Rooker, Duran, Thorpe, Enlow, Gonsalves, Celestino, Littell and Miranda might drop out of top 20 Twins prospects list soon. Sammons, Ober, Balazovic, Hackimer, Smeltzer, Jax, Stashak, Mason, Sands, Schulfer, Lujan & Lewin Diaz are all doing well.
I could hardly see the FO gets fired for the decision of letting Adrianza go. No more SS in the market? No one else could play SS adequately in the system?
We will see. Adrianza would probably go anyway when Cruz and Garver come back. I believe Arraez is here to stay. Unless they decide to send Sano down again.
I am sure Gonzalez and Astudillo can both play SS and they could certainly hit better. Offensive skill matters in baseball. I am really tired of seeing Adrianza start every game nowadays.
Twins really need to be creative with Gibson. Since he's only going to be effective in 5 innings, he should be the primary pitcher and someone else should be the opener. May might be a good candidate for the opener position.
I believe Duffey is a better option than Hildenberg right now. Duffey is the only logical option for the Twins at this moment. In order to win more games, Hildenberg needs to be sent down since he is not doing his job. He can certainly get plenty of innings in AAA like Romero. Duffey is just a temporary fix. This team still needs to acquire one or two bullpen arms soon in order to keep up with the Indians.
Hildenberg is also a problem in the bullpen right now. I wonder how many games he needs to blow up before getting demoted while guys like Duffey are not getting much of a chance to stay.
Hildenberg is really the difference in these two games against the Tigers. 2 innings 4 runs. I am certain the Tigers figured him out. Hildenberg needs to get more innings in AAA.
This rookie has an ERA of 2.42 this year. I guess he is not an ordinary rookie. I am pinning the loss on the fact that Hildenberg gave up 2 ERs in only one inning. Unfortunately it is the most important inning in the game. Tell me which is worse scoring 2 runs in 5.2 innings against a pretty good rookie or giving up 2 runs in just one inning against a bad lineup. Again no excuse for Hildenberg or the manager who put him in the game.