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  1. Doctor Gast
    Just like the sausage has made a big positive difference in a couple of players, it seems that it has a negative effect on good hitters like Martin & Kiriloff. Like most good Twins prospects they had spotty showing at their debut. But given more time they settle in, Martin has a lot of value for Twins & like those prospects, Martin can impact the Twins in the 2nd half.
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    With what we have now it's 50/50 but the return of Lewis, Buxton & Steward there's no doubt.
  3. Doctor Gast
    Pen pitched well shutting down the Yanks
  4. Doctor Gast
    Festa has steadily improved & moved up in the MiLB. By the time we need him in the MLB he should be ready. Festa is getting attention out there maybe he can break the 100 prospect list, IMO he deserves it.
  5. Doctor Gast
    Paddack pitched a great 1st inning but he is still a work in progress. Rodon against this lineup last night is tough. Jeffers started us out well but the well went dry. Happy that Margot got a single but still can't figure why he's was place so high in the lineup. Really missed Buxton in CF, if we had him & Lewis we'd win that game. We can still win the series. Go Twins
  6. Doctor Gast
    So far so good. Keep it up.
  7. Doctor Gast
    I had advocated for Larnach get another shot & kind of felt sorry for Larnach to be rushed up to MLB so soon. But he showed me that he was more than ready. He changed his swing & he's really cooking, I wouldn't change a thing. He's become a very dependable hitter. I'm super surprised by his transformation & expect good things from him.
  8. Doctor Gast
    Soto has been carrying the team. Just pitch around him we have a chance. Go Twins!
  9. Doctor Gast
    With some higher-level teams coming in we need our best RPs up here. Alcala is doing well so we need him up here & used responsibly. We need to bring up Varland to cover innings in long relief along with Sands (in lower leverage) & later Canterino. Thielbar is still serviceable but other non-option RPs are not dependable & unnecessary with Varland & Sands. So they can be traded or DFAed. & yes it's ridiculous how they are using Alcala.
  10. Doctor Gast
    My evidence is looking at the priority of their drafting, big bat with below-average glove unless it's a no-brainer like Royce Lewis. Their hitting development is squeezing every HR out of every prospect no matter what type of hitter they are. Only hitters like Lewis, Lee & Martin who are secure in their hitting have been able to break away from that mold. They traded away their top defensive catching & SS (premium position) prospects for nothing. Before they signed Vazquez our catching defense was in a shambles. Jeffers defense was below-average & floundering at catcher. None of our catching prospects are even rated & lean more towards offense, Any prospects of any good defensively were years away. Catching like CF sub & SS were so bad that they had to go outside the organization to try to stop the bleeding, so they had to get Vazquez. I have no idea why they acquired Santana. I am a defense-minded person but I know that 1B is an offensive 1st position & least important defensively. Where no defense priority is needed they're putting priority. That tells me that they don't know where they need to put their defensive priority. That's all the evidence I need. You can say family is important & believe it but if your actions show that it's a low priority it doesn't matter what you say you believe or think.
  11. Doctor Gast
    Thanks guys for letting us have a vote
  12. Doctor Gast
    I agree Stringer basically with your assessment that the BP is a concern, BP is always a concern because it's so volatile. I'm in the camp that think that Varland would be of better use up in the MLB club as an elite long reliever & spot starter than down in AAA. Having him in this capacity doesn't eliminate him from being in the rotation if the need arises. Having Varland in the BP helps take the pressure off the BP & rotation & frees us up to trade excess questionable non-options BP arms. Canterino should be an excellent replacement for Varland in the BP once he's needed in the rotation. Besides Varland we have Festa to step into the rotation, I'd also like to sign a guy like Rich Hill to a MiLB contract & be a safety-net, mentor & rock to stabilize the young arms.
  13. Doctor Gast
    Agreed IMO these stats are more indicators than measuring sticks. If these dips in stats linger in a player like Kiriloff, then you stop him & ask him if he's battling a cold, a nagging pain, or if he has problems at home or something is distracting him in the clubhouse & try to resolve the problem. Not say he's a bum should be send down or traded.
  14. Doctor Gast
    I tell you chpettit. I took an economic class a long time ago in college. I really liked my teacher but when he started to pull out graphs having arrows going this way & that way he lost me right away. I skipped most of my classes & showed up for quizzes & exams. Instead of trying to come to the answers by using graphs & etc.,, I used my common sense & I aced my class. You can come up with graphs & stats, you'll lose me & I don't trust them. You can have your graphs & stats but I'll stick to my common sense. Thank you.
