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  1. Doctor Gast
    1.) Where are you from? I'm from Beltrami, MN, Lived in Mpls. for 20yrs. Living in Brazil for 25 yrs. 2.) Age Range? I'm in my 60s 3.) What brought you to Twins Daily? I was looking for something more 4.) Highest level of baseball/softball played? College & Reds bush leagues in the `70s, played all over but 2B was my favorite 5.) Favorite Twins Players are Tony Oliva and Johan Santana. Favorite underappreciated Twins player, is Brian Dozier and current, well, probably most enjoy watching Byron Buxton 6.) Favorite non-Twins Daily site/authors? 7.) Favorite Twitter follows? Don`t do 8.) Other interests outside of baseball. love the lakes & play games 9.) Favorite part of Twins Daily... forums, blogs, articles, topics... wahtever you like. Love them all but enjoy Parker Hagman analysis the best 10.) Tell us what we can do better. What features or other topics would you like to see in-season or out of season? Love to see some articles about young pitching prospects that can be had 11.) Have you been to any of the Twins Daily "events?" No, but love to
  2. Doctor Gast
    Good point! Like what was said we have good scouts. But I agree w/ the author our focus should be more on pitching, hopefully we have the best pitching scouts to go w/ our excellent pitching development. Hopefully we`ll get a bunch of high rated pitching prospect this draft
  3. Doctor Gast
    Most definitely!
  4. Doctor Gast
    I know that. The fact is that Twins goofed terribly & Boston took full advantage of it w/ Ortiz. Twins goofed again, (they advertised Graterol as BP not continue him as SP in the process), & they want to capitalize even more than they already had. If Maeda was such a great deal for the Twins why didn`t the Sox jump all over him, he`s an "ace" ready to pitch 170+ innings! The fact is Graterol is an impact pitcher where ever he pitches where as Maeda is not!
  5. Doctor Gast
    Thanks for the heads up, Bighat.This is ridiculous, everything is public when everything was signed. Graterol is still worth much more than what we got. Boston wanted to get Graterol for free like they got David Ortiz. If the Twins cough up more for Graterol, I`d be really mad. Boston by far got the better of the deal & still they complain. If they they think this was a bad deal why didn`t they except Maeda (low cost) instead of Graterol, because they`re not stupid. Hope it all blow up in their face.
  6. Doctor Gast
    I was thinking that Graterol would come back & bite us like David Ortiz did. Then I saw that Boston wants to test him right away as a SP & he`s not ready. I`m afraid that Boston will ride him to the ground before he gets the chance to develop. So in the long haul I think that MN will not be the only one that comes up short but also Graterol. Had high hope w/ Berrios mentoring him
  7. Doctor Gast
    The Dodgers limited his innings, great. They got the most from him. It`s what the Twins should have done w/ Gibson & Perez instead of trying to milk out as many inning as they could when their tanks were empty. If their innings were reduced they`d have better results than him. If they were high on Maeda fine,they should have traded someone closer to his trading value rather Graterol which is close to 2 Maedas & save Graterol in a combination trade for a real stud w/ a higher upside.
  8. Doctor Gast
    I don`t like how they`ve handled Graterol. Moved him to BP reducing his value & then trading him for someone that doesn`t move the needle for us. They could`ve said we`ll use him as an opener W/ the impression of him still as a starter. If they really like Maeda they should have used a lower prospect & save Graterol for a pitcher that would be a #1 or #2 w/ potential of being an ace. I see Maeda equal to Archer in trading value, the difference is that Archer has more upside & Maeda is cheaper
  9. Doctor Gast
    Boston & LA made out like bandits but MN got shafted. If they were thinking about trading Graterol why did they tell everyone they were going to put him in the BP. Even if they saw something that they liked in Maeda, Graterol is worth almost 2 Maedas. Gonsolin + a throw in would`ve been a better match. I was placing my hopes on Graterol to be our future ace, I don`t mind that they traded away Graterol but not for a solid #3. We just helped Boston & LA out of their problems so they can better their chances to win it all, while we`re still not improved that much & gave away a part of our future. We had already given David Ortiz to Boston for nada isn`t that enough!!! Let`s check out this deal LA gets all-stars Bets & Price + $$$ Boston gets future great CF & ace MN gets a 31 year old pitcher that didn`t make the play-off roster What a gut punch! I`m so bummed that I can`t bring myself to continue read TD articles
  10. Doctor Gast
    Yeah! If you take away cheating the Twins are #1. Besides Astos, NY Yankees & Red Sox were warned about using electronic devices. Cheating should be better patrolled & more severely punished (like forfeit of game). Any suspicions should be able to contest & scanned for devices
  11. Doctor Gast
    I agree a minor league contract w/ a promising odds of making the team. at the end of ST. MN might be a good team for him because he`ll have a lot of run support to help w/ any mistakes. Just coming off IL late last year, he won`t be pressed to pitch a lot of innings. Here at MN we only need a few innings from him to fill in.
