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Seth, in our Scenerios we can both kiss Byung Ho-Park good -bye Eddie Rosario good-bye as well. Kyle Gibson in You're Scenerio and Nick "can he stay healthy" Burdi in mine **I just get the Bullock, Slama, Delaney, even Adam Johnson vibe from Burdi *ok just Billy Bullock and how about Luke Bard? ....even Madison Boer? all flopped; although if you include Burdi amongst those names , 1 name is clearly not like the other.....

1. Berrios - a nice building block but no #TOR arm. 2. Buxton - not saying he's going to be a superstar, let alone a star, but even if he's close to a RH version of Matt Lawton with better D i'd take that. 3. Sano - terrible defensively but maybe slightly above average offensively 4. Dozier - an absolute gem at the 2nd base position, the Twins should of locked him up when they had the chance (instead they bought out exactly 0 YRS of ARBitration, WHY exactly?) By a pure WAR basis i wouldnt be surprised if Dozier puts up the most WAR in his career on this whole list. Twin or not. 5. Duffey. 6. Rosario .............................. wait of it ................. , Randy 7. Jorge Polanco 8. Trevor Hildenberger 9. J.T. Chargois 10. Max Kepler 11. Stephen Gonsalves 12. Tyler Jay 13. Kyle Gibson 14. Ryan Pressly , or maybe Griffin Jax 15. Nick Gordon (athough Engelb Vielma is giving him a better run for the money at the moment) The only thing is that leaves us in a flux for catching; hopefully the Roertvedt kid from Wisconsin pans out OR we're going to need to hit on 1 of the following: Raines Silva, Kidnay Silva, A.J. Murray. *if you get lucky Roll with Eddie Rosario , Daniel Palka, Garver / Turner and Danny Santana too.

Nunez, Millone, and Meyer to Houston for Joe Musgrove now Plouffe, Tonkin, JR Murphy, and Randy Rosario to Milwaukee (eventually) for Jonathan LuCroy and Ricky Nolasco + 5MM to Oakland or San Diego for a C prospect (1 yr 7MM contract for '17 for new club)

Hopefull to see the Balazovic deal get done. i'm ok with anything from 500K to 750 K for him to get it done. obviously we might not be able to go quite that high, which would be a shame. I could see his agent framing him as a 2nd round value, so they could want upwards of 900K....if thats the case, nothing will get finalized there unfortunately.

My thoughts ( similar thoughts/ ideas going right now) Early July Trade - Eduardo Nunez, Alex Meyer, and Tommy Millone (if he picks it up here) to Astros for: AAA RHP Joe Musgrove and a PTBL or cash considerations (maybe Gregerson by August) Late July at the Deadline Offer up: Trevor Plouffe, Michael Tonkin, Randy Rosario (A+ LHP) , and J.R. Murphy (I was hoping this would happen before we gave Oswaldo Arcia away to T.B. so we could include/ intice Oswaldo to them for some marginal value) to Milwakuee for Catcher Jonathan LuCroy and hope to sign him moderate length contract (only catcher in baseball that ranks ahead of Salvador Perez, WIlson Ramos, and Matt Weiters behind only Buster Posey) Off-season Trade Ricky Nolasco and $5 MM to Oakland A's or San Diego Padres for a PTBL or Cash (a C prospect) Oakland would effectively get Nolasco on a 7 Million dollar 1 year deal - not too bad at all for them. Sign Vet LHP Cliff Lee to a $7.5MM 1 yr deal with incentives to spike it upwards of 10 or 11 million. the 2017 Twins 1. CF Buxton 2. 2B Dozier 3. 1B Mauer 4. 3B Sano 5. C LuCroy 6. RF Kepler 7. DH Vargas/ Park (-park is my preference) 8. LF Rosario 9. SS Polanco/ Escobar bench: Escobar, Santana, Centeno, and Grossman. other 40 roster options, Catchers Stu Turner and Mitch Garver, 1B/RF/DH Dan Palka, DH Vargas, SS Engelb Vielma, OF A.B. Walker Rotation: 1.Kyle Gibson - (a hope and a prayer) 2. Cliff Lee 3. Ervin Santana 4. Joe Musgrove 5. J.O. Berrios AAA : Tyler Duffey, Pat Dean, Logan Darnell, DJ Baxendale, Aaron Slegers, Jason Wheeler , Ryan Eades? Bullpen: CL- Gregerson or Greg Holland? SU - Chargois SU - Pressly SL - May SL - Abad ( signs a 1 yr $3.25 MM pact) MR - Hughes LR - Taylor Rogers AAA: Glen Perkins, Niel Ramirez, Jake Reed, Nick Burdi, Mason Melotakis, Trevor Hildenburger, Alex Wimmers, Wheeler ect. other 40 man roster options include: Tyler Jay, Kohl Stewart, Stephen Gonsalves, and Yorman Landa (what to do with Felix Jorge?)

