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  1. 4twinsJA
    Great job Seth, really like the young pitchers Twins have drafted. Like that Festa does not have a lot of mileage on his arm only starting to pitch senior year of HS.
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    I agree with Nashville twin, there will be plenty of young pitchers used by Twins this year. I am high on Winder, was dominant at AA, fatigued when got to AAA. Hopefully healthy this year. I look for pitchers to be shuttled between AAA and Twins-Winder, Duran, Sands, Balazovic, Dobnak, and Strotman getting opportunities. None have built up arm to tolerate 150 IP next year. Time for these pitchers to see what they can do at MLB level. One may even be on opening day roster, but no guarantee they will stay for entire year. In response to article, WInder is my pick to have best year of pitching prospects yet to make MLB debut for Twins.
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    Like Gordon as utility, can play everywhere but 1B and C, but limited upside. Rortvedt blocked unless a trade or injury, bat questionable. Celestino looks to be potential 4th OF with Kirilloff potentially moving to 1B and Sano DH, Of the 3, Gordon may make biggest impact this year since likely on opening day roster.
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    Hope Twins get as many of these young arms up to pitch in MLB as they can this year. Many clubs, Cardinals for one, many times will break their SPs into MLB as relievers. If I am sitting at AAA as SP and Twins ask me to move up to MLB Twins but as reliever- I would jump at it. Can always stretch them back out to be SP in future. I agree SP until proven not, but looking for more hybrid type pitchers to be used in future 3-4 IP an appearance- leading to piggy backing 2 hybrid pitchers.
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    When I built my Twins roster had Twins picking up 2 mid tier starters and 2 mid tier relievers-McHugh and Tepera. At this point, Twins definitely have the payroll space to pick these up but expecting Pineda with Bundy for starters and maybe one of those 2 relievers.
  6. 4twinsJA
    Raising the luxury tax only helps a few elite players get more money, does not do much for vast majority of players. .
  7. 4twinsJA
    Great job Seth, really enjoyed series. I watched MiLB TV quite a bit last year, to me was well worth the $40 annual fee, got to see most of these prospects. St. Paul, Wichita, and Cedar Rapids had all there games on MiLB TV. I would recommend for prospect watchers.
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    Really enjoyed interview. Drew is my pick as bounce back player in Twins system, got off to slow start after trade but look for him to get comfortable with Twins and have a great year. Hope he get opportunity at MLB level this year for Twins.
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    My sleepers- Kirilloff, Winder, and Moran. Coming off wrist surgery Kirilloff may start slow but look for him to put it together next year. Winder could be 2022s Ober. Moran ready to take the next step.
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    Agree, pitching development key to Twins success and needed to show FO methods successful. I was looking for more prospects to get an opportunity at MLB level last year, unfortunately injuries slowed most of them.
  11. 4twinsJA
    I agree with Trov, trade value probably not that high now for trade before season. Let the season play out, if does well pick up option, if not don't. I think DHing is harder that most people give it credit for, hopefully Cruz has passed some information on to Sano on how to stay in game and be ready for ABs.
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    I don't have a lot of confidence in Stashek or Thorpe. When I did roster projection had Twins adding 2 mid level relief pitchers, still hoping for one. There are a few in minors that may break through to MLB this year. Would like to see Twins break starters in MLB bullpen from minors. May see a more non-traditional approach to one or two starting spots-like 3 inning opener followed by 2-3 inning long reliever this year from Twins.
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    At this point, looking like Pineda, Ober, Bundy, Ryan, Dobnak to start year. I would rather start with that than sign some Shoemaker, Happ, Bailey types, already have Bundy. Let the young pitchers work their way into the rotation/BP.
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    I am all for a nontraditional approach. Would like to see plenty of young pitchers get an opportunity at MLB level next year.
  15. 4twinsJA
    Very frustrating and disheartening as fan that negotiations will just sit another month with no serious discussions. Too bad back has to be against the wall to get anything done.
  16. 4twinsJA
    I know they have a long way to go, just getting drafted out of high school, but looking forward to watching Noah Miller and Chase Petty's progress.
  17. 4twinsJA
    Nice blog cjm, prospects are difficult to project future success. Part of present Twins problems with pitching now is that none of these tp 15 prospects are contributing at the MLB level. Hoping present crop of prospects especially the pitchers have more success.
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    Another illustration of how hard it is to be successful at the MLB level. I think the MLB exposure will help Larnach in the long run. Should start season in AAA and gain some confidence. I look for Larnach to make the adjustments and develop into a solid MLB player.
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    I expect Celestino to develop into back up CF/4th OF/late inning defensive replacement type of player. With Buxton, always need a solid plan B for CF.
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    I would say no to Rodon, too much injury risk and too expensive. I prefer Pineda and a trade for SP.
  21. 4twinsJA
    Miranda has played significant time at 2B, Helman more of an OF but some time at 2B, Bechtold probably more of a 3B and trying C also. Will be interesting to see how Twins place players in minors to start year.
  22. 4twinsJA
    Trade for a SP, sign Pineda-none of the other FA SP left excite me, FA reliever, FA SS. Rotation to start year would be-Traded for SP, Pineda, Bundy, Ober, Ryan. Still have Dobnak, Winder is close to being ready, Duran may be better suited for BP, along with 4-6 other legitimate SP prospects close to being ready. Really need a SS, in this scenario Twins could afford Story. I am not confident Lewis or any of the other Twins prospects will end up at SS.
  23. 4twinsJA
    In 2019 MLB payrolls totaled just over 4,000,000,000 averaging somewhere around 134.000,000 per team. If they set the min. payroll at 125,000,000, and max at 225,000,000, the average would surely be higher than 134,000,000 and more money going to the players. Players want to reduce revenue sharing because they think owners are cutting payroll and pocketing the profits, if have min. payroll would help solve that. Revenue sharing is only way to help level playing field for teams, Pittsburg will never be able to generate the revenue Yankees do. Is this realistic at this point, probably not, but hope things at least move in this direction this CBA.
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    The difference between where things should be to have a fair competitive system is too large to get there in one step. The owners don't want to give up what they have, they are making too much money. But to me they are being a little short sighted, granted the pie is of finite size and they don't want to reduce the size of their portion. But if they make the game fairer and level the playing field for all teams, the size of the pie would grow and even if they had less of a portion, they would make more money. Start making moves to get to a more level playing field for all teams-increased revenue sharing, hard max. salary cap,, min. salary level for teams, I would like to see a salary max. contract like in NBA, doubt if present player reps would be in favor of that.
  25. 4twinsJA
    Disappointed with amount of "negotiating" that happened, seems each sided decided lock out was necessary. Sure there will be a month or so of a staring contest before anything moves toward a resolution. The amount of team control before FA seems to be a big issue to me. No other sport allows up to 10 years of team control before FA (4 years if signed at 18 yo, 3 years service time, 3 more years in arbitration), This and disparity of spending between top and bottom payrolls. The owners don't want change in these areas but present system is unsustainable.
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