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  1. Doctor Gast
    There have been a few successful RPs that are transitioning into SPs this season, A J Puk (MIA) & D L Hall (MIL) to name a couple. I look at our situation & doubt we'll get that 2nd postseason SP. A trade doesn't seem possible anymore, FA is out of the question, I don't trust a deadline acquisition is a good idea. There's hope that Ryan & or Ober will take that big step, but what if they don't? We need a 2nd postseason SP to advance in the postseason. I'm not for switching Duran to the rotation but I'm entertaining that idea now. Let's say halfway through the season Ryan & Ober haven't progressed enough to fill that spot & Jax, Steward, Thielbar, & Canterino have established themselves as high-leverage RPs with Varland available to pitch there for the postseason, Would you be open for Duran to transition into that 2nd postseason SP? IMO you wouldn't have to convince Duran. Texas won the World Series with a poor BP. Would you risk it? I'm curious what everybody thinks.
  2. Doctor Gast
    Varland didn't have any experience until last year. SWR & Headricks have gotten their feet wet. Festa & Canterino are soon ready, I'm a strong believer in giving our promising SPs who have graduated from AAA a role in long relief to gather MLB experience. I agree with Cory & Brian we need a frontline SP. Yet, I'm not against signing anyone desperate, to a minor league contract
  3. Doctor Gast
    Welcome to the club. The Twins' requirement to catch is you can't be fast (can't waste speed on catching) & have some pop in your bat & want to catch. Better the pop better the catcher. That's why they are so high on Jeffers, & all our top-catching depth are not even ranked in MN top prospect list. A serious contending team has to be serious about it's catching defense proficiency. If Vazquez is gone we'd sink pretty fast.
  4. Doctor Gast
    Are you down on Jeffers? Why? I'm not baiting you.
  5. Doctor Gast
    I wouldn't mind a line-up full of Arraez-type hitters. Miller was drafted as a high-contact hitter, what I heard from a Dodger site that they expect to increase Miller's already good walk percentage & develop that high-contact hitter. Miller is still young there is no rush to bring him up. But when he's ready & hitting(maybe '26 or later), Correa would be ready to move to 3rd, Lee at 2B. At that time we'd have to decide if Lewis could be transitioned to the OF. It's good to keep your options open. But I'm not confident that the Twins could develop him into a contact hitter so maybe it's for the best. but sad.
  6. Doctor Gast
    Good evaluators can look at a player & see the future. Twins only look at big bats That's who they draft (Rooker, Sabato, Cavaco, Larnach etc.), their development is focused on how many HRs they squeeze out of every player and sign worthless FAs like Gallo. Doncon, I read his scouting report. Twins made Sano their "moonshot" poster child, All that fame went to his head. Their focus was to have Sano hit his 500' moonshots. That focused swing killed him as a hitter. People like to put the "emotional attachment" label on me, but that doesn't fly. Because I place value on defense up the middle & you favor the Twins view that big bats solve everything. Sure, I'd like a GG SS with a big bat (depending on how prolific his SO rate is) but any competitive team knows that gloves trump bats up the middle. cOF, 1B/ DH yeah sure bats trump gloves. People accused me of being emotional attached to Polanco. No it was just a bad trade because we didn't filled any needs & we lost a lot. But if we traded Polanco in combination with other players for Harry Ford (C/ SEA) I'd be 100% in, This emotional attachment is just a ploy to make me look irrational. I'm not into social media so I'm not persuaded by people who have agendas. I observe, put pieces together and make a reasonable assumption. that's very rational. I think the Twins should hire you to evaluate talent. It won't do any good because they'll give away all those who I give high marks to.
  7. Doctor Gast
    I was an advocate to get Margot when he was good, less expensive & we really needed him. Now he's not the same OFer that he was, more expensive although TB is flipping most of the tab and Buck is healthier than he has been for years, Castro is a very capable Buxton sub with Martin waiting in the wings with all his talents & others. I think everybody here knows where I stand on Miller. Doncon is a Sano-type SS, who's a liability defensively wherever he plays so he'll end up at 1B/ DH & he'll be developed into a strike-out machine. He'll add to our large glut. Miller is an undeveloped contact hitter who happens to be the minor league GG. IMO there's no comparison, Miller is by far more valuable & LAD is not dumb they can see it, and that's why they targeted him. I like Margot but not at the expense of Miller.