  15. Doctor Gast
    Arraez/ Lopez was different because it was mainly player/ player rather than EE/ Duran & Macial which was player/ prospects. I was in favor of both. I was hopeful that Macial & Duran could work out but they were lotto tickets. I really liked Duran's upside so I often would pick Balazovik over Duran in my trades at BTV. We had tried Romero (a top SP prospect) in the pen but he didn't work. So putting Duran in the pen was a gamble, Twins had Duffy & Pagan ahead of him. But the Twins got lucky & Duran flourished there. There's a lot of luck involved. I was all for the Gray trade. Cruz/ Ryan trade. I was torn with the Prestly trade I really hated to see him go, if the Twins could have extended him I'd prefer to keep him. I question a lot of our trades & deem them mistakes from the beginning. I was in favor of the Maeda trade but LAD was pressed to trade a disgruntled Maeda & I believe we didn't have to give up Graterol. IMO all low MiLB are high risk.
  16. Doctor Gast
    With AZ Duran might not have happened. He was a SP who got injured a lot & had control problems. Duran might not have happened in MN either if they hadn't tried him out at RP before giving up on him.
  17. Doctor Gast
    I have never made an issue about hitting the ball in the air or not in my arguments, especially on the text I quoted on that you quoted me. So I don't want to start to debate you on this. It's the "all or nothing" approach that produces much more SOs in clutch situations than HRs especially when the league has zoned in on this. I have never made this a secret. Baldelli stated that they needed to change their approach at the plate to be more responsible in addressing their SO & hitting problem just before we had this winning streak. If you want to believe that the Twins were just unlucky prior, just go right ahead.
  18. Doctor Gast
    Miller is 21 (still young) less than a year older & also a level higher. Miller's glove is near MLB ready right now so he'll find some where to play MLB SS (unfortunately not MN). Where & how well he'll be recognized will depend on how well LAD can develop his hitting. Miller has a lot of OBP potential but being developed according to his natural swing he's shown surprising power.
  19. Doctor Gast
    Doncon AB R H HR RBI SB AVG OBP OPS 2024 MiLB Stats 120 17 35 4 17 3 .292 .367 .842 Miller AB R H HR RBI SB AVG OBP OPS 2024 MiLB Stats 131 25 35 5 20 0 .267 .362 .797 Miller is finally getting the hitting coaching that's beneficial to his development. WOW 5 HRs already, hit a walk off in 1 of his 1st games, basically he's just starting. As his hitting improves he'll continue to rise on the LAD coveted prospect list It's very difficult to find Miller's caliber of glove (Miller was my candidate for SS after Correa moves off), IMO Doncon shouldn't stick at SS for the Twins. The rest of the INF is jam-packed with players much better him. At catcher, SS, & CF glove trumps bat. I have much more faith in LAD's players evaluation & development than ours who's by far greatest priority is HRs & forget defense.
  20. Doctor Gast
    IMO the best way isn't comparing this year to last year because the pitching adjusted better to the Twins this season and hitters like Lewis greatly improved our #s in the 2nd half of last season. To get a more accurate idea we need to compare the beginning of the season which the league adjusted to the point they changed their approach until now. Our #s really sucked in the beginning of this year (old approach) which really affected our total for this season. I highly doubt that 2nd part of this season #s (approach change) are poorer than the 1st (the old). It's easy to get deceived.
  21. Doctor Gast
    Focusing on HRs & striking out in clutch situations don't win close games. (if so we'd have had the best record in the AL last season). Hitting in clutch situations does. Our poor start this season is from adhering to the "all or nothing" approach & the league easily adjusted to it. It was surprising how fast the team turned around after abandoning that approach. If they serve you up a nice juicy meatball you take it, When they don't, which is most of the time in those situations, you take whatever they give you w/o striking out regularly. The new approach is very sustainable as long as they stick to it. Now that the league have discovered that a steady diet of off-speed stuff isn't working they'll go back to serve up more fastballs.
  22. Doctor Gast
    A magnificent game by Ober.
  23. Doctor Gast
    I believe he is but for him to stay he'll have to figure MLB pitching. That might take a while.
  24. Doctor Gast
    It's time to throw that sausage in the garbage.
  25. Doctor Gast
    Time to rock & roll
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