My thoughts ( I will post to all similar threads, as we have about 3 threads of similar thoughts/ ideas going right now) Early July Trade - Eduardo Nunez, Alex Meyer, and Tommy Millone (if he picks it up here) to Astros for: AAA RHP Joe Musgrove and a PTBL or cash considerations (maybe Gregerson by August) Late July at the Deadline Offer up: Trevor Plouffe, Michael Tonkin, Randy Rosario (A+ LHP) , and J.R. Murphy (I was hoping this would happen before we gave Oswaldo Arcia away to T.B. so we could include/ entice Oswaldo to them for some marginal value) to Milwakuee for Catcher Jonathan LuCroy and hope to sign him moderate length contract (only catcher in baseball that ranks ahead of Salvador Perez, WIlson Ramos, and Matt Weiters behind only Buster Posey) Off-season Trade Ricky Nolasco and $5 MM to Oakland A's or San Diego Padres for a PTBL or Cash (a C prospect) Oakland would effectively get Nolasco on a 7 Million dollar 1 year deal - not too bad at all for them. Sign Vet LHP Cliff Lee to a $7.5MM 1 yr deal with incentives to spike it upwards of 10 or 11 million. the 2017 Twins 1. CF Buxton 2. 2B Dozier 3. 1B Mauer 4. 3B Sano 5. C LuCroy 6. RF Kepler 7. DH Vargas/ Park (-park is my preference) 8. LF Rosario 9. SS Polanco/ Escobar bench: Escobar, Santana, Centeno, and Grossman. other 40 roster options, Catchers Stu Turner and Mitch Garver, 1B/RF/DH Dan Palka, DH Vargas, SS Engelb Vielma, OF A.B. Walker Rotation: 1.Kyle Gibson - (a hope and a prayer) 2. Cliff Lee 3. Ervin Santana 4. Joe Musgrove 5. J.O. Berrios AAA : Tyler Duffey, Pat Dean, Logan Darnell, DJ Baxendale, Aaron Slegers, Jason Wheeler , Ryan Eades? Bullpen: CL- Gregerson or Greg Holland? SU - Chargois SU - Pressly SL - May SL - Abad ( signs a 1 yr $3.25 MM pact) MR - Hughes LR - Taylor Rogers AAA: Glen Perkins, Niel Ramirez, Jake Reed, Nick Burdi, Mason Melotakis, Trevor Hildenburger, Alex Wimmers, Wheeler ect. other 40 man roster options include: Tyler Jay, Kohl Stewart, Stephen Gonsalves, and Yorman Landa (what to do with Felix Jorge?)

wow does this mean THe Twins will sign both Benninghoff and Balazovic !?!?! if so this is great news! i figured no way in HECK the Twins would get both of those fine young arms only 1 or the other...