  8. Doctor Gast
    I appreciate your sarcasm. Fatbat. I realize that maybe 95% of my TD brothers & the Twins staff can't appreciate my appreciation of Noah. People love big bats, But in reality, have you noticed how many acclaimed All-Star SSs get moved off of SS in their prime because their bats can't overcome the lack in their gloves? After Correa we need someone to shine at SS. Lewis & Lee are good, but their glove isn't as good as Miller's. Twins have drafted tons of SSs, How many ever make it at SS (I never considered Polanco as a SS)? The % has to be close to nil. We will likely draft 2 more SS in ‘24 that will have the same or better chance as Noah. That has to be another one of your jokes. IDK if I've ever seen anyone in the Twins' system with a glove as good as Miller's or if there has been anyone who has won the minor leagues GG at SS. I trust LAD's evaluation & development so that's some consolation.
  9. Doctor Gast
    I'm sorry Ted, I was pretty blunt. Like you said it's pretty full and Twins don't like to break camp with non-roster players, especially non-pitchers. Many times non-roster players tear it up & greatly outshine their roster counterpart only be sent down to AAA. I don't see these guys tearing it up down there. I don't think the Twins really need these guys but I see the Twins call them up to give them a taste of MLB
  10. Doctor Gast
    Julien talents & future has always been 1B that's where he should have been playing from the beginning. With Julien at 1B we wouldn't have redundantly signed Santana. Having switch-hitting Lee at 2B now & in the future makes us a much better team. No way we trade him. Santana is the problem, it's him who takes away valuable ABs from our players. I doubt we can trade Santana, -Kiriloff & Miranda aren't worth that much- Julien trade value has peaked or is close to it but by himself, he won't be able to obtain a SP we need. So hold Lee at AAA until we need him which is probably sometime after the AS game. Move Julien to primary 1B/DH (Julien will have a lot easier time transitioning to 1B than 2B) together with Kiriloff, Kiriloff DH/ RF/ 1B, Miranda 1B & Santana as a safety net (if he's healthy & producing) hopefully if all players are playing well he sits on the bench wasting the $ we gave him like Gallo.
  11. Doctor Gast
    No way
  12. Doctor Gast
    We had only one pressing need going into the offseason & that was 1 postseason SP to improve our team this year. All other positions were well-covered by our own players. We didn't have to worry about losing our Central Division Champion title so our focus is on postseason. The Bally situation affected our FA money. So Snell & Montgomery was out of the question & even if they'd ever want to come to MN. IMO a trade would have been possible (much like the Arraez/ Lopez) if they had pulled that off I'd give them a A+. If they had done nothing I'd give them a C. The additions did nothing but backed fill & replaced capable inhouse players that needed the MLB experience. Those positions were often filled with waiver-wire, minor-league contracts & low FA pick-up at most But trading away a healthy, clutch hitting, club leader Polanco weakened us considerably. Even if Topa contributes, I'd still have to grade this offseason an F because they let Noah Miller slip away.
  13. Doctor Gast
    Thanks Mark. I'm pretty frustrated, it's hard for me to listen to any Twins podcast with all the hype going on. I listen more to other teams' podcasts, especially those with promising catching. It has been refreshing to listen to them give an actual scouting report, stating that this prospect blocks pitches really well, throws out runners at a high rate, able to handle the rotation, or have a keen sense of what's going on around them. I'm expecting to give this a rest. Maybe start up again next year. :)
  14. Doctor Gast
    Not good. Why am I not surprised?
  15. Doctor Gast
    Thanks RPR. Arraez is having a slow start but we all know he'll turn it around. & Rortvedt is having a good spring.
