If they commit 30-35 million a year to Machado, what are they going to do when the rest of their supporting cast reaches arbitration or free agency and they can't afford them. Then it wil be Machado and not much else just like it turned in to Mauer and not much else. Just because there are dollars available in this year's budget doesn't mean you can make a 10 year committment like this. If he ends up being a shell of himself like Mauer did, you have your hands tied for another decade. Too much risk. Let the big boys fight it out to take on that risk.
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    While I am certainly not going to go all in supporting the front office, I must say that an important part of player development is PLAYER. if the player can't perform and refuses to follow instruction to get better, development lags. That seems like it may be a possibility in both cases here. And the success rate of players being promoted to the major leagues is very, very small anyway. And they don't all mature at the same rate. Look at Aaron Hicks.
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    The extra 40-man spot is going to LaMarre.
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    You use an option whether you send him down before the season or after the start of the season. Makes no difference.
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    Your are correct. If they are activated they can be placed on the major league disabled list. But then you are paying them a major league salary and benefits, as well as giving them valuable service time to get them closer to arbitration. I don't think teams go this route unless absolutely necessary. I think in Burdi's case he is probably consider on the active roster due to the Rule 5 distinction, so he could be placed on the 60 day list. In Chargois case, the team avoided activating him and placing him on the 60 day almost all season and had to release other players from their roster during the season in order to activate others to fill team needs, which shows what having that spot tied up causes. They would have had the same situation again this year if he was still unable to pitch to start this season. I think they have determined that those spots are just too valuable to have tied up with players that are unable to perform.
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    One thing nobody has ever mentioned when discussing rostering Bard or Burdi and now Chargois is what the injury history would do to tie up the 40-man roster during the season. It is likely that none of them would make the 25 man roster to start the season if they were still with the Twins. If they are playing in the minor leagues and get injured (or in Burdi's case was injured last year) they can not be placed on the 60 Day disabled list on the 40 man roster, but must go on the minor league disabled list, which then ties up a 40 man roster spot that can not be used for another useful player. That is the reason that the front office feels they can not have these guys on their 40 man roster.
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    The trick is to balance letting the young guys mature and capitalizing on a chance at a pennant run.
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    I really don't see any of these guys as a fit except Carlos Gomez, and he may too expensive. And I don't see any RH batters in either AAA or AA at this point that could work. So I say go with what we have and hope they get it going.
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    So maybe these added prospects give the Twins added flexibility to expend some prospects to acquire pitching through the trade avenue. Since they couldn't acquire Shohei Ohtani, maybe they can use the resources to help acquire another valuable asset.
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    My earliest memory is not about meeting any players, as I never attended a MLB game until I was about 30. But I was a big Twins fan. I was in Detroit sometime in probably 1985, while Kirby Puckett was still hitting lead off. I was there for work, but I ended up spending the weekend. The Twins were playing the Tigers, so my first MLB game was at old Tigers Stadium. I bought a ticket from some guy outside the stadium that was trying to get rid of it, and I ended up sitting about 10 rows up from 3rd base, great seats. So of course Kirby was the first batter in the game, and he hit a towering home run on the very first pitch. Can't top that experience with much. I think the Twins ended up winning the game like 8-0 if I remember right. As far as a dream experience, I would love to meet and talk with Tony Oliva.
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    Wouldn't it be a thrill for him, and the organization, to take someone like him, with really no idea of what he is really capable of at this point, and turn him into a MLB baseball player? Wouldn't that light the fire for baseball around the world?
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    $13 million a year for a bullpen arm? Can't afford to send Hughes to the bullpen at this point.
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    I'm just not sure where you guys get your ideas from. You complain when Ryan doesn't go out and spend millions over several years on old overused bullpen arms, while they are bursting at the seams with strong armed young guys waiting in the wings for a chance. Yet you complain when they use the veteran guys that they have and that they already owe millions of dollars to. Plouffe is arguably the 2nd best bat on the team, yet you want to jettison him. Every GM loves to be able to bring the young guys along slowly, plugging them into the right situations and letting them figure it out a little at a time. Thus, you keep Fien while you let the young guys pick up some of the low leverage situations until they are ready. I mean really, they have an abundance of strong, young arms, but who do you think has shown they are truly ready for MLB, not even Tonkin at this point. Yet you don't want to go out and commit to a guy that is going to get 3 years at $9 million a year, and block the young guys. Another thing you have to keep in mind is that you have a good core of young players coming together that are going to start making some serious money in a couple years. You don't want to commit yourself to a bunch of long term contracts and not be able to lock those guys up when the time is right.
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    Just look at what Buxton did in his few AAA at bats last season. These guys usually need to have that kind of success at that level for a while to build their confidence before getting to MLB, where they see nothing but the best pitchers. Kepler and Walker have seen no AAA, and Walker is not close to being ready. Sure they will need to see MLB pitching at some point this season, but give them a half season at Rochester.
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