DaveW

no!

Parmelee and Slama are the only interesting topics on the Twins right now. It's not surprising that many of the TD writers want to take a shot at interpreting the situation. A RP who can't even hit 89 on the radar gun? I guess we have different opinions on what is interesting.

At what point do we just rename the site: SlamaDaily?

Didn't Ryan single handily build a team that won 6 division titles in 9 years? And pulled off the best trade of the past 25 years? How does that make him an assclown again?

Like night follows day, it seems the willing apologists (they know who they are) always appreciate the Twins FO faulty reasoning Or perhaps some of us actually look at every issue seperately and don't jump down the throat of the FO over every single move. Ryan has had his faults this year no doubt, but to try to make him out to be some incompetent GM is ridiculous, his track record/success on his first go around speaks for itself. Besides, its Anthony freaking Slama, not a guy like Parmelee. Oh wait, that's right, he screwed that one up, too. How? Parmelee is up now getting at bats and crushing it, is it really that big of a deal that he didn't get an additional 30-40 AB in August? Who exactly was he supposed to take those at bats from anyways? Morneau? I imagine they wanted him to get as many at bats as he could in order to showcase him for a potential off season deal. Span? Ditto Mauer/Willingham? You don't take your best two bats out of the lineup for a rookie.

LOL, that is some flawless reasoning there... funny, you don't hear all the haters bitching about the Twins trading Billy Bullock for Diamond any more, perhaps the Twins did know what they were doing long term, just like they did with Perkins, Slowey and most likely Slama. I can't believe a 28 year old AAA RP is causing 8 pages worth of threads over the past 24 hours. This will look really foolish when the Twins give him 50 IP next year and he walks 40 while giving up 30 ER

When his reasoning is based on fallacies, I think its more shocking that anyone WOULD appreciate his reasoning Like night follows day, it seems the willing apologists (they know who they are) always appreciate the Twins FO faulty reasoning Or perhaps some of us actually look at every issue seperately and don't jump down the throat of the FO over every single move. Ryan has had his faults this year no doubt, but to try to make him out to be some incompetent GM is ridiculous, his track record/success on his first go around speaks for itself. Besides, its Anthony freaking Slama, not a guy like Parmelee.

This is a fun game to watch. To bad we let that Phillip Humber guy go...

One could almost infer there's a, um...financial implication to the skimpy number of callups, no? But to believe that might be a factor, one would have to conclude the Twins are more interested in making good money than in making good baseball decisions. Why on earth would it make sense to call up another 13 guys? You basically then set up your team to have 10 or so guys on the squad who won't see anything more than an inning or two on the mound, or 5-10 at bats. And yes, that would be a waste of money, not only in salary, but hotels, seats on a charter flight, room in the clubhouse etc etc I imagine if the Twins were in the playoff hunt they would have called up a couple more guys, perhaps a guy like Hicks with the sole reason to be a defensive replacement/PR. However, there is zero reason to start the clocks of more guys then needed. The point, Dave, is that there isn't some reason why bringing up Perdomo means you can't also bring up Slama--other than having to put him on the 40 man (which is at 39), and of course...you'd have to pay him. BTW, you're not really going to bring up service time with Slama, are you? One post after telling us he's 28 with a top end of "6th/7th guy"? Sheesh. The Service time issue was more along the lines of "They would bring up Hicks to PR/Defense" Of course it isn't an issue with a guy like Slama I imagine with a guy like Perdomo they are figuring out if he will even be part of the organization heading into next year, same with Gray (SIGHHHHHHHH) that is why they are getting innings now, Slama will be around in 2013 and will get his shot(s)

No way would I trade Berrios now for Anderson, nor could he be traded even. Also, Beane wouldn't sell a guy like Anderson at such a low point anyways, as they are in no rush. Better off letting him gain some more value in the future.

One could almost infer there's a, um...financial implication to the skimpy number of callups, no? But to believe that might be a factor, one would have to conclude the Twins are more interested in making good money than in making good baseball decisions. Why on earth would it make sense to call up another 13 guys? You basically then set up your team to have 10 or so guys on the squad who won't see anything more than an inning or two on the mound, or 5-10 at bats. And yes, that would be a waste of money, not only in salary, but hotels, seats on a charter flight, room in the clubhouse etc etc I imagine if the Twins were in the playoff hunt they would have called up a couple more guys, perhaps a guy like Hicks with the sole reason to be a defensive replacement/PR. However, there is zero reason to start the clocks of more guys then needed.

Who cares, he will get his shot in 2013, bringing up everyone to be a part of a 10+ man bullpen isn't exactly a solution to get him a bunch of innings, is 4-5 IP in September really going to make some huge difference? Also yes, he is dominating AAA, but he is 28, and I'm sure the Twins know his stuff quite well, I know its beyond a SSS but in the majors he does have 7 walks in 7 innings, perhaps he just lacks big league stuff. Reminds me of another guy who "dominated" AAA who fans freaked out about "not given a chance" his name is Kevin Slowey and is currently posting a lightning hot 5.14 ERA in AAA for the Indians. Can Slama potentially be an asset in the majors? Sure, why not. But its more likely as a 6th/7th guy then a set up/closer type.

I wouldn't give up much more then a C+ prospect or two for him, pretty injury prone which is the last thing this staff needs.

I would hope Terry Ryan wouldn't make decisions based off of 30 signatures from a bunch of pissed off fans on a message board... good lord, this is quite embarrassing. Put me down as a no.

Trade Hicks? No.

I'd prefer they trade Revere before he reverts back to 4th OF status. Hicks is the CF of the future, and Revere doesn't hit near enough to justify at corner OF spot.

As an Orthopedic surgeon, I agree with this thread.

I'm really hoping they don't call up Arcia and Hicks at this point, there is zero reason whatsoever to start their clocks. Ideally one or both of them destroys AAA early next year and we can see one or both on the Twins roster by June(assuming there is a spot open in the OF)

If I ever have a son who makes 829k in 2 years doing something he loves, I would be pretty proud as well.

Pitchers get TJS in this day and age, it's hard to blame the Twins for this happening. However they can be blamed for waiting so long on quite a few of these guys, but interestingly enough, they had no idea he needed TJS until they cut him open.

*If Mauer were to be a free agent this year, I wonder what type of deal he could be looking at. Looking at the numbers, he will have played in 137+ games in 4 of the last five seasons, and in those seasons posted OPS+ of 132, 134, 140 and 171. Mauer still has the ability to be the primary Catcher and has shown no signs of breaking down this year (2011 looks to be the exception to his past 5 or 6 years). A guy like Werth just got 7 years 121 million for worse production at the plate, was 3 years older and doesn't play a premium position. Whilt 6 years/138 mil would prob be a bit to high, I'd have to imagine Joe could easily get 5-6 years at 20+ mil on the open market. With that said, I'm sure there are some teams that would gladly take Mauer for his contract alone at this point: Boston, LAD, Rangers and even the Mariners come to mind as teams that would be interested. I'm guessing the reason he went unclaimed is that those teams knew that he wouldn't be let go for nothing, and the asking price would be rather high. There is a zero percent chance that Ryan lets Mauer go for anything less than a package headlined by multiple top tier prospects, and even then the Twins take a massive PR hit.

You can still buy them individually 2nd hand off stub hub/craigslist etc once the event gets closer. Honestly it makes sense, this way they can charge full price for the Futures Game.

It could be much, much worse. We could still have Delmon trolling LF

DeDuno kicking some serious ass.

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