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  1. beckmt
    Dougie got good results from Sano and Buxton, maybe tough love is the way to go with those players.
  2. beckmt
    Question for Seth, how could so many scouts, writers, analysts be that wrong if both Buxton and Sano turn out to be busts. Buxton will still have marginal value for a few years as a 4th outfielder, but Sano could turn out to be a total bust. I feel the FO has to make that determination at this time. If both Sano and Buxton fail next year, we will be into a new 5 - 10 year rebuild and neither of them will have any trade value. If the group of posters are correct the coaches and manager are failures, not so much the FO. My solution is you need accountability. and a manager who has some fire. Despite his non analytical approach I would fire Molly and put Dougie in the dugout. He is not afraid to pull players for bonehead plays and enforce accountabity. See what happens, it could not be worse than now.
  3. beckmt
    I agree with most of this. I would approach Escobar on an extension. If he does not want it then trade him, he has the most value of any Twins player. Try and resign him in the offseason. If you want just hang onto him and give Escobar a QO. He will be needed next year. Rest of the expiring, get what you can. Keep Morrison until Sano comes back and then DFA him (do not think he has any value). Players who have no value here should be moved. If not hang onto them (I also like Duke) and see who you can resign. Twins have plenty of salary space next year, so plan and extending and buying in the offseason (starting with Rosario and Berrios.
  4. beckmt
    4 - 15 in one run games should tell the tale. Fire Molly now!!!!
  5. beckmt
    I think that 4 - 15 in one run games says it all. If we lose the next one run game to put us at .200 we will be at a little less than 1/2 the major league record which is around .380. This is on the manager.
  6. beckmt
    Nice article as always. Will be interesting which players step up during the year.
  7. beckmt
    I can understand Mientkiewicz if that is what the FO is looking for. Jake Mauer is more puzzling. I feel he already knows that Joe is not going to be here next year and chose to leave because of that feeling. Family does matter. I do feel that the Latinos on this club wear there emotions on their sleave and maybe a manager with more fire would have an easier time reaching them. I could be that this Twins farm system was overrated and most of their players have not reached their potental. Some of that is on the coaches and some of that is on the manager. A bigger part may be on the minor league staff, which is not doing the job of training the players the right way. The area which I feel I can address is the mental end of things. It is not one size fits all. Some players need to be pushed and kicked a bit, many of them know their mistakes and do not need to be thrown under the bus or chewed out and made to worry about their jobs. This is the area that I don't feel that Molly is the correct person for and therefore feel that he should go.
  8. beckmt
    Do not have any answers, if this is as bad as it is starting to look Twins are much further away that we thought. I guess here is were I would start. DFA Morrison, bring up Chris Carter. At least he will hit some HR's. Send Kepler to Rochester, bring Cave back up as a temporary measure. Hopefully Kepler figures it out down there or Wade gets hot. Hope that Gordon gets hot in Rochester, we need more offense up here. Mauer at least shows some sign of helping.
  9. beckmt
    At least Sano said the correct things. I was worried that he could take it badly and become a big issue for the Twins.
  10. beckmt
    You have to be realistic. With the large number of sellers, the buyers should be able to pay less than market value for assets. The better teams are only going to get better at the trade deadline. My issue is how the sellers will opperate. If sellers sell controlable assets to maximize the return, some of these teams are in a position to get very scary good for the next five years. (Yankees and Houston come to mind with great farm systems to buy the assets and there may be more teams in that group). Twins will have to make a realistic assessment of assets and may have to both buy and sell to position themselves for the future. Good luck to the FO for planning that mission. Failure means that the Twins could be looking at 2 - 3 superteams when our window is open. That is a big task.
  11. beckmt
    My biggest issue now is that the Twins are looking completely helpless against lefties and especially the soft tossing ones. How long will it be before clubs with decent depth will call up soft tossing lefties for one start against the Twins expecting to win.
  12. beckmt
    You cannot continue to burn relievers and expect good results to happen. Top managers know sometimes you have to use a different person to get key outs and if they fail it is only one game. Not use the same ones all the time and when they fail you see the Indians current bullpen (they fail most of the time). Twins hitting until some of the DL players return is not good enough to carry this club, pitching is going to have to. Either the FO is going to have to pull up other relievers from the minors and let some talent go, or Molly has to go and find a manager who knows how to manage to run the Twins. Some relievers do not show up the overuse until the next year. That may be the case now with Rogers. If this continues the fire sale should be interesting. It is also interesting the Gardy with a much worse club has them ahead of the Twins. He is a much better manager than some of us gave him credit for.
  13. beckmt
    Constant baserunners and no easy outs will make lot of difference of how the games go. I can see the FO already starting to get away from the swing and miss types in the last few drafts. That is a refreshing change.
  14. beckmt
    We have 2 major issues 1. extremely bad bullpen useage by the manager 2. too much swing and miss and soft contact by a lot of the hitters. Second will take time, but I always have been of the mind that you need a bunch of professional hitters who make a lot of contact and foul off a lot of pitches they cannot handle. I do not care how good a bullpen is for the opposing team when their starter is at 100+ pitches in the 5th inning with this approach. Their are ways to handle this, but most teams are not deep enough in the pen at this time to do it.
  15. beckmt
    Twins are getting eaten alive by junkballers. This is on coaching and the manager. You can't fire the players so lets start at the top. Molly's bullpen mismanagement is classic and the Twins relievers will be out of gas by August. They need a manager to light a fire up the butts of some of these players. Do not have any more answers, but change in managers will certainly let the Twins know where they stand by the end of the year. If players do not respond to that it will be time to do some drastic readjustments to this team.
  16. beckmt
    I am thinking more like mid 2020.
  17. beckmt
    Who knows which outfielders will still be here long term by the time he gets here. I am guessing 2021 at the eariest. Sano (if he is here long term) or Rooker will be 1B and DH. Only if they retain all the outfielders will he have a problem with a spot (if he makes it). I might have rolled the dice with a pitcher, but that is much riskier and Twins have a number of pitchers knocking on the door now.
  18. beckmt
    Kower
  19. beckmt
    This seems to have worked well for the Twins
  20. beckmt
    Gorman goes to St. Louis
  21. beckmt
    I am in the BPA camp. Just have to keep having decent drafts and signing the players. Just cannot miss on the first pick. Only player I have seen I have doubts on is the pitcher with a lot of stuff, but control issues. Those seem to have a much bigger bust factor than most.
  22. beckmt
    The question is quickly becoming how much do you tear down, or do you try firing Molly first. Season is probably lost. Next few months will determine how good this FO is.
  23. beckmt
    Lynn, Gibson, Ordrizzi should all bring a decent return. Many of the top clubs need extra starters, twins seem to have better than most. Position players will be Penny's on the dollar. A lot of those to be had.
  24. beckmt
    Like the information, great new feature.
  25. beckmt
    I agree about this next series. Losing the series would put us a minimum of 7.5 games out and would for me bring out the FOR SALE sign (open for business). Best news is that our pitching is decent and that may well be the commondity most in demand this selling season. My guess is that position players in contract years will not yield much in return. Return may be better if done early, but hard to see this team doing that.
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