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  1. dex8425
    Yeah, as I recall everyone thought Hunter Greene was the consensus #1 pick. He hasn't exactly been amazing, although some of that could be the Reds development. Brendan Mckay went #4 and he looks like a bust. Mackenzie Gore looks good, he went 3rd OA. I'd still rather have Royce than any of these guys...
  2. dex8425
    Agreed, unfortunately Correa, Polanco, Larnach, Gordon, Buxton, Lewis all have injury issues at the moment. Have to think Royce will be playing third/SS for the Twins in a few days. If Correa has an IL stay, he plays short and Farmer is the primary 3b. If Correa is able to play, Royce plays third and Farmer is back to infield utility role.
  3. dex8425
    Best: 1. Cruz for Joe Ryan 2. Palacios for Jake Odorizzi. Odo was an all star and even pitched well enough to get a QO. 3. Dumping Donaldson's salary and replacing him with Urshela, who gave the Twins the same production at what, a fourth of the cost? 4. Escobar for Jhoan Duran 5. Petty for Sonny Gray. Even if Petty turns out to be really good, the Twins still got 2 years of front-line starting pitching at a reasonable price for a total lottery ticket that likely won't pan out, and if so, for years. Gray has been huge at leading the rotation emotionally this year. He's like a coach.
  4. dex8425
    Yep, and a strikeout is better than hitting into a DP.
  5. dex8425
    Ryan has a lot better stuff than Radke ever did. Radke was mostly in the high 80's with his heater. When he got hit, he got hit hard. Radke is one of the most underrated pitchers of all time though.
  6. dex8425
    I guess he'd be on the IL all of this year and most/all of next, so it wouldn't really create a 40 man crunch. We KNOW Mahle can be successful at the MLB level, and we don't know that about SWR, Enlow, Balazovic, etc. Better to have depth at the starting pitcher position. I like Mahle's stuff.
  7. dex8425
    He will definitely receive at least the QO from the Twins. Sonny will get an offer at least comparable to what Chris Bassitt got (3/63) on the FA market so it would take that to keep him.
  8. dex8425
    At least Larnach swung at strikes and took balls. Buxton's AB and Correa's AB were both terrible. Buxton swung at the first pitch, which was up hear his hands and inside. No surprise, it broke his bat and was an easy play. Correa's soft contact on a ball was not good either.
  9. dex8425
    Eligible for a qualifying offer though, I believe. At least the Twins will do that.
  10. dex8425
    Analytics don't favor giving away outs. Bunting reduces overall run expectancy. However, in that situation last night, you only need one run, not multiple. Taylor isn't a great hitter and is supposedly a good bunter. And you've got Solano, a contact guy, coming up next. So you could win the game without a base hit. It's a defensible strategy even from an analytical standpoint to bunt there. If I'm the away team, I wouldn't bunt the guy over to third.
  11. dex8425
    We both know the only reason Sands made the team over Coulombe is because Sands has options and Coulombe does not. I'm in favor of putting the best team on the field though...Sands has never looked like a MLB pitcher to me.
  12. dex8425
    Exactly, the importance to the leadoff spot for teams now is that guy gets more AB's than anyone else over the course of the season. So some teams are putting their best overall hitter there. Put Buxton there.
  13. dex8425
    I also suspect some of his issues are related to the cultural changes between living and playing here vs in Korea. Playing in the MLB is hard enough but when you're getting used to new surroundings, diet, teammates, language, plus high expectations etc. it's even more difficult. Lots of NPB and KBO players have the talent and skills to succeed in MLB, but they choose not to come over here. It's not for everyone. The competition in the KBO is not THAT much less than in MLB, maybe AA level. He just never looked comfortable here.
  14. dex8425
    Wait, why didn't we sign Josh Bell again?
  15. dex8425
    I like your analogy.
  16. dex8425
    That seems about right. Gordon should definitely hit before Kepler.
  17. dex8425
    Yeah, I don't agree. Have to give Miranda and AK a chance at the MLB level this year.
  18. dex8425
    Defensively Gallo is excellent. Dude can run, and has an absolute rocket launcher for an arm. I watched him in Texas quite a bit.
  19. dex8425
    I've wondered about Gray too. No way they trade him. As long as he's healthy this year I see him as a QO candidate, so at least you don't lose him for nothing, but otherwise I think they let another team pay Gray for the back third of his career.
  20. dex8425
    It'll be Buxton or Polanco. I'd hit Polanco leadoff against RHP and Buxton vs LHP.
  21. dex8425
    Lopez would've been the best pitcher on the Twins last year and it's not really that close. I think you're undervaluing Lopez.
  22. dex8425
    It would be interesting to look at other teams' picks from the same time frame and compare. It's really difficult to consistently get MLB value from draft picks, with injury and projectability being significant hurdles. For example: Cleveland used first round picks on Mike Papi (2014, has not debuted, looks to be cooked, sucked at AAA last year), Brady Aiken (2015, out of baseball, never pitched above High-A), and Will Benson (2016, made his debut last year, was terrible in a 28 game sample size, might be decent still). Bo Naylor looks like a good pick, and so does Triston McKenzie.
  23. dex8425
    He's such an asset defensively that if he plays, he's going to play in the field somewhere.
  24. dex8425
    It's mixed. Odorizzi, Joe Ryan and Maeda worked out pretty well. Certainly their trades for pitchers have worked out better than their free agent signing of pitchers.
  25. dex8425
    Yeah, who bats 1-2-3? Buxton, Polanco, Correa? Polanco could hit leadoff too.
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