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  1. Doctor Gast
    Great to see Kepler step up when both Buxton and Polanco out!
  2. Doctor Gast
    I never hated Nick Gordon (hate is a strong word) I don't hate anyone. Although, I am a realist. I didn't expect him to be anything more than an average MLB player. I did expect Gordon to show some improvement this season but he's past my expectations. He's shown that he has value and that he belongs. Go Gordon!
  3. Doctor Gast
    Last year was a better year to trade because we had a few overrated players that could've brought in a big name pitcher. Now almost all of those players have tanked and are worth nothing except Arraez. I still think that trading with teams like MIA or CO is a good idea because we can unload some of our redundant players to give relief to our 40 man problem.
  4. Doctor Gast
    No, I'd rather have a glove at SS. Torres bat hasn't been good either , I don't care even if his bat improves. But trading for a SS isn't a bad idea if you can find a glove out there. I certainly wouldn't trade Kepler or any other player straight up.
  5. Doctor Gast
    Just the fact that he played a great SS which kept Polanco at 2B makes him a valuable acquisition. This provided Polanco to heal and find himself plus kept him from the damaging downward spiral they had him on. My main concern was his ankles and proved he was healthy. We all knew he was a light hitter. In the beginning he was hitting well with a few HRs. I believe those HRs went to his head as to change his swing. That plus that extra time off, his hitting was pathetic. I don't blame him I blame the hitting coaches. They are there to point out the wrong approach and constantly help hitters to stay in themselves. If you remove that pathetic rut, he'd be one of our best hitters. Plus take in consideration he didn't play last year which would effect his endurance. What would be the alternative? Keep Polanco at SS and totally wreck him and have a totally pathetic defense? That would really suck for years. I think Simmons has been an very wise acquisition. The problem is too many look at Simmons under a microscope with a negative filter.
  6. Doctor Gast
    Unfortunately, Twins FO shares your ideology. Cave had a terrible spring training and they still went with him, having nothing positive to go on. On the other hand unfortunately, Detroit didn't follow your ideology and went with Akil Baddo even though he had a good spring.
  7. Doctor Gast
    There's nothing wrong with Dobnak. It's the way they used him. They shouldn't have tried to transform him into a SO pitcher by forcing him to overload on sliders on the fly. He couldn't perfect the slider on the fly and hung too many and the hitters looked for them. For a team with post season ambition you don't do things on the fly. They did the same thing at CF. Putting inexperienced players there instead of initially going with our only MLB experienced true CF that was hot coming out of spring training.
  8. Doctor Gast
    This game is a good example of my argument for being all in for long relief. With a short season last year and many pitchers not even pitching., coupled with the fact that our starters have difficulty going 5 and our short relievers stunk coming out of spring training. Instead of going with the winning combination of relying on long relief. They went with over extending our skaky starters and playing chess with our incompetent short relief. Switching Polanco to 2B is the best move the FO did. Hope they don't have a relapse.
  9. Doctor Gast
    Agree with you that hind sight is 20/20 and that our pitching free agent signings were terrible from the start. Although we had hope that Wes Johnson could work his magic on the relief pitchers like in the past but that didn't happen. Even so I don't put a lot of stock in free agency except players like Nelson Cruz. That being said I believe the best route is trading our redundant players and any over rated players to obtain great valued players that fit our needs. I suggested going after under valued pitchers from PIT, Musgrove, Tailon and closer Rodriguez. If we had traded for them instead of the free agents that we signed , we would have been in much better situation, record, financial and 40 man roster (where we lost Akil Baddo and in danger of losing more) Simmons to me was a success. He kept Polanco at 2B, so he could recover and be the great player that he is. Simmons covers a lot of ground, his ankles were healthy and his hitting was better than I expected. Yes, he looked terrible after his bout with covid but I blame that on too much layoff and the home run he hit. Many players have problems after they hit home runs because it goes to their heads. Coaches need to help keep hitters on track. I also think our problems are deeper than players.
  10. Doctor Gast
    Great article Tom. Polanco has blossomed at 2B. Arraez is a great contact hitter but has very little range (which is probably because of his knees) so makes him a better 3B than 2B. Agree with Mike that Arraez should be considered as part time DH to keep his bat in the lineup. If Gordon can prove that he can hit MLB on a steady basis, he could be considered 2B backup. I like what jmlease mentioned about Palcios. I'm interested in what could pan out. With all these 2B options we should consider trade possibilities.
  11. Doctor Gast
    Cave isn't and has never been an centerfielder. Management has been disillusioned to think that he is. This bad mindset has kept us from getting a decent CF back up and cost us a ton of games. Cave is an ok 4th OF that's it. We have a ton of them who are younger. He takes up space on the 40 man who's better
  12. Doctor Gast
    Polanco is great now that the stress of SS is not plaguing him. Maeda is a very good pitcher as long as he's not pitching much more than 90 innings.
  13. Doctor Gast
    I'm with you Tom, this FO is great on sitting back and receiving offers. But I'm too very disappointed that we weren't buyers and we should've been. To be an competing club we need to be good buyers and get the club in that position to do so. They had not.
