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  1. Nine of twelve
    Another way to say what Nick wrote is that the best-case scenario for 2022 will be to have an average rotation. That means that our offense will have to score a lot of runs--a lot--in order to contend for the post season. And that is also a best-case scenario. There's nothing wrong with being optimistic, but this doesn't sound very likely.
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    I agree. Some well-done extensions would look great.
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    I would argue that in order for a team to succeed the optimal development of every player at every position is critical.
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    In the NL your least-skilled fielder should play LF if he has even a halfway decent arm. In the AL he should DH. I see Arraez as a DH.
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    And at the point in time of his contract extension in 2009 he was the best baseball player in the world.
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    Rooker and Garlick are similar players, but Rooker is younger and better. Why would we want or need to keep Garlick?
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    To expand a bit on Seth's response, it's not injury risk that is the concern and it's not that he needs "practice". He just needs a few games to shake off the rust and get acclimated to playing again. Even the most elite players need that in order to perform at a major league level.
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    Smeltzer's life story is a great one. But in spite of that I don't see how he should outrank younger rising talent. I think he has pretty much peaked. I'm much more willing to let him try to continue his career elsewhere than to risk losing a prospect who is still improving.
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    This game was an example of how a competent manager approaches such games. The goal of the regular season is to win enough games to qualify for the postseason. This means the manager must avoid doing everything possible to try to win the game currently being played if that would run counter to the goal. Had Cash pulled Wacha early it would have totally messed up his bullpen, decreasing the Rays' chances of winning the next two or three games while not significantly increasing the chances of winning last night. This also shows why Pete Rose was rightfully vilified for gambling on his team to win games he managed. Having money riding on his team to win a game makes it very likely that a manager would sacrifice two or three future games while making an all-out effort to win that one.
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    FTFY, removing the sarcasm in the process. (And we also didn't predict Chicago being a division leader.)
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    As others have said, the organization has enough infielders that are ready or nearly ready that we can get by next season with what we have in house. Polanco will be satisfactory at SS for one season until Martin or Lewis can take over there in 2023. Arraez will be satisfactory at 2B until then. (BTW, I think Arraez should be DHing a lot beginning in 2023.) Gordon and/or Miranda can back up. I see the Twins trading Donaldson for whatever they can get after 2022 if not sooner, perhaps at the trading deadline.
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    Moving a few positions in the MLB draft rarely makes a difference. There have been many washouts drafted in the top five and many very good players drafted after that. And it's way different from the NBA where two players can carry a whole franchise. Just make good selections with whatever draft choices you have.
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    If you ask me which is a better game, a 11-10 game or a 1-0 game I'll choose the latter almost every time. Especially if I am able to sit close enough to the infield to watch the pitcher(s) dominate.
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    There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of examples over the years of multiple teams writing a player off only to see him succeed with the team that gives him a chance. I probably needn't remind everyone here about 29 teams disregarding David Ortiz before the 2003 season. The Red Sox signed him to a minor league contract and used him sparingly in the beginning of that season. The Twins get the brunt of criticism about that, but it's a legitimate point to give 28 other teams the same criticism for not making a better offer.
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    But they had one of the most shutdown bullpens in history.
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    This post gets a mega-like just for these nine words.
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    It was a good gamble. It just wasn't a 100% certainty. (Of course in that case it wouldn't be a gamble then, would it?)
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    Once the universal DH comes to pass, which is just a matter of time, there is no reason to maintain separation between the AL and NL. However, considering (re)alignment, which teams are in which divisions is not a very important matter. (IMHO, of course.) Find a reasonably simple and equitable regular season schedule in terms of who plays whom and where, find a reasonably simple and equitable formula for qualifying for the postseason, find a reasonably simple and equitable postseason format, and go.
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    Whenever a player is tall and has decent hands many people assume he should be playing first base. However, if that player also has an excellent arm that skill is essentially wasted at that position. (This was also the case with Mauer.) I don't think the game-ending play could have been made by any other player on the roster. Arraez is a satisfactory-at-best third baseman and Donaldson's range is currently hampered by injury.
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    I thought this web site was for the Twins, not the Royals.
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    He has been released per Dick Bremer on tonight's telecast.
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    Here's my definition: Hal McRae. IMHO as a player and as a manager he was a total (caudal terminus of the GI tract). There's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIiYw53nGd0 There is the Brett/McRae/Brye/Mauch incident. There are numerous articles on line about that. Gene Mauch had to be restrained to be prevented from physically engaging with McRae. There's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kamDqL-AGzI Note one reporter's bloodied face. And I couldn't find this picture but I remember it clearly. There was a play at the plate during a game between the Twins and the Royals in 1977 with Glenn Borgmann preparing to tag McRae, who was trying to score. There was a photo in the Minneapolis paper the following day showing McRae sliding with his foot planted exactly on the side of Borgmann's left knee. I am 100% certain that it was intent to injure.
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    I'm sure we could have traded Pineda, Simmons, and Donaldson. And others. And I'm sure there were inquiries and possibly offers. But I don't fault Falvine for keeping them. The fact that they didn't get traded tells me that no satisfactory deals were forthcoming. We were sellers and should have been, but that doesn't mean we should have sold at a loss.
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    The crux of this thread is that the keys to success are scouting and player development. Acquire the right players at the right time for the right price and have a system in place to get them to play their best. This does not happen overnight; in baseball it takes five years to find out if the moves you make today are good ones. The organization is far improved compared to the shambles that Falvey and Levine assumed control of during the 2016-2017 off-season. If they have succeeded in implementing their plan the next five years should see the farm system producing more and more good major league players. I'm cautiously optimistic.
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    I've said more than once that when I see Berrios' pitches on the center field camera I don't understand how anyone hits the ball. It doesn't seem like any pitcher gets more movement than he does. Yet he has never had a consistent stretch of dominance. I don't know what the problem is, but it seems to me that it was way too often that he would pitch only just well enough to lose a close game. Some players have great physical ability but simply don't succeed in certain roles. In the same way that LaTroy Hawkins was an excellent set-up reliever but an unsuccessful closer I don't think Berrios can ever be counted on to be a true stopper in any rotation.
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