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  1. HawksNest
    Lots of the successful, championship winning teams in recent years have generally consisted of homegrown, organizationally developed lineups. When the homegrown position players peak, the front offices have gone out and signed or traded prospects for established pitching. Obviously exceptions can be pointed out like Strasburg (he was drafted by Washington), but he seems to be more the exception than the rule.
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    Maybe this has already been mentioned, but my concern with Graterol is that he doesn’t miss a ton of bats. I mean, you see the big 102 mph fastball with tons of movement, a wipeout slider, and apparently a decent change up (didn’t see it out of the bullpen) and you’d expect huge strikeout numbers. Reality though is that his electric stuff hasn't really translated to big strikeout numbers even in the low minors. looks like about 1 strikeout per inning pitched in his minors career. just a thought
  3. HawksNest
    THIS. 1000 times this.
  4. HawksNest
    Good, rock-solid pitcher. Very much in the Terry Ryan/Falvine mold of a signing...1 year, vet, cheap, zero-risk. He'll be a good, reliable back end of the bullpen arm
  5. HawksNest
    Buster Olney tweeted that with most FA pitchers signed, the Twins (and White Sox) are seen as most desperate for pitching help. https://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN/status/1207026472323407872?s=20 Slow clap for backing ourselves into a great negotiating position re: trades and free agency....
  6. HawksNest
    If the Twins don't want to give MadBum $20+ million a year, why on earth would they trade for washed up, injury prone David Price and pay even more salary for him? Makes zero sense IMO.
  7. HawksNest
    Goes without saying, but Betances is an absolute stud. He did however only pitch 0.2 innings last year due to lat and shoulder injuries. His season then ended for good after those 0.2 innings with a partially torn achilles.
  8. HawksNest
    It's pretty simple really....If you want to play in Free Agency, you HAVE to wrap your head around the fact that you are going to be locking yourself into a "dumb" contract more than likely. Not sure if Falvine are there or ever will be. That's just the way it is. You're going to have to overpay 9 times out of 10. Not a lot of "good" deals to be had in free agency with the upper echelon names. Seems like this front office is obsessed with getting "good" deals and ensuring we have financial flexibility as opposed to just going for it, even if it means years 3, 4, and 5 of a five year deal may be rough. This is not a bad approach if you're not a contending team. We're constantly told to value short term deals and the financial flexibility it affords. I'm not really sure what the financial flexibility is good for if you never actually use the "flexibility".
  9. HawksNest
    Both Olney and Rosenthal do NOT have Twins listed among finalists for Wheeler in tweets/stories from this morning. I'm becoming more and more convinced that "impact" pitching will have to come via trade. Just really don't see this team changing 60+ years of doing things one way to just completely transform into an organization that drops $100+ million on free agents. Hope I'm wrong, but how could you possibly think any other way? Until proven otherwise, this seems to be the default position for 99.9% of fans.
  10. HawksNest
    Pomeranz was PHENOMENAL when he moved to the bullpen full time with a 1.90 ERA with 41 strikeouts in 23⅔ innings. Sign me up for that
  11. HawksNest
    They've blown an 11.5 game lead Is the team legit? Yeah I think the lineup most definitely is. Or is it a .500 team that played way over its head the first 1.5 months of the season? I don't know...the last 45 games are going to reveal a lot. All I know is that this team had an 11.5 game lead in early June and are now on the verge of a historic collapse of epic proportions. Hope they can figure it out.
  12. HawksNest
    FWIW Reusse tweeted around midnight to expect Buxton to be placed on the IL....
  13. HawksNest
    Any idea why Balazovic is on the "temporary inactive list"? Did I miss something?
  14. HawksNest
    Same old, same old. Nothing changes, ever.
  15. HawksNest
    ZERO Twins chatter. Zilch. Nada.
  16. HawksNest
    Hudson, now Elias both to Nationals per Rosenthal
  17. HawksNest
    Burn. It. Down.
  18. HawksNest
    Vallimont is my favorite piece in the deal. Romo does little for me
  19. HawksNest
    Agreed! really, really hope that doesn't happen.
  20. HawksNest
    To further illustrate the slide, Gleeman just tweeted these numbers: Twins' overall OPS: April/May — .849 (#1 in MLB) June/July — .802 (#7 in MLB) Twins' OPS with runners in scoring position: April/May — .888 (#2 in MLB) June/July — .733 (#24 in MLB) Twins' OPS in high-leverage spots: April/May — .897 (#3 in MLB) June/July — .620 (#28 in MLB)
  21. HawksNest
    I really think that's how things will play out. Which is fine! I just think folks need to recalibrate their expectations considering the last 6+ weeks of mediocre play. Just my thoughts
  22. HawksNest
    Is anybody concerned that the front office will no longer make a big move at the deadline? Falvine talked all offseason about waiting to make a move and spend money until they had a better understanding of what they had, personnel wise, etc. Wanting the young guys to all be on the same timeline. I think it's become pretty clear that the team that came flying out of the gates the first two months of the season is simply not what this team is. It was a fun story, but the bats especially have really come back to the pack. The team we've seen the last 6+ weeks is more than likely the truer representation of this group than the team that was setting records, etc. The FO has to know this. Is anyone else getting worried that instead of making a splash, they make some marginal move and more or less stand pat and keep prospects to continue "building" the team? Viewing the first 2 months as more of a "pop" up scenario than a real chance to push all our chips in on a championship caliber team? I'm literally just spitballing and I have no way of knowing one way or another.
  23. HawksNest
    Twins have had recent conversations with Tigers regarding Boyd and Shane Greene per Jon Morosi. He goes on to say the Twins are looking to add a starter and a reliever. https://www.mlb.com/news/trevor-bauer-potential-trade-deadline-target
  24. HawksNest
    I completely understand. I work in communications/media relations and still, to this day, miss errors in my own work all the time.
  25. HawksNest
    Tough loss, it happens. It just seems like these sort of losses are happening more and more frequently over the past month. Was really hoping we'd sweep the lowly Mets to give us a bit of a cushion for the A's and Yankees series. Stating the obvious, but the team really seems to have issues hitting with RISP (duh). Hope we can break the trend sooner rather than later. Not really sure how to articulate it, but something happened to this team a month and a half ago (June 4th) when we went to Cleveland for that three game series and lost 2 of 3. I can't really put my finger on it, but it's like they lost their mojo. The team flat out just hasn't been the same since. In the 35 games since the start of that series, the team has played .500 baseball (18-17). We're going on over a month of this type of play now. Random nights where the defense is just terrible. Baserunning blunders. Clutch hitting has been nearly non-existent, etc. Something is just off. Injuries no doubt have played into this. But it seems like the swagger is missing. Is this what the team has settled into? It's great that we built such a huge cushion during the first two months of the season, but I think it's pretty clear that this team is 3rd in the pecking order of AL powers (behind the Yankees and Astros for sure). Idk, maybe I'm just venting after a tough loss...
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