  12. Doctor Gast
    I was wondering if TD could put some packages together for spring training. I know it`d be a lot of work on your part but it`d be awesome to take advantage of what you know & the pull you might have & get to know some of the members of TD. What do you think?
  13. Doctor Gast
    Thank you for this interesting article. A subject that I`m very interested in. As a present pitcher I like Chris Sales the best & more like an ace but don`t know if he can maintain his stuff that justifies his high contract & how available he is. PIT has some pitchers I like; Musgrove, Archer & Stratton. We have PIT early in ST maybe Wes will have a good look & swing a deal w/ Sheldon. By his record Musgrove is better & will cost more in trade But I`m not convinced in his stuff. Archer has a lot of upside & a change scenery will do him a lot good so he`s my #1 pick due to his availability, trade cost & upside. Stratton would be a low cost project. I believe Jon Gray #2 can be available at the deadline depending on where CO is. CO because of the location stress keeping the ball low so that`s why Gray has a high% GB, I believe he can have better stuff in enlarging his pitching selection MIA will have some pitchers available @ deadline if Wes can do his magic w/ them It all boils down who`s available & who Wes figures he can work w/.
  14. Doctor Gast
    I`d give him a guarantee to finalize after a physical & ST. L`d like him on the roster
  15. Doctor Gast
    Happy that both catching prospects are in it even though they won`t make the team it`d be good experience for them! Donaldson will make a great presence especially the young prospects. It`ll be a lot of competition for the pitching spots, it`ll be a lot work working w/ & evaluating the pitchers, hope Romero finds a spot! Should be an exciting ST. Whatever happened to Walker?
  16. Doctor Gast
    Although I`m sure I`m not the 1st to suggest using openers extensively w/ our rotation. Still I have for a long time. Last year Rocco started using our AAAA pitchers which I thought was great as openers, long relievers & starters. W/ the condition of our BP & later our starting rotation, we needed to use them more. Perez who isn`t a strong pitcher pitched 2nd most innings, Gibson who had a bout w/ e coli & colitis pitched a close 3rd most & the results showed their drastic drop off. If they could have been given less innings by the increase use of our AAAA pitchers the results would have been sharply better. Even Berrios & Odorizzi could have benefited from a little more relieve. Now this year especially in the beginning the season our rotation is drastically inferior than anterior. We need to max our pitching cap (thanks to our flexible bench we can do this) & using our revolving door of our AAAA pitchers, having a constant schedule of rotating AAAA pitchers from AAA to the bigs (we can also do this w/ our position bench too). This has many benifits#1 everyone is rested & healthier #2 all our AAAA players will have more experience #3 management point of viewAAA players won`t have too many ininnings. Thank you for this article & bringing up this issue
  17. Doctor Gast
    Thank you everyone who contributed to this blog! You all convinced me that this dream will probably come later than sooner.
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    Hope I didn`t sound rude, I was hoping for something more! wish him well!
  19. Doctor Gast
    Starting pitching is like a marathon, you need to pace yourselves in order to finish the race. If you send a relay team against a marathoner the relay team should win the race every time.In SP you have to mix it up a little to throw off the batters therefore not constantly throwing your best stuff. Berrios & Odorizzi probably better not using an opener but at the same time need to see what their max. pitch count should be & keep them rested. But the rest of the rotation I believe is better off using an opener.
  20. Doctor Gast
    Very underwhelmed!!!!
  21. Doctor Gast
    The power blues came in at the end of Carew`s Twins career & died when they they won the big one. They came in during the twinkies era not the Twins glory years
  22. Doctor Gast
    Last year CO inch away from SD for last place by 1 game. This year SD has done much more in improving their team CO has done nothing & no really great prospects coming up. I like the core of CO players very much but odds are they`ll end up in last place. I like Marquez , He is an establish pitcher & will be very expensive. Gray is not so he`ll be more reasonably priced. I believe Gray will greatly improve away from CO, therefore providing more bang for the buck It`ll be very interesting how this will unravel
  23. Doctor Gast
    We let Stephen Gonsalves go for nothing, too. Hopefully things are looking up
  24. Doctor Gast
    The 2017 Twins FO traded some important players (believing they didn`t have a chance) the team came back & got in the play offs. The difference from Colorado today is that their GM Jeff has his a## on the line (he made some bad deals) & `17 Twins just came in & wanted to clean house. For them make the right call, they may have to fire Jeff
  25. Doctor Gast
    Hope you can find a bunch of fans there! Living in Brazil they hate baseball (except the Japanese part of Sao Paulo) finding Twins fans here or even a place to watch is impossible, Good luck! GO TWINS!!!
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