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  1. stringer bell
    It will be interesting to see whether the Twins offer him arbitration in the off-season or let him walk. With Nishi back in the doghouse and Escobar not showing much yet they might choose to keep him, for depth. A month ago I'd have been sure he was history after this year. Don't put it past him, he has made a living being the odd man in, and then out, and then back in again. He's been a tease, no doubt. I really hope Carroll is the utility guy next year since his definitely on the 25 man barring trade. I like the current look up the middle, so long as both Florimon and Casilla keep up better than average defense, which they should. It would be nice to have two fast guys who are plus defenders manning the middle infield, but with Casilla and Florimon there, the Twins would have to have really good production from the other seven positions. Possible, but not likely.
  2. stringer bell
    I confess to not watching the Twins much lately. So, have we been seeing more of the "bad Hammer" lately?
  3. stringer bell
    It will be interesting to see whether the Twins offer him arbitration in the off-season or let him walk. With Nishi back in the doghouse and Escobar not showing much yet they might choose to keep him, for depth. A month ago I'd have been sure he was history after this year. Don't put it past him, he has made a living being the odd man in, and then out, and then back in again. I think the Twins keep him just to give Chief ulcers.
  4. stringer bell
    Roughly 390-395 ft. dead center. Right at the beginning of the warning track. So gutierrez had to go back 180 ft. then? JK.
  5. stringer bell
    OK, I am on GameDay and the out for Revere was recorded as a ball all the way to (or over) the wall. How accurate?
  6. stringer bell
    That's a start!
  7. stringer bell
    Don't you dare bunt Casilla!
  8. stringer bell
    I will be at work for the entire game. I predict a big day from Alexi Casilla, as the Twins split with the M's.
  9. stringer bell
    I see BDuens has already yielded a run. Hopefully the bats will stay alive.
  10. stringer bell
    I hope they do, but I am less than sure that they will. Hicks has had a very good year and I hope I see him playing at Target Field sometime in 2013.
  11. stringer bell
    The Gray move does create another space on the 40-man. Vasquez, Slama and Hicks could possibly be added. I believe this is the best thing about Gray being outrighted.
  12. stringer bell
    It is a crapshoot to project even as far as next year. Let's say the Twins do as well with starting pitching in the offseason as they did with position players and the bullpen this year. They would have the ingredients to be a contender. As a previous poster noted, the Twins have been bad despite a healthy Mauer and Morneau and with a career year from Willingham. The chances of all three of those guys doing the same thing are pretty small.
  13. stringer bell
    I didn't see any of the game. I did listen to portions while on the road. I have been impressed by Fien. He just about has to regress to the mean a bit, but I think he has just about won himself a bullpen spot next spring. Not as certain about De Vries, IMHO his performance has earned himself a major league contract and a chance to compete for a spot in '13. My list for September callups: Carson and Dozier return. Slama and Vasquez get a look (one open spot + a Gray DFA), Arcia gets rewarded for his awesome season with a chance to impress. I suppose Walters will be brought back and Capps, too, if he can throw the ball straight and over 90 mph.
  14. stringer bell
    I wonder how much of Benson's struggles this year can be attributed to health. That is the only positive spin one can put on his struggles all year.
  15. stringer bell
    What is the status of Aaron Hicks and Hernandez, the pitcher the Twins acquired for Liriano? Both left Tuesday's games with injuries, I believe.
  16. stringer bell
    I pretty much agree. Sign a middle to upper level free agent starter--I've said Guthrie on other threads before he almost threw a no-hitter, get someone close to ready in a trade for an established position player, and then spend a little speculative money.
  17. stringer bell
    Their track record on Asian players has been stellar to this point. I say they go for it. I was thinking that the Twins could have acquired Iwakuma but Seattle got him. Then I thought, would the current Twins' front office try to acquire any Japanese player? I thought about offering a poll of who the next Japanese player would be--someone currently in the majors, someone currently playing in Japan, or someone growning up in Japan, and I thought maybe I would add "someone who hasn't been born yet", because I believe it will be a long time before the Twins sign another Japanese major leaguer.
  18. stringer bell
    Walters is almost done rehabbing, correct? He probably figures in the list as well.
  19. stringer bell
    Has De Vries' work this year earned more than a shot to make the team next year? I don't think so. I don't think it would be wrong to put him in the bullpen come September.
  20. stringer bell
    You're paying the guy. Why not keep him around in case he rebounds? Now that he's off the 40 man roster, it doesn't matter one lick whether he's playing for you, playing for the Padres, or sitting at home. He's not blocking anyone in the system. At that point, you may as well keep the guy around "just in case". You got that right Pig. If there's a one in ten chance that either player comes back to contribute then you can be glad they stayed in the system. Otherwise they are expensive filler for the Red Wings.
  21. stringer bell
    Salary dump for salary dump. I'd like to get the former Fausto Carmona from the Indians but Blackburn would have to convince somebody he could get out major league hitters.
  22. stringer bell
    I thought they should have DLed Span right away. That said, what does it matter? I feel the same way about Butera. If the Twins were in the race I would be breathing fire about wasting a spot on a third catcher and throwing away bench moves because they won't DL the regular CF. I do want to see Parmelee up when he is raking, but if he is just sitting on the bench, it's better for him to be in Rochester.
  23. stringer bell
    Given the dearth of starting pitching, I want Duensing to succeed as a starter. He's been successful before so I don't see why he can't be successful again. Finding a lefty reliever (to replace Duensing) is a lot easier than finding an above-average starter as we have seen. I liked what I saw of Florimon in ST. He's got nice tools and I think he might even have a bit of power if he established that he can make contact. I also liked Fien in Florida. He does have a live arm and throws pretty hard. He seems to be an extreme fly ball type, but his results have been very good so far. It looks to me like he has a position to lose in next year's bullpen.
  24. stringer bell
    I think the Twins will trade at least one starting player this offseason. If it is Span (my choice), there is a spot for Arcia in RF and he looks like the most ready to step in.
  25. stringer bell
    I am so bloody sick and tired of reading this line or something like it on the forums. The Minnesota Twins were the most consistently successful small market team of the 2000s. They made the playoffs more often than not and while they struggled in the postseason, overall they posted one of the better records in all of baseball for the decade. So why shouldn't we have a little faith in the front office? Because the team had two awful seasons? Because of that, we should ignore the entire decade the preceded it? Jesus... People around here need to step off the ledge and take in a little perspective. Yes, the Twins are bad right now but their farm system is on the rebound and help is on the way. They have a solid core of young-ish players. They have money to spend. Stop cherry-picking the past two years of horrible baseball and ignoring the ten years that came before it. I think the Twins will be better in the next couple years, but you have to also point out how hard and long the fall from grace has been. They have more money to spend than they ever did during the Metrodome years, so they should be able to put a representative product on the field. Last year's team was not. This year's team has no starting pitching to speak of.
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