  14. Doctor Gast
    I like TB philosophy. Trade overvalued players but I wouldn't trade for a bunch of prospects, that would be counter productive. In our case it should be a one to one trade. None of these players mentioned are overvalued, it would have to a sweet heart deal. If they get one for Berrios, I can see it happen
  15. Doctor Gast
    As long as Polanco is kept at 2B he will continue to shine. If they become disillusioned and put him back at SS he'll continue to have ankle problems much like his extended time he had when Simmons was out this year.
  16. Doctor Gast
    I concede to you Tom that you know more about the pitching development. I've tried to give the FO as much leeway as possible but like you I've lost faith with them. Their mindsets don't seem to change and they're not able to make the trades to take us to the next level the way that Macphail had
  17. Doctor Gast
    I like Donaldson but the smart thing is to unload his salary. To unload Donaldson, they'll have to eat a portion of his salary and what we get back won't be much. Unloading Donaldson will mean a down grade at 3rd. To be half way respectable we'll need a decent SS, it'll be a terrible mistake to put Polanco back there. As I stated before our only option is retooling not rebuilding. Our 40 man roster dilemma wouldn't handle the flood of incoming prospects coming from trading off core players
  18. Doctor Gast
    Agreed, I like Arraez but he's at his highest value and with his defense short comings it's practical to trade him. I've advocated trading both him and Maeda but now Maeda's value has dropped tremendously and won't fetch a great trade.
  19. Doctor Gast
    I agree, we have a very good core of players. It'd be a shame trade them away at probably discounted rates and flood our 40 man roster and end up losing a ton of prospects for nothing. We need to sign both Berrios and Buxton and make a run at another '65 or even '87 season. In order to do that we need to do some drastic changes otherwise we'll have another 2021 season. You can't keep on making the same decisions and expect a different result.
  20. Doctor Gast
    In the beginning the Twins had a perfect set up. They brought in Simmons to complement Dobnak high GB rate that should turn into low run production by opponents which translates into wins. The problem is that Dobnak found his new strike out pitch in his new slider. The FO went crazy, they wanted to push his slider and transform him into a SO pitcher. The result was and is to develop his slider, not to capitalize on his efficient sinker in crucial game winning spots. They have him throwing that slider far too much and the opposition is whacking it. They need to allow Dobnak to go back to his efficient sinker and go to his slider only in key situations. Why can't they see that?
  21. Doctor Gast
    We'll have very little to none interest in this group of players. Only players I see any interest drawn is Simmons and Cruz. I don't see us getting any worthwhile trades from them but I see us absolutely and miserably tank as the Twinkies of old. We'll probably have to DFA most of them to reduce payroll. Speaking of reducing payroll we'll need to talk about dumping Donaldson's salary if we can find suiter. Many talk about trading those under contract and those whose arbitration will soon be up. This saddens me greatly, from a highly ranked team optimistic of taking advantage many great deals to a tanking team that will give away their great players at discount. And what are we going to do with the flood of prospects that will come in? We've already lost very good prospects in Baddo, Chalmers and Wells to the Rule 5. How many more better prospects will we lose to teams with better records. We are digging a hole so deep that we can't see the light. I don't blame the players, I blame the management. Their missed opportunities, wrong mindsets and inability to find and initiate good trades that'd take us to the next level. I don't recommend letting go our key players, I recommend letting go our GM
  22. Doctor Gast
    Very interesting article,Cody! It makes sense now that we're basically out of it and TB could be an interesting trade partner. I'm sure they are looking at trading many other players without shame of absolute tanking. We too have a very big 40 man problem. With the flood of possible prospects, the loss of very good prospects will occur.
  23. Doctor Gast
    Great article, Tom! Something that needed to be addressed. Tanking isn't necessarily an answer. Like you said wise trade acquisitions, development and evaluation are essential, couldn't agree with you more. Just expanding some more evaluation. We need to better prioritize what's really is important, to see real opportunities and take advantage of them. Not blinding ourselves with wrong mindsets. We are a team that was a couple of pieces away from going to the big dance. But these wrong mindsets, kept us from opportunities which kept us from winning games which put us in this big hole. I had great expectations for this team. There have been and still will be great deals out there but now we are not in the position to take advantage of them. Instead we'll be handing out great deals with a 40 man that can't even handle our current prospects. The solutions are not easy and need to be drastic. If not addressed don't ever expect a different outcome
  24. Doctor Gast
    It's one thing battling to getting out of last place with hope and being hopelessly in last behind despised Tigers. Simmons keeps us in the game and occasionally winning a close one. Adversely getting blown away when he's not in the game. Hopelessness is a difficult hole to dig out of. And if we're not in the game who'd want to watch that humiliation.
  25. Doctor Gast
    Totally agree with you Bighat. We have the team that can go a long ways, just missing a couple of key pieces. We've been rated above TB but they have out maneuver us the last 2 years. Like I said the damage has been done, it'd take a miracle for us to make the PS this year even if we totally right the ship. But I'm not talking about this year, I'm talking about avoiding the coming Twinkle Era which would be years.
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