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  1. Doctor Gast
    Good to see Martin do so well,if he'd hit some HRs he'd really turn some heads. But I'm surprised to see him at SS. I was expecting more competition there so they'd play him in CF like they did to Lewis. Julien was good, I was disappointed with Isola's hitting and him not catching, I don't see him backing up catching at MLB anytime soon.
  2. Doctor Gast
    Judge was jokingly suggested for a Kyle Garlic upgrade. But it will never happen on all accounts. MN have greater needs where they need to spend their $ and Judge has greater needs than what he can find in MN. But it's a nice dream.
  3. Doctor Gast
    Duran was fantastic in short relief, his transition was a success. I have a feeling that he wants to come back next season as a starter. What do you think about that? Do you think that he can transition back? Do you think it'd be worth it?
  4. Doctor Gast
    This is the biggest fault of management. Doubling down & holding onto wrong evaluations. It's one thing to make a wrong evaluation (which it seems too often) because no one is perfect but it another thing not able to make quick adjustments to those wrong evaluations and it's another thing to let go of a right evaluation too soon.
  5. Doctor Gast
    We don't face that many LHPs, for that fact and his health problems I certainly would not protect him on the 40 man. But if he passes waivers, he be a good break glass emergency type player. We could definitely use an upgrade from him. Celestino has been great, maybe he'll turn out be our Judge? But we need another RH hitting OFer. I still scratch my head on how so many players were drafted ahead of Judge.
  6. Doctor Gast
    I'm very excited about this AFL. I'm expecting more of a Royce Lewis type of AFL from Martin. I'm also excited in what Julien can do there. Following them will be part of my past time. Go Twins!
  7. Doctor Gast
    Most important aspect of CF is glove, both Gordon & Celestino shown very good glove from the beginning, you have to be blind not to see that. Their hitting were both well above average at the time Lewis went down. CF depth Buxton, Celestino & Gordon very impressive. Before Lewis went down, (not including Lewis) SS depth Correa + nobody, 3B Urshela + Arraez (not very good), 2B Polanco + Arraez (not very good), 1B Arraez + (nobody because Kiriloff was hurt). So as you should see Lewis was much more needed for INF depth. Let me explain the danger. Do an experiment, sprint full bore (if you can) blind folded into a wall (blind folded because the CF has their eyes on the ball not the wall). Then tell me if you don't get seriously hurt. Especially if you had surgery the year before. What's the odds of a CFer hitting the wall? very very likely. If a CFer doesn't run into a wall, he shouldn't be in CF.
  8. Doctor Gast
    Thanks Gman for your reply, Looks like a pretty good pitching formula. And the beauty of it is that it can be flexible depending the need. Like many from long relief can do some spot starting. You can rotate from AAA to MLB..
  9. Doctor Gast
    We have been super desperate in CF in the past (and very strangely no one complained) but this year we had not only one capable CF, we had 2 in Gordon & Celestino. Not only their glove been very adequate their bat weren't bad. For Cave there isn't any danger for him whatsoever in CF but any all out & vulnerable players like Buxton & Lewis it is highly dangerous & this year highly unnecessary.
  10. Doctor Gast
    Good take Ted, one I was thinking about since looking at Pagan recent turn around. I think a lot of Pagan's lack of command is related to the pressure of the high leverage situation. Management doubling down on him multiplied the pressure on him. Pagan has promise, if managed correctly, he could be useful. I wouldn't DFA him unless we are desperate to add someone to the 40 man.
  11. Doctor Gast
    The secondary problem was playing players who were hurt & playing well below 100%. The decision to keep Buxton off the IL & playing him well below 100% was very counter productive. We had competent players who could cover for him & could play better than him under those circumstances, while Buxton regains his productivity either by periodically place on the IL or better yet have the corrctive surgery right away & be 100% in Sept. Polanco was visibly hurting in Aug. yet they still played him ragged which drastically reduced his productivity which eventually put him on the IL for the rest of the season. Arraez was visibly hurting in Aug. also & his BA nose dived. Any sign of not playing up to par players should be rested until they recouperate. We were blessed with depth this year so resting anyone shouldn't be an issue. Along with playing Lewis in CF shows very poor medical decisions. IDK if the medical department was by-passed or our medical department is incompetent. Either way this problem should be dealt with. Correa gave a great effort down the stretch, along w/ good effort from Urshela, Gordon, Miranda + others. It'd have been great if Buxton, Polanco, Arraez & Lewis were 100% the last month or so. So poor medical decisions from obtaining Paddack & Mahle hurt to not giving much needed rest to pitchers & players who needed it to putting Lewis in jeopardy. Solution? Consult the medical team if this was done, replace the medical team.
  12. Doctor Gast
    I hardly agree with you jmlease on most of your list and I'd like to add 1 from RJA, humility. Humility to check with the medical crew about signing Paddack & Mahle & go with them if they say don't, if they said IDK get a new medical team. Check with your medical team before you put Lewis in CF, if they agree w/ you get a new medical team. Not having Buxton, Polanco and Arraez playing hurt & well below 100%.Humility to change your plan & mindsets when you can see that they're not working. I'd also want them to change coaching from moonblasts to fundamentals, hitting, bunting, base stealing, throwing out runners etc. The way CLE has done it, that's the way they won. The only way they can change our attitude is winning. Not trying to show us how smart you are.
  13. Doctor Gast
    Where Correa can really help Miranda is his defense and that is my sincere hope. I did not hear anything about Correa helping Lewis if so that'll be awsome.