I'm not too high on the Miranda pick but the Abdodoo pick is outstanding... So my grades thus far: (given the time and context of when and where each player was taken) 1.) Kirilloff - PA H.s. OF = B- 2.) Rodvert - Wis. H.S. C = B 3B .) Miranda - Puerto Rico H.S. SS = C 4B.) Akil Abdoo - Ga H.S. OF = A-

Trey Cabbage reminds me a little bit of Chipper Jones, now the only way that comes to fruition if he gets some serious help from MLB guys like Mauer , Plouffe ect. If Cabbage turns out to be 65% as good as Chipper we'd all take that and run! I wish I was as high on Palka as Seth is, but frankly i'm simply not. He looks like Parmelee 2.0 at best he's essentially a clankly defensively 1B or LF type who will strike out 120 to 150 times annually, sure he might have a bit more power than Parmelee ever showed sans that one September but Palka just strikes me as more of a 4 A masher than anything else. I have Palka in the 17, 18 range , so I still like him but 11 seems a bit high right now.

Blankenhorn reminds me of a 3 years ago prior Travis Harrison as i'm sure he does us all, but he definately has more athleticsm I"m kind of suprised Vielma ranks that low....he's around 14-18 overall for me. Still Great List on Yohan Quezada and Williams Ramirez will be fun to follow and especially Huscar Ynoa

I'm REALLY starting to warm up to the idea of Virginia Catcher Matt "Toby" Thaiss He looks like KYLE F'n Schwarber Obviously this only works if Thaiss sticks at catcher! (as Jeremy pointed out earlier that may not be the case. -a mini version of the Schwar machine) If Whitley , Collins , and Senzel are all off the board (along with Dakota Hudson obviously) Take Matt Thaiss!

What you don't understand the Twins can actually WIN on some trades? be on the 60/40 or 70/30 side of things Doc? it Doesn't always have to be 50/50 or 20/80 (Ramos for Capps ect.) as a Twins fan does it Doc? :The D'backs Gm Dave Stewart is one of the best guys to do deals with when he thinks his MLB club can win. Billy Beane at times also.

Tommy Millone will now go on to proceed to tear up the NL- in the months of June and July He's always bad in April.... I don't really get Non-Tendering Millone But i'm sure He got "Mad" at Neil Allen or Paul Molitor for having to move to the "bullpen for a while" SOo if thats the case, i'm sure its something close to that, Good Riddance Tommy Millone. !

Yes, you are right on with saying that. But I believe Dozier has about a total of 45- 50 games in AAA..... with a cumulative total of 225 AB's I remember Twins called him up out of desperation of another miserable season to Spark plug the offense So IT IS PLENTY defensible in this situation. But i was planning/ hoping Brian would of seen another 200+ AAA AB's...

Dear John Bonnes, I lost a great deal of respect towards you. When about 3 months ago on You're Gleeman& the Geek podcast you kept proclaiming the Chicago White Sox did nothing "huge" in the off-season Brought in nobody that really "wows" you Umm... lets see I kept thinking to myself. : 1.) Todd "the godfather" Frazier 2.) Brett Lawrie 3.) Mat Latos 4.) Jimmy Rollins 5.) Austin Jackson Todd Frazier was a big move no? All in all, you're still a great person But I haven't listened to the podcast since then and will refuse to (and i'm sure i'm far from the only one)

1) It Was NEVER right not even in any way shape or form to Compare Buxton to Bryce Harper or Mike Trout or even to say he'll "follow in their footsteps" What the bleep is that bullsh1t who-EVER came up with such a ludicrous statement I've been saying for 2 1/2 years Buxton is NOT Trout nor Harper not close. 2.) The Twins flat out rushed him at nearly every level. Which i've also been saying for 2+ years. 3.) Buxton gets hurt a lot in the Minors. WHICH is OBVIOUSLY MORE REASON to SLOW THINGS f'ing DOWN with him NOT Speed them up as the Twins chose to do. Which makes no F'ing sense what so ever. 4. ) I was dead on right with Aaron Hicks and his Question of MLB readiness 2 and 3 years ago. NOT NICK NELSON who declared him all but our next torii hunter! 5.) The Twins will regret rushing all of : Eddie Rosario, Byron Buxton, and possibly Brian Dozier and Max Kepler ..... Dozier is feeling the affects ( BA ave down) You would of thought they would of learned their lesson With Aaron Hicks

Layne Somsen is likely readily available at the Hands of The Reds, AAA Louisville Bats. Lincecum 2.0 .... Offer JR Graham straight up for Somsen? or add a bit of someone else. maybe Meyer 1v1 for Somsen?

