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  1. dex8425
    Paddack is projected for 129 innings with a 4.4 ERA, so I'd say most people assume he will be good this year. And he's cheaply cost controlled until 2025. San Diego is certainly selling low on him trading him right now. He was a top prospect who was awesome his rookie year in 2019.
  2. dex8425
    And the bullpen was actually better in the second half last year, when Rogers was out, right?
  3. dex8425
    Weird. It's SOOO team friendly. He could still be traded, of course. That's a bargain deal for the best third baseman in MLB, and there's no other bats on that team. I really like Jram though and happy for Cleveland fans.
  4. dex8425
    Ugh, Balazovic is hurt already?!
  5. dex8425
    Well we also gave up Garver so it was essentially Garver, Donaldson and Rortvedt for Urshela, Sanchez and salary relief to sign Correa. Seems like an upgrade to the Twins overall, given the amount of games Garver and Donaldson would realistically play this year with their injury history and age.
  6. dex8425
    He did have that ability. Reliever Kenta out of the bullpen could hit 96-97 for the Dodgers. But his strength was never throwing fastballs by hitters. Changeup moves LR, slider moves RL, and the occasional FB to keep hitters honest.
  7. dex8425
    I think he really had no idea and was just being a troll or a hater. Maybe he was thinking of someone else. Gray is legit. Would be a playoff starter on any team in MLB.
  8. dex8425
    Did you realize that Archer pitched in Tampa last year? He barely pitched because of injury. When he did pitch, he wasn't very good. I don't think he'll suddenly become 2015 Chris Archer again. But really all we need from him this year is 120+ innings with an ERA somewhere in the 4's and I don't think that's too much of an ask. His stuff looks good.
  9. dex8425
    Gray was very good last year and every year with the Reds, actually. He actually had more WAR than Berrios in 2021.
  10. dex8425
    As long as Buxton, Correa and Polanco are on the field, I'll take the over on the vegas 81 win prediction for this team. Yep, the rotation is suspect, but it can't possibly be as bad as last year, and we have arguably the best up-the middle in MLB. AK for a whole season and Sano in shape will help too.
  11. dex8425
    He started real slow last year too. Hope that doesn't happen again because with the current schedule we really need to make hay in May and be above .500 by June 1 so the FO doesn't sell at the deadline.
  12. dex8425
    That'll be the theme for the season. Score a lot of runs, try to squeeze 4-5 innings out of the starting pitcher, hand it off to a decent bullpen while scoring more runs, win.
  13. dex8425
    Yeah he wouldn't move the needle much for me. Last two years Manaea was basically a league average pitcher-that's valuable, but is it really a lot more than we could get from Josh Winder? Or Drew Strotman? Or Cole Sands? Or Devin Smeltzer?
  14. dex8425
    Rooker was awesome in 2020, then broke his wrist when he got hit by a pitch. Last year he was terrible but also played hurt, supposedly.
  15. dex8425
    Was about to mention Colon. Also had R.A. Dickey, but he was here BEFORE he was good.
  16. dex8425
    I have been following it too. Love pretty good episodes especially. I forgot if they mentioned anything about 1986 Stieb though.
  17. dex8425
    My two takeaways: 1. Wow, Ryan only had 12 strikeouts? 2. What happened to Dave Stieb in 1986? Led the 1980's in pitcher WAR (by quite a bit) and 1986 is a huge anomale-7 great seasons before 1986 and 5 good seasons after 1986? If he isn't awful in 1986 he's probably in the HOF now. Injury?
  18. dex8425
    I was going to say Sano isn't THAT bad defensively but then I looked at his defensive metrics from last year. He is second to last in MLB in 2021 among first basemen with negative 6 outs above average. Max Muncy is at plus 7, so if you put Kiriloff at 1b every day, theoretically you're gaining about 10 runs over the course of the season. Kirilloff was at plus 2 but fewer opportunities obviously.
  19. dex8425
    yeah tbh I like Coulombe in the 'pen and would rather have Winder starting in St. Paul. Bring him up if/when Bundy, Archer, Ober are ineffective.
  20. dex8425
    Yeah I was going to say at least I've heard of both of those guys and I remember Busby was pretty good. Looked him up- two back to back 6 WAR seasons.
  21. dex8425
    I expect Archer to be ready. He's been doing live at bats and threw 60 pitches in an outing before the Twins acquired him. Source: follow him on instagram:)
  22. dex8425
    Unfortunately for all of us, he's going to catch.
  23. dex8425
    I remember how Martin Perez pitched like Johan Santana for the first month of the season... That said, I feel the current rotation is probably good enough for this team to win 84 ish games and sneak into the playoffs. Even Maenea doesn't move the needle much at this point, unless Archer, Bundy and Ober are all awful, in which case we won't be buyers at the deadline anyway.
  24. dex8425
    I'd pick Winder, Celestino and Godoy from that group to get from 31 to 28.
  25. dex8425
    Articles said the Twins viewed his trackman data. In fact, the pitch data is actually on Archer's IG, so they definitely saw all his stuff beforehand.
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