  14. Doctor Gast
    The top 3 by far out shown the rest, especially with their bats. But where Lewis distances himself from the 3 is his glove. Lewis's glove was superb while the other 2 were below par. Lewis instantly impacted the team. It was a shame that Lewis was not put in a situation to help man 3B, 2B, 1B as well as SS, immediately where they put Miranda (3B & 1B) on a steady basis. They instead moved not that far removed Lewis from rehab in hazardous CF which was absolutely ridiculous & unnecessary. My hope is that Lewis will return better than ever. But if not, it's all on management.
  15. Doctor Gast
    Another way in order to profile pitchers is their stuff. In order for a pitcher to be a MLB SP he needs to have at least 3 good MLB pitches to mix it up, So that he can keep the hitters guessing & off balanced, thru at least 5 innings. If a pitcher has only 2 MLB pitches, even if they're dominating ones, normally they are put in an relief role
  16. Doctor Gast
    I really don't trust some defensive stats. Urshela & Correa's defense might have dropped some but still they played pretty good defense. The problem with Polanco was that he had been playing hurt the 2nd half & kept playing him w/o any break (so his defense is expected to be bad if he's playing well below 100%) till he broke and those that relaced him Arraez, Gordon & Hamilton have been terrible. Miranda's bat is terrific but his glove leaves a lot to be desired. Now with the addition of Wallner our defense has taken on a different dimension. The Twins & Wallner need this time to try to work out some defects & to evaluate.
  17. Doctor Gast
    Very happy for both Luiz & Louie. The Twins went out with a bang.
  18. Doctor Gast
    Happy for Palacios, let's hope that opened the dam. Twins are showing especially bad defense which is to be expected with the influx of new inexperienced gloves. That's the goal giving them experience they need & better evaluate them. Good luck to Luiz & Louie, let's go out with a bang! Go Twins!
  19. Doctor Gast
    As starter SWR gets my vote highest ceiling SP & Duran as RP. I think Duran still has hope in becoming a SP. Durability will come into the equation, it'd be very exciting.
  20. Doctor Gast
    In the beginning of the season, I'd place Ober & Winder in the long relief category because of the fact of a shortened spring training (they needed a longer vamp up period), that they were rookies and Winder's previous injury history. Yes they were limited to around a 80 pitches when they started but under these conditions they were too many. As I've said before if a pitcher is extend beyond their profile for any amount of time, it'd more likely result in ineffectiveness & injury.
  21. Doctor Gast
    I normally see 2 innings as extending short relief but even that seems to be rare. From the beginning I'd rather see Archer in the long relief role because it'd be much more beneficial for him but Archer's mentality & identity is one that needs the extended time to prepare and has that difficulty to transition. The fact that he had difficulty to go 5 innings, especially in the beginning, really disqualifies him as a SP. He'd be more qualified as an "opener", unfortunately that eliminates him of any hope of any win but is responsible for any loss that the BP let get out of hand.
  22. Doctor Gast
    This year was a experience. Instead of placing players on IL or needed rest they played them at much less than 100%. Buxton, Polanco & Arreaz playing hurt & at much less than 100%, really has hurt this team especially going down the stretch. Plus placing a recovering Lewis in CF, is taking an unnecessary risk. I hope they have seen these '22 experiments as failures, & start to think long range.
  23. Doctor Gast
    I agree with Gman that Correa won't find any takers close to that 10yr/ $350 deal. All the big spenders that go to Dior to get their belts have already have their expensive belts. Many have SS prospects that are soon ready so aren't looking for a long term deal. Also Correa still fights that negative cheating stigma that still lingers. I'm not too familar with Philadelphia but they could be one of very few that are interested. I'm sure this FO will wait & maybe try to match a reasonable long term deal or go again with a higher $/ short term deal. I like our chances of resigning him but this FO should be ready with a good plan B &C.
  24. Doctor Gast
    I'm all for analytics but I'd rather have a manager that has a good feel for the game, a good game plan & able to adjust quickly to the shifting of the game. Although Baldelli has some good qualities, I'd rather have kept Sheldon as manager & Rowson as bench coach. FO has always said that they have a plan but never really told us that plan. A game plan of swinging for the fences that was great for '19 has only produced SOs, FOs & void of fundamentals like SBs, sacrifice bunting & etc & resulting in loses in the post juiceball era. Many fans jumped on the positive hype band wagon of Happ, Shoemaker & Colume' from the start and they were wrong. In the same way they have jumped on the negative hype band wagon of Chris Archer & Dylan Bundy, they are again wrong. FO hinted during the off season the possibility of "piggy-backing". Their assessment was spot on, because we had only rookies & Bundy written in the rotation, providing a very weak rotation, plus we had only a short spring training to look forward to. The traditionalists were appalled yet the forward looking fans reaction were open to applauding this strategy. Even with the addition of Gray (shorter yet ST & apparent not in condition) & Archer (previously injured & practically no ST) entering the season, still proved to be a weak rotation. Any form of piggy-backing (for some reason {maybe Baldelli?}) was abandoned. So the strategy to fill the gap between SP & closer. was doubling down on RPs that were obviously not capable, overrelying on poor short relief and over extend our weak rotation until their wheels fell off. So I agree with you Ted this approach was totally illogical. Our strongest & more feasible pitching resource was long relief. We had strong candidates in Ober, Winder, Smeltzer & Sands later A Sanchez, Cotton, Varland & SWR. If long relief was implemented & used, the unnecessary burden on the SP & short relief would've been relieved, converting many loses into wins. Our problem wasn't that Archer & Bundy weren't pitching enough innings, they provided us with plenty of quality innings inside their profile. The problem was they weren't adequately supplemented with long relief. Wins is what matters, if FO & Baldelli change their mindsets that results in wins, Baldelli (FO) will regain their favor with the fans.
  25. Doctor Gast
    Good game by Ober, I guess it's Ober now. Correa & Urshela are not giving up, both are finishing strong. Both are making a case that they are valuable to the team.
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