Its not all Terry Ryan Blame Rob Antony, Brad Steil , Deron Johnson too i think 1 of those 3 is MORE to Blame than TR TR is just doing what his Braintrust tells him is best. Terry Ryan >>> than Bill William Smith I loving Having Radcliff on board with this Org, ....is Wayne Krivitsky still around?

Well, Damn Night shift! I will be "calling in sick" Wednesday night to catch it on TV ( We're lucky our FSNorth Cameramen are so awesome) Anyways, curios move though, I pictured Berrios up a week or 3 into May or even early June, but April? I thought Alexander Meyer would get the start on Wednesday....what gives? I think this is a TOTAL PR move, they want ticket sales badly.......WE ALL saw how few people were at the Twins - Indians game monday night...... it looked like 9,000 fans in the stands in total.

DUDE, no offense, but you're insane for forgetting Trevor May Trevor May is on, NIck Burdi is in AA And Plz Twins Take Santana, over Sweeney/ Quentin or even Buxton YOu have to have a guy to play SS...... BECAUSE if Dozier or Plouffe Go Down for any leght of time Escobar is the fill-in

Nolasco has hit 93 MPH , in past seasons we've seen him 89-91/ 92, especially this time of year... I don't want Nolasco to go 120% right now though i wish he was more 85% right now. my rotation as of today: Santana, Gibson, Hughes, Milone, Nolasco Duffey #3 starter in AAA, behind Berrios and Dean. I too am wondering about Hughes, Its only been two appearances and shouldn't be read into too much but, his cutter will obv. be 86-89 MPH but he goes from that to the straight 4-seamer so i'm curious if he's 89-91 with it right now or 92-94 like in 2014.

1. ) Berrios (#2-#3 starter , or 7th inning reliever , slot reliever) 2. ) Jay (#3 - #4 starter , or 8th inning , 7th inning reliever) 3. ) Stewart (#3-5 starter , or quad A guy or middle / long reliever) Stephen Gonsalves i'd have somewhere between Jay and Stewart And Poor Alex Meyer, he probably won't be a Twin for long, hopefully he pans out as a shut down reliever, even if he's going to have the high walk rate.

agree 100% Seth. I'd have 2 minor changes: 1.) one of Maestro / Sweeney / Benson IN the outfield (4th guy; Dan Santana starter) and Buxton in AAA. 2.) Taylor Rogers in.....Michael Tonkin in AAA . I will say I think Buxton is up May 21st ish and Berrios June 15th ish.

Well Done Jeremy, :-) At #17 / 18 overall i could see the Twins taking really ANY of those guys I LUV Ryan Boldt i wanted him bad as a H.S. Amatuer He proved he would of been a WORTHY H.S. comp pick or early 2nd rounder, 3 years ago....of course that was the year the twins had fewer picks i believe. I'd probably, even a few months from now, be Just fine with P Logan Shore as well. What do you think about William Benson ? He's been compared to a light Jason Heywaard.... AND as of right now, he's actually projected to go RIGHT AROUND where the Twins pick in round 1?

I have OF as follows: (obviously this will change by the end of Spring Training, but if I had it MY way it would be:) MLB : Rosario, Santana, Sano - reserves: Arcia and 1 of Maestro/ Benson/ Sweeney +Eduardo Nunez can back-up Left-Field leaving infield of Plouffe, Escobar, Dozier, Mauer, and Park. + Suzuki and Murphy (thats our 13 guys) AAA : Kepler, Buxton, Benson , ect. AA : Walker, Harrison, Wilkerson, ect. A.B. Walker can move up to AAA in May or Early June when Buxton gets the call to the Bigs to man CF the rest of the year! :-) Rosario / Nunez in Left............ Buxton/ Santana in Center .........Sano/ Arcia in Right