  16. Doctor Gast
    I saw a clip of him playing Winterball & he really looked good. I'm rooting for Wash & Sano. Hoping Wash can undo what MN did to Sano. Sano bought into MN's hitting philosophy hook, line & sinker.
  17. Doctor Gast
    SO don't matter, do they?
  18. Doctor Gast
    I appreciate that Brian, but like I stated, I used the term worthless relative to how they value HRs to defense. So please don't get hung up on that. We agree that LAD was motivated to move Margot but that $ wasn't negotiable, it automatically came with Margot from TB (not theory, fact), Miller won the GG 2nd year into pro-ball, he's an elite SS which is very hard to come by. He's a switch hitter which adds to his potential. We have a lot of big bats/ mediocre SSs we could have offered LAD but LAD wanted super undervalued Miller & they wanted Hernandez, we didn't have to trade for Margot we could have gone FA. We had all the leverage so we could decline trading Miller & insist on one of our bigger bats/ lesser gloves in trade instead. So the fact that the Twins settled on giving up Miller when they didn't have to, over a different player tells me they didn't really value Miller. `Throwing in a big bat/ weak glove SS (a Sano type) low lotto ticket to add to the glut doesn't do anything for me & nowhere near the ballpark to replace Miller.
  19. Doctor Gast
    Those are some lofty problems. Because they have put him in some positions, doesn't mean he's credible there & SOs are a major concern. I know Twins value HRs despite weakness in defense & SOs that's why he's still around & on the 40-man. Solano is a solid contact hitter who is viable on defense Severino is neither.
  20. Doctor Gast
    Anybody with any foresight could see that Julien's talents & future were a 1B so why try to force him at 2B those years in the minors up to now & created an artificial logjam at 2B? If kept at 1st he would have had more time to master his position while helping out a troublesome 1B last season. I agree with Fangraph, where we are ranked at 2B. Although Lee should be an impactful fixture in the INF for many years, IDK how much of an impact he'll have this year, yet he could surprise us. I see Martin as having a long-term impact on the Twins much like Taylor has had for the LAD. I see Schobel and Keaschall as trade bait.
  21. Doctor Gast
    The point of this blog to show how the Twins overrate HRs where they overlook a player's weakness to strike out & underrate everything else, in this case defense (in comparison to HRs, defense is worthless) & how they need to put adequate importance on defense, baserunning & clutch hitting. To be more like the LAD who has a much better player evaluation, which they can see value in players that their original team could not see & then capitalize on them. One case that comes to mind is Chris Taylor. Who became World Series hero & fan favorite. Taylor loves LAD because they valued him & was able to turn him into the player he was meant to be. Of course, LAD saw value in Noah Miller that's why they targeted him, what gets me is that the Twins could not see it. LAD strikes again, They sold the Twins on Margot who they wanted to move & picked up a desired elite SS.
  22. Doctor Gast
    Evidently he would have passed Annie Savoy standards but failed the Twins sole standard of HRs/ SOs
  23. Doctor Gast
    Hope not to see Margot that often in CF.
  24. Doctor Gast
    I've been accused of being a Cave hater, Polanco hater, Jeffers hater, Polanco lover, Bauer lover & now a Miller lover. Emotion has nothing to do with it. It's about making this team better. I really like Lewis & Lee but Miller would have been the best choice for this team at SS when Correa transitions to 3B. That's all that matters. LAD saw the elite glove of Miller (fact) & his hitting potential & is able to develop him into a 1st class hitter. Which would be a shame because that's what the Twins should have done. If I'd judge between the Twins' player evaluation or LADs'. I'd pick LAD any day of the week (fact). If you think otherwise, you should question your own emotional attachments.
  25. Doctor Gast
    I don't understand why the Twins tried to force Julien at 2B during his years in the minors & his rookie year when it was easy to see that Julien's future & ability was at 1B. And have those years to master that position. 1B was the Twins' worst position last season & I couldn't understand why the Twins didn't bring Julien up right away if they had we'd fare much better there & we wouldn't have to sign anyone outside the organization.
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